Sexually inappropriate behaviour in a patient with dementia can be a problem for caregivers. Little research has been done concerning treatment for this behavioural disorder. The hormone medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) is a known, but infrequently used, treatment option. We describe a series of 5 cases in which MPA was used successfully to control inappropriate sexual behaviours in men with d...

We introduce a new way of approximating initial condition to the semidiscrete finite element method for integro-differential equations using any degree of elements. We obtain several superconvergence results for the error between the approximate solution and the Ritz-Volterra projection of the exact solution. For k > 1, we obtain first order gain in Lp(2≤ p ≤∞) norm, second order in W1,p(2≤ p ≤...

In this paper we are going to study the chain of some distributions required by nonlinear control problems associated to homogeneous polynomial nonlinear systems. The idea is due to Ruiz and Nijmeijer and the basic facts are strongly inspiered by their paper. The distribution studied here is the controlled invariant distribution used in the problems of local disturbance decoupling and input-out...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of food-simulating liquids on the flexural strength of a methacrylate-based and a silorane-based resin composite. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this in vitro study, sixty specimens of Filtek P90 and Filtek Z350 composite were prepared in a customized mold (2 × 2 × 25 mm). The specimens of each composite were divided into five subgroups a...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine whether the bond of veneering porcelain to a ceramic core in bilayered ceramics was similar to that of the metal ceramic control of well known behaviour. STUDY DESIGN Six groups of nine specimens each were fabricated, whose dimensions were 15 mm long and 8 mm in diameter at the core, and 2 mm long and 8 mm in diameter for the veneer. The gr...

We generalize an equation introduced by Benamou and Brenier in [BB00] and characterizing Wasserstein Wp-geodesics for p > 1, from the continuous setting of probability distributions on a Riemannian manifold to the discrete setting of probability distributions on a general graph. Given an initial and a final distributions (f0(x))x∈G, (f1(x))x∈G, we prove the existence of a curve (ft(x))t∈[0,1],x...

Two words w1 and w2 are said to be k-binomial equivalent if every non-empty word x of length at most k over the alphabet of w1 and w2 appears as a scattered factor of w1 exactly as many times as it appears as a scattered factor of w2. We give two different polynomial-time algorithms testing the k-binomial equivalence of two words. The first one is deterministic (but the degree of the correspond...