The purpose of this investigation was to determine the severity of pure restrictive ventilatory impairment that results in right ventricular (RV) dilatation, increased RV wall thickness, and pulmonary hypertension. Two dimensional (2-D) echocardiography, Doppler measurements of pulmonary flow, and spirometry were performed on 26 unselected patients (17 female, 9 male) with a pure restrictive ve...

Recent protest movements brought attention to the one percent, a segment of the population that is critical to understanding inequality and social mobility but that attracts relatively little research attention. In this article, I survey current research on the one percent in the United States. I distinguish income from wealth and show that both are very concentrated but that the concentration ...

O cânone literário brasileiro ignorou por mais de um século o nome Maria Firmina dos Reis, a primeira mulher negra escrever romance abolicionista no Brasil, ainda em plena ordem escravocrata: Úrsula (1859). Reis também foi autora contos e poesias do Gupeva (1861-1862). Ademais, destacou-se como uma intelectual que desafiava patriarcal, tendo trabalhado âmbito magistério com ideias inovad...

Leslie, A.M., and Thaiss, L., 1992. Domain specificity in conceptual development: Neuropsychological evidence from autism. Cognition, 43: 225–251. To understand some aspects of conceptual development it is necessary to take cognitive architecture into account. For this purpose, the study of normal development is often not sufficient. Fortunately, one can also study neurodevelopmental disorders....

Health-seeking habits play a critical role in early diagnosis and effective treatment for leprosy. The utilization of a health care system depends on socio-demographic factors, social structures, level of education, cultural beliefs and practices, gender discrimination, status of women, economic and political systems, environmental conditions, disease pattern and health care system itself. A cr...