To a question about "the temper of America towards Great Britain before the year 1763," Benjamin Franklin, in his famous "examination" before the House of Commons during the debates over the repeal of the Stamp Act in early 1766, replied that it was the "best in the world." The colonies, he said, submitted willingly to the government of the Crown, and paid, in all their courts, obedience to act...

Les ruptures du tendon calcanéen quelles soient sous cutanées ou par section direct sont de plus en plus fréquentes. Plusieurs techniques chirurgicales, qu'elles soient à ciel ouvert ou percutanées ont été mises au point pour traitée ce type de lésion. À travers une étude rétrospective descriptive sur la prise en charge chirurgicale des ruptures de tendon calcanéen fraiches. Nous avons analysé ...

Thème Protection de la vie privée à base d'agents dans un système d'e-learning Résumé Les systèmes d'e-learning visent à offrir un accès facile et permanent aux ressources pédagogiques mises en ligne. En effet, les systèmes d'e-learning sont dotés de capacités d'adaptation des contenus et des processus d'apprentissage selon le profil de l'apprenant. Les techniques d'adaptation utilisent des méc...

Due to the obligatory intracellular life style of viruses, cell culture systems for efficient viral propagation are crucial to obtain a detailed understanding of the virus host cell interaction. For hepatitis C virus (HCV) the development of permissive and authentic culture models has been and continues to be a challenging task. The first ef­ forts to culture HCV had limited success and range b...

Observers of ten agree that ‘history repeats itself ’[1] in Eastern Congo – f rom the slavery condit ions imposed by Belgian King Leopold over Mobutu’s predatory state, to today’s armed milit ias. The reason why these ghosts come haunt ing Congo’s present is primarily related to unending compet it ion over the ‘right to protect ’ unfree populat ions; under the circumstances, this protect ion ra...

This report discusses the excavation of two stone-walled duns situated in North Knapdale, Argyll and Bute, led by Kilmartin Museum. Substantial areas both sites were excavated, providing a good stratigraphic record development structures. Both proved to be multiphase, six radiocarbon dates established fairly restricted period occupation for last centuries 1st millennium BC first AD. These are i...

We introduce the notion of a generalized diierential on an abstract measure space and construct corresponding strong and weak Sobolev spaces. We show that the validity of a \weak equals strong"{theorem, i. e. the coincidence of the weak and strong Sobolev space, implies Markov uniqueness for the diiusion operator corresponding to the generalized diierential. Applications include a necessary and...

FRANCIS HITCHING, Earth magic, London, Cassell, 1976, 8vo, pp. xiv, 196, illus., £4.50. For centuries the stone circles, barrows, dolmens and hill "forts" that are found in Northern Europe and Britain have attracted continual attention and bitter controversy. They mostly date from the fifth to second centuries B.C. and many of them have been shown to have acted as calendars and prognosticators ...

An interdisciplinary study of the archaeological landscape of the Trieste area (northeastern Italy), mainly based on airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR), ground penetrating radar (GPR), and archaeological surveys, has led to the discovery of an early Roman fortification system, composed of a big central camp (San Rocco) flanked by two minor forts. The most ancient archaeological findin...