Le gain mathématique à la bourse; la spéculation de bourse considérée comme jeu de pur hasard, theéorie mathématique de la probabilité en mathière de cours, écarts et équilibres, conjectures alternantes, tableaux et graphiques à l'usage des spéculateurs; exposé theéorique et pratique d'une méthode de spéculation assurant un bénéfice considérable et continuel ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Competitive enhancement and diversification needs assessment, 1996-1997.

Mode of access: Internet.

Enhancement of the HWRIC database : year 2 : with an evaluation of database content /

Prepared for Illinois Hazardous Waste Research and Information Center, HWRIC project number 87-005.

Habitat establishment, enhancement and management for forest and grassland birds in Illinois /

"1993."

Illinois Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program... annual report.

"A partnership between the UDSA and the State of Illinois."

Illinois Transportation Enhancement Program : Cycle III /

"October 1994."

Illinois Transportation Enhancement Program /

"ITEP is a three year program. Projects funded through the Illinois Transportation Enhancement Program include: scenic/historic highways; historic transportation structure rehabilitation; pedestrian and bicycle facilities; landscaping; transportation museums; outdoor advertising control."

Practical husbandry, or, The art of farming with a certainty of gain : as practised by judicious farmers in this country : the result of experience and long observation /

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 17579.

Restoring Strawberry, the pure valley : report on five years of mitigation and enhancement in the Strawberry Valley.

Includes index.

Airline Competition Enhancement Act of 1989 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Aviation of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, first session on S. 1741, to amend the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to increase competition among commercial air carriers at the nation's major airports ...

"April 5, 1990"--Pt. 2.

Vet Center Enhancement Act of 2005 : report (to accompany S. 716).

"November 16, 2005."

U.S. airlift forces : enhancement alternatives for NATO and non-NATO contingencies /

Includes bibliographical references.

Refined method of potential enhancement in the equilibria characterization of activated carbon. Comparison with GCMC and DFT

In this paper, we present a technique for equilibria characterization of activated carbon having slit-shaped pores. This method was first developed by Do (Do, D. D. A new method for the characterisation of micro-mesoporous materials. Presented at the International Symposium on New Trends in Colloid and Interface Science, September 24-26, 1998 Chiba, Japan) and applied by his group and other groups for characterization of pore size distribution (PSD) as well as adsorption equilibria determination of a wide range of hydrocarbons. It is refined in this paper and compared with the grand canonical Monte Carlo (GCMG) simulation and density functional theory (DFT). The refined theory results in a good agreement between the pore filling pressure versus pore width and those obtained by GCMG and DFT. Furthermore, our local isotherms are qualitatively in good agreement with those obtained by the GCMC simulations. The main advantage of this method is that it is about 4 orders of magnitude faster than the GCMC simulations, making it suitable for optimization studies and design purposes. Finally, we apply our method and the GCMG in the derivation of the PSD of a commercial activated carbon. It was found that the PSD derived from our method is comparable to that derived from the GCMG simulations.

Physical enhancement of transdermal drug application: is delivery technology keeping up with pharmaceutical development?

Advances in molecular biology have given us a wide range of protein and peptide-based drugs that are unsuitable for oral delivery because of their high degree of first-pass metabolism. Though parenteral delivery is the obvious answer, for the successful development of commercial chronic and self-administration usage formulations it is not the ideal choice. Transdermal delivery is emerging as the biggest application target for these agents, however, the skin is extremely efficient at keeping out such large molecular weight compounds and therapeutic levels are never going to be realistically achieved by passive absorption. Physical enhancement mechanisms including: iontophoresis, electroporation, ultrasound, photomechanical waves, microneedles and jet-propelled particles are emerging as solutions to this topical delivery dilemma. Adding proteins and peptides to the list of other large molecular weight drugs with insufficient passive transdermal fluxes to be therapeutically useful, we have a collection of pharmacological agents waiting for efficient delivery methods to be introduced. This article reviews the current state of physical transdermal delivery technology, assesses the pros and cons of each technique and summarises the evidence-base of their drug delivery capabilities.

Nutrient partitioning during treatment of tuberculosis: gain in body fat mass but not in protein mass

Background: Tuberculosis is an important cause of wasting. The functional consequences of wasting and recovery may depend on the distribution of lost and gained nutrient stores between protein and fat masses. Objective: The goal was to study nutrient partitioning, ie, the proportion of weight change attributable to changes in fat mass (FM) versus protein mass (PM), during anti mycobacterial treatment. Design: Body-composition measures were made of 21 men and 9 women with pulmonary tuberculosis at baseline and after 1 and 6 mo of treatment. All subjects underwent dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and deuterium bromide dilution tests, and a four-compartment model of FM, total body water (TBW), bone minerals (BM), and PM was derived. The ratio of PM to FM at any time was expressed as the energy content (p-ratio). Changes in the p-ratio were related to disease severity as measured by radiologic criteria. Results: Patients gained 10% in body weight (P < 0.001) from baseline to month 6. This was mainly due to a 44% gain in FM (P < 0.001); PM, BM, and TBW did not change significantly. Results were similar in men and women. The p-ratio decreased from baseline to month 1 and then fell further by month 6. Radiologic disease severity was not correlated with changes in the p-ratio. Conclusions: Microbiological cure of tuberculosis does not restore PM within 6 mo, despite a strong anabolic response. Change in the p-ratio is a suitable parameter for use in studying the effect of disease on body composition because it allows transformation of such effects into a normal distribution across a wide range of baseline proportion between fat and protein mass.