Migration in Andrea Levy's Short Narratives

Andrea Musacchio

refinements of this equipment. There was a direct analogy with the voltage clamp approach in nerve, but now length or force became the controlled parameter in place of voltage. This approach was applied in a quantitative study of the relation between the steady force produced by an active muscle fiber and its length: Huxley showed that force is proportional to overlap between the thick and thin...

Andrea Pimentel

SIR, We previously reported an autoinflammatory disease associated with nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain containing protein 2 (NOD2) gene mutations, designated as NOD2-associated autoinflammatory disease (NAID) [1, 2]. To date, none of the studies of NOD2 mutations have demonstrated spontaneous inflammation in NOD2-associated diseases [3]. Herein we report a patient with NAID to illust...

Comments on “The impact of migration on children in developing countries” by Andrea Rossi

Rossi’s paper is well organized and generally clear. The most complete and useful part is that relating to children left behind (chapter 2). The impact of migration on those children has been the focus of considerable attention by the research community. Rossi does a good job of detailing the main findings of the research literature. His review shows that there are few findings that could be tr...

Andrea Rassell exegesis

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Ogilvie syndrome, or acute colonic pseudo-obstruction, is a severe distension of the colon caused by decreased large bowel motility in the absence of a mechanical obstruction. It can be a consequence of medical treatment such as with clozapine. An 82-year-old male with Alzheimer disease under treatment with antipsychotics (clozapine) was admitted with abdominal distension and constipation. On e...