Background: Gastric bypass is a restrictive and malabsorptive surgery. The restrictive part consists in the creation of a small gastric pouch. The gastrointestinal bypass serves as the malabsorptive element. Aim: To describe a simplified gastric bypass approach for morbid obese patients, showing our results, and also remarking the importance of this technique for reducing the learning curve....

ELIZABETH L. EISENSTEIN, The printing press as an agent of change: communications and cultural transformations in early-modern Europe, Cambridge University Press, 1979, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. xxi, 794; vol. 1, £30; vol. 2, £25; or £50 the set. Bookmen have never managed to achieve an agreed definition of their field of study. Bibliography has been claimed on the one hand by mere, but useful, enumera...

It is a surprise to see how, as years go by, two activities so germane to our discipline, (1) the creation of quality software, and (2) the quality teaching of software construction, and more generally of Computer Science, are surrounded or covered, little by little, by beliefs, attitudes, “schools of thought,” superstitions and fetishes rarely seen in a scientific endeavor. Each day, more peop...