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Over a 20 years span, Daniel Borel will show how Logitech's enduring vision has been turned into products; how technological innovation and cool design have been combined in products that people love to use to work, play and communicate in the digital world.

This paper discusses broad features of the introduction of television in two Swampy Cree communities on the west coast of James Bay in northern Ontario, Canada. The first of these communities is Fort Albany, a village of about 580 Swampy Cree Indians located approximately 100 miles north of Moosonee and Moose Factory, Ontario. Fort Albany was founded between 1675 and 1679 as the third Hudson's ...

BACKGROUND Regaining good health and returning to work are important for people injured in road traffic crashes and for society. The handling of claims by insurance companies may play an important role in the rate at which health recovers and return to work is actually attained. METHODS A novel approach towards claims handling for people injured in road traffic accidents was compared to the s...

The financial strategy of an insurance company has a significant impact on the success of that company's activity. A well-developed financial strategy is able to decrease financial risks and guarantee the discharge of insurance companies’ liabilities in the long-run. One of the main components of financial strategy is financial flow modeling. Mathematical modeling allows a more accurate determi...

In massive catastrophic events, occupational health practitioners are more and more frequently involved in the management of such situations. We aim to describe the multiple aspects of the role that occupational health practitioners might play, by focusing on the recent example of the Paris terrorist attack of November 2015. During and after the Paris attack, occupational practitioners, in coll...

At the beginning of his medical career, George Spence signed a contract with the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) as surgeon for the Fort Albany fur trading post located on James Bay in British North America. During his first three years (1738-41), Spence encountered formidable personal and professional challenges which can be partially reconstructed through examination of surgeon's journal for 1740-...

In 1987 seventeen small companies filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Eastman Kodak Corporation, alleging that Kodak used its monopoly power over repair parts for its high-volume copiers and micrographics equipment in order to monopolize the service markets for those machines. Eleven years later, there have been two District Court opinions, two from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and on...