Introduction There is no doubt that children suffering from epilepsy tend to manifest its minor forms with greater frequency than adults. However, before considering this problem further, it is essential to define the terms to be used, as a certain amount of confusion has arisen as the result of clinicians and --electroencephalographists sometimes using the same terms to refer to attacks of a d...

ix CHAPTER I. EPILEPSY 1 Historical Perspective .... 2 Current Concepts and Diagnosis 4 Classification of the Epilepsies 7 Grand Mai 8 Petit Mai 9 Temporal Lobe or Psychomotor Seizures 10 Jacksonian 10 Prevalence 13 II. PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES OF CHILDREN WITH EPILEPSY. 16 The Intelligence of Epileptics 18 Institutionalized and Public School Epileptics 20 The Effects of Brain Damage 22 Deteriorat...

OBJECTIVE To identify the age of introduction of petit suisse cheese and instant noodles in the diet of infants attending nurseries of public day care centers and to compare the nutritional composition of these foods with the healthy recommended diet (breast milk and salt meal) for this age, in order to estimate nutritional errors. METHODS Cross-sectional study of 366 children (from nine to 3...

traneous" hormones, (e) metabolic studies, (f) sensitivity of presumed target organ, (g) effects of removal of certain of the endocrines, (h) effect of hypophysectomy on target organs (related to subject "g"), and (i) graft studies. No student of experimental embryology should be denied the opportunity of reading Jost's essay. Finally, the essay by Greep on the interrelations of pituitary funct...

We present an identity-based encryption (IBE) scheme in composite-order bilinear groups with essentially optimal parameters: the ciphertext overhead and the secret key are one group element each and decryption requires only one pairing. Our scheme achieves adaptive security and anonymity under standard decisional subgroup assumptions as used in Lewko and Waters (TCC ’10). Our construction relie...

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