BACKGROUND Diabetes in pregnancy carries an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes for both the mother and foetus, but it also provides an excellent early opportunity for intervention in the life course for both mother and baby. In the context of the escalating epidemic of chronic diseases among Indigenous Australians, it is vital that this risk is reduced as early as possible in the life...

<b>Introduction</b>: Cardiac dysfunction in pulmonary tuberculosis is relatively more common and underestimated due to lack of suspicion. We have studied prevalence cardiac with special emphasis on echocardiography, serum cortisol its correlation cases unstable cardiorespiratory parameters.<br /> <b>Methods:</b> Prospective, observational, complete workup, one year...

The measurement of β -decay rates in plasma, simulating stellar-like conditions, is high interest for the investigation radionuclides involved nuclear astrophysics processes. In new PANDORA plasma trap, to be built at INFN—Laboratori Nazionali del Sud Catania (Italy), will estimated by detecting γ -rays emitted daughter nuclei trapped confined plasma. present work describes efficiency High Puri...

obtained from a recent survey of nurse activity and productivity (Royal College of Nursing, 2009). A detailed explanation of how nurses input their work using the Pandora database is fully described by Leary et al. (2008) but, in basic terms, there are eight domains that have been generated from earlier verifi cation studies. These eight domains form the initial sections for data input (based u...

Resumo Este artigo faz uma revisão de instâncias chaves da recepção Machado Assis em espanhol, particular na Colômbia, sublinhando como tiveram lugar não apenas importantes esforços tradução do carioca - embora suficientes para consolidar o reconhecimento por parte público geral -, bem aguçadas análises e aprofundamentos críticos. É a partir alguns desses referentes que aqui se tecem consideraç...

A seção Criação tem por objetivo publicar textos e materiais inéditos de escritores e/ou artistas, fotógrafos, desenhistas, além documentos encontrados no Arquivo do IEB/USP. “Grades caixas”, Ana Paula Pacheco, reúne dois contos sobre o feminino. Pacheco é escritora professora Teoria Literária Literatura Comparada na Universidade São Paulo. “Pedaços sonho, seguidos considerações tecidas pelo Ur...