In this paper we evaluated the possibility to assess occupational exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) measuring unmetabolized PAHs in urine. With this aim, 24 road paving (RP) workers, exposed to bitumen fumes, and 6 road construction workers (CW), exposed to diesel exhausts, were investigated. Median personal exposure to low boiling PAHs (from naphthalene to pyrene) during the ...

We have previously published a paper stressing the higher frequency of T. cruzi nests in the central vein of adrenal gland (CVAG) (50%) when compared to the left ventricular myocardium (LVM) (17%) in patients with chronic Chagas’ disease4. Those results could be related to a milder inflammatory response against the parasite or its products in the CVAG. In th is w o rk , w e co m p are the infla...

Fiducial-based rigid registration is the preferred method for aligning the preoperative image with the intra-operative physical anatomy in existing image-guided surgery systems. After registration, the targets locations usually cannot be measured directly, so the Target Registration Error (TRE) is often estimated with the Fiducial Registration Error (FRE), or with Fitzpatrick TRE (FTRE) estimat...

The introduction of fuzzy logic in 1965 has been one of the main advancements in the last several decades in different subjects and especially in control theory [1]. Fuzzy logic has given large deals to reasoning, and clearly, shows its applicability in many areas to solve different problems concerning approximate reasoning. However, in large measure what remains unrecognized is that fuzzy logi...

Our article aims to present an approach that focuses on the didactisation of advertising by proposing key tools for successful teaching French. These publicity documents can also be used evaluation purposes. This being said, we are going evoke examples activities and approaches a teacher FLE use in his class, notably Moroccan school with its socio-cultural specificities. The latter is inseparab...

How does the visual system assign the perceived position of a moving object? This question is surprisingly complex, since sluggish responses of photoreceptors and transmission delays along the visual pathway mean that visual cortex does not have immediate information about a moving object’s position. In the flash-lag effect (FLE), a moving object is perceived ahead of an aligned flash. Psychoph...

PURPOSE Genital automatisms (GAs) are rare clinical phenomena during or after epileptic seizures. They are defined as repeated fondling, grabbing, or scratching of the genitals. The anatomic correlates of GAs have been discussed controversially. The aim of this investigation was to assess the localizing and lateralizing value of GAs. METHODS The authors studied 207 consecutive patients with i...

Changes in facial expression in frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) have been described in the literature [1,2]. However, this discrete feature of ictal semiology is often missed because of more striking events such as hypermotor or bizarre behaviors. One such facial feature, characterized by a turned-down mouth, is traditionally described in French as the “chapeau de gendarme,” referring to the shape ...

How does the visual system assign the perceived position of a moving object? This question is surprisingly complex, since sluggish responses of photoreceptors and transmission delays along the visual pathway mean that visual cortex does not have immediate information about a moving object's position. In the flash-lag effect (FLE), a moving object is perceived ahead of an aligned flash. Psychoph...