Ricardo Hector Asch was born 26 October 1947 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a lawyer and French professor, Bertha, and a doctor and professor of surgery, Miguel. Asch?s family middle-class family lived among the largest Jewish community in Latin America, where a majority of males were professionals. After his graduation from National College No. 3 Mariano Moreno in Buenos Aires, Asch worked as ...

It has been known that the fi rst reference of the word Bioethics in the twentieth century was due to German theologist Fritz Jahr in 1927. In that surprising paper Jahr, a protestant Lutheran university professor, proposes humble catholic deacon, Saint Francis of Assisi (1181-1226), as the fi rst discoverer of Bioethics in Western Civilization. At the same time, Jahr quotes K.C.F Krause, a Mas...

Disfigurement is more common than is generally realised. It can be consequence of trauma, cancer, radiotherapy, facial paralysis, birthmarks, vascular malformations, neurofibromatosis, cleft lip/palate and other craniofacial conditions. Facial disfigurement can be physically, emotionally, and socially distressing, and some people whose faces have been disfigured can suffer a so-called “social d...

Ricardo Cavicchioli,1 Ricardo Amils,2 Dirk Wagner3 and Terry McGenity4 School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of NSW, Sidney, NSW 2052, Australia. Centro de Biología Molecular, CSICUniversidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain. Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Research Unit Postdam, D-14473 Postdam, Germany. Department of Biol...

Degenerative spondylolisthesis: surgical treatment EspondilolistEsE dEgEnErativa: tratamEnto cirúrgico Authorship: Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery; Brazilian Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology Participants: Ricardo V. Botelho; Noel O. Foni; Alberto O. Gotfryd; Carlos Fernando P.S. Herrero; Jefferson Daniel; Robert Meves; Marcelo Luis Mudo; Ricardo S. Simões; Sérgio Zylbersztejn; Wanderle...

Recent research (Reardon and Firebaugh, 2002, Frankel and Volij, 2009, and Mora and RuizCastillo, 2009a) has shown that two entropy-based segregation indices possess an appealing mixture of basic and subsidiary but useful properties. It would appear that the only fundamental difference between the mutual information, or M index, and the Entropy, Information or H index, is that the second is a n...

Vanessa de Fátima Bernardes; Luis Otávio de Miranda Cota; Fernando de Oliveira Costa; Ricardo Alves Mesquita; Ricardo Santiago Gomez; Maria Cássia Ferreira Aguiar DDS, MS, Graduate student, Department of Oral Surgery and Pathology, School of Dentistry, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil DDS, MS, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Department of Oral Surgery and Pathology, School of Dentistry, Feder...

1. Attending Physician. Department of Thoracic Surgery of the Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo – HCFMUSP, University of São Paulo School of Medicine Hospital das Clínicas – São Paulo, Brazil. 2. Thoracic Surgeon. Emílio Ribas Institute of Infectology, São Paulo, Brazil. Bedside tracheostomy: practical considerations Ricardo Mingarini Terra1, Angelo Fer...

From the Endocrinology Research Center, Division of Endocrinology, Ricardo Gutiérrez Children’s Hospital (H.M.D., A.S.M., M.G.R., P.P., P.S., J.J.H., H.G.J.); and the Division of Pediatrics, J.A. Fernández Hospital (S.V.B.) — both in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Address reprint requests to Mr. Domené at the Endocrinology Research Center (CEDIE), Division of Endocrinology, Ricardo Gutiérrez Children...

We study episodes where economic growth decelerates to negative rates. While the majority of these episodes are of short duration, a substantial fraction last for a longer period of time than can be explained as the result of business-cycle dynamics. The duration, depth and associated output loss of these episodes differs dramatically across regions. We investigate the factors associated with t...