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A Practical Methodology to Screen Oil Recovery Processes Involving Spontaneous Imbibition
We present a general novel technique to monitor saturation changes on small rock samples of only 15 mm in diameter and 20 mm in length for the purpose of assessing the kinetics of spontaneous imbibition proces...
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Quantitative exploitation of PFG NMR and MRI velocimetry data for the rheological study of yield stress fluid flows at macro- and micro-scales in complex geometries
We explore the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) velocimetry and pulsed field gradient nuclear magnetic resonance (PFG NMR) data for studying the flow characteristics of yield stress fluids through model...
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Erratum zu: La diaphyse fémorale AL 333-61 : preuve d’une bipédie comme unique mode locomoteur il y a 3,2 Ma en Ethiopie ?
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Du pilastre et de la linea aspera et de leurs relations avec la bipédie permanente
La présence d’un pilastre et d’une linea aspera chez Homo sapiens, absents chez Pan et Gorilla, a inspiré cette étude qui s’interroge sur la pertinence de l’utilisation de ces critères comme indicateurs simples d...
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La diaphyse fémorale AL 333-61 : preuve d’une bipédie comme unique mode locomoteur il y a 3,2 Ma en Ethiopie ?
Les précédentes descriptions de la diaphyse AL 333-61, mise au jour à Hadar (Ethiopie), attribuée à l’espèce Australopithecus afarensis et datée de 3,2 Ma, ont été particulièrement discrètes et peu instructives e...
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Open AccessAssessment of health claims in the field of bone: a view of the Group for the Respect of Ethics and Excellence in Science (GREES)
Health claims for food products in Europe are permitted if the nutrient has been shown to have a beneficial nutritional or physiological effect. This paper defines health claims related to bone health and prov...
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Increased postprandial homocysteinemia in a group of depressed patients
Elevated tissue and serum concentrations of homocysteine (HCY) are associated with neuropsychiatric disorders as well as with premature occlusive vascular disease, as seen in homocystinuria. In order to study ...
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Restoration of functional gait in paraplegic patients with the RGO-II hybrid orthosis. A multicenter controlled study. II: Physiological evaluation
We have investigated physiological changes in 21 patients with a spinal cord injury who were fitted with the RGO-II hybrid orthosis. All parameters were measured before and after a training programme in order ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Esophageal reflux can exist despite an elevated LES
Episodic GE reflux is a normal phenomenon especially after eating [1, 2, 3] Different factors may contribute to the GE reflux disease and esophagitis [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]:
Low LE...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
What are the factors that play a role in the genesis of esophagitis and on which ones do antacids react?
Esophagitis is the chief complication of gastroesophageal reflux. It is the outcome of the attack of the gastric reflux fluid on the malpighian mucosa of the esophagus. Its occurrence depends on the severity o...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
From the clinical point of view, do peptidic hormones have an effect on LES?
A large number of peptidic hormones exert a pharmacologic action on the LES. The chief of these are gastrin and motilin, which produce contraction, and the pan- creozymin cholecystokinin (CCK) and secretin, wh...
