BACKGROUND Associations between smoking and tuberculosis disease including death from tuberculosis have been reported, but there are few reports on the influence of smoking on the risk of developing Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. The aim of this study was to determine the association between smoking and M tuberculosis infection. METHODS In a cross sectional population survey, data on s...

Based upon the standard IEEE 1309, a new calibration method for electromagnetic (EM) probes is proposed. The aforementioned method compares the electric field strength measured with the EM probe subject to calibration with the E-field intensity calculated through a linear interpolation of the corrected measurement using a reference EM probe. The corrected measurement results are computed by mea...

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Raimundo Lúlio, na sua última estadia em Paris (1309-1311), escreveu O livro da lamentação Filosofia. Encaminhou diversas cartas ao rei França – Filipe IV e, com elas, a obra sobre Ele apelava o apoio para propagar fé cristã e renegar os ensinamentos averroístas que estavam sendo veiculados, principalmente, Universidade de Paris. Na obra, Lúlio apresenta Filosofia como personagem dialoga 12 pri...

Prior research on the impact of mandatory quotas in one dimension diversity, other dimensions, shows contradictory results. We seek to resolve this puzzle by relying theory social psychology homophily and recategorization processes hiring. In context a law mandating gender quota Indian boards, we predict find that boards respond hiring new women directors who are similar existing terms caste co...

The article by John Cappola et al (Chest 1989; 95:1309-15) states that randomized studies assessing the efficacy of coronary artery bypass surgery in acute myocardial infarction are not available. We wish to draw their attention to our article, “Urgent Surgical Reperfusion in Acute Evolving Myocardial Infarction; a Randomized Controlled Study” published in Circulation 1988; 79(3):I17178. This w...

Near infrared light at 2m is relatively insensitive to the presence of hot young stars and dust in galaxies, and there has been recent interest in using it as a mass tracer in spiral galaxies. I present evidence that young, cool supergiant stars, whose presence is indicated by strong CO absorption in a 2:36m bandpass, dominate the 2m light from active star forming regions in the galaxy NGC 1309...