I n t e r v e n t i o n 70 patients each were allocated to 4 treatments: 1) a 10-day course of once-daily levofloxacin, 500 mg; twice-daily amoxicillin, 1 g; twice-daily rabeprazole, 20 mg (LAR); 2) a 10-day course of once-daily levofloxacin, 500 mg; twice-daily tinidazole, 500 mg; and twice-daily rabeprazole, 20 mg (LTR); 3) a 7-day course of 4 times daily tetracycline, 500 mg; 3 times daily m...

1 MD. MSc. 2 MD. Pediatric Pneumologist. 3 MD. Radiologist. 4 MD. Chest Surgeon Hospital Municipal São José, Joinville. Send correspondence to: Hospital Infantil Jeser Amarante Faria. Rua Três Barras, 539, casa 01, Bairro Saguaçu. Joinville-SC. Paper submitted to the BJORL-SGP (Publishing Management System – Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology) on December 15, 2010; and accepted on March 0...

We show that in reflexive Banach spaces there are two classes of closed cones (consumption sets) i.e. cones whose any budget set is bounded and cones whose any budget set is unbounded. We prove that in the first category of these cones the demand correspondence of any upper semicontinuous preference relation exists and we show also that this property characterizes the reflexive spaces. Moreover...

Mailing address: Carolina Fedrizzi el Andari • Rua Olavo Bilac, 314/3195010-080 Caxias do Sul, RS Brazil E-mail: [email protected] Manuscript received February 15, 2010; revised manuscript received March 09, 2010; accepted April 01, 2010.

Factors hypothesized to affect beliefs in fantastical beings were examined by introducing children to a novel fantastical entity, the Candy Witch. Results revealed that among older preschoolers, children who were visited by the Candy Witch exhibited stronger beliefs in the Candy Witch than did those who were not. Among children who were visited, older children had stronger beliefs than did youn...

The X.500 directory provides a powerful mechanism for storing and retrieving information about objects of interest. To interpret the information stored in the directory, the schema must be known to all the components of the directory. The rapid increase in the number of schemas and the relatively slow pace of standardization and subsequent publication has given rise to the challenge of making t...

With the increasing use of mobile and nomadic communication devices requirements for security and privacy are rising as well. Following brief surveys of existing approaches to mobility management, general security considerations for UMTS and confidential storing of location information we introduce the ideas and concepts behind the new ‘anonymous subscriber’ method for UMTS, largely based on ex...

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