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Hydrologie et météorologie de méso-échelle dans HAPEX-Sahel : dispositif de mesures au sol et premiers résultats
No full textL'expérience EPSAT-Niger (Estimation des Précipitations par SATellite au NIGER) a été conçue pour améliorer la compréhension des systèmes précipitants de l'Afrique soudano-sahélienne, particulièrement en vue de favoriser le développement d'algorithmes opérationnels d'estimation des pluies sur cette région. Le dispositif est constitué d'un réseau dense de pluviographes à mémoire statique (107 appareils couvrant une surface de 16.000 km2 en 1992) associé à un radar météorologique bande C. Il a fonctionné pendant cinq années (1989-1993) dont les quatre dernières au complet. Chaque campagne a fait l'objet d'un rapport détaillé annuel rédigé en français (Lebel et al., 1991, Taupin et al., 1992 et 1993). Le but de cet article est donc uniquement de résumer les principaux traits de l'expérience et de son évolution. Une première analyse du jeu de données pluviographiques est également présentée. La pluie au Sahel apparaît comme fortement intermittente à la fois dans l'espace et dans le temps. Cependant, malgré des différences significatives entre les totaux observés chaque année, les caractéristiques moyennes des évènements pluvieux restent stables d'une année sur l'autre. Une présentation plus détaillée de la répartition spatio-temporelle de la pluie est fournie pour 1992. (Résumé d'auteur
C. Lebel, L'élaboration du plan de continuation de Ventreprise en redressement judiciaire
No full textC. Lebel, L'élaboration du plan de continuation de Ventreprise en redressement judiciaire. In: Revue internationale de droit comparé. Vol. 53 N°1, Janvier-mars 2001. pp. 235-236
Années - lumière : destination Proche-Orient avec un voyageur de la science, 22 juil. 2001
No full textIntervieweure: Chantal SrivastavaTranscription en format PDFEntrevue avec Jean Lebel (employé du CRDI) qui parle de son expérience au Moyen-Orien
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Utilidade da radiografia da bacia para julgar a reduçao da anca num gesso pelvipodálico no tratamento da DDA
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Toward Justice in Tobacco Policymaking: A Critique of Hanson and Logue and an Alternative Approach to the Costs of Cigarettes
No full textMuch of tobacco policymaking has been driven by economic and political forces. Professors LeBel and Ausness offer an alternative approach to tobacco policymaking that places justice concerns at the center of the analysis. Their article presents a detailed critique of a significant recent work by Professors Hanson and Logue advocating extensive tobacco industry liability on economic efficiency grounds. Asserting that a “fresh start” is necessary, LeBel and Ausness identify the interests at play in the tobacco policy arena. Instead of an ambiguous interest balancing approach, they construct a policy model that grounds those interests in justice considerations, demonstrating how claims derived from those considerations can be woven into a comprehensive and principled tobacco policy that shifts more of the costs of smoking to the tobacco industry without allowing smokers to recover damages for the harm they have suffered
Mitomycin C in highly myopic eyes - Author reply
No full textOphthalmology. 2005 Feb;112(2):208-18; discussion 219.
Mitomycin C modulation of corneal wound healing after photorefractive keratectomy in highly myopic eyes.
Gambato C, Ghirlando A, Moretto E, Busato F, Midena E.
SourceRefractive Surgery Service and Antimetabolite Therapy Research Unit, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To evaluate the role of topical mitomycin C in corneal wound healing (CWH) after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) in highly myopic eyes.
DESIGN: Prospective, double-masked, randomized clinical trial.
PARTICIPANTS: Seventy-two eyes of 36 patients affected by high (>7 diopters) myopia.
METHODS: In each patient, one eye was randomly assigned to PRK with intraoperative topical 0.02% mitomycin C application, and the fellow eye was treated with a placebo. Postoperatively, mitomycin C-treated eyes received artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months), whereas the fellow eye was treated with fluorometholone sodium 2% and artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months).
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), contrast sensitivity, manifest refraction, and biomicroscopy. Contrast sensitivity was determined using the Pelli-Robson chart. Corneal confocal microscopy documented CWH.
RESULTS: Mean follow-up was 18 months (range, 12-36). No side effects or toxic effects were documented. At 12-month follow-up examination, UCVAs (logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution) were 0.4+/-0.48 and 0.5+/-0.53 (P = .03) in mitomycin C-treated eyes and corticosteroid-treated eyes, respectively. At 1 year, corneal haze developed in 20% of corticosteroid-treated eyes, versus 0% of mitomycin C-treated eyes. At 12, 24, and 36 months, corneal confocal microscopy showed activated keratocytes and extracellular matrix significantly more evident in untreated eyes (Ps = 0.004, 0.024, and 0.046, respectively).
CONCLUSION: Topical intraoperative application of 0.02% mitomycin C can reduce haze formation in highly myopic eyes undergoing PRK.
Comment in
Ophthalmology. 2006 Feb;113(2):357; author reply 357-8
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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