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Rupture utérine sur utérus bicorne à 12 semaines d'aménorrhée: à propos d'un cas

La fréquence des malformations utérines ayant un impact sur la reproduction est difficile à apprécier. Leur mise en évidence nécessite un bilan spécifique (hystérosalpingographie, hystéroscopie, cœlioscopie). La fertilité spontanée peut être altérée en fonction du type d'anomalie utérine. Toutes ces anomalies peuvent avoir des répercussions sur l’évolution de la conception à type de fausses couches précoces et tardives, de grossesse extra utérine, de menace d'accouchement prématuré, d'accouchement prématuré, de pathologies vasculaires gravidiques et de retard de croissance intra-utérin. L'utérus bicorne est la plus connue des malformations et représente environ la moitié des anomalies de l'utérus. La survenue d'une telle grossesse constitue une situation à risque pouvant entraîner une mort maternelle, mais le diagnostic précoce et un bon suivi peut mener des grossesses à terme sur des utérus malformé. Le dépistage échographique devrait permettre la détection systématique de ce genre de cas afin de prendre préventivement les mesures qui s'imposent. Nous rapportons un cas de rupture utérine sur utérus bicorne unicervical sur grossesse à 12 semaines d'aménorrhée.
Seleção Automática de Casos de Teste de Regressão Baseada em Similaridade e Valores

Tecnicas de re-teste seletivo tem como objetivo auxiliar a selecao de casos de teste de regressao com base nas modificacoes realizadas. Este trabalho apresenta uma nova tecnica: Weighted Similarity Approach for Regression Testing (WSA-RT). Esta tecnica utiliza uma abordagem de teste baseado em modelos e valores, para selecionar os casos de teste mais importantes dentre os que interagem com as modificacoes realizadas no software. Os estudos de caso realizados com a tecnica indicam que WSA-RT e capaz de reduzir significativamente (de 70% a 80%) o tamanho do conjunto de casos de teste, podendo assim contribuir para a reducao dos custos do teste de regressao sem afetar a capacidade de deteccao de defeitos.
Free leptin index and PAPP‐A: a first trimester maternal serum screening test for pre‐eclampsia

Prophylaxis with low‐dose aspirin may reduce the risk of pre‐eclampsia (PE) if introduced in first trimester. The performance of first trimester maternal serum screening for PE using free leptin index (fLI) and PAPP‐A, where fLI = leptin/leptin soluble receptor was studied.
Building European Union capacity to manage transboundary crises: Network or lead‐agency model?

In recent years, the European continent has witnessed a substantial number of “transboundary crises” – crises that cross geographical borders and affect multiple policy domains. Nation states find it hard to deal with such crises by themselves. International cooperation, thus, becomes increasingly important, but it is not clear what shape or form that cooperation should take. This article explores the growing role of the European Union (EU) in managing transboundary crises. More specifically, it reflects on the different ways in which the expanding contours of the EU’s emerging crisis capacity can be organized. Using three “performative dimensions” – sense-making, coordination, and legitimacy – the article discusses the possible advantages and disadvantages of a decentralized, network model and compares it with a more centralized, lead-agency model. It concludes that the current network model is a logical outcome of the punctuated and fragmentary process through which EU crisis management capacities have been created. It also notes that the shortcomings of this model may necessitate elements of a lead-agency model. Such “agencification” of networks for transboundary crisis management may well lead to a hybrid model that is uniquely suited for the peculiar organizational and political creature that the EU is.
The Impact of Organizational Context and Information Technology on Employee Knowledge‐Sharing Capabilities

Sharing knowledge and information is an important factor in the discourses on electronic government, national security, and human capital management in public administration. This article analyzes the impact of organizational context and IT on employees’ perceptions of knowledge-sharing capabilities in five public sector and five private sector organizations in South Korea. Social networks, centralization, performance-based reward systems, employee usage of IT applications, and user-friendly IT systems were found to significantly affect employee knowledge-sharing capabilities in the organizations studied. For public sector employees, social networks, performance-based reward systems, and employee usage of IT applications are all positively associated with high levels of employee knowledge-sharing capabilities. Lessons and implications for knowledge-sharing capabilities and management leadership in the public sector are presented.
Ex Ante evaluation of legislation: between puzzling and powering

Those interested in the theory and practice of ex ante evaluation of policy proposals are living in paradoxical times. However, in the subsequent decades the interest in ex ante policy evaluation, Planning, Programming, Budgeting Systems (PPBS) and Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) waned for a number of reasons. As always, trends in policy analysis co-evolve with public opinion and policy agenda dynamics. In this chapter, another trend will take center stage. The chapter aims at a preliminary overall evaluation from a policy studies perspective. Ex ante evaluation of legislation started its career as regulatory review during the late 1960s and the 1970s in the USA. The chapter discusses an alternative depiction of policymaking as political struggle, in which policy analysis is not a substitute for politics, but is itself a method of fighting. Keywords: cost-benefit analysis (CBA); ex ante evaluation of legislation; public policymaking
Exercise on-transient gas exchange kinetics are slowed as a function of age.

