This paper reports on work with elementary school teachers from different types of Brazilian municipalities, from the coast to the interior and from capitals to small towns. With the larger purpose of facilitating teachers' perception of the identity between environmental education and health education, the study focuses on local issues related to quality of life, as well as local teachers' con...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the teaching of neonatal resuscitation offered by Brazilian public hospitals to undergraduate doctors and nurses, pediatric residents and neonatal fellows. METHODS This cross-sectional multicenter study included 36 hospitals in 20 Brazilian State capitals during June/2003. Local coordinators collected data regarding what the institutions offer to undergraduate doctors and...

This study analyzes suicide among young Brazilians (15-24 years old) in nine metropolitan areas. Mortality data for 1979-1998 were obtained from the Mortality Information System of the Ministry of Health. External causes are the main causes of death among youth, and suicide is the sixth most frequent of these causes. The distribution is heterogeneous, varying according to the social stratum, sp...

In this paper we explore the possibility, heretofor unexplored in the marketing literature, that firms “invest funds” in their pricing processes. This builds on some of the recent economic work on the costs of price adjustment. To do this we undertook a two-year, cross-disciplinary, ethnographic study on the nature of investments made by senior managers to enhance the effectiveness of the prici...

OF WESTERN HANDWRITTEN CAPITALS FUSI WANG, LOUIS VUURPIJL AND LAMBERT SCHOMAKER Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information P.O.Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands E-mail: fswang(vuurpijl,s homaker) ni i.kun.nl http://hwr.ni i.kun.nl In this paper, new te hniques are presented using Support Ve tor Ma hines (SVMs) for multilass lassi ation problems. The issue of de omposing a Nlass ...