Desafios arquivísticos contemporâneos - Preservação, acesso e difusão : os desafios institucionais

Mesa redonda com Jaime Antunes da Silva, diretor do Arquivo Nacional; Vilma Moreira dos Santos, superintendente do Arquivo Público Mineiro, e Rosa Maria Barboza de Araujo, presidente do Museu da Imagem e do Som do Rio de Janeiro. A mesa tem como foco os desafios de instituições de acervo nas atividades de preservação, acesso e difusão de documentação histórica. Será possível conhecer casos de arquivos que têm passado por mudanças importantes na sua organização e, nesse sentido, algumas aproximações poderão ser feitas com o Arquivo Nacional da França, que acaba de inaugurar uma nova sede em Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, para onde foram transferidos 200 quilômetros lineares de documentos. Seminário em torno dos 40 anos do CPDOC.

Remission in schizophrenia: validity, frequency, predictors, and patients' perspective 5 years later

In March 2005, the Remission in Schizophrenia Working Group (RSWG) proposed a consensus definition of symptomatic remission in schizophrenia and developed specific operational criteria for its assessment. They pointed out, however, that the validity and the relationship to other outcome dimensions required further examination. This article reviews studies on the validity, frequency, and predictors of symptomatic remission in schizophrenia and studies on patients' perspectives. These studies have demonstrated that the RSWG remission criteria appear achievable and sustainable for a significant proportion of patients, and are related to a better overall symptomatic status and functional outcome and, to a less clear extent, to a better quality of life and cognitive performance. However, achieving symptomatic remission is not automatically concurrent with an adequate status in other outcome dimensions. The results of the present review suggest that the RSWG remission criteria are valid and useful. As such, they should be consistently applied in clinical trials. However the lack of consensus definitions of functional remission and adequate quality of life hampers research on their predictive validity on these outcome dimensions. Future research should therefore search for criteria of these dimensions and test whether the RSWG remission criteria consistently predict a "good" outcome with respect to functioning and quality of life.

[Treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis]

NASH associates steatosis with parenchymal inflammation and signs of hepatocellular injuy and even apoptosis. This leads in a minority of patients to fibrosis and in the long term to cirrhosis. NASH regularly occurs in a metabolic context characterized by insulin resistance. Several drugs have been tested in randomized controlled studies. Glitazones improve insulin resistance and also NASH, but are associated with side effects particularly unwelcome in NASH patients. Ursodesoxycholic acid, an hydrophilic biliary acid with hepatoprotective properties, does not improve the histological lesions of NASH. Vitamin E is the only compound which showed so far a positive effect without relevant side effects. However, it is too early to recommend its long-term use in this indication. Finally, the best treatment is not with drugs, but relies on behavioural changes: NASH patients should regularly exercise!

Beyond the Margins: Analyzing Social Exclusion with a Homeless Client Dataset

A great share of literature on social exclusion has been based mainly on the analysis of official survey data. Whereas these efforts have provided insights into the characteristics and conditions of those people living at the margins of mainstream social relations, they have however failed to encompass those who live beyond these very margins. Meanwhile, research on these hidden subpopulations, such as homeless and other vulnerable groups, remains generally less abundant and is significantly detached from the theoretical core of the debate on social exclusion. The concern about these shortcomings lies at the heart of our research. We seek to bring some light to the area by using data made available by an organization that provides services to people experiencing homelessness in Barcelona (Spain). The data sample contains clients in early stages of exclusion and others in chronic situations. Thus, we attempt to identify some of the variables that operate in preventing the "chronification" of those individuals in situation of social exclusion. Our findings suggest that certain variables such as educational level, income and housing type, which are considered to be central predictors in the analysis of poverty, behave differently when analyzing differences between stages of social exclusion. Although these results cannot be extrapolated to the whole Spanish or European reality, they could provide useful insight for future investigations on this topic.

Histoire des principales fondations religieuses du bailliage de la Montagne in Bourgogne /

Originally published: Paris : A. Aubry, 1864.

Nouveau manuel complet du dessinateur ou Traité théorique et pratique de l'art du dessin : contenant ... l'étude du corps humain ... celui du paysage, des animaux, des fleurs et des arabesques ... le dessin industriel (plans de maisons, de machiens, etc. ), le dessin de la topographie ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

Nouveau manuel complet du menuisier, de l'ébéniste et du layetier.

Mode of access: Internet.

Armorial général de France, recueil officie dressé en vertu de l'édit de 1696, généraliuś de Bourgogne.

t.1.Dijon, Semur-en-Auxois, Chatillon-sur-Seine, et Bar-sur-Seine.