As the U.S. economic downturn continues and job losses mount, more working Americans are likely to lose access to affordable health benefits subsidized by their employers. Analysis of the 2007 Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey finds that two of three working adults would be eligible to extend job-based coverage, under the 1985 Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COB...

En su Idea para una historia universal, Kant apela al supuesto regulativo de un «plan oculto la naturaleza» justificar concepción ilustrada del progreso humanidad en el curso historia. Este planteamiento está gravado, sin embargo, con dificultad: los logros técnicos y políticos sólo pueden consolidarse mediante moral humanidad, cual no puede, a vez, ser garantizado por teleología natural. texto...

Resumen: La emergencia de la pandemia covid 19 trajo una explicación impostada a crisis estructural del capital, que venía siendo administrada en base ofensiva capital contra todas las conquistas trabajo. En este contexto extensión sin precedentes asistencia, como mecanismo privilegiado para atender desocialización y riesgo supervivencia grandes contingentes expulsados relación laboral, cobra n...

teristic pharmacological properties. With this end in view we started with cobra venom and Russell's viper venom. The cobra and Russell's viper belong to two different families of snakes, viz, Colubridce and Viperidce, respectively, and though the venoms from these have some characteristics in common they differ strikingly in other respects. For instance the neurotoxic element is preponderant i...

A Huey Cobra helicopter was just finishing up a nighttime practice run. The pilot was working on his low hover maneuvers at the air base when he tipped his tail rotor sharply backward, snapping off his tail boom. Without the tail —which keeps a helicopter from spinning around in circles— the helicopter took off like a pinwheel, sliding down the runway doing 360’s in a brilliant shower of sparks...

AKR mice with spontaneous leukemia were infused with normal serum from a variety of species. Leukemia cell destruction was produced by serum from strains of mice possessing the full spectrum of complement components, but not by serum from strains with a genetically determined deficiency of C5. Serum from guinea pigs, horses, and humans also causes destruction of leukemia cells. The antileukemic...

Aqueous extracts of Mucuna pruriens seeds were tested for their activity on various pharmacological effects like lethality, phospholipase activity, edema forming activity, fibrinolytic activity and haemorrhagic activity of of cobra and krait venoms. The aqueous extract displayed a significant inhibitory effect on the lethality, phospholipase activity, edema forming activity, fibrinolytic activi...