Petit Indi (Marc Recha)

Indi-gene-ous conflict.

W ith nearly two-thirds of the population afflicted, the Nuu-chah-nulth Indians of Vancouver Island in British Columbia have one of the highest rates of arthritis in the world. Often passed down family lines, the genetics of arthritis in this unique population was studied extensively during the 1980s by Richard Ward, now head of the Institute of Biological Anthropology at the University of Oxfo...

Petit Mal or Pyknolepsy

[Spontaneous bilateral Petit hernia].

Petit's lumbar hernia is an uncommon defect of the posterior abdominal wall that represents less than 1% of all abdominal wall hernias. It is more often unilateral and founded in young females, rarely containing a real herniated sac. There are two different approaches to repair: laparoscopy and open surgery. The goal of this article is to report one case of spontaneous bilateral lumbar Petit's ...

Search Engines and Privacy Marc Roessler marc

This paper analyzes the impact of using search engines on the user's privacy. Several privacy related issues were found, such as search engines leaking the query string to advertising companies or sharing user identifiers with other sites. This paper will show the way this is accomplished as well as possible countermeasures to be taken by the user to preserve her privacy.

Profile of Christine Petit

Over the last 20 years, geneticist and neurobiologist Christine Petit has written the canticle of the cochlea from scratch, revealing the long-shrouded machinery of the auditory system molecule by molecule. Along the way, she has identified more than 20 genes responsible for hearing impairments, with each of these cochlear deficits accounting for the observed sensory impairment, a succinct stor...