Ultrasound has been used to measure diaphragm thickness (Tdi) in the area where the diaphragm abuts the rib cage (zone of apposition). However, the degree of diaphragm thickening during inspiration reported as obtained by one-dimensional M-mode ultrasound was greater than that predicted by using other radiographic techniques. Because two-dimensional (2-D) ultrasound provides greater anatomic de...

Les étudiants entrant à l’université peinent parfois maîtriser la langue française, ce qui constitue un frein réussite de certains. Des dispositifs d’aide l’amélioration des compétences écrites sont mis en place dans les universités afin d’y remédier. À Le Mans Université, première année licence participent, manière obligatoire, ces enseignements. Nous nous intéressons ici aux représentations e...

From the beginning of creation, human being was surrounded by nature. Everything in nature is well organized and in harmony with the other parts of it. Through the history, nature has been always a source of inspiration for the human begin in different aspects of their life. Architecture as one of the remarkable features in every society cannot be separated from nature. In architecture design...

this paper explores the developing of how designers can search for inspiration source which provided in the form of traditional elements and archetypes and also their role on idea generation in design from building to urban measure. in order to clarify of this, current study focuses on the far-east region as an ancient part of the world in which there is a huge number of symbols like well known...

MOTS CLÉS Addiction ; Propriétés psychométriques ; Analyse factorielle confirmatoire ; Échelle de dépendance à l’activité physique Résumé Sur la base des critères diagnostiques de dépendance aux substances du DSM-IV [American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. 4th ed. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association; 1994.], Hausenblas et Downs [Exer...

A n interesting question for any of us is why we chose our current profession. As a reader of this magazine, there’s a good chance you’re working in the field of pervasive or mobile computing, and the inspiration for your choice is perhaps something we have in common: a fascination with gadgets, a tendency to shop for electronic odds and ends, and an interest in turning fictional devices into r...

JACQUELINE DELBECK ET FLORENCE WEBER, Handicap psychique et vie quotidienne, Paris, Revue française des Affaires sociales, La documentation française, 2009, vol. 63, 352 p.. Un article de la revue Développement Humain, Changement Social / Human Development, Disability, and Change (De l'appropriation du pouvoir l'autodétermination : le parcours mouvement social personnes ayant incapacités) diffu...

doi: 10.1188/16.ONF.131-132 The end of each year and the beginning of the next usually involves the media printing lists of what was talked about in the past year and what is going to be “hot” in the coming 12 months. The world of oncology is no different. MedPageToday conducted a nonscientific survey of readers (Sergel, 2015), asking oncologists what game changers they saw in 2015. Seventy-fou...