Abstract: A method of treating COVID-19 in a patient. The patient may be in moderate to advanced stages of COVID-19 infection. The method includes administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of at least one antagonist or inhibitor of chemokine receptor CXCR4. The at least one antagonist or inhibitor of chemokine receptor CXCR4 is distinct from hydroxychloroquine.

Abstract: Optical device for optical fluorescence microscopy, comprising a spatial modulator (1), a microscope objective (2), a beamsplitter (3) and a camera (4), wherein the beamsplitter (3) is placed between the spatial modulator (1) and the microscope objective (2), wherein the beamsplitter (3) is placed between the camera (4) and the microscope objective (2), and wherein a prism (5) is placed between the beamsplitter (3) and the camera (4).

Abstract: A method for controlling a limb of a virtual avatar by the myoelectric activities of a limb of an individual. The method includes a first step of calibrating and second step of moving the limb of the virtual avatar. Also, a system suitable for implementing the method for controlling a limb of a virtual avatar by the myoelectric activities of a limb of an individual.

Abstract: Some embodiments are directed to a method for preparing a skin substitute, a dermal substitute, to a skin substitute, to a dermal substitute and to a kit for implementing the method. Some other embodiments are directed to a graft that can consist of of a skin substitute and to the use thereof as treating a skin disorder and/or a loss of skin substance.

Abstract: In an embodiment method, a hybrid coupler comprises a first input receiving an analog signal, a second input receiving an additional analog signal phase shifted by 90° from the analog signal, and first and second outputs. The method comprises injecting into the second output a test signal having an initial test phase, iteratively generating a current test phase for the test signal, from the initial test phase to a final test phase equal to the initial test phase increased by at least one portion of one complete revolution, and, in each iteration, measuring the current peak value of the first output, and storing the current test phase and the current peak value as a maximum/minimum peak value if there is not a stored maximum/minimum peak value higher/lower than the current peak value, respectively, and determining a phase of the analog signal from the stored test phase.

Abstract: Optical device for optical fluorescence microscopy, comprising a spatial modulator (1), a microscope objective (2), a beamsplitter (3) and a camera (4), wherein the beamsplitter (3) is placed between the spatial modulator (1) and the microscope objective (2), wherein the beamsplitter (3) is placed between the camera (4) and the microscope objective (2), and wherein a prism (5) is placed between the beamsplitter (3) and the camera (4).

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of plant molecular biology and relates to plants having a modified lipid metabolism and to methods for making such modified plants. In particular, the invention provides modified plants and parts thereof, including seeds, having an increased level of triacylglycerol (TAG), by means of a seed-specific expression in seed tissues during seed filling of a nucleic acid encoding a translocator protein (TSPO) in said modified plants or parts thereof. The invention further relates to methods for modulating lipid metabolism in plants and for producing plants with a modified lipid metabolism. The invention also provides constructs, vectors and host cells useful in the methods of the invention, and further relates to products obtained from the modified plants.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining the state of a system, which includes steps of: collecting data relating to a system, the data being noisy data comprising data of interest and noise; generating a signal to be analyzed from the collected data, the signal being a noisy signal comprising a signal of interest and noise; analyzing the regularity of the signal of interest by compensating the influence of the noise in the computation of the power of the difference between the integrated noisy signal and its trend; and determining the state of the system depending on the result of the analysis of the regularity of the signal of interest.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a solution for the preservation of cells from placental blood, from bone marrow and from peripheral blood.

Abstract: A process for depositing a coating on short fibres of carbon or silicon carbide from a coating precursor, the short fibres having a length of between 50 ?m and 5 mm, the process including at least heating the short fibres by placing a mixture including the fibres and a liquid phase of the coating precursor in a microwave field so as to bring the surface of the fibres to a temperature allowing the coating on the fibres from the coating precursor to be formed by calefaction.

Abstract: The present invention concerns new precursors of recyclable cross-linked diene elastomers comprising at least one furanyl group along the chain and comprising chain-end units with furanyl groups, their use in the preparation of said recyclable elastomers and their process of preparation. The invention also concerns new recyclable cross-linked diene elastomers, their preparation process and their uses.

Abstract: A system for ablating or monitoring a zone of the heart, includes a system to measure the heart electrical activity; a phased array for generating a beam of focussed ultrasound signals on a targeted zone of the heart; an imaging system determining an image of a transcostal wall projected in an image plane of the phased array by taking into consideration a position and direction of the phased array and making it possible to deactivate elements of the phased array in accordance with the position of the elements with regard to the position of the projected image of the transcostal wall; a positioning system to control the position of a focussed zone of a beam of focussed ultrasound signals on the targeted zone, a monitoring system to measure a temperature and tissue deformation in the targeted zone; and a device for measuring a level of cavitation in the targeted zone.

