Alexandre Dufour (1759-1835), architecte de Versailles

Alexandre Motta de MENEZES 1 , Frederico Pires

Objective: To describe the technique and evaluate the immediate results of using an ultrasonic scalpel in the skeletonization of the internal thoracic artery for coronary artery bypass grafting surgery. Methods: From January 2000 to October 2006, 188 patients were submitted to coronary artery bypass grafting with the internal thoracic artery skeletonized using an ultrasonic scalpel. Seventy-one...

Georges GARDARIN Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

Old Calcutta (1759—1763)

Servant's wages The following is quoted from proceedings of the 21st May, 1759 Taking into consideration the united complaints of the inhabitants (of Calcutta) with respect not only to the insolence but exorbitant, wages exacted by the menial servants, and having duly weighed and considered the premises, we are of opinion that their complaints are too justly founded and loudly call for redress....

Notes on the distribution and ecology of the genus Stenelmis Dufour, 1835 (Coleoptera: Elmidae) in the Caucasus.

The distribution of the genus Stenelmis (Elmidae) of the Caucasus is reviewed based on materials collected by the authors and examined specimens stored in accessible collections. One of the two species present in this region, represented by the subspecies Stenelmis consobrina consobrina Dufour, 1835, is recorded for the first time in Krasnodar Krai and possibly in Armenia; Stenelmis puberula Re...

Dufour, J

A search for the products of fusion reactions that could be triggered by sparking in hydrogen isotopes was carried out. No signatures above background were found. On the contrary, the excess energy production was confirmed in the simple hydrogen/palladium system. The formation of a tightly bound state of the hydrogen (deuterium) atom is hypothesized to explain these results.