Unemployment, or worklessness, is firmly on the agenda of various Western countries. Although other challenges to citizens' well-being are being identified, as increasing labour market insecurities and rising poverty rates, the problem of non-work is given the main public attention. Even countries with no experience of high unemployment rates, such as Norway, have recently introduced welfare re...

The National School of Public Health Sergio Arouca (ENSP), by means of the Department of Administration and Health Planning (DAPS) and supported by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), held in November 2009, a seminar on two interrelated themes: the network model applied to health systems and hospital services management and the latest trends and approaches ...

Whilst terms like ‘law of the tendency’, ‘tendency law’ and „tendential law‟ appear in Marxist political economy, their meaning is unclear. This paper identifies the main conceptions of laws and tendencies buried in these terms and disambiguates them. Part one differentiates three conceptions of law: (i) event regularity; (ii) event regularity/tendency and (iii) tendency. Part two focuses on (i...

The clustering of cases of disease within family groups has long been of interest to geneticists, but the empirical data which they have gathered concerning the strengths of these associations have had to do largely with conditions that were thought in advance to be either hereditary or at least partially so. Epidemiologists, who might be expected to be interested in the strengths of familial p...

Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma (IVL) is rare and characterized by selective growth of neoplastic cells within the lumina of small blood vessels. We present the case of a 69-year-old woman who died of a widespread IVL with extravascular involvement of the lymph nodes, liver, bladder, and adrenal gland. This report discusses the unique features of IVL with concurrent extravascular components.

s of the 9 Annual Meeting of the Society for Anxiety Research Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Würzburg, Germany November 16-17, 2007, Würzburg, Germany

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A Ramachandran plot is a visual representation of the main-chain conformational tendencies of an amino acid. Despite forty years of research, the shape of Ramachandran plots is still a matter of debate. The issue in making a Ramachandran plot based on experimental data is deciding whether sparse data represent genuine conformations. We present here a simple solution to settle the ambiguities of...