RESUME.L’été 2003 a été le plus chaud que la France ait connu depuis 53ans. Suite à un bilan dramatique, cette canicule fut placée parmi les plus graves catastrophes sanitaires. Elle a conduit à anticiper ce type de crise. La connaissance sur le phénomène de la canicule nécessite de mettre en relation spatialement et temporellement l’ensemble des prévisions de météorologies. Dans les zones urba...

UNLABELLED Introduction Heat waves have significant impacts on mortality and morbidity. However, little is known regarding effects on pre-admission health outcomes such as ambulance attendances, particularly in subtropical regions. Problem This study investigated both main temperature effects and the added effects of heat waves on ambulance attendances in Brisbane, a subtropical city in Austral...

The specific heat and susceptibility data for He on Grafoil are analyzed in the framework of the Landau Fermi liquid theory. The dominant interaction between He quasiparticles is found to be in the p-wave channel for most experimentally accessible areal densities of He. This interaction is attractive and gives rise to the p-wave transition temperature which for moderate areal densities is estim...

In Tore Supra plasmas with fast wave electron heating, a critical threshold in the electron temperature gradient (inverted DeltaT(e)) is clearly observed, i.e., a finite value of inverted DeltaT(e) for which the turbulent heat diffusivity vanishes. The radial profile of this critical gradient is experimentally determined from a set of discharges characterized by similar plasma parameters with f...

Introduction After the major impact of the 2003 heat wave, France needed a reactive, permanent and national surveillance system enabling to detect and to follow-up various public health events all over the territory including overseas [1-2]. In June 2004, the French syndromic surveillance system based on the emergency department (ED) has been implemented by the national institute for public hea...

In this study the effects of corrugated absorber plate and using aerosol-carbon black nanofluid on heat transfer and turbulent flow in solar collectors with double application and air heating collectors, were numerically investigated. The two-dimensional continuity, momentum and energy equation were solved by finite volume and SIMPLE algorithm. In the present investigation all the simulations w...

Introduction: Extreme weather or climate, including heat waves and cold waves, is considered a health issue causing adverse effects on health, such as cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), mortality and morbidity. Thus, this systematic review aimed to study the impacts of extreme ambient temperature on cardiovascular outcomes. Material and Methods: This study was carried out based on the Preferred R...

We have measured the low-temperature specific heat of the geometrically frustrated pyrochlore Heisenberg antiferromagnet Gd2Sn2O7 in zero magnetic field. The specific heat is found to drop exponentially below approximately 350 mK. This provides evidence for a gapped spin-wave spectrum due to an anisotropy resulting from single-ion effects and long-range dipolar interactions. The data are well f...