Sustainability assessment for agriculture scenarios in Europe's mountain areas: lessons from six study areas.

Sustainability assessment (SA) is a holistic and long-range strategic instrument capable of assisting policy-making in electing, and deciding upon, future development priorities. The outcomes of an SA process become more relevant and strengthened when conducted with multi-stakeholder engagement, which provides for multiple dialogues and perspectives. This was the object of research of the SA team in the context of BioScene (Scenarios for Reconciling Biodiversity Conservation with Declining Agriculture Use in Mountain Areas in Europe), a three-year project (2002-2005) funded by the European Union 5th Framework Program, which aimed to investigate the implications of agricultural restructuring and decline for biodiversity conservation in the mountain areas of Europe, using three distinct methodological streams: the ecological, the socio-economic, and the SA approaches.

[Hyper IgE syndrome. Opportune diagnosis and management].

The hyperimmunoglobulin E syndrome was discribed for Buckley, and it also called the Job syndrome. There are two types: dominant autosomal and recessive autosomal. It is a primary, rare and complex immunodeficiency, characterized clinically by recurrent skin abscesses for Staphylococcus aureus, recurrent pneumonia, and pneumatoceles, hypereosinophylia, high serum levels of immunoglobulin E (> 2,000 Ul/mL), early eczema and late loss of primary dentition.