D ifferentiating between young, athletic patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and elite athletes sometimes can be problematic. Left ventricular hypertrophy is seen mainly in athletes participating in endurance sports. A conflict exists with regard to strength athletes. Recent investigations suggest that strength athletes who use anabolic steroids have increased left ventricular hyper...

Adults with autism experience significant impairments in social and non-social information processing for which few treatments have been developed. This study conducted an 18-month uncontrolled trial of Cognitive Enhancement Therapy (CET), a comprehensive cognitive rehabilitation intervention, in 14 verbal adults with autism spectrum disorder to investigate its feasibility, acceptability, and i...

RÉSUMÉ. Cet article se focalise sur des approches formelles pour la construction de systèmes multi-agents. Ce travail a cherché à proposer des apprentissages décentralisés pour construire les comportements d’agents sociaux. Cet article propose un formalisme original, l’interacDEC-POMDP inspiré des modèles markoviens au sein duquel les agents peuvent interagir directement et localement entre eux...

Two mutants sensitive to heat stress for growth and impaired in NADPH dehydrogenase (NDH-1)-dependent cyclic electron transport around photosystem I (NDH-CET) were isolated from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 transformed with a transposon-bearing library. Both mutants had a tag in the same sll0272 gene, encoding a protein highly homologous to NdhV identified in Arabidopsis...

RÉSUMÉ. Cet article s’appuie sur une méthode de recherche d’information dans des collections de documents XML. Cette approche est configurable dans le but de pouvoir s’adapter à différents contextes de recherche. Au regard des résultats obtenus lors de différentes campagnes d’évaluations, l’efficacité de la méthode est inégale d’une requête à l’autre. De plus, différentes configurations de la m...

Cet article passe en revue les nouvelles économiques favorables aux États-Unis durant les années 90, caractérisées par une croissance économique continue avec un faible taux de chômage et une faible inflation. Cet échange chômage-inflation favorable a été rendue possible, en partie, par de nombreux facteurs qui ont gardé l’inflation des prix faible. De plus, de nombreux changements dans le marc...

The net mass transfer of cholesteryl ester (CE) from high density lipoprotein (HDL) to the apolipoprotein (apo) B-containing lipoproteins, very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) and low density lipoprotein (LDL) in plasma (cholesteryl ester transfer (CET)) from three patients lacking lipoprotein lipase (LpL) activity was significantly lower (P < 0.001) than in plasma from fasting control subjects ...

Virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) is one of the few interventions supported by randomized controlled trials for the treatment of combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in active duty service members. A comparative effectiveness study was conducted to determine if virtual reality technology itself improved outcomes, or if similar results could be achieved with a control exposu...

BACKGROUND Sevoflurane may prolong the corrected QT (QTc) interval in healthy humans when administered for induction and maintenance of anesthesia. Little information is available about the dose-response relationship of sevoflurane on the QTc interval. We performed a pharmacodynamic analysis of the relationship between end-tidal sevoflurane concentration (CET) and the QTc. METHODS Twenty-one ...

Coping-skills training (CST) and cue-exposure treatment (CET) are two relatively new approaches in alcoholism treatment. With CST, the therapist tries to strengthen the patient's skills in coping with situations associated with a high risk of drinking. These skills can be specific to certain high-risk situations or involve general social skills. Specific CST treatment approaches include relapse...