Abstract: This elementary antenna includes a cavity delimited by front and rear faces and side walls, the front face being provided with first and second slots arranged in a cross, so that, when the cavity operates in a TE210 mode, a wave polarized perpendicularly to the first slot is emitted and when the cavity operates in a TE120 mode, a wave polarized perpendicularly to the second slot is emitted. This elementary antenna is characterized in that the rear face is brought to a reference electric potential, and in that the elementary antenna includes an excitation device, such as a metallized via, capable of exciting the front face through the cavity, the excitation device exciting the front face at a plurality of excitation points, distributed over the front face and presenting a common predefined impedance.

Abstract: The elementary antenna 1 includes: two cross-shaped slots 32, 33 defining four half-slots; for each half-slot, excitation striplines 41, 42, the first stripline 41 being connected to a first via 61 and the second stripline 42 being connected to a second via 62; an integrated circuit 70 delivering a plurality of ports; for each half-slot, tracks for feeding the strips, the first track 51 running from a first port 71 to the first via 61 and the second track 52 running from a second port 72 to the second via 62, the first and second ports being two successive ports of the integrated circuit, differentially connected to a transmitter/receiver channel by first and second power lines situated inside the integrated circuit, the lines and tracks running so that there is no crossing of the respective routes thereof.

Abstract: A method for treating at least one silicon carbide fibre includes a surface layer including carbon and/or a silicon oxycarbide, the treatment including at least removing the surface layer from the fibre by placing in contact with an ammonia phase in the supercritical state.

Abstract: A method for preparing copolymers, preferably degradable or biodegradable copolymers, from thionolactides. More particularly, a method for preparing copolymers, preferably degradable copolymers, by ring-opening radical polymerisation, employing in particular at least one thiolactide monomer. Also, the copolymers, preferably degradable copolymers, obtained by implementing this method, to the use of the thionolactide monomer as a precursor monomer in a radical polymerisation, and to specific thionolactides.

Abstract: A low field MRI instrumental system includes: an electromagnetic Radio Frequency antenna to emit RF pulses for inducing Electron Paramagnetic Resonance; an electromagnetic Low Frequency antenna for measurements, to emit LF pulses for inducing Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, respectively to receive LF signal produce by NMR; a gradient generator, to create a gradient in a static magnetic field generated during measurements; a high field generator to generate a strong pre-polarization magnetic field for magnetic pre-polarization; and, a control/command unit. This low field MRI instrumental system further includes a low field unit to generate a low static magnetic field whose direction is adjustable along the three directions X, Y and Z of a fixed reference frame associated with the low field MRI instrumental system.

Abstract: A composition for the adhesion of biological tissues to one another, for the adhesion of a material to a biological tissue, for the adhesion of an adhesive or of a substance to the surface of a biological tissue, for blocking an orifice in a biological tissue, for reinforcing a biological tissue and/or for fixing and stabilising a biological tissue, characterized in that it comprises a monomer that is polymerisable under the effect of ultraviolet (UV) or near visible radiation and in that the viscosity of said composition is less than 40 mPa·s at 20° C.

Abstract: A part includes a substrate of ceramic matrix composite material, the substrate including silicon, the part further including an environmental barrier formed on at least one surface of the substrate, wherein the environmental barrier includes at least one compound selected from Yb2-2?Gd2?SiO5 and Yb2-2?Gd2?Si2O7, where ? is between 0.05 and 0.15, and wherein the environmental barrier further includes alumina Al2O3, the molar alumina content being between 5% and 15% of the total environmental barrier composition.

Abstract: In an embodiment method for detecting the phase of an analog signal via a hybrid coupler operating in a power-combiner mode, the hybrid coupler comprises a first input intended to receive the analog signal, a second input intended to receive a reference signal having a reference phase and the same frequency as the analog signal, and two outputs, and is configured to generate, at these two outputs, a first output signal and a second output signal, respectively. The embodiment method comprises measuring peak values of the analog signal, of the reference signal, and of at least one of the first and second output signals, calculating the phase shift between the phase of the analog signal and the reference phase depending on the measured peak values, and determining the phase of the analog signal depending on the calculated phase shift and the reference phase.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining components of a mechanical action torsor at the guiding point of a cutting blade (L) for a cutting machine, the blade being guided in a presser foot (P) of a cutting head of the machine, the method comprising the positioning of a five-component dynamometer on the presser foot, the dynamometer comprising a plurality of sensors for determining a frontal force, a lateral force, a rolling moment, a pitching moment and a yawing moment of the cutting blade, the establishment of a calibration matrix of the dynamometer, and the determination of the forces in three dimensions to which the cutting blade is subjected, on the basis of the measurements obtained by the sensors and the calibration matrix.

Abstract: A method for coating fibres includes coating short fibres having an average length less than or equal to 5 mm by chemical vapour deposition in a fluidised bed, the short fibres treated being made of ceramic material or carbon and being mixed with spacer particles distinct from the short fibres, the spacer particles having an average diameter greater than or equal to 20 ?m.

