La fiction contemporaine produit un grand nombre de personnages dont la caractéristique est rester peu longtemps en scène. Sans être secondaires, ils se définissent par brièveté leur présence et récit, comme s’il s’agissait pour eux laisser le moins trace possible ou retrait d’une trame qui poursuit sans même souvenir. Repérable chez des auteurs aussi divers que Jean Echenoz, Maylis Kerangal, M...

For protected areas (PAs), variation in forest impacts over space—including types of PA—are increasingly well documented, while shifts in impacts over time receive less attention. For Mexico, in the 1990s, PAs effectively were ‘paper parks’. Thus, achieving impacts on the forest would require shifts over time in the politics of PA siting and PA implementation. We rigorously analyze the impacts ...

In this work is represented conceptual model of robot-manipulator for capture and 10 holding no-cooperation client spacecraft, which has Payload Adapter interface PAS 1666 S, PAS 11 1194 C, PAS 1666 MVS, PAS 1184 VS, when there are dynamic errors of linear and angular position 12 of client spacecraft in the interval +/-50 per minute and +/-0.1 meters per minute respectively. 13

We designed a new paired associative stimulation (PAS) protocol that combines experimental pain evoked by laser stimuli and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) (Laser-PAS) to primary motor cortex (M1). We tested in healthy subjects whether Laser-PAS elicits cortical plasticity as reflected by long-term changes in motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) (after-effects). In separate experiments, we ex...

Glucocorticoid excess causes visceral obesity and its accompanying insulin resistance, dyslipidemia and hypertension. Glucocorticoids enhance preadipocyte (PA) differentiation and increase their aromatase activity (oestrogen production) and there is regional variability in these PA processes. Therefore, we studied human PAs for the presence of, and any regional or gender differences in, glucoco...

Human ether-á-go-go-related gene (hERG) potassium channels have voltage-dependent closing (deactivation) kinetics that are unusually slow. A Per-Arnt-Sim (PAS) domain in the cytoplasmic N-terminal region of hERG regulates slow deactivation by making a direct interaction with another part of the hERG channel. The mechanism for slow deactivation is unclear, however, because the other regions of t...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of percutaneous angioplasty and stenting (PAS) in comparison with traditional open surgical (OS) revascularization for the treatment of chronic mesenteric ischemia. METHODS Over a 3.5-year period, 28 patients (32 vessels) underwent PAS (balloon angioplasty alone, 5 [18%] of 28; angioplasty and stenting, 23 [82%] of 28) for...

Protected areas (PAs) are an essential tool for the conservation of biodiversity globally. Previous studies have focussed on the effectiveness of PAs and the design of optimal PA networks. However, not all PAs remain intact permanently; many PAs undergo downgrading, downsizing and/or degazettement (PADDD), a fact largely ignored until recently. The drivers of enacted PADDD events and the factor...