James Cooley Fletcher, o missionário amigo do Brasil

Enfermedad cardiovascular y grasas: “amigo o villano”

Dietary fatty acids and cholesterol are the main determinants of cardiovascular disease. In the last 25 years our traditional dietary pattern has tended to include higher total fat content and lower nutritional quality, which will have negative effects on our state of health. In this review, we provide an overview of current knowledge on the influence of different dietary fatty acids and choles...

Advergames e Inovação no Turismo: O Caso do Projeto Brasil, Curta Pernambuco

Associação de Psiquiatria do Rio Grande do Sul Brasil

Objective: To investigate the association between aggression in the first 24 hours after admission and severity of psychopathology in psychiatric inpatients. Methods: This cross-sectional study included psychiatric patients admitted to Hospital Universitário de Santa Maria, in Santa Maria, southern Brazil, from August 2012 to January 2013. At their arrival at the hospital, patients were intervi...

Denton Arthur Cooley, MD.

Denton Arthur Cooley, MD, a pioneering heart surgeon, died November 18, 2016, at age 96. He was born in Houston, TX, on August 22, 1920, to Ralph Clarkson Cooley and Mary Fraley Cooley. From the beginning, Cooley’s career in medicine and his contributions to humanity seem to have been foreshadowed. His father was a prominent Houston dentist, and the attending obstetrician at his birth was Dr Er...

Logan Fletcher

Fred Dretske opens his book Knowledge and the Flow of Information with the assertion that information is objective. In contrast to the common view of information “as something that depends on the interpretive efforts— and, hence, on the prior existence—of intelligent life,” Dretske intends to develop a view of information “as an objective commodity, something whose generation, transmission, and...