L’autobiofiction dans \u3cem\u3eL’art du maquillage\u3c/em\u3e et \u3cem\u3eLe fou de Bosch\u3c/em\u3e de Sergio Kokis ou deux épisodes d’une «danse macabre»

Le but de cet article est de s’interroger sur le syntagme «je suis un tel» dans le contexte de deux romans de Sergio Kokis, L’art du maquillage (1997) et Le fou de Bosch (2006). La possibilité d’une identité unique et indivisible est défiée dans ces romans par la défaillance du mythe du «je» narrateur unique qui devrait dominer tout le récit. Au contraire, ce qu’on trouve à la lecture c’est le mouvement inverse: la narration suit le processus d’auto-engendrement des personnages-narrateurs, qui se créent des «autobiographies» fictives dans une mise en abyme de l’autobiofiction

Le mouvement des harraga — un traumatisme historique et politique qui dévoile la face cachée de l’Europe

Cet article traite le dépassement des frontières des harraga (des sans-papiers) du Maghreb vers l’Europe (à travers l’Espagne) tout en analysant ce que cela implique du point de vue des lois d’immigration, de l’idée de la clandestinité ainsi que des créations d’une identité musulmane qui s’oppose à l’identité européenne. L’article s’attarde aussi sur l’historique des relations compliquées entre le Maghreb et l’Espagne en termes de relations (post)coloniales. En vue de cette contextualisation, les deux romans du corpus, Partir de Tahar Ben Jelloun et Harraga de Sansal Boualem, sont analysés du point de vue de l’histoire du pays en rapport avec l’histoire des personnages, de la place de l’identité musulmane dans la construction de l’identité européenne et de la déconstruction des stéréotypes sur l’identité féminine par rapport à l’identité masculine dans le contexte maghrébin

Market Power and Efficiency in the Czech Banking Sector

Banking competition is expected to provide welfare gains by reducing monopoly rents and cost inefficiencies, favoring a reduction of loan rates and then investment. These expected gains are a major issue for transition countries, in which bank credit represents the largest source of external finance for companies. With the use of exhaustive quarterly data for Czech banks, this paper aims to provide evidence on the effects of banking competition in the Czech Republic. First, we measure the level and evolution of banking competition between 1994 and 2005. Competition is measured by the Lerner index on the loan market, using data on loan prices. The results do not show a clear-cut trend in the evolution of the Lerner index. Second, we investigate the relationship and causality between competition and efficiency. We perform a Granger-causality-type analysis. This supports the ‘banking specificities’ hypothesis, according to which heightened competition can lead to an increase in monitoring costs through a reduction in the length of the customer relationship and due to the presence of economies of scale in the banking sector, in this way reducing the cost efficiency of banks. Therefore, our results reject the intuitive ‘quiet life’ hypothesis and indicate a negative relationship between competition and efficiency in banking.Banks, competition, efficiency, transition countries.

INTEGRATION OF SEMI-SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURAL FARMS

Intensive agriculture, industrial type, contributed to environmental degradation and pollution. Thus, on the one hand, makes intensive use of chemicals has led to neglect of duty to maintain the natural fertility of the soil organic matter through proper fattening. On the other hand, organizing specialized industrial environments, high animal breeders, considered the only marketable livestock production, neglecting the production of manure, thus representing a break with the brutal nature of biological circuits Following the experience accumulated over two centuries, mankind has drawn valuable education obligation to safeguard the habitat of nature as a collaborator. In this respect, the main task of our times is to develop appropriate technologies humanist ideal, so that man can become a being as fully integrated into the social and cosmic environment. In the present period as a peasant household current form, is typical of developing countries. It is generated by the result of families who received income from farming and increase farm animalelor.Gospodãria organizational structure is the basic economic and agricultural economy. On the basis of the idea that organic production is the main cause of degradation of the biological quality of products is inadequate human intervention at various structural levels of the biosphere, and the most severe effects on humans resulting from the cumulation of errors relating to soil, plants and animals. Organic farming places emphasis on quality natural products, the quantity and productivity issues as a peripheral level. A balanced rural development policy for the future is not an option but a necessity, especially considering the fact that the issue of agriculture and rural development has important national connotations and is a very complex and timely in Romania Regional development is a concept that aims at stimulating and diversifying economic activities, encouraging private sector investment, helping to reduce unemployment and ultimately lead to improved living standards, according to the regions of the country\'s developmentPeasant household, sustainable development, farms, subsistence, european agriculture

