La Rochelle, France knew during the second half of the twentieth century an important increase of its permanent and seasonal population. Since 1999, the city is grouped together with 17 others municipalities (communes) into an intercommunality (cooperation group between communes) : La Rochelle’s community of Agglomeration (CDA-LR) (fig 1). Because of an attractive coastal position, the CDA-LR i...

The management of networks, distributed systems, and distributed applications is an important and growing field in computer science. Besides the classical architectures like SNMP and OSI management, the introduction of new technologies such as the World Wide Web with Java and the availability of standard middleware architectures like CORBA have brought up new challenges. Future developments in ...

| Conventional detection and demodulation rules are not ideally suited for use with discrete Fourier transform (DFT) based narrow-band interference suppression, if the DFT incorporates time-weighting to localize the interference spectrally. Detection rules which are adapted to the time-weighting are introduced here and shown to ooer signiicant improvements in performance, but their implementati...

To compensate for the energetic deficit elicited by reduced carbohydrate intake, mammals convert energy stored in ketone bodies to high energy phosphates. Ketone bodies provide fuel particularly to brain, heart, and skeletal muscle in states that include starvation, adherence to low carbohydrate diets, and the neonatal period. Here, we use novel Oxct1(-/-) mice, which lack the ketolytic enzyme ...

BACKGROUND To evaluate genetic variation, population structure, and the extent of linkage disequilibrium (LD), 134 switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) samples were analyzed with 51 markers, including 16 ISSRs, 20 SCoTs, and 15 EST-SSRs. RESULTS In this study, a high level of genetic variation was observed in the switchgrass samples and they had an average Nei's gene diversity index (H) of 0.311...

Start codon targeted polymorphism (SCoT) analysis was employed to distinguish 37 whipgrass (Hemarthria compressa L.) clones and assess the genetic diversity and population structure among these genotypes. The informativeness of markers was also estimated using various parameters. Using 25 highly reproducible primer sets, 368 discernible fragments were generated. Of these, 282 (77.21%) were poly...

Objective: Succinyl-CoA:3-ketoacid CoA transferase (SCOT) deficiency is a rare genetic disorder of ketone utilization and isoleucine catabolism caused by mutations in the OXCT1 gene,
 Case: A Saudi girl case SCOT confirmed analysis has been reported this study. 5-year-old presented to emergency with first episode severe metabolic ketoacidosis after febrile illness. On admission, she was dr...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The purpose of this study was to review the recent randomised controlled trials of coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) for patients with stable coronary artery disease. RECENT FINDINGS The initial results and subsequent papers from the SCOT-HEART (Scottish COmputed Tomography of the HEART) and PROMISE (PROspective Multicentre Imaging Study for Evaluation of chest...