Université de Caen Normandie

Homicide at home: setting the agenda for an international collaboration to improve support for children bereaved due to family violence

Background: Bereavement due to fatal family violence (e.g. intimate partner homicide, filicide, parricide, siblicide) is a profoundly disruptive experience for children, with lifelong psychosocial consequences. Although the need for fatal family violence prevention is increasingl...

A Lifestyle Behavior Score Predicting Cardiovascular and Other Causes of Death in a Cohort of Middle-Aged Men Followed up Until Extinction

Objective: To create and test in a population study a behavior score, using as far as possible, procedures based on the a posteriori approach. Material and Methods: Data from the Italian Rural Areas (IRAs) of the Seven Countries Study of Cardiovascular Diseases (SCS), comprising...

Adrenaline Use and Request for Emergency Medical Assistance to Manage Food Anaphylaxis

Summary Adrenaline was rarely used, medical assistance being requested in two thirds of anaphylaxis cases. Medical assistance request was less frequent if milder or no cardiovascular anaphylaxis symptoms.

Quantifying the Gap Between the Local Perceptions of Farming Households and What Experts Say About Climate Change in Haiti and the Dominican Republic

This study quantifies and assesses the gap between the perceptions of 550 farming households on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola and the opinions of 60 regional experts on climate change. This quantification draws on the traditional knowledge of farming households, which is bas...

The Challenge of Adapting a Spatial Accessibility Indicator Developed for Primary Care to the Hemodialysis Context

Background: Access to dialysis facilities greatly affects patients' quality of life and healthcare costs. Transportation alone represents 21% of dialysis-related expenses. Going beyond a simple focus on access, this study aimed to evaluate dialysis care accessibility in France by...

Coprime extensions of indecomposable solutionsto the Yang–Baxter equation

We introduce a method to extend involutive nondegenerate set-theoretic solutions to the Yang-Baxter equation by means of equivariant mappings to graded modules, thus leading to the notion of a twisted extension.Furthermore, we define coprime extensions of solutions and prove that...