Claros de Luna

Remembering Eliahu de Luna Montalto (1567–1616)

Born in Portugal and the son of Marranos (Christianized Jews from Spain), Eliahu de Luna Montalto lived during a particularly harsh period for the Jewish people. Throughout Europe, the situation for Jews was unfavorable; laws had been passed forbidding them to live in England for the past 300 years, and for the past 200 years in France. Additionally, in France, while Jews were permitted to stud...

VARIÉTÉS SPHÉRIQUES DE TYPE A par D. LUNA

Patients with sickle cell disease taking hydroxyurea in the Hemocentro Regional de Montes Claros

BACKGROUND The development of therapies for sickle cell disease has received special attention, particularly those that reduce the polymerization of hemoglobin S. Hydroxyurea is a commonly used medication because it has the ability to raise levels of fetal hemoglobin, decrease the frequency of vaso-occlusive episodes and thus improve the clinical course of sickle cell disease patients. OBJECT...

The Luna-Vust Theory of Spherical Embeddings

The work of Krämer, Luna, Vust, Brion and others [Krä,LV,BLV,BP] established the importance of a very distinguished class of homogeneous varieties G/H, those which are now called spherical. Such varieties are homogeneous for a connected reductive group G and are characterized by many equivalent properties, the most important being (see [BLV]): — Any Borel subgroup B of G has an open orbit in G/...

[Breastfeeding in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais: a representative sample study]

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the situation of breast-feeding in Montes Claros, among under-two-year-old children, and to determine variables associated to major risk for early weaning. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study interviews were carried out by trained personnel with 602 mothers selected randomly in the urban area of Montes Claros, from September to November, 1996. The survival analysis was...