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Many contemporary artists call upon the iconography of witchcraft, rewriting its past stories, exploring current ones, or actualizing practices and gestures (Camille Ducellier, Tatiana Karl Pez, Myriam Mihindou). Beyond folklore and esotericism, the witch is for these artists a figure of female emancipation with powerful subversive potential. Since the creation of the W.I.T.C.H. and the birth of anti-nuclear movements in the United States in the 1970s, women have emerged as producers of rituals capable of generating collective power from different perspectives of struggle (feminist, ecologist, anti-capitalist). This militant projection is now resurfacing with force, particularly through the first gatherings of Witch Bloc Paris. Artists are also reviving the tradition of ritual, designing actions whose objective is to bring politics and magic together. In this paper, we will question how artists reinvest ritual practices associated with the imagination of witchcraft, while proposing new forms of creative resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Originator GCSF (Neupogen) has been used to mobilize progenitor stem cells and treat therapy-induced neutropenia in Canadian stem cell transplant settings for years. Although its benefit is not in question, viable alternatives are available. Biosimilar GCSF (Zarzio) is widely in use in Europe since 2009 and was recently approved in the U.S.for the same five indications as Neupogen. Zarzio is reported as safe, equally efficacious, more accessible and cost effective without negatively impacting patient outcomes. This paper summarizes the supporting evidence.

The incidence and prevalence of hypertension is markedly elevated in Afro-American populations vs Caucasians. The development of end-stage renal disease is also more frequent in Afro-American subjects, independently of blood pressure control. As compared to Caucasians, Afro-American subjects have a higher risk of end-stage renal disease when they are infected with HIV or have lupus. For decades, these data remained mysterious. Within the last 3 years, results from studies in the field of genetics and infectious diseases have transformed our view on this problem. The aim of this paper is to explain how these results have changed our understanding of hypertension and its consequences in Afro-American subjects., (Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

The article presents abstracts of articles in this issue on topics such as the monetary policy of the United States after the U.S. Civil War in the late 19th century, the Soviet Union and the creation of its borders in the 1917-1924 period, and the legal aspects of colonial treaties.

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This paper compares the public indebtedness of the Canadian provinces and the US states (including a share of the federal debt) over the 2000–2007 period. It presents rankings of the most indebted subnational jurisdictions based on five public debt concepts. Among the provinces, Quebec (with the lowest average rank) and Alberta (with the highest average rank) display the most stable position across the rankings. All other provinces show important fluctuations in their position in the rankings. Hence, allocating the federal debt to subnational states and the specific debt concept being considered significantly influence the rankings, quite spectacularly in some instances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the role that corporate social responsibility can play in advancing hospital management. Corporate social responsibility is the integration of social and environmental concerns within business operations. The authors discuss how corporate social responsibility can help hospitals and provide suggestions to hospitals in deciding which corporate social responsibility initiatives to pursue.

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This study seeks to assess the extent to which die digital book market is structuring independently from the print edition market by comparing the pricing of 559 digital and print French and American bestsellers during 2011. Two pricing methods are distinguished: "homothetic pricing," where the digital pricing is a reflection of the print pricing, and "heterothetic pricing," where the digital price is set according to new rules. The French and American markets do not have the same propensity to overcome the pricing practices in the print book market: While the French market's e-book structure is mirroring that of the print book industry, die American market tends to be more independent. This can be explained by die significant structural, legal, and institutional differences between the publishing industries of both countries. In addition, some factors favor die "heterothetic" pricing method: the number of pages and the type of book influence the degree of differentiation between print and digital prices of the same title [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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An introduction to the journal is presented which discusses topics in the issue including a plan to reform the civil service in Québec, collective bargaining in the U.S. among public sector unions and workers, and austerity measures in the Australian public sector.

