Estudo duplo cego com Isoconazol e Terbinafina tópicos no tratamento de um paciente com Tinea nigra plantaris bilateral e sugestões para novos diagnósticos diferenciais

The authors report a case of bilateral Tinea nigra plantaris treated through a double-blind study with the topical antifungal agents Isoconazole and Terbinafine. The objective of the study was to clinically compare the efficacy of these two topical antifungal agents on days 10, 20 and 30 of the treatment. No significant clinical differences were found, as all the plantar lesions regressed completely by the end of the treatment. Our conclusion was that in the case reported, the topical antifungal agents Isoconazole and Terbinafine demonstrated identical efficacy as a clinical cure. We also suggest the inclusion of injuries caused by arthropods of the Diplopoda Class in the differential diagnosis of Tinea nigra plantaris, due to the persistent acral hyperpigmentation.

Fuzzy community structure detection by particle competition and cooperation

Identification and classification of overlapping nodes in networks are important topics in data mining. In this paper, a network-based (graph-based) semi-supervised learning method is proposed. It is based on competition and cooperation among walking particles in a network to uncover overlapping nodes by generating continuous-valued outputs (soft labels), corresponding to the levels of membership from the nodes to each of the communities. Moreover, the proposed method can be applied to detect overlapping data items in a data set of general form, such as a vector-based data set, once it is transformed to a network. Usually, label propagation involves risks of error amplification. In order to avoid this problem, the proposed method offers a mechanism to identify outliers among the labeled data items, and consequently prevents error propagation from such outliers. Computer simulations carried out for synthetic and real-world data sets provide a numeric quantification of the performance of the method. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.

Draft revised text of the constituent declaration and functions and rules of procedure of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee as adopted by the 19th Session of the CDCC, 13-14 March 2002. Note by the Secretariat

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Committee on Cooperation among Developing Countries and Regions: annotated provisional agenda

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Committee on Cooperation among Developing Countries and Regions: provisional agenda

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Activities of the ECLAC system to promote and support technical cooperation among developing countries and regions during the 2002-2003 biennium: note by the Secretariat

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Report of the Committee on Cooperation among Developing Countries and Regions

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Committee on South-South cooperation: provisional agenda

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Committee on South-South cooperation: annotated provisional agenda

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Activities of the ECLAC system to promote and support South-South cooperation during the 2004-2005 biennium. Note by the Secretariat

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Trends and challenges in international cooperation and the mobilization of resources for development in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Activities of the ECLAC system to promote and support South-South cooperation during the 2006-2007 biennium

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