“I Want to, But I Also Need to”: Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because pull factors pro...

The field of evolutionary psychology is growing in prominence and influence despite the reluctance of many social scientists to apply evolutionary principles to understanding human behavior (Segerstrale, 2000). Included among the phenomena that are now studied from this perspective are developmental activities and processes, and with this, the emergence of the subfield of evolutionary--developm...

Antimicrobial resistance has increased rapidly in Brazil and worldwide during the past few years, giving rise to a growing necessity for antimicrobial resistance surveillance programs. These programs have been instituted in order to monitor bacterial resistance in various regions, and to guide empirical antimicrobial therapy. We evaluated the use of molecular typing in multicenter surveillance ...

From a contagious respiratory disease of cats an agent has been transmitted to mice, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, and embryonated eggs. When inoculated intranasally into cats, it produces a disease like that seen in the naturally infected animals. Parenteral injection causes only a mild fever. From cats killed during acute illness, the agent was demonstrated regularly in the discharges from ...

We report the case of a 46-year-old female patient with WDHA (watery diarrhea/hypokalemia/achlorhydria) syndrome caused by a pancreatic polypeptide-producing tumor in the head of the pancreas. Whereas VIP and other pancreatic endocrine hormones were in the normal range, only serum levels of pancreatic polypeptide were elevated. Imaging studies identified a pancreatic tumor in the head of the gl...

in the “critique of pure reason (kritik der reinen vernunft)” kant apply the ‘judgment’ as an entry to his philosophical system and according to which he offers quadra division of propositions and with analyzing of this propositions he try to reach his implications and results. so basic philosophical categories like possibility of metaphysics, causality, universality, necessity, explanation of ...

T here is increasing demand for physicians in pediatric settings to address not only the physical but also the psychosocial health of their child and adolescent patients. Brief interventions (BIs), and in particular Motivational interviewing (MI), offer an efficient means of targeting behavioral, developmental, and social problems within the context of pediatric practice. This review addresses ...