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Separation, for Analytical Purpose, of Np Traces from different Solutions of Fuel Reprocessing
AbstractFour separation methods were developed for performance control of hydrometallurgical extraction processes as COEX™ or advanced PUREX. These methods used implemented the operations of radionuclides oxidation state adjustment and chromatographic separation using TEVA resin. Concerning FP raffinate, the method consisted in reducing Np traces to the valence IV by a mixture of ferrous sulfamate and ascorbic acid, to fix Np(IV) on “TEVA” resin and to eluate it by a nitrohydrofluoric acid solution. The Np recovery yield is 100%. The decontamination of Np is sufficiently high to allow its analysis by FXL (Zr/Np < 1). The study also showed that in presence of Zr and Tc, Pu behaved like Np. The mixture of ferrous sulfamate and ascorbic acid had surprisingly no action on Pu(IV). Concerning plutonium solution ([Pu] > 10g/L) and uranium solution ([U] > 100g/L), the same method used for Np recovery from FP raffinate led to an eluate containing 100% of the initial Np ([Np]: 10mg/L). The low concentration of U and Pu (< 100mg/L) allows the determination of Np by FXL. Concerning Pu(III)-U(IV) solution, the method, included 2 redox stages, the first one to oxidize all actinides to oxidation state VI et the second one to reduce Np and Pu respectively to IV and III oxidation state. Then Np(IV) was fixed on TEVA resin. The eluate contains 100% of the initial Np ([Np]: 10mg/L) and a low concentration of U and Pu ([U] < 20mg/L, [Pu] < 10mg/L). The next experiments will consist in consolidating these good results by working with real solutions of fuel reprocessing
P298 Comparison between clinical and patient-reported symptoms among Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis patients
Background: There is no symptom-based patient-reported outcomes (PRO) measurement available in IBD. Disease scores contain a mixture of PRO and physician's observations and have shown serious limitations in clinical trials. Comparison between healthcare professionals (HCP) and patient (P) reports on scores' items is a first step toward disease scores refinement. In our IBD cohort study, we were able to collect P and HCP-reported symptoms independently. We assessed the agreement between both measures, and tested the correlation between the general well-being item (GWB) and two health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measures.
Methods: Between 2012 and 2015, we collected CDAI and MTWAI items 1) during follow-up medical visits, 2) through P self-reported follow-up questionnaire, except lab values. We compared items independently reported by HCP and P, stratified by diagnostic and Δt HCP-P reports. We calculated the Cohen's kappa (κ) statistic for agreement. A quadratic weight was applied for more severely serious disagreements. For EIM & complications, we computed a pooled κ based on the average between observed and expected probability of agreement over sub-items. A pooled κ was computed to summarize agreement over all examined variables. We also collected SF-36 and IBDQ scores. Pearson correlation coefficients r were calculated between both scores and GWB reports of HCP and P.
Results: 2427 reports could be evaluated (Δt: 537<1 month, 390 1–2, 1500 2–6), referring to 1385 patients (52% females, 58% CD)
Dynamique des relations interpersonnelles en santé mentale: travail de Bachelor
Notre travail s’inscrit dans le cadre de l’obtention du diplôme de Bachelor en soins infirmiers.Deux études de cas sont présentées, concernant des personnes qui vivent des difficultés prenant forment dans la dynamique de leurs relations interpersonnelles et sociales. Des modèles théoriques infirmiers (King, Travelbee, Peplau, Watson) centrés sur la relation sont présentés en référence à la connaissance infirmière spécifique ainsi que l’art de la pratique congruente avec ces modèles conceptuels théoriques
Near-infrared oxygen airglow from the Venus nightside
Groundbased imaging and spectroscopic observations of Venus reveal intense near-infrared oxygen airglow emission from the upper atmosphere and provide new constraints on the oxygen photochemistry and dynamics near the mesopause (approximately 100 km). Atomic oxygen is produced by the Photolysis of CO2 on the dayside of Venus. These atoms are transported by the general circulation, and eventually recombine to form molecular oxygen. Because this recombination reaction is exothermic, many of these molecules are created in an excited state known as O2(delta-1). The airglow is produced as these molecules emit a photon and return to their ground state. New imaging and spectroscopic observations acquired during the summer and fall of 1991 show unexpected spatial and temporal variations in the O2(delta-1) airglow. The implications of these observations for the composition and general circulation of the upper venusian atmosphere are not yet understood but they provide important new constraints on comprehensive dynamical and chemical models of the upper mesosphere and lower thermosphere of Venus
Atypical cystic hepatorenal disease in a 40-year-old female: What is the diagnosis? A nephrology zebra.