When immiscible becomes miscible-Methane in water at high pressures

At low pressures, the solubility of gases in liquids is governed by Henry’s law, which states that the saturated solubility of a gas in a liquid is proportional to the partial pressure of the gas. As the pressure increases, most gases depart from this ideal behavior in a sublinear fashion, leveling off at pressures in the 1- to 5-kbar (0.1 to 0.5 GPa) range with solubilities of less than 1 mole percent (mol %). This contrasts strikingly with the well-known marked increase in solubility of simple gases in water at high temperature associated with the critical point (647 K and 212 bar). The solubility of the smallest hydrocarbon, the simple gas methane, in water under a range of pressure and temperature is of widespread importance, because it is a paradigmatic hydrophobe and occurs widely in terrestrial and extraterrestrial geology. We report measurements up to 3.5 GPa of the pressure dependence of the solubility of methane in water at 100°C—well below the latter’s critical temperature. Our results reveal a marked increase in solubility between 1 and 2 GPa, leading to a state above 2 GPa where the maximum solubility of methane in water exceeds 35 mol %

Secondary prevention of sudden cardiac death in patient with ischemic heart disease

Universitatea de Stat de Medicină şi Farmacie „Nicolae Testemiţanu”, Chişinău, Republica MoldovaIntroduction. Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is the cause of about ½ of all cardiovascular deaths, while up to 50% is the first manifestation of heart disease. The annual incidence of SCD increases with age, so in the eighth decade of life it reaches 200 cases per 100.000 population. Case statement. A 68 years old man known with heart disease for about 25 years, when he suffered acute myocardial infarction, simultaneously suffers from hypertension, atrial fibrillation receiving irregular treatment. The general condition worsened 6 years ago, when he developed a syncope, being resuscitated by the application of the precordial blow, which was repeated during hospitalization on 25.09.17. On the ECG, there was sustained ventricular tachycardia, suppressed by electric cardioversion. The patient was examined at the Institute of Cardiology by echocardiography: dilation of the heart chambers, moderate hypertrophy of the LV myocardium, severe of the IVS, hypokinesia and akinesia of the basal and middle segment, posterior and lateral walls of the LV, FE LV -36%; on the ECG: tahi-bradi form of atrial fibrillation; on coronarography: absence of stenotic lesions on the coronary arteries. Drug treatment with rivaroxaban, aspirin, bisoprolol, amiodarone, lisinopril, rosuvastatin, spironolactone and furosemide was initiated. On 04/10/17 was implanted with a cardiac defibrillator (ICD) Iforia3 VR-T type VVI Biotronik. After discharge from the hospital, the patient's condition stabilized, notable that 6 electrical discharges of the ICD were recorded only in the first year after implantation. Over 6 years the patient is in good condition and continues the drug treatment for chronic heart failure; on ECG: stimulated rhythm with HR 70 b/min; ECoCG parameters show improvement. Discussions. The case demonstrate the role of device therapy, additional to optimal drug therapy with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin II receptor blockers, beta-blockers, and mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist to prevent SCD and improve condition of patients with ischemic heart disease. Conclusion. Sudden cardiac death (SCD) occurs unexpectedly and is usually the result of ventricular arrhythmia in patients with structural heart disease. Implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), with biventricular stimulation, has been shown to be protective for ischemic heart disease and heart failure patients with a reduced ejection fraction of <35% (HFrEF). while up to 50% is the first manifestation of heart disease. The annual incidence of SCD increases with age, so in the eighth decade of life it r eaches 200 cases per 100.000 population. Case statement. A 68 years old man known with heart disease for about 25 ye ars, when he suffered acute myocardial infarction, simultaneously suff ers from hypertension, atrial fibrillation receiving irregular treatment. The general condition worse ned 6 years ago, when he developed a syncope, being resuscitated by the application of the precor dial blow, which was repeated during hospitalization on 25.09.17. On the ECG, there was sustained v entricular tachycardia, suppressed by electric cardioversion. The patient was examined at the Institute of Cardiology by echocardiography: dilation of the heart chambers, moderate hypertrophy of the LV myocardium, severe of the IVS, hypokinesia and akinesia of the basal and middle segment, posterior and lateral walls of the LV, FE LV -36%; on the ECG: tahi-bradi form o f atrial fibrillation; on coronarography: absence of stenotic lesions on the corona ry arteries. Drug treatment with rivaroxaban, aspirin, bisoprolol, amiodarone, lisinopril, r osuvastatin, spironolactone and furosemide was initiated. On 04/10/17 was implanted with a cardiac defibrillator (ICD) Iforia3 VR-T type VVI Biotronik. After discharge from the hospital, the patient's condition stabilized, notable that 6 electrical discharges of the ICD were re corded only in the first year after implantation. Over 6 years the patient is in good condit ion and continues the drug treatment for chronic heart failure; on ECG: stimulated rhythm with HR 70 b/mi n; ECoCG parameters show improvement. Discussions. The case demonstrate the role of device therapy, addit ional to optimal drug therapy with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, angioten sin II receptor blockers, beta-blockers, and mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist to prevent SCD an d improve condition of patients with ischemic heart disease. Conclusion. Sudden cardiac death (SCD) occurs unexpectedly and is usually the result of ventricular arrhythmia in patients with structural heart disease. Implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), with biventricular stimulation, has been shown to be protective for ischemic heart disease and heart failure patients with a reduced eje ction fraction of <35% (HFrEF)