The purpose was to characterize gas exchange kinetics following the on-transient of exercise in men aged 30-80 yr. Forty-six men completed square wave exercise tests from loadless cycling to subventilatory threshold (V(E)T) work rates with gas exchange measured breath-by-breath. Signal averaged data were fit with a monoexponential equation to derive time constants (tau) for gas exchange and ventilation (tau VO2, tau VCO2, tau VE) and heart rate (tau HR). There was a significant slowing of ventilation and gas exchange kinetics across age with linear regression yielding an increase of 0.67 s.yr-1 for tau VO2 (39 s in young to 61 s in old), 0.57 s.yr-1 for tau VCO2, and 0.65 s.yr-1 for tau VE, whereas tau HR (44 to 41 s) was not changed significantly. The slowed VO2 kinetics with age may reflect limitations in muscle blood flow or in control of the rate of oxidative metabolism. The less marked slowing of tau VCO2 compared with tau VO2 across age may reflect reduced CO2 storage capacity with loss of muscle tissue. The tau VE change across age was similar to that for tau VCO2 (tau VE/tau VCO2 unchanged). The present study demonstrated marked age-related slowing of gas exchange dynamics at exercise onset.
Mitochondrial Protein Import: A Matter of Death?

Mitochondria play a central role not only in energy generation but also for apoptosis. A key step in mitochondrial apoptosis is the release of mitochondrial proteins, most importantly cytochrome c. This release is orchestrated by the pro- and anti-apoptotic members of the Bcl-2 protein family. The functions of these Bcl-2 family members are clear in terms of order and of principle: the pro-apoptotic BH3-only protein group contains the triggers, which cause the activation of the effectors Bax and Bak, while the anti-apoptotic Bcl-2-like proteins prevent this activation. However, the molecular details are still insufficiently clear and the proposed models have certain gaps and are partly contradictory. We have recently presented evidence that targeting to mitochondria of at least one BH3-only protein is essential for its pro-apoptotic functions. Here we discuss how this mechanism might fit into and expand existing models and speculate about the potential implications of this finding.
Early warning indicator for financial crashes using the log periodic power law

In this article, we apply the Log Periodic Power Law (LPPL), introduced by Johansen et al. (2000), for capturing the recent stock market crash in the German stock index (Deutscher Aktien Index, DAX). The contribution of this article consists not only in describing the historical crash by the LPPL, but also in demonstrating how the LPPL can be used as an early warning indicator for financial crashes.
America's Only Peacetime Inflation: The 1970s

The 1970s were America's only peacetime inflation, as uncertainty about prices made every business decision a speculation on monetary policy. In magnitude, the total rise in the price level from the spurt in inflation to the five-to-ten percent per year range in the 1970s was as large as the jumps in prices from the major wars of this century. The truest cause of the 1970s inflation was the shadow of the Great Depression. The memory left by the Depression predisposed the left and center to think that any unemployment was too much, and eliminated any mandate the Federal Reserve might have had for controlling inflation by risking unemployment. The Federal Reserve gained, or regained, its mandate to control inflation at the risk of unemployment during the 1970s as discontent built over that decade's inflation. It is hard to see how the Federal Reserve could have acquired such a mandate without an unpleasant lesson like the inflation of the 1970s. Thus the memory of the Great Depression meant that the U.S. was highly likely to suffer an inflation like the 1970s in the post-World War II period þ maybe not as long, and maybe not in that particular decade, but nevertheless an inflation of recognizably the same genus.
Gender, Identity and Educational Leadership

Acknowledgements List of tables 1. Context and Rationale 2. Gender and Educational Leadership 3. Values-led Leadership 4. What Diversity Means to Headteachers: Gender 5. What Diversity Means to Headteachers: Social Class 6. What Diversity Means to Headteachers: Ethnicity 7. Conclusion References Appendices Index
The Borrower's Choice between Fixed and Adjustable Rate Loan Contracts

Previous research indicates that key variables in the choice between fixed and price index-linked debt are the covariances between inflation and real income and between inflation and the real value of the asset financed by the debt. This model extends those results to adjustable rate loan contracts and examines the impact of covariance between the real interest rate and, in turn, real income and real asset values. Positive (negative) covariance between those terms shifts preference toward the adjustable (fixed) loan contract. Copyright American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.
Helicobacter infection, chronic inflammation, and the development of malignancy

