University of Mons

About: University of Mons is a education organization based out in Mons, Belgium. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Large Hadron Collider & Standard Model. The organization has 3073 authors who have published 9465 publications receiving 294776 citations.

Effects of short-term treatment with metformin on markers of endothelial function and inflammatory activity in type 2 diabetes mellitus: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial.

Abstract: metformin may improve endothelial function and chronic, low-grade inflammation. All patients were randomized to receive either metformin or placebo in addition to insulin therapy. A total of 390 patients were randomized (196 metformin, 194 placebo). Metformin treatment was associated with an increase in urinary albumin excretion of 21% (−1 to +48; P = 0.06); a decrease in plasma von Willebrand factor of 6% (−10 to −2; P = 0.0007); a decrease in soluble vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 of 4% (−7 to −2; P = 0.0002); a decrease in soluble E-selectin of 6% (−10 to −2; P = 0.008); a decrease in tissue-type plasminogen activator of 16% (−20 to −12; P < 0.0001); and a decrease in plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 of 20% (−27 to −10; P = 0.0001). Metformin treatment was associated with improvement of endothelial function, which was largely unrelated to changes in glycaemic control, but not with improvement of chronic, low-grade inflammation

Using Description Logic to Maintain Consistency between UML Models

Abstract: A software design is often modelled as a collection of UML diagrams. There is an inherent need to preserve consistency between these diagrams. Moreover, through evolution those diagrams get modified leading to possible inconsistency between different versions of the diagrams. State-of-the-art UML CASE tools provide poor support for consistency maintenance. To solve this problem, an extension of the UML metamodel enabling support for consistency maintenance and a classification of inconsistency problems is proposed. To achieve the detection and resolution of consistency conflicts, the use of description logic (DL) is presented. DL has the important property of being a decidable fragment of first-order predicate logic. By means of a number of concrete experiments in Loom, we show the feasibility of using this formalism for the purpose of maintaining consistency between (evolving) UML models.

Search for annihilating dark matter in the Sun with 3 years of IceCube data

Abstract: We present results from an analysis looking for darkmatter annihilation in the Sun with the IceCube neutrino telescope. Gravitationally trapped dark matter in the Sun's core can annihilate into Sta ...

Search for heavy neutrinos and W bosons with right-handed couplings in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

Abstract: A search for heavy, right-handed neutrinos, $$\mathrm {N}_{\ell }$$ ( $$\ell = \mathrm {e}, \mu $$ ), and right-handed $$\mathrm {W}_{\mathrm {R}}$$ bosons, which arise in the left-right symmetric extensions of the standard model, has been performed by the CMS experiment. The search was based on a sample of two lepton plus two jet events collected in proton–proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 $$\,\text {TeV}$$ corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 $$\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$$ . For models with strict left-right symmetry, and assuming only one $$\mathrm {N}_{\ell }$$ flavor contributes significantly to the $$\mathrm {W}_{\mathrm {R}}$$ decay width, the region in the two-dimensional $$(M_{\mathrm {W}_{\mathrm {R}}}, M_{\mathrm {N}_{\ell }})$$ mass plane excluded at a 95 % confidence level extends to approximately $$M_{\mathrm {W}_{\mathrm {R}}} = 3.0\,\text {TeV} $$ and covers a large range of neutrino masses below the $$\mathrm {W}_{\mathrm {R}}$$ boson mass, depending on the value of $$M_{\mathrm {W}_{\mathrm {R}}}$$ . This search significantly extends the $$(M_{\mathrm {W}_{\mathrm {R}}}, M_{\mathrm {N}_{\ell }})$$ exclusion region beyond previous results.