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Fraud in biomedical literature has been highlighted by recent cases referring to key opinion leaders responsible for "massive" fake due to the number of papers published with made-up data in peer-review journals with high impact factor. Editors have an increasing responsibility in preventing publication of culprit studies, leading to check not only the value and the interpretation of submitted data but the whole process of elaborating protocols and performing studies. Increased transparency in clinical trials performance is critical to prevent biomedical fraud., (Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

The purpose of this paper is to assess the level of interactivity offered to patients in the homepages of U.S. hospitals specializing in cancer treatment. To do this, we conducted a literature review on the question of pedagogical Internet access, role of the physician, interactive tools on the homepage, and context of cancer in the United States. Next, we analyzed the home page of 49 U.S. hospitals using 13 indicators. The conclusion of the article indicates that the homepage is a tool for health education that should be geared to meeting the communication and experience needs of the patient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective: To estimate the morbidity and mortality conferences (MMC) impact in intensive care unit (ICU) setting on quality of care and patients' safety., Data Sources: A review of English and French articles in Medline database (1990-2011) related to MMC in the ICU. Keywords used: "morbidity (and) mortality conference(s)", "intensive care unit", "intensive/critical care medicine". Additional studies identified by hand search in French national guidelines about MMCs and in the Annales Françaises d'Anesthésie Réanimation and Réanimation journals index. Identification and preliminary analysis performed using title and abstract, for every study related to MMC in the ICU., Study Selection: Only original studies about MMC in the ICU setting that reported an assessment were included. Papers reporting guidelines and methods for MMC implementation were excluded., Data Extraction: Extraction used predefined data fields, including study design, MMC characteristics, assessment methods and results., Data Synthesis: Studies about MMC in the ICU are recent and scarce. Results comparison and synthesis are impaired by discrepancies in study designs. Although the effectiveness of MMC is not evidence-based, data are consistent for their positive impact on quality of care and patient safety in the ICU., Conclusion: Further studies are required to assess the impact of MMC in the ICU. Based on this literature review, a 4-level evaluation scheme can be suggested: 1) evaluation of MMC implementation in care units and facilities; 2) evaluation of MMC organization; 3) evaluation of MMC on quality of care; 4) evaluation of MMC impact on patients' mortality and morbidity., (Copyright © 2012. Published by Elsevier SAS.)

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This paper explores the lessons drawn by German constitutional scholars from the breakdown of the Weimar Republic, and how this traumatic experience became a starting point at the end of the 1930s for a new conception of democracy both liberal and robust (or “defensive”). Emigré constitutional scholars devised three distinctive versions of this “democratic robustness”: an “anti-extremist” (which originated in Weimar legal antipositivism); a “militant democracy” (first exposed by Karl Loewenstein); and a “constitutional dictatorship” (Carl J. Friedrich, Frederick W. Watkins). At the heart of each one lies a decisive debate with Carl Schmitt, even if implicit or diffracted. By reconstructing these debates one can appreciate to what extent postwar constitutional democracies have incorporated Schmitt's ideas. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Dr. Alice Hamilton (1869-1970) was a pioneer in industrial medicine, a new discipline that emerged with a new interest in working conditions and occupational hazards within an era of unprecedented industrial growth. From various sources, including her reports after she visited Arizona copper belt in 1919, my paper emphasizes the innovation of Hamilton's approach,"shoeleather epidemiology". She went to the source of information in workshops, plants and construction sites, observed the very concrete part of industrial work, interviewed many stakeholders in and around the workplace, making a methodological toolbox for industrial surveys. Her method combined an old medical practice (the medical inquiry) and a new clinical field (the plant) and placed the worker as a patient in the core of the issue of occupational health and safety.

