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Objective: This study aimed to analyze the morphology of the hypoplasic mandible and its evolution during the growth period to better understand how it differs from the pediatric healthy mandible. Method: Three-dimensional mandibular models of hypoplasic and healthy children aged from 39 gestational weeks to 7 years old were analyzed with a morphometric method including data clustering. Morphological distinctions between pathological and healthy mandibles were highlighted. Bilateral and unilateral mandibular hypoplasia were distinguished. Results: The study sample was composed of 31 hypoplasic children and as many sex- and age-matched healthy children. Morphological distinctions between pathological and healthy mandibles were highlighted only from the first year of life. In bilateral hypoplasia, the overall mandibular dimensions were reduced while there was only a ramus asymmetry in unilateral mandibular hypoplasia (mean ± SD of the difference between the Grp03c and Grp03b subgroups: 6.80 ± 6.37 – P value = 1.64e–3 for the height of the left ramus versus 0.18 ± 4.18 – P value =.82 for the height of the right ramus). Supervised classification trees were built to identify the pathology and discriminate unilateral from bilateral mandibular hypoplasia (prediction rates = 81% and 84%, respectively). Conclusions: Based on a morphometric analysis, we demonstrated that mandibular hypoplasia significantly impacts the mandibular morphology only from the first year of life, with a distinction between bilateral and unilateral hypoplasia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On 13 November 1991 a meeting of experts in futures studies was held in Ipsra, Italy, under the auspices of PROMPT. More than 20 experts were invited, representing universities, business schools, management consultancies, forecasting institutes and government agencies. The purpose of the meeting was to determine whether steps needed to be taken to increase the supply of trained practitioners in strategic foresight or prospective and to examine what possibilities might be provided by the forthcoming Commission of the European Communities (CEC) Human Capital and Mobility Programme. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

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A review of the article “ The New Population Bomb: The Four Megatrends that Will Change the World ,” by Jack A. Goldstone, which appeared in the periodical “Foreign Affairs” on January 2010, is presented.

The article discusses various technological innovations for home automation. Emergence of wireless communication systems; Use of navigation systems such as global positioning systems in automobiles; Interconnection of all household electronic systems.

Focuses on the impact of the tsunamis that hit various parts of South Asia on December 26, 2005 on France. Six-fold plan initiated by the French government in the wake of tsunamis; Steps to be taken as part of the plan to deal with the catastrophe like one that happened in South Asia; Speculations associated with the practical usage of the plan by the French government.

This article focuses on outsourcing. A number of European and American enterprises find it more beneficial to outsource a part of their production to a country with low salaries, especially if the local manpower is highly qualified and utilized at work, and if the markets of the regions are prospective. In this manner, the developing countries access the western know-how free of cost and develop at a giants pace. In this manner China,could become the first workshop of the world in a few years, inspite of an ankylosis of the communist rule followed by Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Philippines, etc. If the outsourcing phenomena is observed, in its present phase, as one of the principal factors of the de-industrialisation observed, in reality, globalisation operates in two ways and one notes that the distant companies move to Europe, like Toyota in France or Panasonic in Great Britain. The reason for this choice at first paradoxal view, is simple: the transport freight expense are much less than one in Japan ; the production realised at the centre itself of the great European market comprising of 350 millions people, without any custom duties, neither quotas or other bureaucratic barriers. INSET: EXEMPLES DE DÉLOCALISATION D'ENTREPRISES....