Purpose of review Chronic infection with Helicobacter pylori affects approximately half the world and results in malignancy in a small subset of this population. Although the frequency of infection in developed nations is falling with a resultant decline in H. pylori-associated peptic ulcer disease, gastric cancer remains the second major cause of cancer death worldwide, with H. pylori infection being a major attributable factor in the development of gastric cancer. This review provides an update on the pathogenesis of Helicobacter infection, the malignancies associated with infection, and how infection and chronic inflammation may lead to the development of gastric malignancy, emphasizing recent developments in the field, particularly those published in leading journals. Recent findings Recent studies have broadened our understanding of the pathogenesis of chronic inflammation associated with Helicobacter infection, and how chronic inflammation contributes to carcinogenesis. There is also continuing evidence from eradication studies in humans and animal models to support the association of Helicobacter infection with gastric cancer. Although there are some differences in the various human trials, recent studies support the notion that early eradication of infection may prevent the development of malignancy, but once certain events have taken place, the process leading to cancer may not be reversible. Continued research into bacterial and host factors that are associated with an increased risk of the development of gastric cancer have also enhanced our understanding of this field. Summary The emerging literature has important implications for the understanding of the basic pathophysiology leading to malignancy in chronic H. pylori infection throughout the world. Treatment of infection may be beneficial in preventing the development of cancer in certain settings, and the role of antioxidants and other approaches is promising but requires further study. Findings from the investigation of host and bacterial factors that may predispose to the development of more severe disease manifestations including gastric cancer are also important developments in this area.
Changes in Cardiovascular Risk Factors After the Great East Japan Earthquake

The Great East Japan Earthquake occurred on March 11, 2011, and was followed by a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The government ordered a mandatory evacuation from the high radioactive concentration area in Fukushima. This evacuation may have forced many evacuees to change specific aspects of their lifestyles such as diet and physical activity, which in turn may lead to future incidence of lifestyle diseases such as cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). To address this concern, the association between the evacuation and changes in CVD risk factors before and after the disaster was examined in the Fukushima Health Management Survey. In the present study, we reviewed the results of longitudinal studies in the Fukushima Health Management Survey. The proportion of overweight/obese people and those with hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, liver dysfunction, atrial fibrillation, and polycythemia increased after the disaster. Furthermore, the evacuation was associated with an increase of these cardiovascular risk factors. Therefore, evacuees may be more disposed to CVDs such as myocardial infarction and stroke after the disaster. The prevention of future CVDs among evacuees from Fukushima requires ongoing preventive programs for obesity, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and dyslipidemia, in collaboration with local governments and communities.
Capturing Option Anomalies with a Variance-Dependent Pricing Kernel

We develop a GARCH option model with a new pricing kernel allowing for a variance premium. While the pricing kernel is monotonic in the stock return and in variance, its projection onto the stock return is nonmonotonic. A negative variance premium makes it U shaped. We present new semiparametric evidence to confirm this U-shaped relationship between the risk-neutral and physical probability densities. The new pricing kernel substantially improves our ability to reconcile the time-series properties of stock returns with the cross-section of option prices. It provides a unified explanation for the implied volatility puzzle, the overreaction of long-term options to changes in short-term variance, and the fat tails of the risk-neutral return distribution relative to the physical distribution. The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Society for Financial Studies. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com. , Oxford University Press.
SURPLUS POSSIBILITIES: POSTDEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY ECONOMIES

In recent years, development practitioners, anthropologists, geographers and others who are observers “on the ground” of the failures of the one-size-fits-all model of development have begun to generate a “postdevelopment” discourse (Rahnema with Bawtree, 1997). By this we mean a set of thinking and doing practices that are guided by a distinctive ethical stance. Postdevelopment discourse is aligned with the long leftist tradition of critical analyses that accompanied the global consolidation, immediately after World War II, of a hegemonic mainstream development project. But while sharing a dissatisfaction with mainstream development, this emerging postdevelopment discourse effects a radical rupture with a style of thinking that underpins much of the critique of development. In this paper we aim to give a taste of how we are broaching the practice of postdevelopment thinking in a linked set of projects: a language project of representing the economy as diverse; a collaboration with a nongovernmental organisation (NGO) that is involved in what we see as postdevelopment interventions in the global trade in labour; and an action research project negotiating postdevelopment pathways in place in a Philippines Municipality. In his landmark book Encountering Development, Arturo Escobar (1995) traces the discursive creation in the immediate postwar period of the “third world” as both the needy object of international development intervention and the excuse for expansion of a new world power’s mode of global governmentality. As Cowan and Shenton (1996) point out in Doctrines of Development, the “development” thinking that informed this consolidation of global “aspiration and effort” dated from the early nineteenth-century concern for the management of surplus populations within the nation-state and colonial outpost. It was at this time, they argue, that the premodern notion of development as a cyclical and organic process of growth and decay whose immanent dynamics were beyond intervention was modernised by its cross-fertilisation with the Enlightenment idea of progress and the dynamics of linear and upward social trajectories (Cowan & Shenton, 1996:8-9). In response to a sense of disillusionment that progress and improvement were somehow not taking their “natural” course, development became linked with the imperative to intervene and with the notion of active trusteeship by the “few who possessed the knowledge to understand why developSURPLUS POSSIBILITIES: POSTDEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY ECONOMIES
Dual-Wideband Complementary Antenna With a Dual-Layer Cross-ME-Dipole Structure for 2G/3G/LTE/WLAN Applications

