Jean-Antoine Rioux*, Marie-Claude Durette-Desset, Jean-Louis Albaret, Christiane Bayssade-Dufour, Jimmy Cassone, Irène Landau, Annie Petter, and Roselyne Tchéprakoff 1 Honorary Professor of Parasitology (Montpellier), Former President of the French Society of Parasitology, Faculté de Médecine, Université Montpellier 1, 1 rue de l’École de Médecine, 34000 Montpellier, France 2 Ex-members of ‘‘La...

The aim of this study was to characterize the backstroke swimming technique of 11-13 year-old swimmers when performing at very high intensity. A sample of 114 swimmers was divided into four groups regarding maturational and gender effect, who performed 25- m backstroke swimming at 50-m pace. Using two underwater cameras the general biomechanical parameters (speed, stroke rate, stroke length and...

The main issues in non-accelerator astroparticle physics are reviewed and discussed. A short description is given of the experimental methods, of many experiments and of their experimental results.

The title compound, C(15)H(20)O(3), a sesquiterpene lactone, was isolated from the aerial parts of Carpesium minus Hemsl. (Compositae). The mol-ecule is composed of three rings, with the two cyclo-hexane rings in chair conformations and the cyclo-pentane ring adopting a twist conformation. The A/B ring junction is trans-fused. The absolute configuration shown has been arbitrarily assigned. In t...