Abstract: The invention concerns a device for detecting abnormal situations, in particular falls, in a living being, comprising means generating an alarm signal representing an abnormal situation, based on analysis of at least an activity information and, at least in some cases, at least a physiological information.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device for measuring at least one item of physiological information in an individual, comprising a flexible membrane designed to come into contact with the skin of the individual and participating in the definition of a deformable space for a flexible substance, the substance transmitting to at least one sensor at least one physical force undergone by the membrane.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device for detecting abnormal situations, in particular falls, in a living being, comprising means generating an alarm signal representing an abnormal situation, based on analysis of at least an activity information and, at least in some cases, at least a physiological information.

Abstract: A compound selected from the group consisting of N-pentyl-N-phenethyl-3-hydroxyphenethylamine of the formula ##STR1## and its non-toxic, pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts having a remarkably dissociated antagonist affinity for kappa opiate receptor.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of an ester of chiral (A) acid with a racemic (R,S) .alpha.-cyano-3-phenoxybenzyl alcohol (B) by reacting an ester of chiral (A) acid with .alpha.-cyano-3-phenoxybenzyl alcohol of the formula ##STR1## in its optically active (R) form or (S) form or a mixture of esters of said (R) alcohol and (S) alcohol in non-equimolecular proportions with a base selected from the group consisting of ammonia, primary, secondary and tertiary amines, quaternary ammonium compounds, liquid amines of high molecular weight and a catalytic amount of a strong base in at least one solvent for the starting esters and in which the ester of racemic alcohol is soluble and recovering from the resulting solution the ester of chiral (A) acid with racemic (R,S) alcohol.

Abstract: The novel esters, (R) .alpha.-cyano-3-phenoxybenzyl 2,2-dimethyl-3R-(2,2-dichlorovinyl)-cyclopropane-1R-carboxylate and (S) .alpha.-cyano-3-phenoxybenzyl 2,2-dimethyl-3R-(2,2-dichlorovinyl)-cyclopropane-1R-carboxylate, having insecticidal properties.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of an ester of chiral (A) acid with an optically active (S) .alpha.-cyano-3-phenoxybenzyl alcohol by reacting an ester of chiral (A) acid with .alpha.-cyano-3-phenoxybenzyl alcohol of the formula ##STR1## in its optically active (R) form or a racemic (R,S) mixture or a mixture of esters of said (R) alcohol and (S) alcohol in non-equimolecular proportions designated herein as "ester (R+S)" with a base selected from the group consisting of ammonium hydroxide, primary, secondary and tertiary amines, quaternary ammonium compounds, liquid amines of high molecular weight, ion exchange resins of a basic character and a catalytic amount of a strong base in at least one solvent in which the ester of the (R) alcohol is soluble and in which the ester of the (S) alcohol is insoluble and recovering from the resulting medium the chiral (A) acid ester of the (S) alcohol which is insoluble.