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    Anthropology and Style of Life in Middle Age Women

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    The anthropometric pattern, demographics data, lifestyle factors and several aspects of morbidity were analyzed for 400 Cuban women ages 40–60 years. More than 85% of women were obese, being these in direct association with morphology typically androgens, more evident in the postmenopausal women. In these women observed less body mass index and overweight, in an equivalent way between pre and postmenopausal women. A moderate consumption of rice, was evidenced, pastas and vegetables, few candies and fatty, what points to or quite acceptable knowledge of the harmful effect of some foods, to weigh that the shadowy use of saturated fats and not saturated it was the most frequent thing. By multifactor approach it is possible to make relation between nutritional patterns, morphology and climacteric symptoms; Cuban women present a different frequencies from an other literature showing the risk of generalist this studies and health’s actions

    Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome

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    The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers ∌99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of ∌1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead

    Conduites (ou pratiques) alimentaires et nutrition

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    Ouvrage sous la direction de GUIHARD-COSTA Anne-Marie, BOETSCH Gilles, Froment Alain, GUERCI Antonio et ROBERT-LAMBLIN JoëlleL'étude du fait alimentaire, qui a la particularité de se situer à l'interface de la biologie et de la culture, est un terrain privilégié de rencontre entre les sciences biologiques et les sciences humaines et sociales. Selon que l'on privilégie l'une ou l'autre de ces orientations on parlera d'anthropologie alimentaire ou d'anthropologie nutritionnell

    L’homme et sa diversitĂ©

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    Qu’est-ce que l’anthropologie biologique ? Science des interactions entre l'homme et son milieu, l'anthropologie biologique aborde les grands questionnements actuels sur notre espĂšce : Comment l'homme s'adapte-t-il aux changements rapides de mode de vie et d'alimentation ? Quelle est l'influence des migrations sur l'Ă©volution des flux gĂ©niques ? À quelles modifications morphologiques ou physiologiques Ă©ventuelles du corps humain assiste-t-on Ă  l'heure actuelle ? Des spĂ©cialistes issus des diffĂ©rents domaines concernĂ©s confrontent ici leurs points de vue, et ouvrent de nouvelles perspectives de recherche

    Vers un ailleurs prometteur


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    Les migrations sont-elles une rĂ©ponse universelle Ă  une situation de crise ? Poser cette question ouvre sans doute le plus vaste dĂ©bat sur l’histoire du mouvement des hommes. Cet ouvrage illustre bien la diversitĂ© et la multiplicitĂ© de cette incroyable richesse qu'est le mouvement des hommes et des peuples sur notre planĂšte. Tout changement est un dĂ©sĂ©quilibre et, rĂ©ciproquement, ce sont les dĂ©sĂ©quilibres qui permettent le changement. Est-il possible d’anticiper, dĂšs lors, sur le futur ? Peut-on imaginer ce que sera demain la grande mouvance des peuples ? Engendrera-t-elle autant de peurs que d’innovations ? Comme le prĂ©visage Albert Jacquard, les migrations de masse sont des catastrophes. Ainsi, “prĂ©parer demain”, nĂ©cessite des changements fondamentaux dans nos “visions du monde” politiques, Ă©conomiques et sociales tout autant que dans notre mode d’exploitation des ressources naturelles.HERMANN-MICHEL HAGMANN SecrĂ©taire gĂ©nĂ©ral Laboratoire de dĂ©mographie Ă©conomique et sociale UniversitĂ© de GenĂšve JEAN-LUC MAURER Directeur Institut universitaire d'Ă©tudes du dĂ©veloppement GenĂšv

    Children living with HIV in Europe: do migrants have worse treatment outcomes?

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    International audienceTo assess the effect of migrant status on treatment outcomes among children living with HIV in Europe
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