BACKGROUND To help understand the potential impact of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic in Africa, we reviewed published data from Africa of the two previous influenza pandemics. METHODS We conducted a systematic search of three biomedical databases for articles in any language on 1957 H2N2 or 1968 H3N2 pandemic influenza virus infection in Africa published from January 1950 through August 2008. RESUL...

Revisión de Tesis A la mano tendida prueba parafina: Memoria represión sobre el movimiento estudiantil 1968

SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS 1968 Hansen, I. L., Brown, R. E., Shaffer, H. D. & Crawford, M. A. (1966). E. Afr . med.J. 43, 489. Lambrecht, P. L. (1966). E. Afr. Wild1.J. 4, 89. Lamprey, H. E. (1963). E. Afr. Wild1.J. I, 63. Laws, R. M. & Parker, I. S. C. (1968). Symp. 2001. SOC. Lond. no. 21. McCullagh, K. & Lewis, M. G. (1967). Lancet ii, 492. Robins, E. (1963). Africa’s Wildlife : Survival or Extin...

BACKGROUND Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is a fatal sporadic autosomal dominant premature ageing disease caused by single base mutations that optimise a cryptic splice site within exon 11 of the LMNA gene. The resultant disease-causing protein, progerin, acts as a dominant negative. Disease severity relies partly on progerin levels. METHODS AND RESULTS We report a novel form of ...

In this ethnography of the public cinema during stronismo (1968-1979) aim is to describe Asuncion, Caaguazú and Coronel Oviedo from general sociodemographic data, reception movies seen between 1968 1979, description way this, organized social activities comprehended notion ritual. Several devices were generated: a film series in three territories, semi structured interviews, polls, analysis aud...

Revisión del libro Una historia en movimiento. Las luchas por los derechos humanos Rosario (1968 – 1985) M. Scocco

sided abdominal pain followed by bloody diarrhoea which rapidly improved without specific treatment. The bariumenema examination showed changes at the typical site which progressed from narrowing with marginal thumb-printing, through sacculation, to complete normality (Boley et al., 1963; Marston et al., 1966; Lea Thomas, 1968; Williams et al., 1969). The only unusual feature was the patient's ...

Severe idiopathic scoliosis may lead to respiratory failure, which can be treated by assisted ventilation. Twenty four patients with surgically untreated idiopathic scoliosis who had been examined in 1968 were re-examined in 1988 to assess changes in lung function and risk factors for respiratory failure. The patients were aged 15-67 years in 1968 and had a scoliotic angle of 10-190 degrees and...

It is not easy to summarize Ned Phelps’s monumental contribution to economics. A first impression is likely to be of a vast array of original concepts and models: the “natural rate of unemployment” and the expectations-augmented Phillips curve (1967, 1968, 1971), the “island” parable of search unemployment (1968, 1969, 1970), “incentive/efficiency wages” (1968), optimal inflation targeting over...