Sir Bernard Spilsbury: a survey and catalogue of his autopsy case cards from the Wellcome Library, London

During his lifetime, Sir Bernard Spilsbury was referred to as the ‘‘father of forensic medicine.’’ He became a household name as a result of several famous cases. Several articles have been written about his life and work, but an objective assessment has proved difficult because of the lack of available material that Spilsbury himself produced. His main legacy has been a series of case cards, but for many years these were unavailable to the researcher. In 2008, a collection of some 4000 of Spilsbury’s case cards was bought by The Wellcome Library in London and therefore entered the public domain. In this article, we report our study of 650 of these cards. We discuss trends in Spilsbury’s work and several specific cases in more detail. These cards allow an objective view to be taken of Spilsbury’s everyday work, and we feel that some reappraisal of his legacy is now timely

A SIR chegou... : Sala de Integração e Recursos e a inclusão na Rede Municipal de Ensino de Porto Alegre

A presente investigação tem como objetivo realizar um estudo a respeito da Sala de Integração e Recursos (SIR), analisando seu papel na garantia da permanência e educabilidade dos alunos com necessidades educativas especiais, nas escolas regulares da Rede Municipal de Ensino de Porto Alegre. Este espaço constitui-se como um serviço de apoio vinculado à educação especial existente no ensino comum, onde atuo como educadora especial. Dentro dessa abordagem, mereceu destaque a perspectiva educacional inclusiva e seus pontos de conexão com a proposta político-pedagógica da referida rede de ensino. A pesquisa tem uma abordagem qualitativa e o instrumento utilizado para a coleta dos dados foi a entrevista semi-estruturada. Os sujeitos entrevistados foram cinqüenta e quatro professores do município de Porto Alegre, divididos em dois grupos, formados pelos professores que atuam na Sala de Integração e Recursos e pelos professores de sala de aula do ensino comum. A perspectiva metodológica utilizada para analisar as entrevistas foi a Análise de Conteúdo. Foram analisadas as concepções dos entrevistados em torno de três grandes eixos: Que espaço é esse? Quem é atendido nesse espaço? A construção de parcerias. Nesses eixos destacam-se aspectos relativos ao conceito e caracterização desse espaço; o perfil dos alunos encaminhados; critérios utilizados para encaminhamento e conclusão do atendimento; aspectos facilitadores e problemáticos presentes no processo de construção do espaço de interlocução entre os professores envolvidos no trabalho da SIR Os resultados indicam que existe um processo de construção de parcerias entre os professores da SIR e aqueles do ensino comum, cujos alunos são atendidos nesse espaço. Apesar das evidências de que a Rede Municipal de Ensino de Porto Alegre tem oferecido apoios relativos à inclusão, a discussão a esse respeito ainda encontra-se muito centrada no educador especial e no espaço da SIR.

Adam Smith visto por Roberto Campos: a (re)criação do mito e as necessidades do capitalismo

This work aims at analyzing how Adam Smith, one of the founders of the liberal regime was seen by Roberto Campos, one of the patriarchs of Brazilian liberalism. In this sense, it will be shown how and why the legacy of Scotland was used to legitimize the new pattern of accumulation necessary to capitalism from the second half of the twentieth century on. So, it is the intention to make explicit that the changes in Campos discursive form are consistent with the requirements of capitalism in crisis and were fundamental in the creation of another common sense. To achieve these goals it will be assessed in what way the liberal rhetoric of the Brazilian, harmonized with foreign authors with the same vision, has become an important weapon to transform Smith into a myth in contrast to the political and economic criteria advocated by the same, but valuable to what Roberto Campos intended

CMS physics technical design report, volume II: Physics performance

CMS is a general purpose experiment, designed to study the physics of pp collisions at 14 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider ( LHC). It currently involves more than 2000 physicists from more than 150 institutes and 37 countries. The LHC will provide extraordinary opportunities for particle physics based on its unprecedented collision energy and luminosity when it begins operation in 2007. The principal aim of this report is to present the strategy of CMS to explore the rich physics programme offered by the LHC. This volume demonstrates the physics capability of the CMS experiment. The prime goals of CMS are to explore physics at the TeV scale and to study the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking - through the discovery of the Higgs particle or otherwise. To carry out this task, CMS must be prepared to search for new particles, such as the Higgs boson or supersymmetric partners of the Standard Model particles, from the start- up of the LHC since new physics at the TeV scale may manifest itself with modest data samples of the order of a few fb(-1) or less. The analysis tools that have been developed are applied to study in great detail and with all the methodology of performing an analysis on CMS data specific benchmark processes upon which to gauge the performance of CMS. These processes cover several Higgs boson decay channels, the production and decay of new particles such as Z' and supersymmetric particles, B-s production and processes in heavy ion collisions. The simulation of these benchmark processes includes subtle effects such as possible detector miscalibration and misalignment. Besides these benchmark processes, the physics reach of CMS is studied for a large number of signatures arising in the Standard Model and also in theories beyond the Standard Model for integrated luminosities ranging from 1 fb(-1) to 30 fb(-1). The Standard Model processes include QCD, B-physics, diffraction, detailed studies of the top quark properties, and electroweak physics topics such as the W and Z(0) boson properties. The production and decay of the Higgs particle is studied for many observable decays, and the precision with which the Higgs boson properties can be derived is determined. About ten different supersymmetry benchmark points are analysed using full simulation. The CMS discovery reach is evaluated in the SUSY parameter space covering a large variety of decay signatures. Furthermore, the discovery reach for a plethora of alternative models for new physics is explored, notably extra dimensions, new vector boson high mass states, little Higgs models, technicolour and others. Methods to discriminate between models have been investigated. This report is organized as follows. Chapter 1, the Introduction, describes the context of this document. Chapters 2-6 describe examples of full analyses, with photons, electrons, muons, jets, missing E-T, B-mesons and tau's, and for quarkonia in heavy ion collisions. Chapters 7-15 describe the physics reach for Standard Model processes, Higgs discovery and searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model.

Search for narrow resonances in dilepton mass spectra in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV CMS Collaboration

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Search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to bottom quarks in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV

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First measurement of hadronic event shapes in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV

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Search for charge-asymmetric production of W ' bosons in t(t)over-bar + jet events from pp collisions at root s=7 TeV

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Search for physics beyond the standard model using multilepton signatures in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV

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