The local limit theorem describes how the density of a sum of random variables follows the normal curve. However the local limit theorem is often seen as a curiosity of no particular importance when compared with the central limit theorem. Nevertheless the local limit theorem came first and is in fact associated with the foundation of probability theory by Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fer...

As acoustic propagation, forest fire (Pimont et al., 2006), tree stability (Dupont and Brunet, 2008b) or pollen dispersion (Chamecki et al., 2009), a lot of applications needs an accurate representation of the boundary layer to observe its influence on these phenomena. Then, in order to better represent the dynamics into the surface layer, Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) are carried on using thinn...

Prepublished online September 11, 2007; Gascan, Mohamed Hebbar and Pascale Jeannin Preisser, Ignacio Anegon, Laurent Catala, Norbert Ifrah, Philippe Descamps, Erick Gamelin, Hugues Dorothee Duluc, Yves Delneste, Fang Tan, Marie-Pierre Moles, Linda Grimaud, Julien Lenoir, Laurence differentiation into tumor-associated-macrophage-like cells Tumor-associated leukemia inhibitory factor and IL-6 ske...

The French research on cosmic rays in the first half of the 20 century is summarized. The main experiments are described as the discovery of air cosmic ray showers by Pierre Auger. The results obtained at the French altitude laboratories like the “Pic du Midi de Bigorre” are also briefly presented.

instrumentalism (in the science) refers to a view that considers scientific theories as nothing more than instruments for prediction. sometimes the traces of this attitude have been searched in the writings of plato and aristotle; but mostly the pioneers of the theory have been thought to be the priests who regarded the scientific propositions as mere hypothesis, in order to defend religious do...

We present the results of a search for clustering among the highest energy events detected by the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory between 1 January 2004 and 31 August 2007. We analyse the autocorrelation function, in which the number of pairs with angular separation within an angle α is compared with the expectation from an isotropic distribution. Performing a scan in energy ab...

1 Neurocritical Care Unit, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sud Réunion, Saint-Pierre, France, 2 Department of Neurosurgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sud Réunion, Saint-Pierre, France, 3 INSERM, UMR 1188 Diabète athérothrombose Thérapies Réunion Océan Indien (DéTROI), plateforme CYROI, Sainte Clotilde, France, 4 Centre d’Études Périnatales de l’Océan Indien (CEPOI) – EA 7388, Centre Hos...

Cardiovascular Research Center. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY; Inserm UMRS 956, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Paris, France; LIA/Transatlantic Cardiovascular Research Center Université Pierre et Marie Curie/Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY; INSERM U770, University Paris Sud, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France; PECMV-Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris, Paris, F...

Olivier T Rutschmann, Jacques Cornuz, Pierre-Alexandre Poletti, Pierre-Olivier Bridevaux, Olivier W Hugli, Salah D Qanadli, Arnaud Perrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Pierre Shale is a marine deposit that accumulated in the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway during the onset of Laramide tectonism in the southern Rocky Mountains region. In the eastern part of the Raton Basin near Trinidad, Colorado, ammonite biostratigraphy suggests that the base of the Pierre Shale lies within or slightly above the Lower Campanian Scaphites hippocrepis III ammonite range...