Preliminary References, Effective Judicial Protection and State Liability. What if the Ferreira da Silva Judgment Had not Been Delivered?

josé Gustavo ParreIra1, andré MazzInI ferreIra vIanna2, GabrIel sIlva cardoso2,

Falls on the same level (FSL) are regarded as a public health problem, due to their high frequency and duo to their direct and indirect effects on the health of the population.1,2 Although they are most common among the elderly, FSL also affect the epilleptic, chronic alcoholics and drug addicts. They can cause severe and life-threatening injuries, in addition to deteriorating previous morbid s...

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This study aimed to evaluate the repellent effect of tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) and andiroba (Carapa guianensis) essential oils on two species of flies (Haemotobia irritans and Chrysomya megacephala). For the in vitro studies, free-living adult flies were captured and reared in the laboratory. To verify the repellency effect, an apparatus was constructed where H. irritans and C. megaceph...

Leonardo da Vinci, visual perspective and the crystalline sphere (lens): if only Leonardo had had a freezer.

This study confirms Leonardo's claim to have experimented on the bovine eye to determine the internal anatomy of the eye. The experiment, as described by Leonardo, was repeated in our laboratory. The study further discusses Leonardo's primary interest in the study of the eye (especially the lens), to determine how the image of an object which enters the eye in an inverted form is righted. The s...

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A study of the reference of pronoun ‘this’ in “All praise is due to Allah who guided us to this and we would not have found the way had it not been that Allah had guided us”

We encounter with some pronouns in the Holy Quran that are with no reference. Of course this makes mind search for their reference with regard to the verses’ meaning and intention, otherwise it views as subjective interpretation of Quranic text. One of these cases is the pronoun ‘this’ in (7: 43) in which anyone who is in Paradise says: “All praise is due to Allah who gu...