BACKGROUND The fields of expertise of natural disasters and complex emergencies (CEs) are quite distinct, with different tools for mitigation and response as well as different types of competent organizations and qualified professionals who respond. However, natural disasters and CEs can occur concurrently in the same geographic location, and epidemics can occur during or following either event...

BACKGROUND The validity of the 20-item Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) scale for depression screening in Hong Kong Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes remains unknown. We aimed to validate CES-D, compare its psychometric properties with the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), and explore whether one of the two is more suitable for depression screening in Chinese...

OBJECTIVE The reported rates of depressive symptoms in patients with SSc are high. The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) is the only measure of depressive symptoms validated for SSc patients. The objective of this study was to assess the internal consistency reliability, convergent validity and strength of association with clinical correlates of the 9-item version of the...

Avec l’explosion du web sémantique et multimédia et le besoin de disposer de connaissances directement interprétables par les machines, plusieurs standards de descriptions des métadonnées sont apparus ces dernières décennies (MPEG-7, MPEG-21, TV-Anytime, etc.). Ils permettent de décrire un large éventail d’entités : des contenus multimédia disponibles sur le Web (image, vidéo, audio, etc.), des...

Résumé M. C. Young — Nationalisme, ethnicité et classe en Afrique : une rétrospective. Ces trois notions ont, tour à tour, constitué les thèmes dominants des études africanistes au cours des trente dernières années — chacun de ces thèmes, avec sa méthode d'approche particulière, ne permettant que peu d'imbrications et de recouvrements. Une confrontation systématique de ces approches — et de leu...

ABTRACT: In this paper we define the generalized Cesaro sequence spaces ces(p, q, s). We prove the space ces(p, q, s) is a complete paranorm space. In section-2 we determine its Kothe-Toeplitz dual. In section-3 we establish necessary and sufficient conditions for a matrix A to map ces p, q, s to l∞ and ces(p, q, s) to c, where l∞ is the space of all bounded sequences and c is the space of all ...

Carboxylesterases (CEs) represent a multigene family of serine-dependent enzymes. Male-dependent CEs are over-expressed in the male reproductive tract of different animal species (bivalve mollusks, fruit-flies, and mammals). Here, a novel rat epididymis-specific gene named Ces7 was cloned and characterized. It was a novel member of CE family, which was mainly expressed and secreted to the lumen...

A general procedure is presented to construct conditionally exactly solvable (CES) potentials using the techniques of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. The method is illustrated with potentials related to the harmonic oscillator problem. Besides recovering known results, new CES potentials are also obtained within the framework of this general approach. The conditions under which this method le...

In this paper we define the weighted Cesaro sequence spaces ces (p, q).We prove the space ces(p, q) is a complete paranorm space. In section-2 we determine its Kothe-Toeplitz dual and continuous dual. In section-3 we establish necessary and sufficient condition for a matrix A to map ces (p, q) to and ces(p, q) to , where is the space of all bounded sequences and is the space of all convergent s...

Pendant Les annees dernieres la Pollution de l, athmosphere des salles d, Operation Par les anesthesiques volatils et Gazeux est bien etu­diee et la consequence Pathologique de cette Pollution est certaine; c, est Poruquois nous som­mes obliges de diminuer cette Pollution et em­pecher de se repandre ces agents dans les salles d, Operation.