Diabetes Care in French Guiana: The Gap Between National Guidelines and Reality by Christine Sudre, Hélène Duplan, John Bukasakakamba, Mathieu Nacher, Pascale Peyre-Costa, Nadia Sabbah, Nadia Sabbah

“…The prevalence of diabetes is double that of other French departments, and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality is high. …”
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Bothrops venom-induced hemostasis disorders in the rat: Between Scylla and Charybdis. by Sébastien Larréché, Lucie Chevillard, Georges Jourdi, Simon Mathé, Aurélie Servonnet, Bérangère S Joly, Virginie Siguret, Jean-Philippe Chippaux, Bruno Mégarbane

“…Hemostasis impairment represents the most threatening consequence of Viperidae envenoming, notably with Bothrops genus. In the French departments of America, B. atrox envenomation in French Guiana may lead to bleeding while B. lanceolatus envenomation in Martinique to thrombosis. …”
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Smoking habits in French farmers: a cross-sectional study by Pauline Roux, Alicia Guillien, Thibaud Soumagne, Ophélie Ritter, Jean-Jacques Laplante, Cécile Travers, Jean-Charles Dalphin, Gérard Peiffer, Lucie Laurent, Bruno Degano

“…Methods Smoking habits were studied in a cross-sectional study involving 4105 farmers and 996 non-farming controls aged 40–74 years in 9 French departments between October 2012 and May 2013. Three age groups were defined (40–54, 55–64 and 65-74years). …”
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Health as an independent predictor of the 2017 French presidential voting behaviour: a cross-sectional analysis by Jean-David Zeitoun, Matthieu Faron, Sophie de Vaugrigneuse, Jérémie H. Lefèvre

“…Methods We performed a cross-sectional analysis using a comprehensive set of socioeconomic and health indicators, to be compared with voting outcome at the first round of the 2017 French presidential election. The 95 French departments were selected as the unit of analysis. …”
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Patient Identification and Tumor Identification Management: Quality Program in a Cancer Multicentric Clinical Data Warehouse by Karine Pallier, Olivier Prot, Simone Naldi, Francisco Silva, Thierry Denis, Olivier Giry, Sophie Leobon, Elise Deluche, Nicole Tubiana-Mathieu

“…Background: The Regional Basis of Solid Tumor (RBST), a clinical data warehouse, centralizes information related to cancer patient care in 5 health establishments in 2 French departments. Purpose: To develop algorithms matching heterogeneous data to “real” patients and “real” tumors with respect to patient identification (PI) and tumor identification (TI). …”
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Evaluation of a mobile mammography unit: concepts and randomized cluster trial protocol of a population health intervention research to reduce breast cancer screening inequalities by Elodie Guillaume, Quentin Rollet, Ludivine Launay, Séverine Beuriot, Olivier Dejardin, Annick Notari, Elodie Crevel, Ahmed Benhammouda, Laurent Verzaux, Marie-Christine Quertier, Guy Launoy

“…Methods A collaborative project will be conducted as a randomized controlled cluster trial in 2022–2024 in remote areas of four French departments. Small geographic areas were constructed by clustering women eligible to OBCS, according to distance to the nearest radiology centre, until an expected sample of eligible women was attained, as determined by logistic and financial constraints. …”
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Nested leave-two-out cross-validation for the optimal crop yield model selection by T. L. A. Dinh, F. Aires

“…Two applications are considered: robusta coffee in Cu M'gar (Dak Lak, Vietnam) and grain maize over 96 French departments. In both cases, LOO is misleading by choosing models that are too complex; LTO indicates that simpler models actually perform better when a reliable generalization test is considered. …”
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Catch-effort model used as a management tool in exploited populations: Wild boar as a case study by Pablo Vajas, Clément Calenge, Marlène Gamelon, Fabrice Girard, Olivier Melac, Charlette Chandosne, Emmanuelle Richard, Sonia Said, Eric Baubet

“…We used a large hunting logs dataset to perform our study, with several hundreds of thousands hunting events for more than 10 years in two French departments in France, including information about the number of hunters, of wild boars culled and the date of the hunt. …”
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L'analyse des émotions dans le discours présidentiel post attentat, étude contrastive by May Mostafa

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Combined incentive actions, focusing on primary care professionals, to improve cervical cancer screening in women living in socioeconomically disadvantaged geographical areas: a st... by Marc Bardou, Alexandre Dumont, Dolorès Pourette, Jean-Luc Fanon, Laurence Fagour, Guillemette Antoni, Nicolas Traversier, Amir Hassine, Muriel Fender, Katia Slama, François-Xavier Léandri, Christelle Auvray, Marie Christine Jaffar Bandjee, Lise Rochaix, Camilla Fiorina, Eric Opigez, Resiste Study Group

