For the past two years, France has enjoyed fertility rates approaching replacement level, with a total fertility rate of 1.98 in 2006 and 2.00 in 2008. After a ten-year period of slow growth, the fertility rate has thus reached its highest level in about thirty years (Prioux, 2007), placing France in top position among European and other OECD countries. However, this high level of fertility is ...

the alsace-lorraine region in france has been at the center of many fateful events, such as two world wars, due to its distinct geographical placement between two important european countries – that is, france and germany. the identity of the alsace-lorraine population has had many links with germany because of geographical, linguistic and historical features that the two share. moreover, throu...

OBJECTIVES To provide precise information about child injuries, intended to promote preventive actions, in keeping with the general pattern of a Safe Community program implemented in Boulogne-Billancourt (France) since 1997. METHODS Information about children under 16 injured in the city of Boulogne-Billancourt and its surroundings, are extracted in a database. DISCUSSION The Boulogne-Billa...

I would like to begin my intervention by giving figures on the epidemiological situation relating to drug use in France. Until the first half of this year, thiknownAIDS cases among drug users was 4387 cases, i.e. 27.4% of all cases in France in 1992. The number of cases, and therefore the percentage, have been on the increase since 1984. It is estimated that 40-50% of all users are seropositive...

In France, all registered medical doctors have been allowed to prescribe buprenorphine without any special education or licensing since 1995. This has led to a rapidly increasing number of opiate-dependent users under buprenorphine treatment in primary care. French physician compensation mechanisms, pharmacy services, and medical insurance funding all have contributed to minimizing barriers to ...

We detail here the controller of the acid strength that we implemented in the Elf-Antar France re"nery in Feyzin (France). The control technique used is new. It relies on the yatness property of the system to solve a constrained minimum time objective as successive linear-programming problems. This controller is in full service since January 1997. We detail the control technique, including the ...

From 1999 through 2005, the incidence of listeriosis in France declined from 4.5 to 3.5 cases/million persons. In 2006, it increased to 4.7 cases/million persons. Extensive epidemiologic investigations of clusters in France have ruled out the occurrence of large foodborne disease outbreaks. In addition, no increase has occurred in pregnancy-associated cases or among persons <60 years of age who...

If we engineered systems like we produce movies, would our enterprise and endeavors prove leaner and more agile? We daydream on the greener pastures of movie making, an industry whose signature practices were born out of necessity, to adapt to major regulatory upheavals in the 30’s Hollywood, and have since proved remarkably effective & resilient. We journey through odd ways of tackling strange...

At a workshop held in Toulouse, France in 1977, Gallaire, Minker and Nicolas stated that logic and databases was a eld in its own right (see 131]). This was the rst time that this designation was made. The impetus for this started approximately twenty years ago in 1976 when I visited Gallaire and Nicolas in Toulouse, France, which culminated in a workshop held in Toulouse, France in 1977. It is...

In this paper, we propose to model the transportation process of containers in the Nord-Pas de Calais Region (France). Based on the BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) approach, it allows deriving a comprehensive vision of the process and a friendly-user interface of the logistics chain for the analysis and the decision making. Furthermore, ACTIF (Aide à la Conception de systèmes de Trans...