Eroticism and linguistics

Les pays francophones qui sont en contact avec d’autres langues, et surtout avec l’anglais, utilisent fréquemment cette langue pour évoquer les “choses” de l’amour. Est-ce par pudeur que ce qui a trait à la prostitution, à la masturbation ou aux menstruations est exprimé dans des termes étrangers ou dans des métaphores souvent obscures? Il semble plutôt que ces masques relèvent du “politiquement correct” qui vise à ne blesser personne

French law: what about a reasoned reimbursement of serum vitamin D assays?

International audienceThe number of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) assays has increased tenfold in France in less than 10 years, sometimes for invalidated reasons. In 2013, the French National Authority for Health (Haute autorité de santé, or HAS) limited the indications for serum 25OHD measurements to rickets/osteomalacia, older adults with recurrent falls, monitoring of kidney transplant in adults, and surgical treatment of obesity in adults. Our aim here was to note that other indications for serum 25OHD measurements are supported by previous literature and by a number of national and international recommendations, in particular the following: any situation of bone fragility, any chronic renal failure <45 mL/min/1.73m(2), any situation of malabsorption, clinical signs consistent with vitamin D deficiency or vitamin D overload, and calcium phosphorus evaluation. We suggest that the measurement of serum 25OHD concentration should remain reimbursed as part of these extended indications

The FluxSAP 2010 hydroclimatological experimental campaign over an heterogeneous urban area

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FluxSAP 2010 experimental campaign over an heterogeneous urban zone, Part 1: heat and vapour flux assessment

International audienceThe FluxSAP 2010 is the first of two experimental campaigns aiming at quantitatively assessing the contribution of urban vegetation in the sensible heat and water vapour fluxes, over an heterogeneous area including buildings, semi-impervious surfaces, low and high vegetation. The 2010 experiment objective was primarily the feasibility of measurements with five different methods, and their analysis with respect to the surface cover mode variability of their footprints

Ostéopathies fragilisantes, maladie rénale chronique, malabsorptions, anomalies biologiques du métabolisme phosphocalcique : les bonnes indications pour un remboursement raisonné du dosage de vitamine D [Weakening osteopathies, chronic kidney disease, malabsorption, biological anomalies of calium/phosphorus metabolism: appropriate indications for a reasoned reimbursment of serum vitamin D measurement]

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