St. Augustine [5] began his life in Algeria, an apt student devoted early to the Church and seeking the Truth. His professors recognized his great skill at philosophizing and writing. As Augustine devoured writings both ancient and of his contemporaries, he fell away from the Church and toward a religious dualism sect known as the Manicheans. His mother, a very devoted Christian (later St. Moni...

The energetics of elementary surface processes relevant for CO oxidation, particularly CO and O2 adsorption, were investigated by a direct calorimetric method on model Pd nanoparticles and on the extended Pd(111) single crystal surface. The focus of this study lies on a detailed understanding of how a nanometer scale confinement of matter affects the binding strength of gaseous adsorbates. We r...

Purpose: The goal of this study was to investigate how the use of a 25 dB HL referral criterion in school screenings affects the identification of hearing loss categorized as minimal sensorineural hearing loss (MSHL). Method: A retrospective study applied screening levels of 20 and 25 dB HL at 1000, 2000, and 4000 Hz in each ear to previously obtained pure-tone thresholds for 1,475 school-age c...

Three major groups of antibodies have been identified during the analysis of the clonal response to phosphoeholine (PC). t The predominant one shows multiple molecular features of the PC-binding myeloma protein (PC-BMP) TEPC 15 (1-3), and two others possess idiotypes (Id) and L-chain characteristics of two other PCBMP, M511 (2, 4) and M603 (5). All three Id groups are conserved in inbred mice (...

0147-9563/99/$8.00 + 0 2/1/101055 The limited number of intensive care unit (ICU) beds and the demand for these beds often forces patients to be discharged earlier than is clinically indicated. Consequently, some patients are discharged from the ICU with significant health care needs requiring skilled management by health care practitioners on the general wards. Without adequate resources on th...

Abstract Introduction In France in 2019 the level of abortion is highest for thirty years. Between 2010 and 2013, use oral contraception fell from 50% to 41% reach 32% 2018 (Women aged 15 49) Hormone phobia often cited when woman refuses œstrogen-progestins, but morning after pill continues with one million "levonorgestrel 1,5 mg" sold each year France. Remember this contains times more levonor...

Trimetallic Au–Pd–Pt nanoparticles have been supported on activated carbon by the sol-immobilisation method. They are found to be highly active and selective catalysts for the solvent-free aerobic oxidation of benzyl alcohol. The addition of Pt promotes the selectivity to the desired product benzaldehyde at the expense of toluene formation. Detailed aberration corrected STEM-XEDS analysis confi...