Topical immunotherapy, defined as the induction and periodic elicitation of an allergic contact dermatitis by topical application of potent contact allergens, has been used to treat conditions such as alopecia areata (AA) and recalcitrant warts since the 1970s (1). Topical immunotherapy with diphenylcyclopropenone (DPCP) is a safe and sometimes effective treatment for chronic extensive AA and v...

Background. Kinds can be derived by either the nominalization operator ∩ (Chierchia 1998) or the ι-operator (Dayal 2004). ι is only available if ∩ is undefined. It is assumed that ∩ is defined for pluralities, but not for singularities, and that the lexicalization patterns of these operators vary cross-linguistically. The resultant system predicts that if a language possesses a definite article...

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology is being recognized as a new approach to decentralized workflow management systems to overcome the limitation of the current centralized ClienUServer workflow management systems. However, the lack of supporting adaptability and exception handling at instance level of this approach seems to be responsible for the weakness of the P2P workflow management systems. Dyna...

A influência dos filmes estadunidense é perceptível nas diversas produções do cinema mundial, quer seja tentativas de narrar uma história a partir linguagem cinematográfica dita clássica ou ainda nos enredos transgressores pautados, quase sempre, na desconstrução tais parâmetros narrativos já estabelecidos. O objetivo deste trabalho analisar Redenção (1959), crucial filme ficção produzido Bahia...

Apresenta-se possíveis antecedentes da criação dos cursos superiores na área de moda no Brasil, atualmente também caracterizada como design moda. Busca-se mostrar que esse percurso se entrelaça ao ensino do desenho, fazeres manuais, das artes e design. Dessa forma, propõe-se pensar essa trajetória para melhor compreender as bases contemporâneo, assim os desafios enfrentados pela País. Trata-se ...

Estudos recentes sugerem que disparidades regionais da qualidade do capital humano são importantes para explicar diferentes desempenhos de crescimento econômico. No entanto é escassa ainda a literatura analisa sua importância como fator locacional empresas serviços. Os objetivos deste estudo são: elaborar uma medida multidimensional humano; e utilizá-la em um modelo econométrico espacial estima...

A new genus and species of characid fish is described from rio Braço Norte, a tributary of rio Teles Pires, Tapajós basin, Mato Groso, Brazil. The new taxa can be diagnosed from the remaining characids by a unique combination of characters that includes the presence of a single row of relatively compressed premaxillary teeth, large teeth with four to nine cusps on premaxillary and dentary, abse...

background and aims: since the produced recombinant proteins by molecular genetics techniques commonly have some limitations in the application, chimeric protein are introduced. chimeric proteins have found widespread application for the study of protein folding, structure stability, function and immunogenisity. methods: according to the known immunomodulatory effect and structure of hsp70 mole...