As it is obvious from the title, the paper "France-Amérique: une relation linguistico-culturelle ambiguë": "américanisation et antiaméricanisme" has as major approach the issue of the Franco-American cultural relations. It deals on the one hand with the fascination of the American model upon a large part of the French people (especially the teenagers and youth) and on the other hand, it deals with the more virulent reaction, against globalisation and the even through state policies. The paper also aims to answer the question: "To what extent can one speak of a French "anti-Americanism?" [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The WTO is often blamed for not taking into account noneconomic values although article XX has occasionally been invoked to justify internal measures that were deviant from GATT prescriptions. China - Audiovisual Services deals with this topic in opening a new era in WTO law-making.This paper thus aims at promoting the idea of a controlled globalisation which combines market liberalisation rules and the necessary protection of noneconomic values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Summary: Study Purpose: For ten years the market for resorbable fillers has seen a large increase. A CE mark is sufficient for its placing on the market, they do not require AMM because they are not considered drugs. The Macrolane® is a hyaluronic acid NASHA gel-based technology, available on the French market since 2007 as filler used in all areas of the body except face and breasts. It is highly crosslinked, which slows its resorption, leaving in place long-term waste. At end of 2008, Macrolane® received a CE mark for breast augmentation. The aim of this paper is to review current scientific knowledge on the Macrolane™ and list the many uncertainties regarding its recent breast indication. Materials and methods: We reviewed the PubMed literature and study levels of evidence on Macrolane®. All AFFSAPS communication and correspondence with the SOFCPRE on hyaluronic acids and particularly Macrolane™ were collected. Results: At the moment there is no scientific study of high level of evidence which has studied the effects of Macrolane® on breast parenchyma in terms of carcinogenesis or the disruption of radiological monitoring of the breast. The subglandular method of injection remains complex and uncertain especially about the risk of wrong passage. Conclusions: The Macrolane® is proposed as an alternative less invasive than breast implants. Nevertheless the lack of scientific data on this product led to its non approval by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States. Currently there remains too much uncertainty on this filler for reasonable use plebiscite. It would therefore be preferable to return to the manufacturer the burden of proof of Macrolane® safety and security and limit its use in clinical trials yet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a multivariate methodology for obtaining measures of unobserved macroeconomic variables. The used procedure is the multivariate Hodrick-Prescot which depends on smoothing parameters. The choice of these parameters is crucial. Our approach is based on consistent estimators of these parameters, depending only on the observed data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mutualism is a biological association for a mutual benefit between two different species. In this paper, firstly, we examine the history and signification of mutualism in relation to symbiosis. Then, we consider the link between concepts and models of mutualism. Models of mutualism depend on different concepts we use: If mutualism is situated at populations' level, it will be expressed by Lotka-Volterra models, concerning exclusively populations' size. If mutualism is considered as a resources' exchange or a biological market increasing the fitness of these organisms, it will be described at an individual level by a cost-benefit model. Our analysis will be limited to the history and epistemology of Lotka-Volterra models and we hypothesize that these models are adapted at first to translate dynamic evolutions of mutualism. They render stability or variations of size and assume that there are clear distinctions and a state of equilibrium between populations of different species. Italian mathematician Vito Volterra demonstrated that biological associations consist in a constant relation between some species. In 1931 and 1935, Volterra described the general form of antagonistic or mutualistic biological associations by the same differential equations. We recognize that these equations have been more used to model competition or prey-predator interactions, but a simple sign change allows describing mutualism. The epistemological problem is the following: Volterra's equations help us to conceptualize a global phenomenon. However, mutualistic interactions may have stronger effects away from equilibrium and these effects may be better understood at individual level. We conclude that, between 1985 and 2000, some researchers carried on working and converting Lotka-Volterra models but this description appeared as insufficient. So, other researchers adopted an economical viewpoint, considering mutualism as a biological market.

The article presents a reflection on the impact of the French Revolution (1789-1799) on the United States. According to the article, the violence and bloody aspect of the French Revolution were discussed in the American press and the Jacobin attempts in the U.S. were strongly criticized. The parallel that was made in the beginning of the 19th century between the Jacobin violence and the cruelty of pro-slavers is analyzed. The book "De la démocratie en Amérique," by Alexis de Tocqueville, is mentioned.

The article presents a reflection on the experience of Indians from the United States during the American Revolution (1775-1783) and their struggle to establish their own model of independence, significantly different from the model of English colonists. Particular focus is given to the Iroquois Indians from New York, the Shawnees and the Delawares from the Ohio valley, and the Cherokees from the South. The author puts the emphasis on the way that colonists took advantage of the participation of Indians during the revolution, only to exclude them from the new nation once the independence was proclaimed.

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