El esfuerzo de restituir la pluralidad del fenómeno comunista a través de la búsqueda colectiva. Reseña del libro Le siécle des communismes, bajo la dirección de Michel Dreyfus, Bruno Groppo, Claudio Ingerflom, Roland Lew, Claude Pennetier, Bernard Pudal y Serge Wolikow; París, les editions de ratelier, 2000, 542 páginas

Fil: Bisso, Andrés. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

El esfuerzo de restituir la pluralidad del fenómeno comunista a través de la búsqueda colectiva. Reseña del libro Le siécle des communismes, bajo la dirección de Michel Dreyfus, Bruno Groppo, Claudio Ingerflom, Roland Lew, Claude Pennetier, Bernard Pudal y Serge Wolikow; París, les editions de ratelier, 2000, 542 páginas

Fil: Bisso, Andrés. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

El esfuerzo de restituir la pluralidad del fenómeno comunista a través de la búsqueda colectiva. Reseña del libro Le siécle des communismes, bajo la dirección de Michel Dreyfus, Bruno Groppo, Claudio Ingerflom, Roland Lew, Claude Pennetier, Bernard Pudal y Serge Wolikow; París, les editions de ratelier, 2000, 542 páginas

Fil: Bisso, Andrés. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Hypotheses, rationale, design, and methods for prognostic evaluation in type 2 diabetic patients with angiographically normal coronary arteries. The MASS IV-DM Trial

Background: The MASS IV-DM Trial is a large project from a single institution, the Heart Institute (InCor), University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Brazil to study ventricular function and coronary arteries in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Methods/Design: The study will enroll 600 patients with type 2 diabetes who have angiographically normal ventricular function and coronary arteries. The goal of the MASS IV-DM Trial is to achieve a long-term evaluation of the development of coronary atherosclerosis by using angiograms and coronary-artery calcium scan by electron-beam computed tomography at baseline and after 5 years of follow-up. In addition, the incidence of major cardiovascular events, the dysfunction of various organs involved in this disease, particularly microalbuminuria and renal function, will be analyzed through clinical evaluation. In addition, an effort will be made to investigate in depth the presence of major cardiovascular risk factors, especially the biochemical profile, metabolic syndrome inflammatory activity, oxidative stress, endothelial function, prothrombotic factors, and profibrinolytic and platelet activity. An evaluation will be made of the polymorphism as a determinant of disease and its possible role in the genesis of micro- and macrovascular damage. Discussion: The MASS IV-DM trial is designed to include diabetic patients with clinically suspected myocardial ischemia in whom conventional angiography shows angiographically normal coronary arteries. The result of extensive investigation including angiographic follow-up by several methods, vascular reactivity, pro-thrombotic mechanisms, genetic and biochemical studies may facilitate the understanding of so-called micro- and macrovascular disease of DM.

Bernard Michael Bindon - reproductive physiologist, animal scientist, research leader

This paper is a foreword to a series of papers commissioned on 'the impact of science on the beef industry', where the Beef CRC-related collaborative scientific work of Professor Bernard Michael Bindon will be reviewed. These papers will be presented in March 2006, as part of a 'festschrift' to recognise his wider contributions to the Australian livestock industries for over 40 years. Bindon's career involved basic and applied research in many areas of reproductive physiology, genetics, immunology, nutrition, meat science and more recently genomics, in both sheep and cattle. Together with his collaborators, he made large contributions to animal science by improving the knowledge of mechanisms regulating reproductive functions and in elucidating the physiology and genetics of high fecundity livestock. His collaborative studies with many colleagues of the reproductive biology and genetics of the Booroola Merino were amongst the most extensive ever conducted on domestic livestock. He was instrumental in the development of immunological techniques to control ovulation rate and in examining the application of these and other techniques to increase beef cattle reproductive output. This paper tracks his investigations and achievements both within Australia and internationally. In the later stages of his career he was the major influence in attracting a large investment in Cooperative Research Centres for the Australian cattle industry, in which he directed a multi-disciplinary approach to investigate, develop and disseminate science and technology to improve commercial cattle productivity.

A randomized comparative study of patients undergoing myocardial revascularization with or without cardiopulmonary bypass surgery: The MASS III Trial

The MASS III Trial is a large project from a single institution, The Heart Institute of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (InCor), enrolling patients with coronary artery disease and preserved ventricular function. The aim of the MASS III Trial is to compare medical effectiveness, cerebral injury, quality of life, and the cost-effectiveness of coronary surgery with and without of cardiopulmonary bypass in patients with multivessel coronary disease referred for both strategies. The primary endpoint should be a composite of cardiovascular mortality, cerebrovascular accident, nonfatal myocardial infarction, and refractory angina requiring revascularization. The secondary end points in this trial include noncardiac mortality, presence and severity of angina, quality of life based on the SF-36 Questionnaire, and cost-effectiveness at discharge and at 5-year follow-up. In this scenario, we will analyze the cost of the initial procedure, hospital length of stay, resource utilization, repeat hospitalization, and repeat revascularization events during the follow-up. Exercise capacity will be assessed at 6-months, 12-months, and the end of follow-up. A neurocognitive evaluation will be assessed in a subset of subjects using the Brain Resource Center computerized neurocognitive battery. Furthermore, magnetic resonance imaging will be made to detect any cerebral injury before and after procedures in patients who undergo coronary artery surgery with and without cardiopulmonary bypass.

Recensão de: CHARLOT, Bernard (1999). Le Rapport au Savoir en milieu populaire. Une recherche dans les Lycées Professionnels de banlieue. Paris: Anthropos, 390 p.

Revista Lusófona de Educação

Inesgotável Koltès: dois ensaios sobre "Na solidão dos campos de algodão" de Bernard-Marie Koltès

Dois ensaios sobre a peça "Na solidão dos campos de algodão". Um explora as suas categorias trágicas e o outro compara o texto de Koltès com o "Auto da Alma" de Gil Vicente.

A contribuição de Claude Bernard à ecologia médica

Claude Bemard realizou importante contribuição à Ecologia Médica quando propôs o conceito de "meio interior". Além de permitir a compreensão dos processos fisiológicos fundamentais, constituiu o ponto de partida para o estudo da ecologia endógena dos organismos. Como Shelford e Chapman notaram, nesse nível, a ecologia e a fisiologia têm muito em comum. No nível individual, a ecologia médica preocupa-se com o estudo das relações entre o homem e a microbiota endógena. Claude Bemard identificou os fatores abióticos do meio interno, na época em que Pasteur e Koch identificavam e descreviam os componentes bióticos do microecossistema endógeno.

Text-book of comparative anatomy, by Arnold Lang with preface to the English translation by Ernst Haeckel, tr. into English by Henry M. Bernard and Matilda Bernard.

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Text-book of comparative anatomy, by Arnold Lang with preface to the English translation by Ernst Haeckel, tr. into English by Henry M. Bernard and Matilda Bernard.

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