Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS) is the integration of various pieces of information and computer technologies to the transportation elements in order to obtain a more productive transportation system. The five major components of IVHS are the Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS), Advanced Vehicle Control Systems (AVCS), and Advanced Public Transportation systems (APTS). This pa...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the level of agreement between recommendations on preventive services developed by Canada, France and the USA. METHODS We gathered recommendations on primary and secondary preventive services to adults up to November 3rd, 2011 from Canadian and US Task Forces, and equivalent French agencies. We excluded recommendations on immunization, long-term diseases or pregnancy. R...

Banbury Conference on Genetic Background in Mice* identity of the genetic elements governing these other factors (modifiers) is usually unknown, it is important to keep them constant when evaluating the impact of a Mouse mutants derived by targeted mutagenesis in em-mutation. Only if the same genetic background is used bryonic stem (ES) cells offer many advantages to the across experiments can ...

Respiratory Syncytial Virus infections are one of the leading causes of severe respiratory diseases that require hospitalization and, in some cases, intensive care. Once resolved, there may be respiratory sequelae of varying severity. The lack of effective treatments for bronchiolitis and the lack of vaccines for RSV accentuate the role of prevention in decreasing the impact of this disease. Pr...