Recurrent aphthous ulcerations (RAU) represent a common oral mucosal disease with altered humoral and cellular immunities. In our institution, an immunomodulating agent, levamisole, is used to treat RAU with satisfactory therapeutic effect. Tien-Hsien liquid (THL) is an extract of Chinese medicinal herbs with immunomodulating effects. To test whether THL has immunomodulating effects on antigen-...

Les dŽcouvertes de pŽtrole ou de gaz dans des conditions sŽvres de tempŽrature (plus de 150¡C) ou de pression (plus de 50 MPa) se comptent dans plusieurs bassins ˆ travers le monde. En mer du Nord, on prŽvoit de mettre en production des gisements dont les conditions de fond vont jusqu'ˆ 110 MPa et 190¡C. Ces caractŽristiques constituent un dŽfi pour la prŽdiction des propriŽtŽs des fluides de ...

Treatment of toluene solutions of the silylenes Si(SAr(Me6))2 (Ar(Me6) = C6H3-2,6(C6H2-2,4,6-Me3)2, 1) or Si(SAr(Pr(i)4))2 (Ar(Pr(i)4) = C6H3-2,6(C6H3-2,6-Pr(i)2)2, 2) with excess ethylene gas affords the siliranes (Ar(Me6)S)2SiCH2CH2 (3) or (Ar(Pr(i)4)S)2SiCH2CH2 (4). Silirane 4 evolves ethylene spontaneously at room temperature in toluene solution. A Van't Hoff analysis by variable-temperatur...

Dans cet article est proposée une nouvelle analyse de l’association d’un verbe perception, SN et participe présent : le perception moins un lexicalement plein qu’un marqueur présentatif introduisant procès verbal dénoté par présent en tant que unité informationnelle ; étant alors principal aux points vue pragmatique, s&#23...

Four nickel clusters, cyclo-[{Ni(μ-S(i)Pr)(μ-SMe)}(6)] (1), cyclo-[{Ni(μ-StBu)(μ-SMe)}(6)] (2), cyclo-[{Ni(μ-S(i)Pr)(μ-SEt)}(6)] (3) and cyclo-[{Ni(μ-StBu)(μ-SEt)}(10)] (4), based on thiolate ligands have been successfully synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, FT-IR spectra, UV-vis-NIR spectra, powder X-ray diffraction and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Intriguingly, the SMe a...

The problem of how best to generalize from a given learning set of input-output examples is cent ral to the fields of neural nets, statistics, approximation theory, and ar tificial in telligence. T his series of papers inv estigates this pr oblem from within an abstract and modelindep endent fr am ework and then tests some of the resulting concepts in realworld sit uations. In this abs tract fr...

Real-coded genet ic algorit hms (GAs) do not use any coding of the problem variab les, instead they work dir ectly with the variab les . The main difference in the implementation of real-coded GAs and binary-coded GAs is in their recombination op erators. Alt ho ugh a number of real-cod ed crossover implementations were suggested, most of them were developed wit h intuition and wit hout much an...

La santé mobile et la robotique sociale d’assistance sont deux marchés en pleine expansion. Le secteur de du soin s’intéresse particulièrement à ces nouvelles technologies, notamment pour leur potentiel matière prévention (pour mobile) d’accompagnement au handicap perte d’autonomie robotique). Chaque jour, nouveaux produits dévelop...

H = S v i S v i + 1 ) y y corresponds to what is called the XY chain. The hexagonal compound PrCl3 provides a good approximation to the 1-D XY chain. The structure of PrCl3 is illustrated in Figure 1. Nearest neighbor Pr ions form chains along the hexagonal axis. Each Pr ion has nine close Cl neighbors which form three equilateral triangles; one triangle lies in the plane perpendicular to the h...

1 pi − 2 j+1 > 7pr − 4pr > pr . If r is odd, set nk = ∏r1 pi − 2k+1. Then nk ≡ 3(4) (since 32 ≡ 1(4)). But no pi divides nk for 1 ≤ i ≤ r , so the integer nk has some prime factor qk ≡ 3(4) with qk > pr . If j = k, say j > k, the assumption that qk also divides n j leads to the same contradiction as earlier: since nk − n j = 2 j+1 − 2k+1 = 2k+1(2 j−k − 1), we have qk | 2 j−k − 1 and hence qk < ...