52 Nearly a year ago on a day like today—as people scrabbled for some charcoal to cook the evening meal, fetched their children from school, and sewed costumes for carnival—the ground began to shift. Buildings folded and houses crumbled. In the time it takes to read this paragraph, one of the most devastating earthquakes recorded in the hemisphere changed the Haitian landscape forever. Twelve m...

Com base no desfile campeão da Estação Primeira de Mangueira 2016, o presente ensaio busca articular a realização do desfile, enquanto representação artística, à sua significação na relação entre tema e estética apresentados Sapucaí, partir presença corporificada cantora compositora fama internacional Maria Bethânia cortejo, destacando-se qualidades sígnicas que são engendradas criação espetácu...

In this write-up, we are interested in how much information can be extracted by random sampling of a certain size for a range space of VC dimension d. In particular, we show that several standard results about samplings follow from the sampling theorem of Lin et al. [LLS01]. The following assumes that the reader is familiar and comfortable with ε-nets and εapproximations. The results surveyed i...

BACKGROUND Multiple lines of evidence have suggested that valproic acid (VPA) might benefit patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). The SMA CARNIVAL TRIAL was a two part prospective trial to evaluate oral VPA and L-carnitine in SMA children. Part 1 targeted non-ambulatory children ages 2-8 in a 12 month cross over design. We report here Part 2, a twelve month prospective, open-label trial ...