Sobre algumas novas especies de motucas do genero Esenbeckia Rondani

New considerations about Duane’s syndrome Novas considerações sobre a síndrome de Duane

The author presents his arguments to state that the Duane’s syndrome type III of the Huber’s classification does not exist. He takes the chance of those arguments to show why the medial rectus muscle recession in Duane’s syndrome with esotropia cripples the adduction more that it does in esotropias of other origins. He shows also why one must recess also the sound eye’s medial rectus in Duane’s...

Uma Avaliação sobre Rastreabilidade de Software no Contexto do MPS.BR

The need to increase the productivity and competitiveness among software development organizations has demanded additional quality from these companies. Thus, the adoption of a processes quality model is a growing activity, mainly with the creation of the MPS.BR model, the Brazilian program for software process improvement. In this context, an activity that increases the quality and is basic is...

Physical and rehabilitation medicine in the XXI century: challenges and opportunities

1 Spinal Cord Service, Centro de Medicina de Reabilitação de Alcoitão, Portugal. Neste trabalho efetua-se uma reflexão sobre algumas das questões que estão a influenciar a reabilitação na atualidade. As alterações demográficas e a epidemiologia das doenças, o aumento das expectativas dos doentes, o crescimento dos custos dos cuidados de reabilitação, e também a dificuldade em estabelecer os lim...

Novas políticas de divisão de nós para a Slim-tree

This paper presents two new node split policies for the Slim-tree. When compared with the previously proposed policies they result in better distribution of elements on the tree nodes. This impacts positively on the performance of similarity queries such as nearest neighbors. The experimental results show that trees built with the proposed policies outperform those built with the above with reg...

Aplicação do modelo de Hull-White a precificação de opções sobre IDI