PURPOSE To describe the behavioral and EEG topographic correlates of absences with 3-Hz generalized spike-waves and partitioned impairment of consciousness. METHODS Two adult women had so-called "phantom" absences, characterized by brief and mild impairments of consciousness that were previously inconspicuous to both patient and physician. Neuropsychological examination was performed under vi...

PURPOSE Absence status (AS) epilepticus with generalized spike-wave pattern is frequently found in severely ill patients in whom several disease states co-exist. The cortical generators of the ictal EEG pattern and EEG functional connectivity (EEGfC) of this condition are unknown. The present study investigated the localization of the uppermost synchronized generators of spike-wave activity in ...

We describe the ictal [(18)F]FDG-PET study of a case of absence status showing bilateral thalamic hypermetabolism and frontal cortex hypometabolism. This is the first ictal assessment of absence status by [(18)F]FDG-PET reporting this particular cortical and subcortical involvement. Our findings support the theory of corticothalamic circuitry involvement in the pathophysiology of absence seizur...

I n 2006, I attended a series of seminars in Madrid at which Isabel Aguilera, Google's managing director for Spain and Portugal at the time, was going to deliver an invited speech. According to one organizer, Aguilera told them in petit comité that at Google, they'd known beforehand the winner of the Real Madrid Club de Fútbol elections. Unlike most professional football clubs in Spain, Real Ma...

Tamara Pilishvili, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Ryan Gierke, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Monica Farley, Emory University William Schaffner, Emory University Ann Thomas, Oregon Public Health Division Arthur Reingold, University of California Lee Harrison, University of Pittsburgh Ruth Lynfield, Minnesota Department of Health Shelley M. Zansky, New York State Departme...

We describe soft versions of the global cardinality constraint and the regular constraint, with efficient filtering algorithms maintaining domain consistency. For both constraints, the softening is achieved by augmenting the underlying graph. The softened constraints can be used to extend the meta-constraint framework for over-constrained problems proposed by Petit, Régin and Bessière.

Citation: Vinatier F, Lagacherie P, Voltz M, Petit S, Lavigne C, Brunet Y and Lescourret F (2016) An Unified Framework to Integrate Biotic, Abiotic Processes and Human Activities in Spatially Explicit Models of Agricultural Landscapes. Front. Environ. Sci. 4:6. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2016.00006 An Unified Framework to Integrate Biotic, Abiotic Processes and Human Activities in Spatially Explicit Mo...

Although Petit, about 1743, suggested with wonderful foresight that gallstones should be removed by operation, it was not till within the last twenty years that the surgery of the gall-bladder and its ducts made any appreciable advance. It is not, therefore, surprising that the knowledge of what can be effected by timely interference is scarcely as widely known as the subject deserves.

£uid fromthe deep ice boreholeatVostok, EastAntarctica Irina A. Alekhina, Dominique Marie, Jean Robert Petit, Valery V. Lukin, Vladimir M. Zubkov & Sergey A. Bulat Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute RAS, St Petesrburg-Gatchina, Russia; Laboratory of Glaciology and Geophysics of Environment CNRS, Grenoble, France; Station Biologique de Roscoff, France; Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, ...