Emergency planning for vulnerable populations constitutes a major element of community disaster preparedness and is an area in which guidance is particularly sparse. As evidenced by the well-publicized deaths of nursing home residents following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the need to improve nursing home emergency preparedness is self-evident. Nevertheless, as efforts to improve preparedness d...

Levi-Montalcini and her twin sister Paola were born on 22 April 1909 in Turin, Italy, to her father, Adamo Levi, an electrical engineer and mathematician, and mother, Adele Montalcini. In her autobiography she describes her family atmosphere as wonderful, loving, and with reciprocal devotion. Her father was a very traditional man and his daughters were not allowed to pursue a professional caree...

Diana Santos-Ferreira, MD, MMed, IOC Dip Sp Phy; Rita Tomás, MS, Hélder Dores, PhD

The present study sought to measure the level of active transparency Local Social Security Systems (RPPSs) municipalities in state Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. To this end, Indicator Active Transparency RPPSs (RITA) was constructed, supported by observations Access Information Law (LAI), as well RPPS Pro-Management Manual. number sample for 50 entities. data measuring RITA were collected each RP...

Vision substitution by electro-stimulation has been studied since the 60s beginning with P. Bach-y-Rita. Camera pictures or movies encoded in gray levels are displayed using an electro-stimulation display device on the surface of a body part, such as the skin or the tongue. Medical-technical devices have been developed on this principle to compensate for sensory-motor disabilities such as blind...

Genetics and genomics in Brazil: a promising future Maria Rita Passos-Bueno, Debora Bertola, Dafne Dain Gandelman Horovitz, Victor Evangelista de Faria Ferraz & Luciano Abreu Brito Centro de Pesquisa sobre o Genoma Humano, Departamento de Gen etica e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto de Biociências Universidade de S~ao Paulo, S~ao Paulo, Brazil Instituto da Crianc a do Hospital das Cl ınicas da Fac...

?In vitro Experiments on the Effects of Mouse Sarcomas 180 and 37 on the Spinal and Sympathetic Ganglia of the Chick Embryo? were experiments conducted by Rita LeviMontalcini [3] in conjunction with Viktor Hamburger [4] and Hertha Meyer [5] and published in Cancer Research in 1954. In this series of experiments, conducted at the University of Brazil [6] , Levi-Montalcini demonstrated increased ...

In this paper Viktor Hamburger [5] and Rita Levi-Montalcini [6] collaborated to examine the effects of limb transplantation [7] and explantation on neural development [8]. In 1947 Hamburger invited Levi-Montalcini to his lab at Washington University [9] in St. Louis to examine this question. Independently, each had previously arrived at opposing conclusions based on the same data. Hamburger con...

This study evaluates local dynamics in extreme precipitation frequency from 1940 to 1999 in the South of Portugal. The analysis is based on a climate index defined by the annual count of days with precipitation above the 30 mm threshold (R30mm). The space-time scenarios of this index, and their uncertainty evaluation, were produced through direct sequential cosimulation (coDSS) with elevation. ...