In the history of research on Brazilian education, several studies address expansion elementary education over years in country, addition to historical pedagogical context that permeated this process period between 1930 and 1985. The main objective article is analyze Elementary Education, based Laws Guidelines Bases National Education (GBNE) no. 4.024/61 5.692/71. concludes educational policy m...

Computer entered 1985 with a new editor in chief (EIC), the second drawn from the IEEE Computer Society’s growing ranks of volunteers. In choosing an EIC, the Board of Governors wanted to see “a better mix of university and industry types” as well as “a better mix of universityand industrygenerated technical articles.” They appointed Michael Mulder, who had experience in both worlds—he had work...

Machine. An original goal for Cedar was to combine a compiled, strongly-typed language with the interpretive symbolic power of lnterlisp or Smalltalk. The Abstract Machine is a step in this direction. Its facilities are all ultimately based on the symbol tables and program graphs that the compiler, binder, and program loaders produce. Its primary use at present is in support of ordinary Cedar a...

OBJECTIVE To examine trends in suicide rates in Israel over a 13-year period. METHOD All cases of autopsy-confirmed suicide in Israel from 1985 to 1997 were retrospectively reviewed. RESULTS An overall annual increase in suicide rates, with rates in men 3 times higher than those in women, was observed. Suicide rates were highest in the second and third decades of life. Unlike Western countr...

Source characteristics of the Sept. 19, 1985 Michoacan, Mexico earthquake and its aftershock on Sept. 21 were inferred from broadband and short-period teleseismic GDSN records. We Fourier-transformed the P waves, corrected for instrument response, attenuation, geometrical spreading, and radiation pattern (including the depth phases), and then averaged to obtain the teleseismic source spectrum f...