PURPOSE To investigate the association between home environment resources and the school performance of children from a public school in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, enrolled in the fourth year of the second cycle of Elementary School. METHODS This is a cross-sectional descriptive study in which 48 children aged between 8 and 12 years old participated. It included 28 boys, 20 girls, and their resp...

In this paper, we analyse the factors that will influence long-term oil supply and describe the future form of the global oil supply profile as an 'undulating plateau' rather than an irreversible, short-term peak or an ever upward trend of increasing production. The ultimate transition from a world of relatively plentiful and cheap oil to one of tight supply and high cost will be slow and chall...

This article describes the jobs of new Social Security retired-worker beneficiaries about 2 years after they received their first benefit payment and compares the characteristics of these jobs with those of jobs they were in before they received a benefit. The data are from the Social Security Administration's 1982 New Beneficiary Survey (NBS). The NBS data show that more than one-fifth of the ...

OBJECTIVE Radiologists' delivery of imaging results to patients remains controversial. One model of communication suggests limiting disclosure to normal results. We argue that disclosing radiologic findings to patients is justified in all categories of results. CONCLUSION Once a doctor-patient relationship has been established, we claim that it is morally justifiable for radiologists to commu...

We study the domain wall structure in thin uniaxial ferromagnetic films in the presence of an in-plane applied external field in the direction normal to the easy axis. Using the reduced one-dimensional thin-film micromagnetic model, we analyse the critical points of the obtained non-local variational problem. We prove that the minimizer of the one-dimensional energy functional in the form of th...

A 42-year-old Caucasian man presented with a 15-year history of a widespread, persistent, pruritic eruption over his trunk and extremities. He was not on medication and had no relevant family history. On physical examination, multiple discrete, pinkish, hyperkeratotic 1 to 2 mm papules, arranged in a rippled pattern, were detected on the trunk and extremities (Figure 1). Widespread pruritic pap...

BACKGROUND Residents have primary responsibility for teaching medical students, yet many receive no formal teaching instruction. This study evaluated the impact of a longitudinal multidisciplinary teaching curriculum on resident participants' self-perceived teaching skills. METHODS Residents received instruction on teaching and leadership skills during a four-month longitudinal teaching cours...

This paper presents the demo version of FIVE (Framework for an Integrated Voice Environment). Main characteristics, some implementation details and a demonstrate plan are considered.