New Technologies for Space Avionics, 1993

The report reviews a 1993 effort that investigated issues associated with the development of requirements, with the practice of concurrent engineering and with rapid prototyping, in the development of a next-generation Reaction Jet Drive Controller. This report details lessons learned, the current status of the prototype, and suggestions for future work. The report concludes with a discussion of the vision of future avionics architectures based on the principles associated with open architectures and integrated vehicle health management

Évaluation des risques de la pollution urbaine sur la santé en Île-de-France (erpurs) : liens avec la mortalité 1987-1998.

Following a period of major air pollution in January-February 1989, the Erpurs program was established to evaluate health effects related to urban air pollution in the Paris area. Mortality data was gathered from an exhaustive national registry for Paris and its close suburb residents from 1987 to 1998 and related to various air pollutants. The methods consisted in analyzing temporal variations of air pollutant levels with those of daily death counts. Mortality risks during days with pollutant levels higher than the yearly median were compared with mortality risks during the 18 days with the lowest levels. Mortality increases associated with increase in fine particulate matters were 4.7% for respiratory deaths

Global threats to pinnipeds

Kovacs KM, Aguilar A, Aurioles D, et al. Global threats to pinnipeds. Marine Mammal Science. 2011;28(2):414-436