A novel dual-wideband complementary patch antenna with a dual-layer cross-magneto-electric (ME)-dipole structure is proposed for 2G/3G/LTE/WLAN applications. In order to provide dual-wideband and complementary characteristics, an inverted U-shaped feeding structure is introduced to feed dual-layer cross-ME-dipole patches. The upper-layer cross-ME-dipole patches mainly serve the upper frequency band, while the lower-layer ones chiefly work for the lower frequency band. In addition, hook-shaped patches are placed on the corner of upper-layer electric dipoles to broaden the impedance bandwidth of the upper frequency band. Moreover, a box-shaped reflector is employed to attain high and stable gain. The prototype antenna can offer an impedance bandwidth of 51.3% (1.68-2.84 GHz) with a stable gain of 8.7±1.5 dBi, and an impedance bandwidth of 11.4% (5.31-5.95 GHz) with a gain of 8.2 ±1.1 dBi for the lower and upper bands, respectively. Hence, it can be suitable for 2G/3G/LTE/WLAN base-station communications.
The systemic cellular immune response in the Helicobacter pylori-associated duodenal ulcer and chronic antral gastritis.

BACKGROUND/AIMS The exact pathogenesis of Helicobacter pylori infection is not fully understood. This study aims to evaluate the specific subset composition of peripheral blood lymphocytes in patients with H. pylori-positive duodenal ulcer n = 14), chronic antral gastritis n = 28), since reports so far have led to inconclusive and conflicting results. METHODOLOGY 42 patients with dyspepsia and 50 controls underwent the following procedures: 1) gastroscopy and gastric biopsy (five specimens) 2) histology, 3) serologic test for anti-H. pylori antibodies IgG (Pyloriset EIA-G, Orion Diagnostica) and anticytotoxin associated gene A (cag A) IgG antibodies (VIVA Diagnositika by ELISA), 4) analysis of the peripheral blood lymphocytes using monoclonal antibodies reacting with lymphocyte cell surface antigens (anti-CD3, anti-CD19, anti-CD4, anti-CD8, anti-CD16 + CD56, anti-HLA DR) by flow-cytometry (Becton-Dickinson) to detect possible changes in the lymphocytes subpopulations in patients with duodenal ulcer and chronic antral gastritis. RESULTS We found no alteration in total T and B lymphocytes and CD4+ T, CD8+ T lymphocytes and natural killer cells of both duodenal ulcer and chronic antral gastritis patients compared to normal persons. Although there was a slight increase in the proportion of active T lymphocytes in duodenal ulcer and chronic antral gastritis groups comparing to healthy subjects the difference was not statistically significant. CONCLUSIONS These data indicate that there is no systemic alteration in the specific immune system in response to H. pylori in patients with duodenal ulcer and chronic antral gastritis.
Hoshin Kanri planning process in human resource management: recruitment in a high-tech firm

The Hoshin Kanri (HK) planning process is widely used in Japanese and Western companies for strategy planning and performance measurement in the manufacturing sector. Human resource management (HRM) plays an important role in business operations; HRM practices have a significant positive effect on implementing total quality management and on employee and customer satisfaction. However, HRM has always been considered reactive, uncoordinated, and unprofessional, delivering poor, slow, and ineffective services. This study presents the envision, identify, diagnose, prioritise, execute, and review (EIDPER) model, an extension of HK. EIDPER translates strategies into achievable actions to fulfil organisational objectives. We introduce a case study to illustrate applying EIDPER to the recruitment process of the HRM department in a high-tech manufacturing firm. The approach was successfully applied in the HRM department of the case company and effectively reduced hiring costs by US$360,000 in 5 years and improved recruitment cycle time by 40%. Managerial implications are also discussed at the end of the study.