Diagnosis and Management of Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnancy by Sarah Broder, Peter Paré

“…Pulmonary embolism in pregnancy is a significant and under-recognized problem. In British Columbia, where there are 46,000 pregnancies per year, it is estimated that there are approximately 160 pulmonary embolisms per year and one maternal death every two years secondary to pulmonary embolism. …”
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Isotropic Stars in Higher-Order Torsion Scalar Theories by Gamal G. L. Nashed

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« This is Hell – Hell - Hell ! » : les éléments dans The Nether World de George Gissing by Fabienne Gaspari

“…In The Nether World, published in 1889, Gissing portrays the squalid life of the working class in London through a very pessimistic vision of British society. The urban setting, which is used as a backdrop, also plays a crucial role in the creation of a universe akin to hell. …”
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« Comme à l’époque de Suzie Wong ». Les mutations du red-light district de Wan Chai by Nicolas Paris

“…The exotic novel, The World of Suzie Wong, and its many adaptations immortalized the red-light district of Wan Chai, Hong Kong with its American sailors, British Empire expatriates and Hong Kong prostitutes in the late 1950s. …”
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The Parliamentary Behaviour of Women and Men MPs: Equal Status, Similar Practices ? by Karine Rivière-De Franco

“…Less than 5 % in the 1980s, 22 % of the members of the House of Commons in the British Parliament are now women. This paper studies women MPs’ contribution to parliamentary work during the first eighteen months of the Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition government formed in May 2010 by examining the range of tasks they are involved in through various activities such as Prime Minister’s Question Time, Early Day Motions, Adjournment Debates, Private Members’ Bills, votes and rebellions. …”
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Československá vojenská mise v Kanadě za 2. světové války – předhistorie by Tomáš Jiránek

“…Their work was preceded by a few relatively long months of negotiations with the British and Canadian authorities in order to clarify what was wanted on all sides and to lay down the conditions for the work of the Czechoslovakian army mission in America. …”
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Influence de la fiction policière américaine chez trois auteurs de fantasie britannique (Green - Pratchett - Scott) by Catherine Magalhaes

“…This article analyzes the influence of this type of detective fiction on three British high fantasy novels. The characteristics are compared in regard to their structures but also to their themes. …”
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Investigating the management information needs of academic Heads of Department: a Critical Success Factors approach by Francis Green, Brendan Loughridge

“…With funding from the British Library Research and Development Department a critical success factors-based investigation of the management information needs of academic Heads of Department in an number of English universities was undertaken in 1994/1995, following publication of the results of a pilot study byPellow and Wilson (1993). …”
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A morte de Odin? As representações do Ragnarök na arte das Ilhas Britânicas (séc. X) by Johnni Langer

“…Our study aims to reflect on the images of Ragnarök in the British area during the late Middle Ages. The main sources are images carved in crosses, funerary sculptures and reliefs in blocks. …”
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Osteochondral lesions of talus by Jitendra Mangwani, Claire Brockett, Elise Pegg

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Qualitative methods: the missing link in orthopaedic research by Samantha Jones, Sarah Tyson

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Copyright Protection in Israel by Debbie L. Rabina

“…The copyright law in effect in Israel today is the 1911 law signed by King George V and absorbed into Israel's legal code with the termination of the British Mandate in 1948. Althoughsome minor amendments and changes were made over the years, a total revision, that would be in accordance with the changes brought on by the digital age, as well as those necessitated as a result of international treaties, is long overdue. …”
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DAVID LACK: TWO VERSIONS OF SPECIATION, FROM NEUTRALISM TO THE ADAPTIVE APPROACH by Ya. M. Gall

“…The article reviews the development of two leading concepts of speciation, developed in the 1940-s by the British ornithologist and ecologists David Lack (1910–1973). …”
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La Somalie en mauvais État by Alain Gascon

“…Under the pressures of the Arab League and of the African Union the United Nations have constantly refused to recognize the independence of Somaliland, a former British colony, despite its separatist government has brought peace on all their territory, rebuilt equipments and held fair elections. …”
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Too much fighting on the dance floor : retour sur une époque troublée au travers du Ghost Town des Specials by Gildas Lescop

“…In 1979, the Specials will introduce a dynamic and antiracist scene by mixing punk rock energy to Jamaican rythms which will make it prone to dance and initiate reflexion to a British youth then subjected to the growing influence of the National Front. …”
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Le lieu propre du néant by Pamela Bianchi

“…For Rachel Whiteread, the void has a shape, and nothingness occupies a place. The British artist solidifies specific volumes of air (the interior of bottles, the space surrounding a mattress, the interior space of a room, a house, etc.); in doing so, she highlights the emergence of absence. …”
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Les régions, porteuses de nouveaux compromis pour l’agriculture ? by Aurélie Trouvé

“…Surveys on the field were realized in eight British, French and German regions. They show that the regionalisation leads to the institutionnalisation of different regional compromises. …”
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Big data mining and comparative analyses across lexica on the relationship between syllable complexity and word stress by Amanda Post da Silveira

“…This study analyzes the syllabic structure implications for word stress in three languages with weight-sensitive lexical stress, namely Brazilian Portuguese, British English, and American English. After creating three corpora and applying Random Forest modeling, syllabic structure distributions for word stress were found to be bound to stress pattern and word length in number of syllables. …”
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Admissions to Canadian Hospitals for Acute Asthma: A Prospective, Multicentre Study by Brian H Rowe, Cristina Villa-Roel, Riyad B Abu-Laban, Rob Stenstrom, Duncan Mackey, Ian G Stiell, Sam Campbell, Bryan Young

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David Cameron and the Web in the Run-up to the 2010 Election: A Parallel and Intricate Progression by Géraldine Castel

“…This article (written in 2011) therefore proposes to explore the parallel evolution of those two relative newcomers to national politics in the run-up to the 2010 General Election so as to analyse the relationship between them but also what such a relationship reveals both about David Cameron’s Conservative project and about the adoption of ICTs, and the internet in particular, in British political life.…”
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