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It was not until the sixteenth century that dead bodies were submitted to medico-legal investigation. The horror which human dissections inspired in the ancients, and the religious awe with which they beheld the mortal wreck of their fellows, not only retarded the progress of anatomy and physiology, but excluded the light of medicine from the researches of the forum. The Jewish law, indeed, con...

Lisboa CARVALHO , Carlos Alberto Paes ALVES , Marco

Objective: To compare the results obtained from two distinct surgical approaches in patients undergoing surgical correction of an atrial septal defect (ASD). Method: The study series consisted of 20 patients, with a mean age of 24.1 ± 14.2 years, distributed in two groups. In group A, 10 patients (80% female, with a mean age of 20.9 ± 12.0 years) underwent surgical correction of ASD through a c...

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MR1631259 (2000d:11019) 11B25; 11N13 Gowers, W. T. A new proof of Szemerédi’s theorem for arithmetic progressions of length four. Geometric and Functional Analysis 8 (1998), no. 3, 529–551. This remarkable paper gives a new proof that every subset of the integers with positive density must contain arithmetic progressions of length four. This was conjectured by P. Erdős and P. Turán [J. London M...

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For α, β, n ordinals α → (β, n) means that any graph on the ordinal α either contains an independent set of order-type β or a complete subgraph of order-type n. We only consider cases where n is a natural number, hence the naming. The partition relation α → (β, n) for α, β finite multiples of κ where κ = ω or κ is weakly compact is characterized by a finitary problem as is the same for α, β fin...