Impact of inhaled corticosteroids on growth in children with asthma: systematic review and meta-analysis

Background: Long-term inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) may reduce growth velocity and final height of children with asthma. We aimed to evaluate the association between ICS use of >12 months and growth. Methods: We initially searched MEDLINE and EMBASE in July 2013, followed by a PubMed search updated to December 2014. We selected RCTs and controlled observational studies of ICS use in patients with asthma. We conducted random effects meta-analysis of mean differences in growth velocity (cm/year) or final height (cm) between groups. Heterogeneity was assessed using the I2 statistic. Results: We found 23 relevant studies (twenty RCTs and three observational studies) after screening 1882 hits. Meta-analysis of 16 RCTs showed that ICS use significantly reduced growth velocity at one year follow-up (mean difference -0.48 cm/year (95% CI -0.66 to -0.29)). There was evidence of a dose-response effect in three RCTs. Final adult height showed a mean reduction of -1.20 cm (95% CI -1.90 cm to -0.50 cm) with budesonide versus placebo in a high quality RCT. Meta-analysis of two lower quality observational studies revealed uncertainty in the association between ICS use and final adult height, pooled mean difference -0.85 cm (95% CI -3.35 to 1.65). Conclusion: Use of ICS for >12 months in children with asthma has a limited impact on annual growth velocity. In ICS users, there is a slight reduction of about a centimeter in final adult height, which when interpreted in the context of average adult height in England (175 cm for men and 161 cm for women), represents a 0.7% reduction compared to non-ICS users

Automated annotation of gene expression image sequences via non-parametric factor analysis and conditional random fields

Motivation: Computational approaches for the annotation of phenotypes from image data have shown promising results across many applications, and provide rich and valuable information for studying gene function and interactions. While data are often available both at high spatial resolution and across multiple time points, phenotypes are frequently annotated independently, for individual time points only. In particular, for the analysis of developmental gene expression patterns, it is biologically sensible when images across multiple time points are jointly accounted for, such that spatial and temporal dependencies are captured simultaneously. Methods: We describe a discriminative undirected graphical model to label gene-expression time-series image data, with an efficient training and decoding method based on the junction tree algorithm. The approach is based on an effective feature selection technique, consisting of a non-parametric sparse Bayesian factor analysis model. The result is a flexible framework, which can handle large-scale data with noisy incomplete samples, i.e. it can tolerate data missing from individual time points. Results: Using the annotation of gene expression patterns across stages of Drosophila embryonic development as an example, we demonstrate that our method achieves superior accuracy, gained by jointly annotating phenotype sequences, when compared with previous models that annotate each stage in isolation. The experimental results on missing data indicate that our joint learning method successfully annotates genes for which no expression data are available for one or more stages

Marketing and logistics features in transport

The essence of this work is to consider all stages of production as a single process of transformation and movement of labour product and related information