n this issue of the Journal, Hoffmann et al. (1) report on heir comparison of conventional and contrast-enhanced chocardiography, biplane cine angiography, and cardiac agnetic resonance for the detection of regional wall otion abnormalities. Their effort to acquire three or four f these modalities in the same patients creates an opporunity to consider the relative utility of these tests in a gr...

and relief in time of sickness?of their castes, their tenets, and their practices, and any one so disposed might glean from the Indian medical periodicals of the last half century materials for a very instructive essay on the subject. We hear, on the one hand, of a physician caste, learned in the traditions of a past era, holding as an heir-loom an empirical knowledge of remedies, which we shou...

bstract. This paper presents an efficient technique for linking dge points in order to generate a closed-contour representation. It s based on the consecutive use of global and local schemes. In oth cases it is assumed that the original intensity image, as well as ts corresponding edge map, are given as inputs to the algorithm. he global scheme computes an initial representation by connecting d...

Program in Health Sciences – Child and Adolescent Health of uring Hemo 2014, a tribute was paid to the dedication of three f our most experienced colleagues. In a special session of he congress, Professors Marcos Borato Viana, Celso Bianco, nd Roberto Passetto Falcão were honored in recognition of heir years of commitment to the fields of hematology and ransfusion medicine, in particular to tea...

I ndustrialized counrries have long accerted the need 10 provide various suppons for people with disabilities. The common inrerest is to I'elate the benefits received by the person with a disability to a medical impairmenr and to the limitations the impairment places on function in the workplace. The purpose of this anicle is to discuss some of the inrernational and American approaches to the e...

THIS subject is both too large and too small for a short paper. It is too large, in that every respiratory virus infection that man is heir to can afflict travellers of one sort or another. There seems to be no special proneness to such infections in those who travel in contrast to diarrhoeal infections. This is probably because the common viruses of respiratory tract disease are very widely an...

erinatal asphyxia (PA) is a major determinant of neurological morbidity and mortality in the eonatal period. Many studies have been investigating neurological deficits following PA, including eizures, cerebral palsy, mental retardation, as well as psychiatric deficits. Most research performed o far has been focusing on acute or subacute sequelae and has uncovered a variety of morphological, eur...

The article discusses the central aspects of the trajectory of the National Immunization Program as regards the dynamics of sectoral policy. Heir to successful experiences of the past yet conceived at an entirely different moment, the Program followed the triumphant Campaign to Eradicate Smallpox and inaugurated a new phase in the history of public policy in the field of prevention. Under one s...

? When, in the early days of 1939, gXaSldren ^acuation were being made, it was felt {92X certified under Part V of the Education Act ^ should not be evacuated except as a g tQ herefore local arrangements were ma under ^ dealt with in temporary residential s tely m heir own teachers and not blllete P P 'vate families. (Subsequent expe ^ few Sfed the wisdom of this dec^ion tQ be children who were...

I telling the tale of, and analyzing the decisions made by, an heir claimant to a large fortune, Lippman and McCardle (2004) introduce embedded Nash bargaining, an approach to modeling joint decision making. They embed several bargaining games in a joint decision tree and calculate the expected payoffs to the two sides if the Nash bargaining solution is used to generate the intermediate payoffs...