resisted the Foundation ethos stressing full-time research activity, from a fear that salaries would be eroded by high levels of inflation. Across the continent, politicians and public opinion demanded more doctors rather than the fewer and more scientifically trained doctors proposed by the Foundation. In Argentina during the late 1940s and early 1950s the Foundation gradually withdrew its sup...

The processes that govern the regulated transport of long-chain fatty acids across the plasma membrane are quite distinct compared to counterparts involved in the transport of hydrophilic solutes such as sugars and amino acids. These differences stem from the unique physical and chemical properties of long-chain fatty acids. To date, several distinct classes of proteins have been shown to parti...

This retracts article Emphysematous cystitis and emphysematous pyelitis: a clinically misleading association. Mustapha Ahsaini, Amadou Kassogue, Mohammed Fadl Tazi, Anas Zaougui, Jalal Edine Elammari, Abdelhak Khallouk, Mohammed Jamal El Fassi, My Hassan Farih. The Pan African Medical Journal. 2013;16:18. (doi:10.11604/pamj.2013.16.18.2505). Pan African Medical Journal. 2015; 21:288 doi:10.1160...

como la mayor dosificación (> 400 mg/día) podría favorecer la aparición de un síndrome de Cushing11. En consecuencia, debe tenerse especial precaución al utilizar AM por su acción sobre el eje del cortisol, dada la posibilidad de producirse, en un mismo paciente, un síndrome de Cushing y una IS posterior al retirar el AM bruscamente12. En conclusión, dado que el AM es un fármaco comúnmente util...

C. D. Gornatti Churria, G. Vigo, M. Machuca, M. Píscopo, M. Herrero Loyola and M. Petruccelli 1 Cátedra de Patología de Aves y Pilíferos y Laboratorio de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades de las Aves y los Pilíferos, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, 60 y 118 s/n, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina 2 Cátedra de Microbiología y Laboratorio de Diagnóstico ...

like other religions, there are various currents in imami shiite in the first centuries. this article, relying on discourse analysis and by concentrating on oppositions, attempts to identify the internal shiite currents in iraq and iran in the second and third centuries. according to historical evidences, the opposition between school of hisham ibn al-hakam and majority of shia, which was schoo...

Ewen et al. recently reported in the journal Hypertension that they investigated, for the first time, the effect of renal denervation on blood pressure in 63 patients with isolated systolic hypertension (Ewen et al., 2014). The authors concluded that renal denervation reduced office and ambulatory blood pressure in patients with isolated systolic hypertension (Ewen et al., 2014). However, this ...

This work reviews recent publications addressing the Twitter translation task, and highlights the lack of appropriate corpora that represents the colloquial language used in Twitter. It also discusses the most well-know issues in the Twitter genre: the use of hashtags and the amount of OOVs, with especial focus in comparing the differences between formal and colloquial texts. Resumen: Este trab...