James Sacré, a writing of life gesture

In French contemporary poetry, some poets have wished to return to —and so to increase the value of— the enunciation of the poetic subject. In such poetic scenario, the poet James Sacré exemplifies a new approach that tries to re-establish contact with the expression of the poetic subject, albeit always avoiding the pitfalls of excessive ornamentation and poetic effusiveness. Based on the use of simple language, this approach attaches value to legibility and does not hesitate to tap into the most banal or dullest aspects of reality. This article studies one of the procedures used by the poet to reestablish the expression of the poetic subject. This procedure seeks to rewrite life gestures—a technique that evinces an unavoidable relationship between life and poetic words in the work of James Sacré.

Origin of an enigmatic regional Mio-Pliocene unconformity on the Demerara plateau

The Demerara plateau, located offshore French Guiana and Suriname, is part of a passive transform continental margin particularly prone to develop slope instabilities, probably in relation to the presence of a free distal border along its steep continental slope. Slope failure occurred at different periods (Cretaceous to Neogene) and shows an overall retrogressive evolution through time. Upslope these failure headscarp, an enigmatic regional MioPliocene unconformity has been discovered through the interpretation of new academic and industrial datasets. The aim of this work is to describe and understand the origin of this surface. Our analysis shows that this unconformity is made of a series of valleys that cross-cut sedimentary strata. Each one of these valleys has a short lateral extent and is closed along two perpendicular directions, which suggests that it could correspond to a highly meandering system, or to some sub-circular depressions. The infill of these features is equivalent to the regional stratigraphic strata found outside the structures, but in a subdued position. This seems to imply that the structures have originated by a local loss of sediments at their base or by sliding processes. Furthermore, these depressions intersect each other through time, while migrating progressively downslope. We discuss a series of hypotheses that try to explain the onset and evolution of these depressions forming the Mio-Pliocene unconformity (Canyons? Slope failures? Contourite moats? Hydrate pockmarks?). Having established that these structures are depressions formed by collapse, and have many similarities with structures recently described in the literature as pockmarks associated with gas hydrate dissolution, we favor this hypothesis. We propose that these hydrate pockmarks form with a mass failure that was triggered by fluid-overpressure development at the base of the hydrate stability zone.

Utilidad de los criterios de predicción clínica y del test rápido antigénico para el manejo de la faringitis aguda en un servicio de urgencias

Objetivo: Validar los criterios de CENTOR modificados (CENTOR-m) y los tests rápidos de detección del antígeno de Estreptococo del Grupo A (SGA) en la faringitis aguda. Diseño: Estudio de validación de pruebas diagnósticas. Emplazamiento y participantes: Ciento un pacientes elegibles, que consultaron al departamento de urgencias de un hospital de tercer nivel con cuadro clínico compatible con faringitis aguda. Mediciones Principales: Se obtuvieron muestras de hisopados faríngeos para la realización del test rápido antigénico para SGA (FAMR) y para cultivo, respectivamente. Se calculó en cada caso los criterios de CENTOR-m. Resultados: La edad media de los pacientes incluidos en el estudio fue de 22,6 años (DE:13,8). El 48,5 % eran varones. El SGA fue el patógeno aislado en el 20,79 % de los casos. El CENTOR-m presentó una sensibilidad del 83,3 % (50,9 %-97,1 %), especificidad del 45,5 % (30,7 %-61,0 %) valor predictivo positivo (VPP) del 29,4 % (15,7 %-47,7 %) y valor predictivo negativo (VPN) del 90,9 % (69,4 %-98,4 %). El FAMR presento una sensibilidad del 81,5 % (61,3 %-93,0 %) especificidad del 98,6 % (91,4 %-99,9 %), VPP del 95,7 % (76,0 %-99,8 %) y VPN del 93,3 % (84,5 %-97,5 %). El 49,5 % de los pacientes recibieron antibióticos basándose en el juicio médico, lo que resultó en una proporción de sobreindicación de antimicrobianos del 62 %. Conclusiones: Los criterios de CENTOR-m demostraron adecuado valor pronóstico negativo y el FAMR buena sensibilidad, especificidad y valor pronóstico positivo para faringitis por SGA. La utilización de ambos métodos en la atención urgente podría optimizar el manejo de la patología y la adecuación antibiótica.