As a specialist working on the history of the Islamic world and interested in documentary material, I had eagerly awaited this book, a book which would continue the chapters on Jewishwomen inGoitein’smagnumopus on the Jews of medieval Cairo based on Genizah documents.[1]What we now have is, indeed, a colorful insight into the world of Jewish women of sixteenth-century Palestine, based on an imp...

Under the direction of Professor Agnès Noël, a team of scientists at the GIGA-Cancer research center of the University of Liège has developed, in collaboration with other European laboratories, a new lymphoangiogenesis model which could lead, among other things, to a better understanding of cancer cell dissemination (metastases). This finding is the subject of an article published in the renown...

A 45-year-old female suffered from increasing dyspnea during exercise and edema of lower extremities from January 2000. She had undergone mitral valve replacement with Starr-Edwards ball prosthesis (model 6320) due to mitral valve regurgitation 25 years ago. The cardiac catheterization and echocardiography documented mitral, aortic and tricuspid valves regurgitation grade III. Left ventricular ...

In order to produce convincing renders of woven cloth, it is not only necessary to properly simulate the physics of cloth, but also its texture. Because cloth often consists of very specular fibers, exhibits both smalland large-scale detail, and is modulated by view and light directions in an unusual manner, it is very hard to simulate with simple texture maps. Moreover, it is currently infeasi...

Clothing computer design systems include three integrated parts: garment pattern design in 2D/3D, virtual try-on and realistic clothing simulation. Some important results have been obtained in pattern design and clothing simulation since the 1980s. However, in the area of virtual try-on, only limited methods have been proposed which are applicable to some defined garment styles or under restric...

Harvesting solar energy in an effective manner for steam and electricity generation is a promising technique to simultaneously cope with the water crises. However, construction of efficient easy scale-up photothermal materials cogeneration remains challenging. Herein, we report facile cost-effective strategy prepare MnO2-decorated cotton cloth (MCx). The wide adsorption spectrum excellent conve...