The Rama Amerindians from southern Nicaragua are one of few indigenous populations inhabiting the east coast and lowlands of southern Central America. Early-eighteenth-century ethnohistorical accounts depicted the Rama as a mobile hunter-gatherer and horticulturalist group dispersed in household units along southern Nicaraguan rivers. However, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Rama...

What sort of people were the doctors in this country two hundred years ago and later ? How did they dress, speak and act, and how did their contemporaries regard them ? One way to answer these questions is to read the novels of the time : provided, of course, that we confine ourselves to those novels which attempt to portray contemporary life and manners, and which were accepted as such by the ...

Eliza Haywood produced innovative, socially meritorious, and entertaining literature throughout her career. In particular, her novels often told stories about people who did not always make socially or morally correct choices; their missteps made them interesting and provided the basis for stories that examined what happened when people defied the status quo. Alexander Pettit observes that " [i...

Nos motivó esta presentación los hallazgos observados en la sala de disección sobre las relaciones rama palmar profunda arteria ulnar y el ramo profundo del nervio ulnar, diferentes disposiciones rama, cruzamiento, cuando existe, entre ambos elementos pocas referencias tema, todo con miras a favorecer abordaje palma mano contribuir al conocimiento área donde se practican neurotomías y/ o s...

Word segmentation is a necessary first step for automatic syntactic analysis of Chinese text. Chinese segmentation is highly accurate on news data, but the accuracies drop significantly on other domains, such as science and literature. For scientific domains, a significant portion of out-of-vocabulary words are domain-specific terms, and therefore lexicons can be used to improve segmentation si...

Cardiovascular disease has become an important cause of death among HIV-infected patients. A cross sectional study was conducted to determine the risk for cardiovascular events among HIV-infected patients who visited the Infectious Disease Clinic at Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. The risk for cardiovascular events was determined using the Rama-EGAT risk score. Pati...

The relationship between efflux system overexpression and cross-resistance to cefoxitin, quinolones, and chloramphenicol has recently been reported in Klebsiella pneumoniae. In 3 previously published clinical isolates and 17 in vitro mutants selected with cefoxitin or fluoroquinolones, mutations in the potential regulator genes of the AcrAB efflux pump (acrR, ramR, ramA, marR, marA, soxR, soxS,...

"Divine William" and The Master: The Influence of Shakespeare on the Novels of Henry James