1. Professor of Medicine at Toulouse University Hospital, France; 2. President of SFGG (Société Française de Gériatrie et de Gérontologie), France; 3. Professor of Public Health at the Toulouse University Hospital and is Head of the Aging and Alzheimer Disease research team (UMR1027 INSERM-Université Paul Sabatier), France; 4. WHO, Director of Department of Ageing and Life Course, Switzerland; ...

In the 1980s, amid regional controversy over France’s policies in South Pacific, a debate emerged around the idea of whether France was simply a sovereign presence ‘‘in’’ the region, or could also be seen as being ‘‘of’’ or ‘‘from’’ the region. It is an important question, as it goes to the heart of how France wants to be seen in the South Pacific region, and in the world. If France wants to re...

Department of Physics, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, ON, K9J 7B8, Canada Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, PO Box 3055, Victoria, BC, V8W 3P6, Canada Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H8, Canada Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., Pasadena, CA 91101 Princeton Univ...

(1) Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, St Kitts, West Indies (2) Global Alliance for Rabies Control, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America (3) French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety, OIE Reference Laboratory for Rabies, Nancy, France (4) Canadian Food Inspection Agency, OIE Reference Laboratory for Rabies, Ottawa, Canada (5) Animal Health and Ve...

Travelling waves (TW) are among the most striking ecological phenomena emerging in oscillating populations. Despite much theory, understanding how real-world TW arise remains a challenge for ecology. Herein, we analyse 16-year time series of cyclic vole populations collected at 314 localities covering 2500 km² in France. We found evidence for a linear front TW spreading at a speed of 7.4 km yea...

1) Centre d’Étude de la Forêt (CEF), Département des Sciences Biologiques, Université du Québec à Montreal, CP 8888 Succ. Centre Ville, Montreal (Qc), H3P 3P8, Canada (*corresponding author’s e-mails: [email protected]; [email protected]) 2) CEREGE UMR 7330, CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université, Europole de l’Arbois, BP 80, F-13545 Aix-enProvence Cedex 4, France 3) Université du Québec en Abitib...

Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Boston, Massachusetts (NH); Genentech, South San Francisco, California (JRK); Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Florham Park, New Jersey (HE); Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, Indiana (MM); Boehringer Ingelheim, Ridgefield, Connecticut (DR); Merck and Co., Kenilworth, New Jersey (JP), Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California (JD), Pfizer Global Research and Development, Groton,...

Background and Purpose—Stroke is a significant economic, social, and medical problem worldwide. This retrospective follow-up study aimed to review the pattern, types, and case fatality of stroke in Nigeria. Methods—Records of all stroke patients admitted into Ogun State University Teaching Hospital (OSUTH), Sagamu, from December 1993 to November 2003 were reviewed. Patients were classified into...

Tomatoes showing yellow leaf curl symptoms in the island of Grenada exhibit an infection with Tomato yellow leaf curl virus either alone or in combination with Potato yellow mosaic virus J.-M. Lett 1 *, F. Péréfarres 1,2 , M. Hoareau 1 , P. Lefeuvre 1 , A. De Bruyn 1,2 , M. Dottin 3 , P. Prior 1 , E. Wicker 1,4 and P. Umaharan 5 1 CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, Pôle de Protection des Plantes, 97410 Saint-Pi...

Oguz K. Baskurt (Turkey), Michel Boynard (France), Giles C. Cokelet (USA), Philippe Connes (French West Indies), Brian M. Cooke (Australia), Sandro Forconi (Italy), Fulong Liao (China), Max R. Hardeman (The Netherlands), Friedrich Jung (Germany), Herbert J. Meiselman (USA), Gerard Nash (UK), Norbert Nemeth (Hungary), Björn Neu (Singapore), Bo Sandhagen (Sweden), Sehyun Shin (Korea), George Thur...