Western theater theory and criticism is generally considered to be set forth by the Greeks. Plato was “the first theater critic” with his negative comments about theater owing to his idealistic views about “the truth.” Then came Aristotle who used a different viewpoint from that of Plato, saying that there is “truth” in theater. However, hostile criticism on theater came back in the Middle Ages...

PURPOSE To describe the tests that have been performed in order to commission the Brachytherapy module, version 3.2, service pack 3.0, of the Oncentra MasterPlan treatment plan system (OB), from Nucletron. The results were benchmarked against those obtained with the Plato system, v 14.3.7, also from Nucletron, used in the clinical routine. MATERIAL AND METHODS Commissioning was performed taki...

BACKGROUND In the PLATO trial, ticagrelor was superior to clopidogrel in reducing cardiovascular events among patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) at the expense of increased nonfatal bleeding. Because Asian patients, when compared with non-Asian patients, are believed to be more susceptible to bleeding, we evaluated the effects of ticagrelor compared with clopidogrel in Asian (n=1,106) ...

Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and its complications are caused by ruptures of atherosclerotic plaques leading to aggregation of platelets and the formation of thrombi at the lesion or an implanted coronary stent. Before the era of early routine coronary stenting, platelet inhibition with aspirin was shown to reduce the risk of myocardial infarction (MI) and improve survival in this setting. In ...

Antecedentes: la prevalencia global de sobrepeso y obesidad en escolares ha aumentado drásticamente. Objetivo: evaluar el impacto una intervención educativa variabilidad alimentaria los cuidadores niños con sobrepeso, utilizando herramienta “Mi Plato”. Métodos: estudio descriptivo longitudinal 60 sobrepeso. El comprendió tres etapas: 1. Determinación dietética basal; 2. Intervención basada Plat...

According to Plato, the society as reflected in Homer's epics is one without state power. In a society without state power, the act of revenge which the offended party prosecutes on the offender is the only disciplinary force, which should be endorsed by the ethical concepts of the society. Though the ethics of Homeric society has been analyzed before, there has been no theory on the ethical st...

How to bridge the gap between the separate worlds of knowledge makers and policy makers is a problem at least as ancient as Plato, who sought to resolve it by integrating the two in a single individual: the philosopher-king. Yet even in the simpler and comparatively unchanging, hierarchical social order of the ancient Athenian city-state, Plato’s proposed solution represented a “utopia” in the ...

Plato laboured hard to characterize the di erence between genuine knowledge and mere belief He may be read as having claimed the knowledge is justi ed true belief Meno e a Theaetetus c d This account became the standard analysis of knowledge for more than two millennia Since knowledge entails belief on the standard account any attempt to fathom out the founda tions of knowledge must include an ...

Ticagrelor (Brilinta; AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Wilmington, DE, USA) is a direct acting, reversible, oral P2Y12 inhibitor.1) In the PLATelet inhibition and patient Outcomes (PLATO) study, compared to clopidogrel (Plavix; Bristol-Myers Squibb/Sanofi Pharmaceuticals, Bridgewater, NJ, USA), ticagrelor reduced the rate of death from vascular causes, myocardial infarction (MI), or stroke in pa...