Positions of influence over the legislative agenda provide greater opportunities for shaping policy outcomes. Do legislators take advantage of this? If they do, when the median is pivotal and legislators’ goals reflect both position taking and policy seeking, greater influence over the agenda leads legislators to moderate their bills relative to legislators with lower agenda priority. Analysis ...

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Report about the Congresses for history of science and technology

Social knowledge in health is now being considered a scientific, political and proactive field in Brazil. Studying the texts of the Congresses of Social and Human Sciences in Health at Abrasco involves conducting a partial genealogical study of the area, learning how the constitution of this subfield emerged and developed, and also to map the current "state of the art" in this knowledge area. T...

CBOT: o nosso desafio constante Recently, we had another Brazilian Congress of Orthopedics and Traumatology (CBOT), this time in the city of Rio de Janeiro, with its beauty and joyfulness and the warmhearted competence of its inhabitants. Rio has a great tradition of congresses, starting with the one at the Quitandinha, the first major Brazilian congress, and continuing to today's international...

The question of the mercurial treatment of tabes has been very often debated in congresses and also learned societies in France during recent years. Diametrically opposite opinions have been expressed with equal firmness. On the side of the syphilographers, Fournier, Gaucher and Hallopeau trace a very fine dividing-line between syphilitic spinal complications which may be treated

The papers in this special issue of ZooKeys were presented at the 16th International Congress of Myriapodology (16ICM) held in Olomouc, the Czech Republic on July 20–25, 2014. International Congresses of Myriapodology are scientific meetings of scientists, students and enthusiastic amateurs with specific interest in millipedes, centipedes, symphylans and pauropods, as well as velvet worms. Thos...