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Duff A. C. — Britain's New Towns. An Experiment in Living
No full textPison Gilles. Duff A. C. — Britain's New Towns. An Experiment in Living. In: Population, 18ᵉ année, n°3, 1963. p. 596
Allan G. Hill, Sara C. Randall and Marie-Louise Eerenbeemt — Infant and Child Mortality in Rural Mali
No full textPison Gilles. Allan G. Hill, Sara C. Randall and Marie-Louise Eerenbeemt — Infant and Child Mortality in Rural Mali. In: Population, 39ᵉ année, n°2, 1984. p. 389
Palmer Gladys, Parnes H., Wilcok R., Herman M., Brainerd C. — The reluctant job changer
No full textPison Gilles. Palmer Gladys, Parnes H., Wilcok R., Herman M., Brainerd C. — The reluctant job changer. In: Population, 19ᵉ année, n°2, 1964. pp. 365-366
Adult mortality in a rural area of Senegal
No full textThis study provides original estimates of adult mortality in Mlomp, a rural population of Senegal which has been monitored for twenty years. Causes of death are assessed through verbal autopsies which are completed by medical information. Between ages 15 and 60, male mortality is much higher than female mortality. Globally, AIDS mortality does not have the tragic impact observed in other regions of Africa, and maternal mortality is relatively low for a rural area, unlike injuries which are common among men. In Mlomp, non-communicable diseases, especially cancers, are predominant. In addition to behavioural factors, infectious diseases may contribute to this situation.adult mortality, causes of death, demographic surveillance system, rural area, Senegal, Sub-Saharan Africa, verbal autopsy
Population observatories as sources of information on mortality in developing countries
No full textA ‘population observatory’ is a study in which a whole population of a defined geographical area is monitored over a long period (several years or decades), and information on the events that happen (births, deaths, marriages, migration) is collected on a regular basis. This paper presents the collection method used in population observatories, the type of results that they provide, and how they are useful for the study of mortality in the nations of the South. In the first part, the different observatories in the developing countries are reviewed, and certain specific aspects of their methodology are studied in detail. In the second part two examples are presented - the observatories of Bandafassi and Mlomp, in Senegal.cause of death, demographic surveillance, developing countries, malaria, measles, mortality, population observatory, prospective community studies, Senegal, verbal autopsies
Effects of Temperature on the Pison Neural Monitor
No full textINTRODUCTION: The Pison Neural Monitor is a wrist worn biosensor that detects neuromuscular signals in the forearm. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of temperature on the accuracy and false positive rate (FPR) on the neural monitor. METHODS: Participants (n=6, 28.3±8.9 years, 179.3±9.6 cm, 80.7±15.5 kg, 17.0±2.0 cm wrist circumference) were assigned to either hot (2 males, 1 female) or cold (2 males, 1 female) and completed 6 trials at each temperature in a randomized and counterbalanced repeated measures design. Participants rested in a seated position at three different temperatures in either the heat (35°C, 42.5°C and 50°C with 40% relative humidity) or in the cold (-10°C, -2.5°C and 5°C with 40% relative humidity) with 15-minute recovery between exposures at room temperature (22°C with 35% relative humidity). Accuracy was defined as the ratio of correctly identified gestures while FPR was defined as the ratio of incorrectly classified gestures. Several gestures were performed prior to the first exposure, and after each 15-minute rest in each temperature. RESULTS: Accuracy in the cold was lower at -2.5°C (77.0±27.4%, p=0.011) and -10°C (79.7±16.6%, p=0.042), but not at 5°C (85.3±17.9%, p=0.371) than at room temperature (93.7±11.1%). The same pattern was observed for FPR in the cold where a FPR was higher at -2.5°C (0.127±0.166, p=0.011) and -10°C (0.143 ± 0.156, p=0.042), but not different at 5°C (0.117±0.142, p=0.371) than at room temperature (0.034±0.103). Accuracy in the Heat was lower at 50°C (73.9±21.1) than at 20°C (85.3±15.6, p=0.013) and 35°C (84.2±15.1, p=0.030), but not different than at 42.5°C (81.7±12.5, p=0.148). FPR was not different between temperatures in the heat (p\u3e0.05). CONCLUSION: Caution may be warranted when using Pison Neural Monitor in extreme hot and cold conditions if stakes are high and optimal accuracy is needed
Primary thrombocythaemia: gastrointestinal symptoms for a haematological disorder.
No full textITALIAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY (ROMA
Discordant HLA-A-B-C haplotypes segregation in four members of two families (with the same father) affected with Crohn's disease
No full textAlteration in sulfobromophthalein hepatic storage capacity (S) in non-pregnant women previously affected with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy.
No full textThe pathogenesis of intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) is still unknown, although it is currently accepted that the disease represents an abnormal reaction of genetically predisposed maternal liver, to estrogen hormones. To gain a better insight into the hepatic handling of cholephilic anions outside of pregnancy itself, we determined, using the perfusion technique of Wheeler et al. (1960), the hepatic maximum excretory rate (Tm) and the storage capacity (S) of sulfobromphthalein (BSP) in 6 women with a past history of ICP and in 6 controls, matched for age and parity, but with no history of ICP or other liver disease. The BSP Tm in the group with previous ICP did not differ significantly from that measured in the control group (9.22 +/- 2.37 vs 7.92 +/- 1.20). By contrast, BSP S values in the 'previous ICP' group was critically higher than that of the controls (120.43 +/- 55.89 vs 39.15 +/- 16.17: t-test p less than 0.005, U-test p less than 0.001). A possible explanation for this result could be the existence of a metabolic defect responsible for an increased intrahepatic concentration of the cholephilic substances inside the liver cells
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