Derelict nets are found in large numbers on parts of Australia’s northern shores and particularly within the Gulf of Carpentaria (Figure 1). The direction of the winds and ocean currents at different times of the year influences where and when these derelict nets wash ashore. On the eastern side of the Gulf (Cape York) the derelict nets arrive with the north-west monsoon winds of the wet season...

Background and aims Despite many positive benefits, mobile phone use can be associated with harmful and detrimental behaviors. The aim of this study was twofold: to examine (a) cross-cultural patterns of perceived dependence on mobile phones in ten European countries, first, grouped in four different regions (North: Finland and UK; South: Spain and Italy; East: Hungary and Poland; West: France,...

Novel thermophilic, anaerobic, Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria, strains SL9 and OCA1, were isolated from oilfields in France and Australia, respectively. Both strains, together with Thermoanaerobacter yonseiensis KB-1(T) (=DSM 13777(T)), Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis MB4(T) (=DSM 15242(T)) and Carboxydibrachium pacificum JM(T) (=DSM 12653(T)), possessed genomic (DNA-DNA hybridization stud...

1Programme PAC-CI / CHU de Treichville, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire 2CHU d’odonto-Stomatologie, Bamako, Mali 3CHU Gabriel Touré, Bamako, Mali 4Inserm U897, Equipe VIH et Santé Globale, Bordeaux, France 5University of San Francisco, California, USA 6Université de Bordeaux, France D. Meless1, B. Ba2, C. N’Diaye3, J. Nadri4, F. Dicko3, M. Sylla3, DK. Ekouévi1, F. Dabis4, C. Shiboski5, E. Arrivé4, 6 O-1...

Third consensus on medical treatment of metastatic breast cancer S. Beslija, J. Bonneterre, H. J. Burstein, V. Cocquyt, M. Gnant, V. Heinemann, J. Jassem, W. J. Köstler, M. Krainer, S. Menard, T. Petit, L. Petruzelka, K. Possinger, P. Schmid, E. Stadtmauer, M. Stockler, S. Van Belle, C. Vogel, N. Wilcken, C. Wiltschke, C. C. Zielinski* & H. Zwierzina for the Central European Cooperative Oncolog...

1 World Health Organization, Juba, Republic of South Sudan, 2 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 3 Ministry of Health, Juba, Republic of South Sudan, 4 Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland, 5 Medair, Ecublens, Switzerland, 6 International Organization for Migration, Juba, Republic of South Sudan, 7 World Health Organization, ...

LEO Pharma, Industriparken 55, DK-2750 Ballerup, Denmark; Statens Serum Institut, Artillerivej 5, DK-2300 Copenhagen, Denmark; Service de Bactériologie-Hygiène, CHU Pitié-Salpetrière, Paris, France; Hopital Robert Debré, Service Dermatologie, Avenue de Général Koening, F-51092 Reims Cedex, France; Department of Clinical Microbiology, Central Pathology Laboratory, St James’s Hospital, Dublin 8, ...

LAAS-CNRS and Université de Toulouse, 7, Avenue du Colonel Roche 31077 Toulouse – France AMD, 2950 E Harmony Rd., Fort Collins, CO 80528 – USA Coordinated Science Laboratory, UIUC, 1308 West Main Street, Urbana, IL 61801 – USA Dept. of Computer Science & Eng., Chalmers University of Technology, 41296 Göteborg – Sweden <...

1 Qatar Foundation, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Doha, Qatar 2 Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Bondy, France 3 Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA 4 Valorhiz SAS, Parc Scientifique Agropolis II Bat 6, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France 5 Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, and Zachry Departme...

Detecting broad scale spatial patterns across the South American rainforest biome is still a major challenge. Although several countries do possess their own, more or less detailed land-cover map, these are based on classifications that appear largely discordant from a country to another. Up to now, continental scale remote sensing studies failed to fill this gap. They mostly result in crude re...