Abstract: Method for non-invasively characterizing a heterogeneous medium using ultrasound, comprising a step of generating a series of incident ultrasonic waves, a step of recording an experimental reflection matrix Rui(t) defined between the input emission basis (i) and an output reception basis (u), a step of determining a response REP(r,?r) of the medium between an input virtual transducer (TVin) calculated based on an input focusing of the experimental reflection matrix that creates an input focal spot around a first point (P1), and an output virtual transducer (TVout) calculated based on an output focusing of the experimental reflection matrix that creates an output focal spot around a second point (P2), said response being expressed as a function of a central point (PC) of spatial position (r) in the medium located midway between the first and second points (P1, P2).

Abstract: The present invention relates to the long-term preservation of biological material. More specifically, it concerns a preservation container comprising: a biological container for containing biological material, a first shield configured for absorbing gamma-rays, a second shield configured for absorbing ambient neutrons, said second shield surrounding the biological container, the preservation container being of low-radioactivity background materials, and a method for preserving a biological material, comprising: a) providing a biological material in a confinement container, b) providing the preservation container of the invention, c) placing the confinement container containing the biological material into said preservation container, d) storing said preservation container containing the biological material in a room located under a material attenuating cosmic rays and induced particles, said material having a thickness equivalent to 1 m to 7000 m of water, for attenuating cosmic rays.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of molecular biology and particularly novel genes that encode pesticidal proteins useful for controlling pests, particularly plant pests. These proteins and the nucleic acid sequences that encode them are useful in preparing pesticidal compositions and in the production of transgenic pest-resistant plants.

Abstract: The invention refers to an electronic component, in particular an organic electrochemical transistor (OECT) which comprises at least one gate electrode, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a channel and an electrolyte. The electrolyte is a solid electrolyte comprising a polymer, and the channel comprises an organic semiconductor as channel material. The electrolyte has a low water content and/or a low C1-C3-alcohol content as well as a low maximum halogen alkaline salt or alkaline earth or acetate salt content. The invention further refers to the use of this electronic component as a Schmitt-Trigger or a Muller-C-element or a flip-flop or a 1-bit memory. Further, the invention provides a method for forming such an electronic component.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for manufacturing an aircraft part, the part comprising a monocrystalline nickel-based superalloy substrate, the method consecutively implementing the steps of moulding the part at a moulding temperature greater than the melting temperature of the superalloy, and cooling the part, such that the monocrystalline superalloy has a ? phase and a ? phase, solution heat treatment of the part at a first temperature between the solves temperature of the ?? phase and the melting temperature of the superalloy, homogenising the crystalline structure or the part, cooling the part to ambient temperature, first tempering and second tempering.

Abstract: The method of modulating epileptogenicity in a brain of an epileptic patient includes: providing a virtual brain; providing a model of an epileptogenic and of a propagation zones and loading the models in the virtual brain to create a virtual epileptic brain; acquiring data of the brain of the epileptic patient; identifying, in the data, a location of at least one possible epileptogenic zone; fitting the virtual epileptic brain against the data acquired from the epileptic patient and parametrizing the at least one possible epileptogenic zone in the virtual epileptic brain as an epileptogenic zone; and simulating, within the virtual epileptic brain, the effect of a network modulation mimicking a clinical intervention of the brain of the patient.

Abstract: A method for delithiating a lithium and transition metal nitride. The method involves mixing an oxidising agent with the lithium and transition metal nitride and recovering the material obtained. The transition metal may be Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, or a mixture thereof. The material obtained by the method may be used as a negative electrode material for a lithium-ion battery.

Abstract: The present invention is in the field of oncology, and more particularly of cancer stem cells. It relates to a method for producing cancer stem cells based on overexpression of ?133p53? isoform, ?133p53? isoform, or both ?133p53? and ?133p53? isoforms; a method for predicting the risk that treatment with a chemotherapeutic anti-cancer agent induces cancer stem cells in a subject suffering from cancer from a cancer sample of said subject, based on detection of an increase in ?133p53? isoform, ?133p53? isoform, or both ?133p53? and ?133p53? isoforms following chemotherapeutic anti-cancer treatment; to therapeutic uses of a combination of chemotherapeutic anti-cancer agent and an agent reducing ?133p53? isoform, ?133p53? isoform, or both ?133p53? and ?133p53? isoforms expression; and also to screening methods for anti-cancer stem cells agents.

Abstract: A medical device for penetrating an anatomic structure, e.g., a bone structure, including a processing unit programmed to execute one or more statistical algorithms, e.g., Bayesian-based perforation detection algorithms, with electrical conductivity measured during penetration of an anatomic structure as an input to detect a breach condition, e.g., a spinal canal perforation, based on the measured electrical conductivity. The medical device may include a drill bit having sensing capabilities coupled to the distal end of a robot arm via a power drill unit mounted on the robot arm. The power drill unit may cease transmission of rotary motion to the drill bit upon detection of the breach condition.

