Silviano Santiago: elogio e crítica a Lévi-Strauss, ou Lévi-Strauss como texto e bom pretexto

Strauss: a Specification Miner

Program verification tools (such as model checkers) are powerful tools for finding errors in programs. Unfortunately, these tools need lots of formal specifications of correct program behavior. Can we really expect programmers to write all of these specifications by hand? This dissertation is about Strauss, a tool I wrote to bring automation to specification-writing. By observing traces of work...

[(Inter)disciplinary spaces: Food/Nutrition/Health/Public Health].

Maria Lúcia Bosi e Shirley Prado apresentam um texto instigante e necessário, pelos dilemas que levanta em face da questão de situar a Alimentação/Nutrição no vasto campo do conhecimento e da ciência, especialmente porque remete a relações que são caras à epistemologia e à história da ciência, tais como individual/coletivo, natural/social/cultural, objetividade/subjetividade, estrutural/relacio...

Churg-Strauss syndrome.

Churg-strauss syndrome.

First described in 1951 as an allergic and granulomatous angiitis, Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) is a small-vessel vasculitis. Mean age at the time of diagnosis is approximately 50 years, with a sex ratio around 1. Asthma is the central feature of CSS and precedes the systemic manifestations in almost all cases, whereas 70% of the patients have maxillary sinusitis, allergic rhinitis, and/or sinu...

Churg-Strauss Syndrome

Pulmonary: asthma, pneumonitis and haemoptysis. Upper respiratory tract: allergic rhinitis, paranasal sinusitis, nasal polyposis. Cardiac involvement is common. [6]This includes heart failure, myocarditis and myocardial infarction. [7] Skin: purpura, skin nodules, leukocytoclastic angiitis with palpable purpura, livedo reticularis, urticaria, necrotic bullae and digital ischaemia. Renal: glomer...