This analysis of the discussion surrounding the efficacy of the plague serum produced by Manguinhos Institute in the early twentieth century begins with an overview of Oswaldo Cruz's service as head of the Public Health Directorship (Diretoria de Saúde Pública). The controversy itself is then addressed, through an exploration of correspondence exchanged by physicians Oswaldo Cruz, Miguel Pereir...

A black-pigmented strain developed spontaneously from a typical strain of Mycobacterium fortuitum.

This thesis describes a new approach to declarative debugging (error diagnosis) of logic programs. The main contributions are: • “Declarative source debugging”, a new approach requiring less queries from the user. • Improved algorithms for classical “declarative execution debugging”. • Support for Prolog impurities, such as cuts and side-effects. • The use of suspect trees, allowing uniform tre...

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The araneomorph spider family Palpimanidae is reported from Bolivia for the first time. Two new species: Otiothops kathiae and O. naokii are described and illustrated based on specimens recently collected in Santa Cruz Department. Additionally, Fernandezina pulchra Birabén, 1951 previously known only from Formosa, in northern Argentina, is newly recorded from Santa Cruz, and the female is descr...

1 Remote Sensing Division, Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20375, USA 2 Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA; E-Mail: [email protected] 3 College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, 104 CEOAS Admin. Bldg., Corvallis, OR 97331, USA; E-Mails: [email protected] (C.O.D.); n...

1 Stanford Biosciences Grant Writing Academy, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, 2 Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, 3 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, 4 Department of Biol...

Paolo Mastropietro a, Luiz A. Barroso b, Carlos Batlle a, c, * a Institute for Research in Technology, Comillas Pontifical University, Sta. Cruz de Marcenado 26, Madrid, Spain b PSR, Praia de Botafogo 228/1701, 22250-145, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil c Also with MIT Energy Initiative, 77 Mass. Av., Cambridge, US and Florence School of Regulation, Italy * Corresponding author. IIT, Comillas Pontifical...

1Astronomy Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 2Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5241 Broad Branch Rd NW, Washington DC 20015-1305, USA 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132, USA 4UCO/Lick Observatory, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA 5Anglo-...

Pascale Garaud, a) Basile Gallet, and Tobias Bischoff Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Baskin School of Engineering, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz CA 95064, USA Service de Physique de l’Etat Condensé, DSM/IRAMIS, CNRS UMR 3680, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France. Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institu...