Abstract: A process for preparing a biocidal, bactericidal and/or bacteriostatic material including the preparation of a polymer precursor solution that has (a) at least one monomer A having a porphyrin group and at least one radical polymerizable function, (b) at least one radical polymerizable monomer B, a photoinitiator, and (c) at least one of the monomers chosen from a monomer C having a quaternary amine and a radical polymerizable function; and/or a monomer D having copper and a radical polymerizable function. Also, the material obtainable by the process and its uses.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel peptides having the same motif LRIRX1TYX2, where X1 is selected from amino acids A or F; and X2 is selected from amino acids G or K. The present invention also relates to their use in the treatment of skin changes of various origins, to pharmaceutical and cosmetic compositions comprising them, and to a cosmetic method. More particularly, the treatment of said changes consists in reinforcing the dermal-epidermal junction, cell-matrix and/or cell-cell adhesion and cell migration in the epidermis, and in promoting the repair of the skin surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a material for use as a pad in high field and/or very high field magnetic resonance imaging instrument, comprising at least one polar solvent having a melting point of 14° C. to 50° C., a dispersant and a dielectric charge. The invention relates also to a pad used in field of high field and/or very high field magnetic resonance imaging made of at least such a material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for attaching nucleic acids to a platinum electrode, comprising the following steps: —a step (S1) of attaching an ethylenediamine molecule to the electrode, step (S1) comprising electro-oxidation of a primary amine from the ethylenediamine molecule by cyclic voltammetry, —a step (S2) of attaching a sulfo SMCC molecule of 4-(N-maleimidomethyl)cyclohexane-1-carboxylic acid 3-sulfo-N-hydroxysuccinimide ester to the ethylenediamine molecule, —a step (S3) of attaching a nucleic acid to the sulfo SMCC molecule, the nucleic acid having been modified beforehand to comprise a thiol function, the electrode being in contact with an aqueous solution, i.e. with a solution in which the solvent is water, during steps (S1), (S2) and (S3).

Abstract: The invention relates to compound of formula (I): in particular flavonoid derivatives (quercetin and catechin derivatives), for use in the prevention and/or the treatment of a disease or disorder involving both carbonyl and oxidative stresses.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining at least one property of an object, the method comprising a step of: a) obtaining first data relative to the object by an ultrasound imaging technique imaging the object at a frame rate superior to 300 Hz, characterized in that the method further comprises a step of: b) obtaining second data relative to the object by imaging the object with at least one of a X-ray and a ?-ray, and c) determining the at least one property of the object based on the first data and the second data.

Abstract: Method for preparing, in an insect cell, a recombinant baculovirus comprising one or more transgene(s) each encoding a protein maturation enzyme and n transgenes each encoding a polypeptide of interest, by homologous recombination between a replication deficient baculovirus genome which comprises one or more transgene(s) each encoding a protein maturation enzyme and n transfer vectors each comprising one of the n transgenes each encoding a polypeptide of interest, n being an integer at least equal to 2.

Abstract: Identification of at least one microorganism present in a sample based on the detection of peptides issued from the cleavage of ribosomal proteins of said microorganism, comprising lysis of microorganism(s) and cleavage of the proteins, obtaining a mixture of peptides, decomplexing the peptide mixture using a liquid separation device coupled with a mass spectrometer, nebulizing the liquid to produce an ion current, receiving the ion current from the ion source, executing on the ion current a series of filtering steps for detecting a transition, receiving data on the transitions, assigning the transitions associated with peptides into two or more contiguous groups, monitoring, and optionally generating a chromatogram or electropherogram, wherein the microorganism is identified according to the detection of said peptide(s).

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for assisting a general anesthesia or a sedation of a subject, having receiving an electroencephalogram EEG signal of a subject, processing the EEG signal including ?-bands for defining for each instant of a plurality of instants, a part of the signal has in a time window having the instant, the part of the signal being related to the instant, determining for each instant, a distribution of a power of the part of the signal as a function of the frequency, determining for each instant a maximum power frequency as a frequency of maximum power in the distribution, the maximum power frequency being related to the instant, detecting a reference instant, so that the maximum power frequency as a function of time takes higher values before the reference instant than after, detecting in a time frame following the reference instant, an alpha instant corresponding to a first occurrence of a suppression of an ?-band, estimating a first parameter as the duration between the reference inst

Abstract: A process for preparing a compound of formula (NaOH)x[Fe(OH)2]yFeS, may include: (a) mixing iron and sodium sulfide in equimolar amounts, in an NaOH aqueous solution; (b) heating the obtained mixture up to a temperature in a range of from 110 to 210° C. for a duration in a range of from 1 hour to 1 week; and (c) recovering the active material by filtering and drying in a neutral atmosphere.

Abstract: A method for identifying a microorganism to be identified, which includes the following steps: obtaining an Excitation-Emission EEM of the microorganism to be identified, analysing the main components of the EEM matrix using at least one reference EEMr matrix, projecting the result of the analysis onto a plane defined by two main components, and identifying the microorganism to be identified.