Unit of Pediatric Cardiology and Adult Congenital Heart Diseases Instituto do Coração (InCor) Hospital das Clı́nicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. Laboratory of Neuromodulation & Center of Clinical Research Learning, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation and Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA....

Web tracking continues to pose a vexing policy problem. Surveys have repeatedly demonstrated substantial consumer demand for control mechanisms, and policymakers worldwide have pressed for a Do Not Track system that effectuates user preferences. At present, however, consumers are left in the lurch: existing control mechanisms and countermeasures have spotty effectiveness and are difficult to us...

The core tenet of Bayesian modeling is that subjects represent beliefs as distributions over possible hypotheses. Such models have fruitfully been applied to the study of learning in the context of animal conditioning experiments (and analogously designed human learning tasks), where they explain phenomena such as retrospective revaluation that seem to demonstrate that subjects entertain multip...

1. Introdução Na coluna anterior, foi apresentada a regra da irreparabilidade do dano evitável (ride) e demonstrado que, no Código Civil, essa regra tem fundamento no artigo 403. Contudo, de muito pouco adianta fundamentar a ride no artigo 403 CC, se não for apresentada uma dogmática capaz de orientar a aplicação dessa regra aos casos concretos. Na presente coluna, são apresentados os contornos...

Among the many sports and activities to choose from, martial arts are becoming increasingly popular for health and fitness. Due to the different nature of the various styles of martial arts, injuries are not uncommon. Though there have been studies on the injury rates of several martial art styles, there have been none regarding Choi Kwang Do (CKD), a noncompetitive martial art with relaxed and...

There is great interest in understanding trinitrotoluene (TNT) and dinitrotoluene (DNT) contamination, detection and remediation in the environment due to TNT's negative health effects and security implications. Numerous publications have focused on detecting TNT in groundwater using multiple techniques, including electrochemistry. The main degradation pathway of nitrotoluenes in the environmen...

Correspondência: Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro • Rua Campanha, 98/101 30310-770 Belo Horizonte, MG Brasil E-mail: [email protected] O estabelecimento de tratamento eficaz para o infarto agudo do miocárdio (IAM) foi uma das conquistas médicas mais importantes da segunda metade do século XX1. A mortalidade hospitalar caiu de alarmantes 30% a 40% nas décadas de 1950 e 19602 para menos de 5% em 20063, em...