In this study we have worked on the evaluation of heavy metal contamination in the sediments taken from the Tisza River and its tributaries, and thereby used the sequential extraction method, geochemical normalization, the calculation of the enrichment factor (EF), and the methods of statistical analysis. The chemical fractionation of Ni, Cu, Zn, Cr, Pb, Fe, and Mn, carried out by using the mod...

A common view in the phonological literature is that phonological alternations typically involve markedness reduction; that is, deviation from an input is basically characterized as a repair of a marked structure. Under the most extreme version of phonological theory, every output constraint is simply a reflection of a markedness hierarchy, meaning that all disparities between inputs and output...

BACKGROUND Shewanella baltica KB30 was isolated from seawater collected in Kandalaksha Bay, White Sea (Russia). This strain is known for its ability to grow on a pool of different substrates, including carbohydrates, carboxylic and amino acids, and lipids. However, no data are available on its metabolic efficiency in relation to the use of different carbon sources typologies. This work represen...

PHACE syndrome is a neurocutaneous disorder characterized by large cervicofacial infantile hemangiomas and associated anomalies: posterior fossa brain malformation, hemangioma, arterial cerebrovascular anomalies, coarctation of the aorta and cardiac defects, and eye/endocrine abnormalities of the brain. When ventral developmental defects (sternal clefting or supraumbilical raphe) are present th...

Facial skeletal remodeling was revolutionized more than 30 years ago, by the work of Tessier and other craniofacial surgeons. However, the need to correct the skeleton in the upper third of the face is not frequently diagnosed or treated in aesthetic facial surgery. Here, we report on the aesthetic correction of a protrusive forehead. A patient visited our hospital for aesthetic contouring with...

Claude Barrouil, Charles Castel, Patrick Fabiani, Roger Mampey, Patrick Secchi, Catherine Tessier 1 f*[email protected] Abstract. This paper presents the principle of a perception system meant for delivering alarms when dreaded activities are suspected. It includes a Symbolic Layer (SL) that deals with activities recognition and alarm decision, and a Resource Management System (RML) that, upon request,...

Automotive model-based systems engineering needs to be adapted to the industry specific needs, in particular by implementing appropriate means of representing and operating with variability. We rely on existing modeling techniques as an opportunity to provide a description of variability adapted to a systems engineering model. However, we also need to take into account requirements related to b...

Existing general circulation models rely heavily on strong cloud homogeneity assumptions; the solar radiation is assumed to interact with highly unrealistic plane parallel (horizontally homogenous) clouds. In contrast, real clouds exhibit fractal structures and multifractal statistics over wides ranges of scale. For example, in Lovejoy et al. (1993) and Tessier et al. (1993), we showed that the...

The term “evidence-based medicine,” first used in the 1980s in Canada, is defined as “the conscious, explicit, and critical use of the best available evidence to make medical decisions regarding the care of individual patients.” This study sought to estimate the viability of evi ­ dence­based medicine in modern craniofacial surgery practice 44 years after Paul Tessier first started it by showca...

BACKGROUND Coronal incision is a popular and versatile surgical approach to the anterior cranial vault and upper and middle third facial skeleton. The flap itself permits widespread exposure of the fractures in this region. The bicoronal flap was first described by Hartley and Kenyon (neurosurgeons) to gain access to the anterior cranium in 1907. It extension as an access flap to the upper and ...