“…We aim to demonstrate that the use of incentives could improve screening rates among this population.Methods and analysis Our cluster randomised, controlled trial will include 10 000 women aged 30–65 years eligible for CCS, living in deprived areas in four French departments, two mainlands and two overseas, and who did not perform physician-based HPV testing within the framework of the nationally organised screening programme. …”
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Past intensification trajectories of livestock led to mixed social and environmental services by J.P. Domingues, A.H. Gameiro, T. Bonaudo, B. Gabrielle, M. Tichit

“…Our analysis focused on a set of 60 French departments where livestock play a significant economic role in agricultural production. …”
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Using healthcare claims data to analyze the prevalence of BCR‐ABL‐positive chronic myeloid leukemia in France: A nationwide population‐based study by Stéphanie Foulon, Pascale Cony‐Makhoul, Agnès Guerci‐Bresler, Marc Delord, Eric Solary, Alain Monnereau, Julia Bonastre, Pascale Tubert‐Bitter

“…It varied from 10.2 to 23.8 per 100 000 across French departments. The algorithm showed high internal and external validity. …”
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Population Genetic Structure of Listeria monocytogenes Strains Isolated From the Pig and Pork Production Chain in France by Benjamin Félix, Carole Feurer, Aurelien Maillet, Laurent Guillier, Evelyne Boscher, Annaëlle Kerouanton, Martine Denis, Sophie Roussel

“…Here, we analyzed the population genetic structure of 687 L. monocytogenes strains isolated over the last 20 years in virtually all the French départements from three compartments of this production sector: PF, the food processing environment (FPE), and FFP. …”
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Designing a Syndromic Bovine Mortality Surveillance System: Lessons Learned From the 1-Year Test of the French OMAR Alert Tool by Carole Sala, Jean-Luc Vinard, Fanny Pandolfi, Yves Lambert, Didier Calavas, Céline Dupuy, Emmanuel Garin, Anne Touratier

“…Between May 2018 and 2019, a syndromic bovine mortality surveillance system (OMAR) was tested in 10 volunteer French départements (French intermediate-level administrative unit) to assess its performance in real conditions, as well as the human and financial resources needed to ensure normal functioning. …”
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L’état des études françaises, francophones et globales dans les universités américaines by Véronique Maisier

“…Abstract The last six years have witnessed the closure or the revamping of many programs in French departments, thus, creating a state of crisis for French studies in the already unpredictable context of disciplines belonging to the “Humanities” in the US higher education at the beginning of the 21st century. …”
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Do patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus included in randomised clinical trials differ from general-practice patients? A cross-sectional comparative study by Bruno Giraudeau, Clarisse Dibao-Dina, Amandine Dugard

“…Objectives To compare the characteristics of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in general practice and those included in randomised controlled trials on which clinical practice guidelines are based.Design Cross-sectional comparative study.Setting We asked 45 general practitioners from three French Departments to identify the 15 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus they most recently saw in consultation. …”
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Use of cluster-graphs from spoligotyping data to study genotype similarities and a comparison of three indices to quantify recent tuberculosis transmission among culture positive c... by Brudey Karine, Sola Christophe, Guernier Vanina, Guégan Jean-François, Rastogi Nalin

“…<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>French Guiana has the highest tuberculosis (TB) burden among all French departments, with a strong increase in the TB incidence over the last few years. …”
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The European Union and the Caribbean Region: Situating the Caribbean Overseas Countries and Territories by Paul Sutton

“…Three distinct frameworks for cooperation and integration are discussed: with independent states as established in the Caribbean Community, the Caribbean Forum and the Economic Partnership Agreement; with the French departments and collectivities; and with the Caribbean OCT. …”
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ДО ІСТОРІЇ ЄВРОПЕЙСЬКОГО ВЕРТЕПУ (ШЛЯХИ ФОРМУВАННЯ КУЛЬТУРНОЇ ТРАДИЦІЇ) / European wandering of Christmas manger (towards the history of the nativity play)... by Курочкін Олександр

“…The impressive peculiarity is characteristic for the presepi of different industrial schools of the Apennines: from the Neapolitan to the Sicilian, from the southern Tyrolese to the Apulian, and from the Ligurain to the Bolognese. In southern French departments where there are strongest positions of Roman Catholic Church, making of Christmas manger and the figures for it which are there called santones became a popular kind of folk art. …”
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Vers des Convergences dans les Comportements Scolaires et les Représentations Territoriales entre Élèves Ruraux et Urbains ? Analyses Comparatives Rurales-urbaines en Fin d’École P... by Pierre Champollion

“…Sous réserve d’invalidation ultérieure par l’analyse du second suivi longitudinal OET, et entre autres de l’enquête 3ème en cours de saisie, les résultats des enquêtes présentées ici, tant sur le rural que sur l’urbain, semblent bien le confirmer…   Abstract This rural—urban comparison testifies to the slight attenuation of the rural specificity that was observed from 2012 to 2014 from the comparison of the CM2 (end of primary school) surveys and 5th (secondary 1) of the two longitudinal OER - OET surveys on the two french départments of the Ardèche and the Drôme (1999-2005 and 2011-2016). …”
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