Parasite Microbiome Project: Systematic Investigation of Microbiome Dynamics within and across Parasite-Host Interactions.

Understanding how microbiomes affect host resistance, parasite virulence, and parasite-associated diseases requires a collaborative effort between parasitologists, microbial ecologists, virologists, and immunologists. We hereby propose the Parasite Microbiome Project to bring together researchers with complementary expertise and to study the role of microbes in host-parasite interactions. Data from the Parasite Microbiome Project will help identify the mechanisms driving microbiome variation in parasites and infected hosts and how that variation is associated with the ecology and evolution of parasites and their disease outcomes. This is a call to arms to prevent fragmented research endeavors, encourage best practices in experimental approaches, and allow reliable comparative analyses across model systems. It is also an invitation to foundations and national funding agencies to propel the field of parasitology into the microbiome/metagenomic era

La résidence des rois de Majorque

According to an itinerary dating from 1298 to 1324 and 1329 to 1343, the Kings of Majorca spent two thirds of their time in the Roussillon. They only went to Montpellier on rare occasions. They didn’t go to Majorca on a regular basis. Undoubtedly because of the journey’s hazards, they remained at the Balearic Islands for long periods of sixteen to thirty one months but, between two stays, they could spend up to seven years without going to Majorca. The royal absence in Montpellier and Majorca did not reinforce the kingdom’s cohesion and did not favour the emergence of a common national feeling among the inhabitants of the three territories

La résidence des rois de Majorque

According to an itinerary dating from 1298 to 1324 and 1329 to 1343, the Kings of Majorca spent two thirds of their time in the Roussillon. They only went to Montpellier on rare occasions. They didn’t go to Majorca on a regular basis. Undoubtedly because of the journey’s hazards, they remained at the Balearic Islands for long periods of sixteen to thirty one months but, between two stays, they could spend up to seven years without going to Majorca. The royal absence in Montpellier and Majorca did not reinforce the kingdom’s cohesion and did not favour the emergence of a common national feeling among the inhabitants of the three territories

Je reviens du Viet-nam libre : notes de voyage / Léo Figueres ; [préface de Marcel Cachin]

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Forest management prolongates the CO2 sink in ageing oak stands

International audienceForest management prolongates the CO 2 sink in ageing oak stands. Introduction. Model evaluation

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Introduction Face aux indicateurs sociaux existant ou à créer par enquêtes dans le cadre de ce travail pluridisciplinaire, il paraît nécessaire d’envisager l’élaboration d’indices ou indicateurs Nature fournissant l’« état du milieu » pour un site et donc une estimation de sa « valeur Nature ». Ces indices ou indicateurs devraient pouvoir être confrontés et combinés aux autres indicateurs sociaux qui prennent en compte l’état du milieu urbain ou périurbain en terme de transport, de foncier, d..

Building a Methodology for Assessing Service Quality under Intermittent Domestic Water Supply

This document proposes a methodology for assessing the quality of water distribution service in the context of intermittent supply, based on a comparison of joint results from literature reviews and feedback from drinking water operators who had managed these networks, with standards for defining the quality of drinking water service. The paper begins by reviewing and proposing an analysis of the definition and characterization of intermittent water supply (IWS), highlighting some important findings. The diversity of approaches used to address the issue and the difficulty of defining a precise and detailed history of water supply in the affected systems broadens the spectrum of intermittency characterization and the problems it raises. The underlined results are then used to structure an evaluation framework for the water service and to develop improvement paths defined in the intermittent networks. The resulting framework highlights the means available to water stakeholders to assess their operational and management performance in achieving the improvement objectives defined by the environmental and socio-economic contexts in which the network operates. Practical examples of intermittent system management are collected from water system operators and presented for illustration purposes (Jeddah, Algiers, Port-au-Prince, Amman, Cartagena, Barranquilla, Mexico, Cancun, Saltillo, Mumbai, Delhi, Coimbatore …)