This paper employs maximum likelihood methods to analyze the increase in pious bequests in early modern French wills. Other historians have described the rise of pious bequests in wills, but no one has used multivariate statistical methods to explain the phenomenon. It turns out that at any level of wealth pious bequests rose over the course of the seventeenth century and that the bequests. wer...

BACKGROUND Preterm birth affects 8% to 11% of the population and conveys a significant risk of developmental delays. Intervention programs that support child development have been shown to have a positive impact on early motor and cognitive development and on parental well-being. However, these programs are often difficult to implement in a real-life setting due to lack of resources. Hence, our...

NEURO-FORUM SUBMISSION: Review of the paper of Lomber and collaborators: Cross-modal plasticity 2 in specific auditory cortices underlies visual compensations in the deaf. (2010) Nature Neuroscience 3 3(11): 1421-7. 4 5 Title: Functional selectivity in sensory deprived cortices 6 7 Author: Giulia Dormal & Olivier Collignon 8 9 Addresses: 10 Centre de Recherche en Neuropsychologie et Cognition (...

Asignificant proportion of critically ill children receive red blood cell (RBC) transfusions during their pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) stay (15% in the PICU of Sainte-Justine Hospital) (1). There are few data on the indications for packed RBC transfusions in critically ill children, and therefore one may ask on what evidence pediatric intensivists base their transfusion decisions. The c...

OBJECTIVE To test the effectiveness of serologic antigliadin antibody (AGA) testing in predicting celiac disease in children. DESIGN Prospective clinical assessment. SETTING Hôpital Sainte-Justine, montreal. PATIENTS A total of 176 children with possible celiac disease who were referred for duodenal biopsy between January 1992 and June 1995. OUTCOME MEASURES IgA and IgG AGA titres, as d...

BACKGROUND Back pain (BP) has often been associated with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS), which is a three-dimensional deviation of the vertebral column. In adolescents, chronic pain appears to be a predictor of health care utilization and has a negative impact on physical, psychological and family well-being. In this population, BP tends to be persistent and may be a predictor of BP in a...

Affiliations: MACVIA-LR, Contre les Maladies Chroniques pour un VIeillissement Actif en LanguedocRoussillon, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing Reference Site, Montpellier, France. INSERM, VIMA: Ageing and chronic diseases, Epidemiological and public health approaches, U1168, Paris, France. UVSQ, UMR-S 1168, Université Versailles St-Quenti...

The Seve Nappe Complex is a subduction-related high-grade metamorphic unit that was emplaced onto the margin of Baltica during Caledonian orogenesis. In this paper, tectonometamorphic evolution Lower in Scandinavian Caledonides characterized with help continuous Collisional Orogeny (COSC-1) drill core, using combination various P–T estimation techniques based on garnet–quartz mineral pairs (qua...

Landmines and unexploded ordnance pose a significant international public health risk and economic threat. Worldwide, an estimated 60 to 110 million anti-personnel landmines have been placed in >70 countries. According to UN sources, as many as two million new mines are laid every year, but due to the high cost of removal, only 200,000 mines are defused each year. Landmines pose a serious ongoi...

Patterns of antegrade and retrograde conduction and refractory periods were studied using His bundle electrogram recordings, incremental atrial and ventricular pacing and the extrastimulus technique. In 36/50 patients antegrade conduction was "better" than retrograde conduction (group I), as evidenced by a) onset of retrograde atrioventricular (A-V) nodal Wenckebach phenomenon at a slower rate ...