Even patients with severely reduced left ventricular function and critical aortic stenosis can improve notably following valve replacement.

In this paper, we use the semantic web technology, notably RDF, SPARQL and Linked Open Data in the context of scientific data sharing. More precisely, we present the LinkedWiki platform that is being developed at the Center for Data Science of Paris-Saclay University for scientific data integration. The goal is to facilitate the discovery and exploitation of scientists’ datasets by their collea...

work has focused on the role of the microflora in the etiology of obesity. In a rodent model, we have shown that an increase in gastrointestinal (GI) permeability is associated with weight gain whereas resistance diet-induced obesity is characterized by an intact intestinal barrier. A leaky gut allows bacterial products translocation to the circulation, notably pro-inflammatory lipopolysacchari...

This study investigated the prevalence of electrocardiographically determined left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertensive and normotensive type 2 diabetic females who went for consultation at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), Rivers State, Nigeria. Two hundred participants mean age 52 years, attending the medical outpatient clinic over a 6-month period were recruited fo...

Over the last ten years, molecular biologists and computer scientists have experimented with various artificial intelligence techniques, notably knowledge based and expert systems, qualitative simulation, natural language processing and various machine learning techniques. These techniques have been applied to problems in molecular data analysis, construction of advanced databases and modelling...

This talk reviews the constraints imposed by binary-pulsar data on gravity theories, and notably on “scalar-tensor” theories which are the most natural alternatives to general relativity. Because neutron stars have a strong gravitational binding energy, binarypulsar tests are qualitatively different from solar-system experiments: They have the capability of probing models which are indistinguis...

This paper investigates the context for the development of one of the earliest microprocessors, the Intel 4004. It considers the contributions Intel employees, most notably Marcian E. “Ted” Hoff, Jr., and Federico Faggin, made and contributions other people made to this development who are not generally known, most notably Tadashi Sasaki and Masatoshi Shima. The paper represents a case study of...

The ab initio prediction of new genes in eukaryotic genomes represents a difficult task, notably for the identification of complex split genes. A Physics-Based Gene Identification (PBGI) method was formulated recently (Yeramian, Gene, 255, 139-150, 151-168, 2000a,b) to address this problem, taking as a model the Plasmodium falciparum genome. Here, the predictive power of this method is put unde...

A patient presenting the picture of congestive cardiomyopathy was found to have syphilitic obliteration of the left coronary artery. Aortic regurgitation, angina, and myocardial infarction were notably absent.

Background Performance-Based Financing (PBF) has been advanced as a solution to contribute to improving the performance of health systems in developing countries. This is the case in Benin. This study aims to analyse how two PBF approaches, piloted in Benin, behave during implementation and what effects they produce, through investigating how local stakeholders perceive the introduction of PBF,...