BACKGROUND Although the frequency of pneumonia has decreased over time, an increase in pleural empyema has been observed in different settings worldwide. This study assessed the epidemiology of community-acquired pediatric pleural empyema in the province of Quebec through validation of cases found in a hospitalization discharge database. METHODS We used the national administrative database of...

BACKGROUND We investigated the magnitude of educational differences in lung and upper aero digestive tract (UADT) cancer mortality in France from 1990 to 2007. METHODS The analyses were based on census data from a representative sample of the French population. Educational level was used as the indicator for socioeconomic status. Educational differences in mortality from lung and UADT cancer ...

of chipped stone tools were obtained by direct procurement from bedrock and transported geologic sources, through exchange, and by means of scavenging stone artifacts from archaeological deposits. Recycling and reuse of found stone artifacts has been historically documented (Amick 2007; Ascher 1968; Gould et al. 1971; Hill 1938; Sedig 2010; Tindale 1965) and identified in the archaeological rec...

Background: HTLV-1 is endemic in Guinea-Bissau, and the highest prevalence in the adult population (5.2%) was observed in a rural area, Caió, in 1990. HIV-1 and HIV-2 are both prevalent in this area as well. Cross-sectional associations have been reported for HTLV-1 with HIV infection, but the trends in prevalence of HTLV-1 and HIV associations are largely unknown, especially in Sub Saharan Afr...

RESUMO O presente artigo tem como objetivo estabelecer um diálogo epistemológico entre Paulo Freire e Edgar Morin, sob a perspectiva da Linguística Aplicada. Os aportes teóricos para interlocução pretendida são educação bancária emancipadora (FREIRE, 1992, 2002, 2005, 2007), Epistemologia Complexidade (MORIN, 1990, 1996, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2013), o entendimento de ato pedagógico (SANTOS, 2018) c...

Actinella F.W.Lewis, Oxyneis Round and Nupela Vyverman & Compère are three genera of pennate diatoms known exclusively from freshwater environments that are predominantly dilute and acidic (Round et al. 1990, Sabbe et al. 2001, Siver et al. 2007). Of the three, Oxyneis is the smallest genus and comprises only three species (Round et al. 1990, Metzeltin & Lange-Bertalot 2007), although only two ...