Abstract: A component for a solid-oxide electrolyte fuel cell or electrolyser provided with an anticorrosion coating, as well as such a solid-oxide electrolyte fuel cell or electrolyser, the component including an electrically conductive substrate, and an anticorrosion coating deposited on at least one surface of the substrate, the anticorrosion coating including at least one main tantalum-nitride-based layer doped with one or more dopant elements chosen from the family of the transition metals or lanthanides.

Abstract: A component for an acid electrolyte fuel cell or electrolyser provided with an anticorrosion coating, as well as such an acid electrolyte fuel cell or electrolyser, the component including an electrically conductive substrate, and an anticorrosion coating deposited on at least one surface of the substrate, the anticorrosion coating including at least one main tantalum-nitride-based layer doped with one or more dopant elements chosen from the family of the transition metals or lanthanides.

Abstract: An electronic chip including a support and connection pillars, each connection pillar including a trunk including an end portion and an intermediate portion coupling the end portion to the support, and including a collar at the junction between the end portion and the intermediate portion.

Abstract: A composition for the adhesion of biological tissues to one another, for the adhesion of a material to a biological tissue, for the adhesion of an adhesive or of a substance to the surface of a biological tissue, for blocking an orifice in a biological tissue, for reinforcing a biological tissue and/or for fixing and stabilising a biological tissue. A monomer that is polymerisable under the effect of ultraviolet (UV) radiation and in that the viscosity of said composition is less than 10 mPa·s at 20° C.

Abstract: Equipment for selectively depositing, by shockwave-induced spraying, at least one particle on a deposition surface of a receiver substrate. The equipment including at least one laser source that emits a laser beam, a substrate carrier to which the substrate is fastened, a shockwave-generating layer having a first surface oriented toward the laser beam and a second surface oriented toward the deposition surface of the substrate, an optical system for directing and focusing the laser beam toward a focal region of the first surface. The second surface including a plurality of cavities, each cavity housing at least one particle. The laser beam generates a plasma in the focal region on the first surface and a shockwave that propagates within the generating layer from the first surface to the second surface in order to spray at least one particle in the direction of the deposition surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A laser amplifier head including plates of a laser active medium which are placed inside a housing which has an inlet port and an outlet port. A cooler includes a cooling circuit connected to the housing and suited to the circulation of a cooling liquid, a cooling duct, inside the housing, in contact with the active medium, in which the cooling liquid flows, allowing an exchange of heat between the latter and the plates, and a regulator able to regulate a temperature of the cooling liquid such that a thermo-optical coefficient dn dT of the cooling liquid satisfies the following condition: ? "\[LeftBracketingBar]" d ? n d ? T ? "\[RightBracketingBar]" < 6 ? ? 0 ? ? T * ? ? H ? ( I ) where ?T represents the difference in temperature between the cooling liquid and the plates of the active medium, ??H represents the sum of the hydraulic diameters of the cooling duct and ?0 represents the wavelength of the beam in a vacuum.

Abstract: The present invention concerns clusterin for use in the treatment of thrombotic microangiopathies, and a pharmaceutical composition comprising clusterin for use in the treatment of thrombotic microangiopathies, said composition not comprising von Willebrand factor protease. The present invention also concerns an ex vivo method for stratifying a patient suffering, or likely to be suffering, from TMA, comprising the following steps: 1) measuring, in a biological sample from said patient, the amount LC of clusterin, and 2) comparing the amount Lc measured in step 1) with an amount Lref of clusterin by calculating the score S1=LC/Lref, in which: •If S1?1, the patient is considered to be likely to benefit from a treatment of the TMA with clusterin, •If S1>1, the patient is not considered to be likely to benefit from treatment of TMA with clusterin.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for depositing an environmental barrier on a part made of composite material having a ceramic matrix comprising silicon carbide fibres. The method comprises the deposition of a joining layer on at least one surface of the part, the joining layer comprising mullite or a mullite precursor, and the deposition of a protective layer on the joining layer, the protective layer comprising a rare earth disilicate.

Abstract: A device for depositing a thick metal nitride on a sample by supercritical fluids includes a first enclosure forming a first closed volume; a second enclosure placed in the first enclosure and delimited by internal walls transparent to electromagnetic radiation forming a second closed volume intended to include fluid under supercritical conditions; a heat transfer dielectric fluid circulating in the first volume around the second enclosure; a sample holder present in the second volume; an induction heating device surrounding the second enclosure; inlets for introducing a fluid and at least one precursor material into the second enclosure, and an outlet to purge the second volume.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a part from a first ceramic or from carbon, consolidated by a second ceramic, having a determined geometry, that involves carrying out the following sequence of steps: a) manufacturing a preform made from an organic polymer; b) impregnating the preform made from an organic polymer with a resin that is a precursor of the first ceramic or a resin that is a precursor of carbon; c) crosslinking and/or polymerising, then pyrolysing the resin that is a precursor of the first ceramic or the resin that is a precursor of carbon; to obtain a part made from a first ceramic or from carbon having the same geometry as the part to be manufactured; e) depositing the second ceramic on the part made from a first ceramic or from carbon by means of a chemical vapour deposition or CVD process or a chemical vapour infiltration or CVI process.