The year 2006 marked 100 years since the death of Pierre Curie. It is therefore appropriate that we remember his life and his work, which was cut short by his untimely death from an accident on the Pont Neuf, Paris, on April 19, 1906. He had already accomplished much during his life, both before the discovery of radium with Marie Curie, in work co-authored with his brother Jacques on piezoelect...

The following problem is considered: when can the action of a cancellative semigroup S on a set be extended to a simply transitive action of the universal group of S on a larger set.

No doubt in institutions these days it takes more than brandishing the psychoanalytical referent, all be it Lacanian, in order to be heard. The transference required to establish the conditions of the psychoanalytical act requires more than that. It requires, among other things, that the clinician make psychoanalysis desirable, and that he can therefore, attest to its efficiency, its pertinence...

Professor Pierre Loiseau, died suddenly on March 29, 2004 leaving a world of family, friends and colleagues at a loss. Pierre was an outstanding clinical neurologist and renowned epileptologist. He was also an unrivalled teacher and an innovative clinical investigator in the field of the treatment of the epilepsies as well as a pioneer in the epidemiology of the epilepsies. Pierre was born on O...

Strain S658(T) was isolated from a Lotus corniculatus nodule in a soil sample obtained in Uruguay. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene and atpD gene showed that this strain clustered within the genus Phyllobacterium. The closest related species was, in both cases, Phyllobacterium trifolii PETP02(T) with 99.8 % sequence similarity in the 16S rRNA gene and 96.1 % in the atpD gene. The 16S ...