A historical note on an imported case of loiasis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1964

Loiasis is a filarial disease transmitted by the Chrysops spp. tabanid flies in West and Central Africa. It is most commonly diagnosed by the clinical manifestations of Calabar swellings (transient localized inflammatory edema) or, most dramatically, by the appearance of a migrating worm through the conjunctival tissues or the bridge of the nose. We report the case of a 35-year-old resident in the city of Rio de Janeiro who displayed a moving Loa loa in the bulbar conjunctival tissue two years after returning from a six-month trip to Uganda. Surgical removal of the worm was performed.

Mário Alberto Nunes Costa: a acção arquivística e bibliotecária

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em (Ciências da Informação e da Documentação – variante Arquivo

Owner portraits and heraldry in the "Lamoignon Hours"

Because of the distance in time and the lack of testifying documents, one should be extremely careful when labelling portraits in medieval books of hours as donor portraits or owner portraits. There are, however, manuscripts that reveal their first owner within their decorative programme, and the Lamoignon Hours (Lisbon, Gulbenkian, ms LA 237) is one of these. This article aims to discuss the iconography of the three portraits found on f.165v, f.202v and f.286v, as well as the relevance of portraiture and heraldic insignia in books of hours and the significance of such content to the original owner and to those who possessed the book afterwards.

A documentação de arte efémera como forma de preservação: O caso de "Árvore Jogo/Lúdico em 7 Imagens Espelhadas" de Alberto Carneiro

No que diz respeito à sua preservação e apresentação grande parte da arte contemporânea exige respostas eficazes e pragmáticas do ponto de vista da museologia. Esta situação torna-se mais evidente em obras de instalação e media art, que recorrem a múltiplos objectos, mantêm uma relação com o espaço e são alvo de fenómenos de obsolescência tecnológica, reclamando assim, estratégias que passam pela produção activa de registos documentais, a fim de garantir o seu legado a gerações futuras. A partir da obra de Alberto Carneiro "Árvore jogo / lúdico em 7 imagens espelhadas", que foi pela primeira vez materializada na Galeria Quadrum, em Lisboa, em 1975, e destruída no ano seguinte pelo autor, após a Bienal de Veneza, discutimos as estratégias documentais mais adequadas. A metodologia assenta num trabalho de base antropológica, através de entrevistas com o artista, que permitam identificar todos os aspectos relacionados com o processo criativo e criar um manual de instalação, que se pretende de fácil acesso a investigadores, conservadores e até ao público em geral. Para este efeito iniciou-se um trabalho de colaboração com o Departamento de Informática da FCT-UNL com vista à construção de uma ferramenta multimédia que permita reunir num só local toda a informação relativa à obra.

Histoplasmosis as a late infectious complication following heart transplantation in a patient with Chagas' disease

Infectious complications following heart transplantation are an important cause of morbidity and mortality. Generally, bacterial infections are predominant; however, fungal infections can be responsible for up to 25% of infectious events. We report the case of a patient who presented with histoplasmosis as an infectious complication five years after heart transplantation due to a chagasic cardiopathy. This association has rarely been reported in the international literature.

BIOMedical search engine framework: lightweight and customized implementation of domain-specific biomedical search engines

The Smart Drug Search is publicly accessible at http://sing.ei.uvigo.es/sds/. The BIOMedical Search Engine Framework is freely available for non-commercial use at https://github.com/agjacome/biomsef

The London journal of botany : containing figures and descriptions of such plants as recommend themselves by their novelty, rarity, history, or uses : together with botanical notices and information and and occasional portraits and memoirs of eminent botanists.

v.2 (1843)

The London journal of botany : containing figures and descriptions of such plants as recommend themselves by their novelty, rarity, history, or uses : together with botanical notices and information and and occasional portraits and memoirs of eminent botanists.

v.3 (1844)

The London journal of botany : containing figures and descriptions of such plants as recommend themselves by their novelty, rarity, history, or uses : together with botanical notices and information and and occasional portraits and memoirs of eminent botanists.

v.4 (1845)

The London journal of botany : containing figures and descriptions of such plants as recommend themselves by their novelty, rarity, history, or uses : together with botanical notices and information and and occasional portraits and memoirs of eminent botanists.

v.5 (1846)

The London journal of botany : containing figures and descriptions of such plants as recommend themselves by their novelty, rarity, history, or uses : together with botanical notices and information and and occasional portraits and memoirs of eminent botanists.

v.6 (1847)

The London journal of botany : containing figures and descriptions of such plants as recommend themselves by their novelty, rarity, history, or uses : together with botanical notices and information and and occasional portraits and memoirs of eminent botanists.

v.7 (1848)

Desarrollo de un test de detección temprana de trastornos de aprendizaje- test de velocidad de denominación.

La evaluación de la velocidad de denominación permite la identificación temprana de niños en riesgo de desarrollar dislexia. Por lo tanto es importante contar con un test de velocidad de denominación que sea adecuadamente diseñado para nuestro contexto cultural. Debido a que las pruebas de denominación creadas en otros contextos culturales no funcionan adecuadamente al aplicarse transculturalmente, es que se propone construir el Test de Velocidad de Denominación. Éste es un test neuropsicológico para evaluar la velocidad de denominación (implica cronometrar el tiempo necesario para la producción de los nombres correctos de figuras que se le presentan al individuo). Se diseñarán las láminas y se realizará un estudio piloto para determinar las figuras más adecuadas a incluir. Luego se realizará un estudio de validez del test. Para completar ambos estudios se propone administrar alrededor de cincuenta tests a niños en edad pre-escolar (cuatro y cinco años) para el estudio de diseño de las láminas; y a alrededor de cien niños de primer a tercer grado se les administrará el Test de Velocidad de Denominación y dos subtests de la batería de lectura LEE, para el estudio de validez.