ALPAGE: towards the setting-up of a collaborative work tool

Alpage program, based on a collaboration between historians, geographers and computer researchers, aims to build a historical GIS of Paris. First, we reconstructed the pre-Haussmannian plan of Paris by georeferencing and vectorizing the survey of the cadastre made by P. Vasserot (1810-1836). Then, on these fundamental layers, historical information layers, like medieval and modern ones, will be built by different researchers according to their specific interests (churches, town walls, fiefs, parishes, etc.). Since this tool is technologically complex and since it is intended to be a reference work for further historical studies about Paris, we must immediately take into consideration the organization of further collaborative work. Accessing the GIS data, both to share them with different types of users and to edit new data in it, is an essential question, although it is often considered a trivial one. The issue of the use of a tool by the researchers seems nevertheless to be decisive and intrinsically linked to the success of a GIS. Meeting the needs and expectations of the users, webmapping might be a good solution for editing the geometric and attribute data in a GIS. But today, setting up this kind of platform for collaborative work is still difficult and time consuming. That is why, for Alpage, a temporary solution was found, revealing what organization theorists call a “community of practice”: it combines a centralized management of the references and object identifiers via the web and an independent edition of the objects by thematicians on their own computers. For this reason the DBMS ALPAGE-References has been adapted and posted on the website of the LAMOP

Flodoard of Rheims and the Historiography of the Tenth-Century West

Flodoard of Rheims is one of the most important authors of tenth-century Europe, and the only contemporary historian to document the momentous struggles between kings and nobles in Francia in the wake of the demise of the Carolingian Empire. Flodoard’s era stands at the center of major historiographical debates concerning the nature of political and social change and the origins of European institutions. Yet, despite his singularity, his substantial histories have received little attention from scholars examining the profound transformations of the period. Exploring this discrepancy, this article offers an overview of Flodoard’s career and reviews how his histories have been invoked in some of the great scholarly debates about tenth-century Europe. It further proposes to recontextualize Flodoard and to reread his histories from the bottom up in order to gain a subtler understanding of how one contemporary perceived and represented the dramatic events and changes taking place around him

Les traitements hormonaux des oligo-asthenospermies normogonadotrophiques. [Hormonal treatments of normo-gonadotrophic oligoasthenospermia]

Detalle del ejemplar de Adelia oaxacana colectado por Emily J. Lott et al. (1611

Mechanical ventilatory support in infants with respiratory syncytial virus infection.

OBJECTIVE: To present a review of current knowledge of the use of mechanical ventilatory support in the management of infants with respiratory failure secondary to infection with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). DATA SOURCES: MEDLINE and manual search for case reports and clinical trials that address management strategies for respiratory support of infants with RSV infection. Data Extraction and Synthesis: Critical appraisal of reported epidemiologic and clinical data regarding risk factors, pathophysiology, and efficacy of respiratory therapy. There is an increasing number of hospital admissions for RSV infection with a variable proportion of infants who need mechanical ventilatory support. The mortality rate is estimated to be <1% in infants without preexisting respiratory or cardiac disorders vs. <5% in those with preexisting respiratory or cardiac disorders. Optimal ventilator settings need to be refined according to the dominant obstructive or restrictive pattern with the aim to avoid barovolutrauma. The role of noninvasive ventilation and additional therapies (heliox, beta(2) agonists, surfactant) is not conclusively established. The indications for high-frequency oscillatory ventilation with the possible adjunction of inhaled nitric oxide deserve further study. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation plays a minor role in severe cases that are refractory to conventional treatment. CONCLUSIONS: Conventional ventilation strategies are usually adequate for treating infants with severe RSV infection. Particular attention must be paid to the dominant pathophysiologic mechanism in a given condition. Prospective trials are needed to validate alternative therapeutic options and to improve the outcome of the rare but most severe cases that are difficult to control

The influence of physicochemical characteristics of zinc oxide particles on their antimicrobial activity

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Antimicrobial activity of zinc oxide particles on five micro-organisms related to their physicochemical properties

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