Abstract: A polymer including VDF-based units having an electrocaloric effect under the effect of a variable electric field. The polymer includes 0.1 to 10.0 mol % double bonds, which are substantially non-conjugated. Also, a corresponding composition including the polymer, a corresponding film including the polymer, and to various uses of the polymer.

Abstract: The invention concerns a biocompatible oily ferrofluid comprising iron-oxide based magnetic nanoparticles and an oil phase comprising at least one fatty acid ester, characterized in that said magnetic nanoparticles are surface functionalized by molecules of one or more phospholipids, and in particular a biocompatible oily ferrofluid comprising iron-oxide based magnetic nanoparticles and an oil phase comprising at least one fatty acid ester, said iron-oxide based magnetic nanoparticles forming a colloidal dispersion in said oil phase from a temperature belonging to the range from 20 to 80° C.

Abstract: A method of segmentation of a three-dimensional image for generating a model of a myocardial wall includes recording a three-dimensional image of a wall of the myocardium, the wall delimiting at least one cavity of the heart; segmenting a continuous part of the wall into at least a first volume having a thickness less than a first predefined thickness threshold of between 0 and 5 mm and a second volume of a continuous part of the wall having a thickness greater than the first threshold; generating a model of the wall of the myocardium, where the continuous part of the wall of the myocardium is modelled according to at least two volumes that continue each other.

Abstract: A copolymer including fluorinated units of formula (I): —CX1X2—CX3X4—??(I) in which each of the X1, X2, X3 and X4 is independently chosen from H, F and alkyl groups including from 1 to 3 carbon atoms which are optionally partially or totally fluorinated; and fluorinated units of formula (II): —CX5X6—CX7Z—??(II) in which each of the X5, X6 and X7 is independently chosen from H, F and alkyl groups including from 1 to 3 carbon atoms which are optionally partially or totally fluorinated, and in which Z is a photoactive group of formula —Y—Ar—R, Y representing an oxygen atom or an NH group or a sulfur atom, Ar representing an aryl group, and R being a monodentate or bidentate group including from 1 to 30 carbon atoms. Also, a process for preparing this copolymer, a composition including this copolymer, and a film obtained from this copolymer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a novel use of ultrafine nanoparticles, of use as a diagnostic, therapeutic or theranostic agent, characterized by their mode of administration via the airways. The invention is also directed toward the applications which follow from this novel mode of administration, in particular for imaging the lungs, and the diagnosis or prognosis of pathological pulmonary conditions. In the therapeutic field, the applications envisioned are those of radiosensitizing or radioactive agents for radiotherapy (and optionally curietherapy), or for neutron therapy, or of agents for PDT (photodynamic therapy), in particular for the treatment of lung tumors.

Abstract: A nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite that conducts electricity. The nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite can be used in a variety of different fields of use, including, for example, a structural super-capacitor as an energy solution for autonomous housing and other buildings, a heated cement for pavement deicing or house basement insulation against capillary rise, a protection of concrete against freeze-thaw (FT) or alkali silica reaction (ASR) or other crystallization degradation processes, and as a conductive cable, wire or concrete trace.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing a plurality of capsules, each comprising an external shell of crosslinked hydrogel surrounding a central core, according to which a hydrogel solution and a composition of interest, intended to form the central core, are concentrically co-extruded so as to form mixed drops, each comprising a layer of hydrogel solution surrounding a drop of liquid composition of interest, characterized in that the co-extrusion step is carried out above a crosslinking aerosol so that the mixed drops pass through said crosslinking aerosol, such that the layer of hydrogel solution at least partially crosslinks around the drop of liquid composition of interest on contact with said aerosol.

Abstract: Leaky wave antenna of AFSIW structure comprising a top substrate layer and a bottom substrate layer sandwiching an intermediate layer comprising a longitudinal aperture of length L defining a waveguide and whose width W1 is delimited by two conductive lateral walls. The inner faces of the conductive lateral walls are coated with a layer of dielectric material of thickness w(z). The top layer has a longitudinal radiating slot of width Wf (z) facing the longitudinal aperture of the intermediate layer. The thickness w(z) of the dielectric coating varies along the longitudinal axis z according to a given law, defined so as to obtain variations along the axis z of the amplitude Alpha(z) and of the phase Beta(z) of the leaky wave of the guide.