Almost two decades have passed since Chile began its pioneering effort to restructure its electricity sector, followed by Argentina and England and Wales about a decade later. In almost all of the countries that have undertaken restructuring, the results have been at least a qualified success – and often a resounding success. California’s results, however, have been an unmitigated disaster. Thi...

background: it is known that basic science and general courses play a vital role in training of medical students. the medical students' comprehensive basic science examination (cbse) scores seem to be a potential tool for predicting their comprehensive pre-internship examination (cpie) scores. purpose: to evaluate the predictive validity of medical students' cbse scores for predicting their cpi...

2. Do I hold in my hand the truly appropriate remedy for that lack ? 3. Is the preparation stable, active, pure, and uniform ? 4. Can I accurately determine the dosage ? 5. Is the preparation smoothly active when administered by the route I propose ? 6. Are ill-effects impossible ? Even if these questions cannot be answered in the affirmative, he gives the prescriber one more chance, provided t...

This paper examines reports on how care is administered by Family Health Teams (FHT) doctors and nurses in four state capitals. It identifies issues relating to priority actions, routine activities and the association between the professional profile and how selected activities are performed, in an attempt to ascertain how far these approximate to the comprehensive approach to primary health ca...

More than 2 million children in the United States live in military families and 90 000 infants are born to these families each year. Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents, third edition,1 a publication of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), outlines an approach to comprehensive care for the individual child in the context of his or her fam...

a Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Trairi Health Sciences Faculty, Physical Therapy Course, Santa Cruz, RN, Brazil b Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Trairi Health Sciences Faculty, Rehabilitation Sciences Program, Santa Cruz, RN, Brazil c Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Trairi Health Sciences Faculty, Public Health Program, Santa Cruz, ...

Allostery is an essential regulatory mechanism of biological function. Allosteric sites are also pharmacologically relevant as they are often targeted with higher selectivity than orthosteric sites. However, a comprehensive map of allosteric sites poses experimental challenges because allostery is driven not only by structural changes, but also by modulations in dynamics that typically remain e...