Objectives: This case study highlights the applicability of Dynamic Assessment (DA) in exploring the cognitive development and intellectual functioning of a schizophrenic foreign language learner. Methods: The general analytical framework of study to unmask the changes in the learner’s competence is Microgenesis. Results: Analysis of the findings not only supports the Vygotskian view re...

Using Twins to Resolve the Twin Problem of Having a Bad Job and a Low Wage We use data on twins matched to register-based information on earnings to examine the long-standing puzzle of non-existent compensating wage differentials. The use of twin data allows us to remove otherwise unobserved productivity differences that were the prominent reason for estimation bias in the earlier studies. Usin...

We summarize discussions among the key science case authors to determine cost-benefit trade-offs (also known as “metrics”) related to the PSF seen by the science instrument (Davinci).. In section 2 we summarize discussions related to the potential scientific benefit of characterizing the shape and the stability of the PSF. In section 3 we discuss reconstruction. In conclusion, in section 4, we ...

Instituição: Departamento de Otorrinolaringologia, Cabeça e Pescoço do Hospital da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas, SP, Brasil 1Médico Residente em Otorrinolaringologia da Disciplina de Otorrinolaringologia, Cabeça e Pescoço da Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Unicamp, Campinas, SP, Brasil 2Mestre em Medicina pela Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Universidade Nova de Lisbo...

The dopamine transporter (DAT) regulates synaptic dopamine (DA) in striatum and modulation of DAT can affect locomotor activity. Thus, in Parkinson's disease (PD), DAT loss could affect DA clearance and locomotor activity. The locomotor benefits of L-DOPA may be mediated by transport through monoamine transporters and conversion to DA. However, its impact upon DA reuptake is unknown and may mod...

dopamine (da) is one of the main catecholamines in the brain and is crucial for movement coordination, endocrine function, reward, mood, memory and emotions. the dopaminergic system is the primary therapeutic target in the treatment of parkinson’s disease (pd), drug addiction and schizophrenia. notwithstanding, dysfunction of central dopaminergic neurotransmission has also been associated to de...

BACKGROUND WSG-ARA plus trial evaluated the effect of adjuvant darbepoetin alfa (DA) on outcome in node positive primary breast cancer (BC). PATIENTS AND METHODS One thousand two hundred thirty-four patients were randomized to chemotherapy either with DA (DA+; n = 615) or without DA (DA-; n = 619). DA (500 µg q3w) was started at hemoglobin (Hb) levels <13.0 g/dl (<12 g/dl after DA label amend...

O Ministério da Saúde do Brasil recebeu no dia 9 de junho de 2006, a Certificação Internacional de Eliminação da Transmissão da Doença de Chagas pelo Triatoma infestans, conferida pela Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde. Tornase importante enfatizar, no entanto, que tal certificação não representa o controle efetivo da doença no Brasil. A certificação representa somente a eliminação (interrupçã...

Edson Abdala, Sı́lvia Figueiredo Costa, Tania Mara Varejão Strabelli, Lı́gia Camera Pierrotti, Marlova Luzzi Caramori, Luis Sérgio Fonseca de Azevedo, Karim Y. Ibrahim, Frederico Luiz Dulley, Glaucia Fernanda Varkulja, Gilberto de Castro Junior, Gisele Madeira Duboc de Almeida, Heloisa Helena de Souza Marques, Maria Aparecida Shikanai-Yasuda, Comissão de Infecção em Imunodeprimidos, Hospital das ...