This review aims at reporting on very recent developments in syntheses, properties and (future)
applications of polymer-layered silicate nanocomposites. This new type of materials, …

The objective of this review is to make the field of “flame retardants for polymer materials” more
accessible to the materials science community, ie chemists, physicists and engineers. We …

In the framework of environmentally friendly processes and products, polylactide (PLA)
represents the best polymeric substitutes for various petropolymers because of its renewability, …

Geant4 is a software toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter. It is
used by a large number of experiments and projects in a variety of application domains, …

We performed a second-generation genome-wide association study of 4,533 individuals with
celiac disease (cases) and 10,750 control subjects. We genotyped 113 selected SNPs with …

Simbad is the reference database for identification and bibliography of astronomical objects.
It contains identifications, “basic data”, bibliography, and selected observational …

We present the new catalog of principal galaxies (PGC2003). It constitutes the framework of
the HYPERLEDA database that supersedes the LEDA one, with more data and more …

… Dubois received a diplome d’ingenieur from the “Ecole Nationale Superieure d’hgenieur
en Construction Aeronautique,” Toulouse, France and the MS and Ph.D. degrees from …

Background Experimental and clinical evidence suggests that cyclosporine may attenuate
reperfusion injury and reduce myocardial infarct size. We aimed to test whether cyclosporine …

Using variants from the 1000 Genomes Project pilot European CEU dataset and data from
additional resequencing studies, we densely genotyped 183 non-HLA risk loci previously …