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Recensement canadien de 2006. Statistique Canada www.statcan.gc.ca. Gilles en vrac… » revue de l’année 2009. Grippe A. Atlas Santé Montréal - Caractéristiques de la population. Atlas Santé Montréal Agence de la santé et des services sociaux de Montréal Québec.

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Une société de la requête (4/4) : Comprendre Google « InternetAc. Par Hubert Guillaud le 17/12/09 | 7 commentaires | 1,599 lectures | Impression La machine à globaliser : réinterpréter les résultats des machines.

Une société de la requête (4/4) : Comprendre Google « InternetAc

Opportunités et impacts du Web 2.0 en FAD. My 5 Coolest Lightroom Commands. A Post By: Helen Bradley There is so much of Lightroom that’s not apparent when you first begin using it and that takes time to discover and explore.

My 5 Coolest Lightroom Commands

Here are my five coolest Lightroom techniques that you might want to add to your Lightroom toolkit. 1. Neighbourhoods. The other day I was contacted by a TV production company seeking my help in recruiting children and young people for a documentary programme about their experience of poverty. Obviously contacts like these are now subtly different, post-Benefits street: but in what way? Would another production company dare to treat people who experience exclusion in the way the producers of Benefits street did? Well, yes, quite possibly. There may be a different atmosphere now, but it does feel just like the no-brainer of press regulation, with plenty of empty words spouted so that journalists can go on manipulating disempowered people in the interests of corporate profit.

Space and Culture : Looking back at 2009. Boston.com’s The Big Picture takes a wide-ranging look at 2009 and although there is plenty that could be said about these end-of-year photo reflections, really I was just struck by a strange combination of hope and despair.

Space and Culture : Looking back at 2009

A North Korean woman carries water she collected from the Yalu River in the North Korean city of Hyesan, which borders China’s Changbai county, April 6, 2009. Tousser dans le creux de son coude: l'apprentissage de 2009! Dans la catégorie «Revue de l’année 2009», il me semble qu’on doit noter au passage que la pandémie grippe A(H1N1) a été l’occasion d’un des apprentissages les plus marquants de l’année.

Tousser dans le creux de son coude: l'apprentissage de 2009!

Preuve que la population sait modifier son comportement quand on lui présente des faits hors de tout doute raisonnable, le Guide autosoins a contribué à mettre de l’avant une nouvelle façon de tousser… À partir de connaissances qui ont fait l’objet d’abondantes diffusions le «savoir agir» des gens s’est modifié de façon assez spectaculaire. On peut vérifier que les gens ont compris en observant leur comportement, même si on n’est pas certain qu’ils maîtrisent tous les tenants et aboutissants des enjeux de la pandémie.

Obama: Get me rewrite! - Paul Krugman Blog. Sigh. Obama’s claim that he never campaigned on the public option has received a lot of flack, and rightly so. It was in his official campaign proposal, and he did invoke it many times this year. What is true is that the Obama inner circle never, in fact, cared much about the public option. But they allowed, you might say encouraged, progressive activists to believe otherwise. It’s probably worth pointing out something else: much of the furor on the left is over the individual mandate — and that’s at least in part a legacy from the Democratic primary, when Obama campaigned against his rivals by attacking the fact that their plans contained such a mandate. Mapworkspace.com.

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Neuraminidase inhibitors for treatment and prophylaxis of influe

Design Systematic review and meta-analysis of data from published and unpublished randomised controlled trials. Data sources Medline and Embase to June 2009, trial registries, and manufacturers and authors of relevant studies. Review methods Eligible studies were randomised controlled trials of neuraminidase inhibitors in children aged ≤12 in the community (that is, not admitted to hospital) with confirmed or clinically suspected influenza. Complications: tracking down the data on oseltamivir. It started this July with an inquiry from a Japanese paediatrician, Keiji Hayashi, to the Cochrane Collaboration about its 2008 review of the treatment of influenza with oseltamivir.

A 'small-world-like' model for comp. Individual-centered model of influenza infection, illness, and health-care use A computer model was first developed to describe influenza infection and its consequences for a given individual.

A 'small-world-like' model for comp

We used the classical four-stage model of infection, as follows: Susceptible (S – may be infected), Exposed (E – is infected but cannot transmit the disease), Infectious (I – is infected and can transmit the disease), and Recovered (R – can no longer transmit the disease and is immune to new infections). The three basic parameters used to describe transitions between the different stages were the person-to-person transmission rate, which is assumed to vary with the age of susceptible and infectious individuals and with the time since infection; the length of the latent period (time between infection and onset of infectivity); and the length of the infectious period.

Table 1. Special Reports. 19 April 2013Last updated at 17:51 The rhinovirus is one of the many viruses that can cause the common cold Viruses are infectious micro-organisms that require a living host to survive and multiply.

Special Reports

When one enters your body, it invades and takes over cells, redirecting them to produce more of the virus. When our bodies come under attack from a viral infection they launch a sophisticated defence known as 'the immune response'. Our immune system is designed to recognise the cells that make up our bodies and repel any foreign invaders such as viruses. Mozilla Firefox. La Cellule Animale. La Cellule Animale. L’expéditeur.

La Cellule Animale

Le monde en images. La numérisation du patrimoine écrit. I.1. OÙ EN SONT LES BIBLIOTHÈQUES NUMÉRIQUES ? The Age of External Knowledge - Idea of the Day Blog - NYTimes.c. THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2010 — Page 10. ANTHONY AGUIRRE Associate Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz Recently, I wanted to learn about 12th century China — not need a deep or scholarly understanding, just enough to add a bit of not-wrong color to something I was writing. Wikipedia was perfect! More regularly, my astrophysics and cosmology endeavors bring me to databases such as the ArXiv, ADS, and SPIRES, which give instant and organized access to all of the articles and information I might need to research and write. Bill Gates - What I'm Thinking - Annual Letter - The Gates Notes. My 2010 Annual Letter is now live at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation website.

In this year’s letter I talk about the importance of innovation for solving some of the world's biggest problems. Melinda and I see innovation as the factor that will make the difference between having a bleak future and a bright one. The letter explains how we decide which ideas to fund and talk about the benefits, time frame, and risks of each one. I decided to write an Annual Letter because in 2008, Warren Buffett encouraged me to find a way to share my thinking more broadly about the foundation’s goals and to assess as frankly as possible our progress toward achieving these goals. SA-GE - KM4Dev Francophone - knowledge management for developmen. Albert Camus vous lit <i>L'étranger</i>