MEDITERRANEAN PLANT COMMUNITIES AFTER RECURRENT WILDFIRES Ricardo Díaz-Delgado, Francisco Lloret, Xavier Pons and Jaume Terradas 1 CREAF. Fac. Ciencias. Bellaterra. 08193. Barcelona. SPAIN. Telephone list: 34 3 581-1877, -2700, -2666, -2850. Fax: 34-3-5811312, E-mail list: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]. 2 Departament de Geografia. Universitat Autònoma d...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between variations in skin humidity (SH) induced by perspiration across Sasang types and to identify novel and effective Sasang classification factors. We also analyzed the responses of each Sasang type to sweating-related QSCC II items. The results revealed a significant difference in SH across gender and significant differences in SH b...

BACKGROUND Leptospirosis is an epidemic-prone neglected disease that affects humans and animals, mostly in vulnerable populations. The One Health approach is a recommended strategy to identify drivers of the disease and plan for its prevention and control. In that context, the aim of this study was to analyze the distribution of human cases of leptospirosis in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Br...

I use Bousso’s causal diamond measure to make a statistical prediction for the dark matter abundance, assuming an axion with a large decay constant fa ≫ 10 GeV. Using a crude approximation for observer formation, the prediction agrees well with observation: 25% of observers see less dark matter than we do while 75% of observers see more dark matter. Larger values of the dark matter ratio are di...

This paper presents a review of non-experimental methods for the evaluation of social programmes. We consider matching and selection methods and analyse each for cross-section, repeated crosssection and longitudinal data. The methods are assessed drawing on evidence from labour market programmes in the UK and in the US. JEL classification: J38, H3, C2. I. AN OVERVIEW OF THE EVALUATION PROBLEM T...

a Hospital Federal de Bonsucesso, Serviço de Fisioterapia, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil b Hospital Universitário Gaffrèe e Guinle UNIRIO, Serviço de Fisioterapia, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil c Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Faculdade de Medicina, Instituto do Coração Edson Saad (Ices), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil d Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto Alberto Luiz Coimbra de P...

1 Universidade Federal do Paraná, Hospital de Clínicas, Programa de Residência Integrada Multiprofissional em Atenção Hospitalar, Programa em Atenção à Saúde do Adulto e do Idoso. Curitiba, PR, Brasil. 2 Universidade Federal do Paraná, Hospital de Clínicas, Serviço de Neurologia, Ambulatórios de Disfunção Cognitiva e de Neurogeriatria. Curitiba, PR, Brasil. 3 Universidade Federal do Paraná, Hos...

10 Maloney and Dal Martello (2006) reported that similarity ratings of pairs of related and unrelated children were almost perfect predictors of the probability that those children were labeled as being siblings by a second group of observers. Surprisingly, similarity ratings were not good predictors of whether a sibling pair was same-sex or opposite-sex or how close a pair was in age, suggesti...

Treatment of phenylketonuria (PKU) includes the use of a metabolic formula which should be provided free of charge by the Unified Health System (SUS). This retrospective, observational study sought to characterize judicial channels to obtain PKU treatment in Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Brazil. Lawsuits filed between 2001- 2010 and having as beneficiaries PKU patients requesting treatment for the di...

Most elderly patients die with an order in place that they not be given cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNR order). Surveys have shown that many elderly in different parts of the world want to be resuscitated, but may lack knowledge about the specifics of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Data from countries other than the US is limited, but differences in physician and patient opinions by na...