This paper addresses (in a philosophical way) the complex and enigmatic interface between matter, life, and consciousness in modern medical science. The problem today in understanding living matter is not at the molecular level, but at the macro level where all molecular activities in the individual cell are coordinated, and especially at a higher level, where the activities of all the organism...

Challenges for the Implementation of the First Large-Scale Rheumatic Heart Disease Screening Program in Brazil: The PROVAR Study Experience Julia Pereira Afonso dos Santos,1 Gabriel Assis Lopes do Carmo,1 Andrea Zawacki Beaton,2 Tainá Vitti Lourenço,1 Adriana Costa Diamantino,1 Maria do Carmo Pereira Nunes,1 Craig Sable,2 Bruno Ramos Nascimento1 Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de ...

Meaningful group structures are co-created within the long-term outpatient psychotherapy group through a hermeneutical interaction between structure and immediate experience of structure by individuals embedded in personal and collective contexts. Co-created meanings expand original group- and self-understandings and further evolve structures that are stable yet do not exist independently of th...

This paper introduces a framework to produce and to manage quality requirements of embedded aeronautical systems, called the ‘Requirements Engineering Framework’ (REF). It aims at making the management of the requirement lifecycle easier, from the specification of the purchaser’s needs, to their implementation in the final products, and also their verification, while controlling costs. REF is b...

The use of solvents, other than water, that are capable of dissolving proteins without entering into chemical combination with them, in contrast to the usual mode of procedure, by the addition of small amounts of acid or alkali, makes it possible to investigate the properties of proteins in one of their most important states, the isoelectric state. In the present investigation, one such propert...