The decision, which followed cancellations of smaller arts festivals in Montpellier, La Rochelle, Marseille, Tours, Pau, Rennes and several other cities, was provoked by a nationwide movement of self-employed actors and technicians opposing changes in an insurance system that guarantees them an income when unemployed.
For several weeks leading up to Wednesday's opening, it seemed as though Cannes's big show might be upstaged by the long-running soap opera of French labor trouble, as self-employed actors and technicians protesting changes in their unemployment benefits threatened to shut down the festival.
We conclude that the development of such ecology-based alternatives for animal production implies changes in the positions adopted by technicians and extension services, researchers and policymakers.
In order to negate tree foliage and manmade obstacles from the data, any sudden and radical changes in ground height are mapped out, with technicians who have models of the terrain fine-tuning the thresholds in processing these data points.
It took skilled psychologists and technicians to quantify the changes in the children.
This has been confirmed by a recent report examining 54 cardiologists and 69 nurses and technicians, with lens change found in 50% of interventional cardiologists and 41% of nurses and technicians compared with findings of similar lens changes in <10% of controls [ 35].
Market technicians commonly use this signal to determine when major changes in the direction of price will occur.
The unconventional assignments are an expression of the generational changes in news coverage, especially in TV, where the jobs of camera operators, sound technicians and producers have, in many cases, been subsumed into one do-it-all position.
The technicians pointed out the Dobson spectrophotometer: a small silver dome standing alone, like a miniature planetarium, and tracking changes in the earth's ozone layer.
Our laboratory technicians participated in a quality control study of assessment of sperm concentration, which did not indicate temporal changes in assessment levels.
