Résumé. La correction de données textuelles obtenues par reconnaissance optique de caractères (OCR) pour atteindre une qualité éditoriale reste aujourd’hui une tâche coûteuse, car elle implique toujours une intervention humaine. La détection et la correction automatiques d’erreurs à l’aide de modèles statistiques ne permettent de traiter de façon utile que les erreurs relevant de la langue géné...

Birds frequently interact with people when they occur in coupled human-ecological or anthropogenic environments, which makes the protection of legally protected species a challenge. Flight initiation distances (FIDs) are often used to inform development of appropriate buffer distances required for human exclusion zones used to protect birds nesting in anthropogenic landscapes. Piping Plovers (C...

Although the nitrate and nitrite have been used for centuries, it has only recently been discovered that nitrate is manufactured in mammals by the oxidation of nitric oxide and that the nitrate formed also has the potential for disinfecting the food we eat. The mechanisms by which nitric oxide and other nitrogen oxides provide selective toxicity towards pathogens is not yet completely understoo...

l’influence déterminante de walter scott au moment où toute une génération écrit des romans historiques apparaît surtout dans l’hommage que lui rendent des figures comme balzac ou hugo au xixe siècle. cette influence qu’affirment et saluent également les histoires littéraires, est due essentiellement au renouveau de la conception romanesque du roman historique, genre ancien, mariant fiction et ...

A synthesis was carried out to examine Alaska’s boreal forest fire regime. During the 2000s, an average of 767 000 ha!year–1 burned, 50% higher than in any previous decade since the 1940s. Over the past 60 years, there was a decrease in the number of lightning-ignited fires, an increase in extreme lightning-ignited fire events, an increase in humanignited fires, and a decrease in the number of ...

The stage of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) is important to define precisely as far as it is directly related to the type of treatment used. The beginning of the neurological involvement is dif ficult to find out because there is no known specific clinical or biological sign. This study is trying to look for a precise marker and has been realized in Congo. 70 subjects with parasitologicall...