Clustering of countries in terms of deaths and cases of COVID-19 by Ozge PASIN, Tugce PASIN

“…Also in k-means clu- stering Aruba, Bahrain, French Guiana, Israel and Qatar was a single cluster apart from other countries for k-means clustering. …”
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Community-Acquired Pneumonia Requiring Hospitalization among French Guianese Children by Alexandre Cannesson, Narcisse Elenga

“…The purpose of this study was to describe the epidemiological characteristics and current microbial ecology of community-acquired pneumonia in children in French Guiana. We performed a retrospective, descriptive, and monocentric study between January 1, 2015, and December 31, 2017, in the pediatric ward of the Cayenne Hospital in French Guiana. …”
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T Cell Reactivity against Mycolyl Transferase Antigen 85 of M. tuberculosis in HIV-TB Coinfected Subjects and in AIDS Patients Suffering from Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycoba... by Pascal Launois, Annie Drowart, Eliane Bourreau, Pierre Couppie, Claire-Michèle Farber, Jean-Paul Van Vooren, Kris Huygen

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Ici commence le Brésil ! Géohistoire d’une frontière compliquée by Federico Ferretti

“…A new work by the Brazilian historian Carlo Romani gives an important contribution to the geo-historical construction of the border between Brazil and French Guiana, including its political importance and its impact on local society. …”
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Gaan Mawina, le Marouini (haut Maroni) au cœur de l’histoire des Noirs marrons Boni/Aluku et des Amérindiens Wayana by Marie Fleury

“…The purpose of this paper is to trace the history of the Marroons Boni also called Aluku and their journey across the Maroni (boundary river between French Guiana and Surinam) to escape Dutch soldiers sent on their trails. …”
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New records for Erythrodiplax fulva (Libellulidae: Odonata) from Brazil by Alejandro del Palacio, Victor Rennan Santos Ferreira, Joana Darc Batista, Leandro Juen

“…It was described based on specimens from Venezuela and later recorded from Guiana and French Guiana. We record the species from Brazil for the first time, comment on the importance of the distributional expansion range of E. fulva and point out the main differences between similar species.…”
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L’huile de carapa chez les Wayãpi de Trois Sauts by Adèle Thomas, Barthelemy Miso, Pierre-Michel Forget, Marie Fleury

“…Three species have been identified in the Guiana Shield region, including two in French Guiana. On the Haut Oyapock, preliminary floristic inventories have highlighted the existence of a large population of Carapa guianensis Aubl., the seeds of which are used by the Wayãpi to produce oil. …”
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Digestive endoscopic removal of cocaine pellets: Safety evaluation by Alolia Aboikoni, Marion Wallyn, Timothée Bonifay, Piseth Chhorn, Balandougou Sylla, Marthe Alogo A Nwatsok, Alix Becar, Paul Ngock Dime, Thi Thu Nga Nguyen, Alexis Fremery, Lorenzo Garzelli, Houari Aissaoui, Magaly Zappa, Dominique Louvel

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Migration typology of the world’s coastal exclaves by Anna V. Lialina, Angelina P. Plotnikova

“…Exclaves that lack attractiveness to migrants include those developing under harsh climatic conditions such as Alaska; those experiencing extreme temperatures and possessing underdeveloped economies like Oecussi-Ambeno, Temburong and French Guiana; and densely populated exclaves facing a massive refugee influx, such as Ceuta and Melilla. …”
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Tannin with sodium carbonate: A single additive for poured earth concrete with tropical soils by Lily Walter, Gildas Medjigbodo, Yannick Estevez, Laurent Linguet, Ouahcène Nait-Rabah

“…Mortars prepared with different dosages of tannin+Na2CO3 were tested and compared to the industrial dispersant sodium hexametaphosphate (NaHMP), using three tropical soils from French Guiana. Results showed that both tannin+Na2CO3 and NaHMP could fluidify the three soils, improved mechanical strength and water resistance, and reduced initial water content and shrinkage. …”
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Fast Task Scheduling With Model Predictive Control Integrating a Priority-Based Heuristic by Francesco Liberati, Manuel Donsante, Chiara Maria Francesca Cirino, Andrea Tortorelli

“…The use case motivating the work is given by the problem of managing the integration activities involved in the final assembly of the Vega rocket at the European space center in Kourou, French Guiana. There are two main objectives. The algorithm shall suggest to the planning operators an optimized scheduling of the activities, i.e., one which minimizes the total completion time (the makespan), while satisfying all the applicable constraints. …”
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Soil variation response is mediated by growth trajectories rather than functional traits in a widespread pioneer Neotropical tree by Levionnois, Sébastien, Tysklind, Niklas, Nicolini, Eric, Ferry, Bruno, Troispoux, Valérie, Le Moguedec, Gilles, Morel, Hélène, Stahl, Clément, Coste, Sabrina, Caron, Henri, Heuret, Patrick

“…White Sands (WS), on two sites for 70 adult trees of Cecropia obtusa Trécul (Urticaceae) in French Guiana. Cecropia is a widespread pioneer Neotropical genus that generally dominates early successional forest stages. …”
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A genomic duplication spanning multiple P450s contributes to insecticide resistance in the dengue mosquito Aedes aegypti by Bacot, Tiphaine, Haberkorn, Chloe, Guilliet, Joseph, Cattel, Julien, Kefi, Mary, Nadalin, Louis, Filee, Jonathan, Boyer, Frederic, Gaude, Thierry, Laporte, Frederic, Tutagata, Jordan, Vontas, John, Dusfour, Isabelle, Bonneville, Jean-Marc, David, Jean-Philippe

“…Two isofemale lines originating from French Guiana and being deprived from major target-site mutations showed distinct insecticide resistance levels. …”
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