AIMS The aims of this study were to compare the diagnostic test characteristics of ultrasound alone, metal artefact reduction sequence MRI (MARS-MRI) alone, and ultrasound combined with MARS-MRI for identifying intra-operative pseudotumours in metal-on-metal hip resurfacing (MoMHR) patients undergoing revision surgery. METHODS This retrospective diagnostic accuracy study involved 39 patients ...

Matrix-attachment regions (MARs) are DNA elements that are defined by their abilities to bind to isolated nuclear matrices in vitro. The DNA sequences of different matrix-binding elements vary widely. The locations of some MARs at the ends of chromatin loops suggest that they may represent boundaries of individual chromatin domains. As such, MARs may play important roles in regulating transcrip...

Lacour, B. Sallé, R. Brennetot, , E. Vors, P. Fichet, A. Rivoallan, C. Fabre, J. Dubessy, S. Maurice, R. C. Wiens, D. A. Cremers. Laboratoire d’Analyse par Laser et d’Etude des Surfaces (CEA, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France, [email protected]), Centre de Recherche de la Géologie de l’Uranium (Univ. Henri Poincaré, 54506, Vandœuvre les Nancy, France, [email protected]), Laboratoir...

Mars Sample Return is the highest priority science mission for the next decade as recommended by the 2011 Decadal Survey of Planetary Science [1]. This article presents the results of a feasibility study for a Mars Sample Return mission that efficiently uses emerging commercial capabilities expected to be available in the near future. The motivation of our study was the recognition that emergin...

The magnetometer and electron reflectometer investigation (MAG/ER) on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft has obtained magnetic field and plasma observations throughout the near-Mars environment, from beyond the influence of Mars to just above the surface (at an altitude of approximately 100 kilometers). The solar wind interaction with Mars is in many ways similar to that at Venus and at an act...

We present the first calculation of saltation transport and dune formation on Mars and compare it to real dunes. We find that the rate at which grains are entrained into saltation on Mars is 1 order of magnitude higher than on Earth. With this fundamental novel ingredient, we reproduce the size and different shapes of Mars dunes, and give an estimate for the wind velocity on Mars.

MARS is one of the AES nalists. The up-to-date analysis of MARS includes the discovery of weak keys, and Biham's estimation that a 12round variant of MARS is breakable. This estimation was partly founded based on a 7-round impossible di erential of the core of MARS. However, no such attack was presented to-date. In this paper we present two new longer impossible di erentials of 8 rounds.

Most studies of active aeolian processes on Mars have focused on dust [1], i.e., particles -1 [tm in diameter that are transported in suspension by wind. The presence of sand dunes on Mars [2-8] indicates that larger grains ( >60 _tm, transported primarily in saltation) are also present. Although indirect evidence suggests that some dunes may be active [9], definitive evidence is lacking. Nonet...