Introduction: Social determinants of health, such as living and working conditions, economical and environmental context and access to care, combine to impact the health of individuals and communities. In French Guiana (FG), the persons working in informal artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the rainforest are a particularly vulnerable population which lives in precarious conditions and far from the health system. Previous studies have demonstrated their high morbidity due to infectious diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe characterization of intermittency in turbulence has its roots in the refined similarity hypotheses of Kolmogorov, and if no proper definition is to be found in the literature, statistical properties of intermittency were studied and models were developed in an attempt to reproduce it. The first contribution of this work is to propose a requirement list to be satisfied by models designed within the Lagrangian framework. Multifractal stochastic processes are a natural choice to retrieve multifractal properties of the dissipation.
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