Holonomic functions of several complex variables and singularities of anisotropic Ising n-fold integrals
Lattice statistical mechanics, often provides a natural (holonomic) framework
to perform singularity analysis with several complex variables that would, in a
general mathematical framework, be too complex, or could not be defined.
Considering several Picard-Fuchs systems of two-variables "above" Calabi-Yau
ODEs, associated with double hypergeometric series, we show that holonomic
functions are actually a good framework for actually finding the singular
manifolds. We, then, analyse the singular algebraic varieties of the n-fold
integrals , corresponding to the decomposition of the magnetic
susceptibility of the anisotropic square Ising model. We revisit a set of
Nickelian singularities that turns out to be a two-parameter family of elliptic
curves. We then find a first set of non-Nickelian singularities for and , that also turns out to be rational or ellipic
curves. We underline the fact that these singular curves depend on the
anisotropy of the Ising model. We address, from a birational viewpoint, the
emergence of families of elliptic curves, and of Calabi-Yau manifolds on such
problems. We discuss the accumulation of these singular curves for the
non-holonomic anisotropic full susceptibility.Comment: 36 page
Post-critical set and non existence of preserved meromorphic two-forms
We present a family of birational transformations in depending on
two, or three, parameters which does not, generically, preserve meromorphic
two-forms. With the introduction of the orbit of the critical set (vanishing
condition of the Jacobian), also called ``post-critical set'', we get some new
structures, some "non-analytic" two-form which reduce to meromorphic two-forms
for particular subvarieties in the parameter space. On these subvarieties, the
iterates of the critical set have a polynomial growth in the \emph{degrees of
the parameters}, while one has an exponential growth out of these subspaces.
The analysis of our birational transformation in is first carried out
using Diller-Favre criterion in order to find the complexity reduction of the
mapping. The integrable cases are found. The identification between the
complexity growth and the topological entropy is, one more time, verified. We
perform plots of the post-critical set, as well as calculations of Lyapunov
exponents for many orbits, confirming that generically no meromorphic two-form
can be preserved for this mapping. These birational transformations in ,
which, generically, do not preserve any meromorphic two-form, are extremely
similar to other birational transformations we previously studied, which do
preserve meromorphic two-forms. We note that these two sets of birational
transformations exhibit totally similar results as far as topological
complexity is concerned, but drastically different results as far as a more
``probabilistic'' approach of dynamical systems is concerned (Lyapunov
exponents). With these examples we see that the existence of a preserved
meromorphic two-form explains most of the (numerical) discrepancy between the
topological and probabilistic approach of dynamical systems.Comment: 34 pages, 7 figure
The modified tetrahedron equation and its solutions
A large class of 3-dimensional integrable lattice spin models is constructed.
The starting point is an invertible canonical mapping operator in the space of
a triple Weyl algebra. This operator is derived postulating a current branching
principle together with a Baxter Z-invariance. The tetrahedron equation for
this operator follows without further calculations. If the Weyl parameter is
taken to be a root of unity, the mapping operator decomposes into a matrix
conjugation and a C-number functional mapping. The operator of the matrix
conjugation satisfies a modified tetrahedron equation (MTE) in which the
"rapidities" are solutions of a classical integrable Hirota-type equation. The
matrix elements of this operator can be represented in terms of the
Bazhanov-Baxter Fermat curve cyclic functions, or alternatively in terms of
Gauss functions. The paper summarizes several recent publications on the
subject.Comment: 24 pages, 6 figures using epic/eepic package, Contribution to the
proceedings of the 6th International Conference on CFTs and Integrable
Models, Chernogolovka, Spetember 2002, reference adde
Enseigner le français en contexte universitaire à des étudiants non francophones en mobilité : quelle place pour les littératures francophones ?
The role of literature in language teaching has been re-assessed ; it has been documented in numerous work, many of them paying a special attention to francophone literature, which seems to be able to function as a bridge between languages and cultures.
This paper will analyze individual interviews conducted with teachers working in French-language university centers. How do they define this corpus (including, or not, french «hexagonal» literature ?) Which place and functions do they assign to theses litteratures in their teaching practices
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