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Temporal and institutional trends in robotic surgery
Robotic surgery has become increasingly prevalent in general surgery practice. While previous studies have shown the safety and efficacy of robotic assistance in laparoscopic general surgery procedures, few st...
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Comparative study of open, laparoscopic and endoscopic treatments of intermediate grade vesicoureteral reflux in children
Low-grade vesicoureteral-reflux (VUR) are rather treated by endoscopic injection, whereas open or laparoscopic procedures are mainly performed for high-grade VURs. Management of intermediate grades is controve...
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TESTING OF METAL CONNECTIONS USING ADHESIVE BONDING COMBINED WITH SELF-PIERCING RIVETING
A modern car body structure is driven by the multi-material design approach. The best material at the correct place is the objective. Consequently, components made of dissimilar materials need to be joined and...
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Elasto-viscoplasticity Behaviour of a Structural Adhesive Under Compression Loadings at Low, Moderate and High Strain Rates
Crashworthiness performance of automotives by introducing new materials is of high interest based on the global mass’ reduction of cars. Bonded techniques are tested at present with respect to the reduction of...
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Open AccessThe androgen receptor mediates antiapoptotic function in myometrial cells
During pregnancy, myometrial phenotype is programmed into three characteristic stages referred to as the early proliferative, the midterm hypertrophic, and the late contractile stage. Increased myometrial grow...
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Characterization of a structural adhesive by Digital Image Correlation
In the recent years, structural bonding takes an important place in assemblies techniques used for the automotive design. The next step to optimize the use of adhesive in car structures is to realize accurate ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Elasto-viscoplasticity behaviour of a structural adhesive under compression loadings
Improvement of automotives’ crashworthiness is of high interest for governments prior to objectives focused on the reduction of passengers’ injuries. In these recent years, steel industries have studied the dy...
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Biofilms of As(III)-oxidising bacteria: formation and activity studies for bioremediation process development
The formation and activity of an As(III)-oxidising biofilm in a bioreactor, using pozzolana as bacterial growth support, was studied for the purpose of optimising fixed-bed bioreactors for bioremediation. Afte...
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Chromate (CrO2− 4) Reduction in Groundwaters by Using Reductive Bacteria in Fixed-Bed Bioreactors
A biological method for the reduction Cr(VI), using sulphate-reducing bacteria (SRB), was tested in 2-L then 20-L fixed-bed reactors, with H2 as a low-cost and clean substrate. The systems were inoculated with De...
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Monitoring of a pyrite-oxidising bacterial population using DNA single-strand conformation polymorphism and microscopic techniques
The single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) technique was used to study the evolution of a bacterial consortium during the batch oxidation of a cobaltiferous pyrite in two types of bio-reactor: a bubbl...
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Reduction of chromate by fixed films of sulfate-reducing bacteria using hydrogen as an electron source
The ability of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) to reduce chromate, Cr(VI), was evaluated using fixed-film growth systems and H2 as the electron source. A main objective of the experiment was to distinguish betwee...
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Comparison of ultrasound and dimercaptosuccinic acid scintigraphy changes in acute pyelonephritis
The strategy for morphological investigations in children with acute pyelonephritis (APN) remains debatable. We studied 70 children (median age 2.0 years) admitted with a first episode of pyelonephritis using...
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Functional Study of Two V2 Vasopressin Mutant Receptors Related to NDI
X-linked nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI) is a rare disease with defective renal and extrarenal arginine-vasopressin (AVP) V2 receptor response due to mutations in the AVPR2 gene in Xq2 (1). Most of the mu...
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TEM investigation of discommensurations in a Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O superconductor
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The “size principle” and synaptic effectiveness of muscle afferent projections to human extensor carpi radialis motoneurones during wrist extension
The question of whether muscle spindle afferents might control human motoneurone activity on the basis of the “size principle” during voluntary contraction was investigated by recording the discharge of single...
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Fragmentation processes and xenolith transport in a Proterozoic minette dyke, Grenville Province, Québec
The Mesoproterozoic Rivard minette dyke provides a case example of dyke-parallel fracturing induced by propagation of low-viscosity melts at deep crustal levels. The dyke constitutes a xenolith-choked intrusi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Scientific Contents of the Hipparcos Input Catalogue
The Hipparcos Input Catalogue -hereafter called HIC- (Turon et al. 1992a, Turon et al. 1994) contains the observing programme of the Hipparcos mission: 118 000 preselected stars, 48 minor planets and three satell...
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Hipparcos and red dwarf populations
The European Space Agency's Hipparcos satellite, launched in August 1989, and operated until August 1993, sent back scientific data for about 36 months. The reduction of the first 18 months already shows that ...
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Fourth meeting of the European Neurological Society 25–29 June 1994 Barcelona, Spain
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Hipparcos and Red Dwarf Populations
The European Space Agency’s Hipparcos satellite, launched in August 1989, and operated until August 1993, sent back scientific data for about 36 months. The reduction of the first 18 months already shows that ...
