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contato com uma 1 Editor's choice: “The difficulties of putting patients first”. The point of medicine is to look after patients. Yet every medical student hears the tired joke that the perfect hospital is one without patients. If they were to disappear then so would the bad smells, blood, chaos, stress, and waiting lists. As a medical student doing a locum I had a sneaking worry that the teaching hospital was run for the benefit of the doctors not the patients. (BMJ, 2002;325,…

………………………………………………………………………………………….......................................531 5 RESUMO GERAL X GAMES BARCELONA 6 TOP THINGS TO KNOW 1. The X Games lands in Barcelona, Spain, for the first time. Big-time sporting events are nothing new for this city. It’s home to one of the most successful soccer teams in the world, FC Barcelona, and its megastar Lionel Messi. In 1992, the city hosted the Summer Olympics, which witnessed the original “Dream Team” dominate the men’s…

in many applications and areas, including telecommunications, and increasingly in medicine. Their ability to store a larger amount of information, carrying the same at high speed is one of the advantages over copper wires, and they can be used both for transmission to short or long distance - connecting local area networks, or even countries. This work is the study of mechanisms for multicast networks using GPON FTTH technology. Begins by making an approach to optical fiber, motivation,…

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BILL BRYSON Breve história de quase tudo Tradução Ivo Korytowski 13ª reimpressão __________________ Companhia das Letras Copyright © 2003 by Bill Bryson Ilustrações de Neil Gower Título Original A short history of nearly everything Capa Kiko Farkas/Máquina Estúdio Elisa Cardoso/ Máquina Estúdio Índice remissivo Luciano Marchiori Preparação Otacílio Nunes O in tuit o dest e t ra d em o balho crati z a é r Po r a l ei t f avo r ura. , con co mp side ra d o

Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1B/SW/RQ/QV/IN Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Professional Visual Basic 2005 / Bill Evjen ... [et al.]. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7645-7536-5 (paper/website) ISBN-10: 0-7645-7536-8 (paper/website) 1. Microsoft Visual BASIC. 2. BASIC (Computer program language) I. Evjen, Bill. QA76.73.B3P7485 2005 005.2’768 — dc22 2005012585 3. Microsoft .NET. No part of this publication…

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da Ciência na Pennsylvania State University e com títulos tão sugestivos quanto A mente não tem sexo? As mulheres e as origens da ciência moderna (The mind has no sex? Women and the origins of modem science) e O corpo da natureza: Gênero na construção da ciência moderna (Nature's body: Gender in the making of modem science) em seu currículo, Schiebenger parece estar autorizada por sua própria vivência acadêmica a fazer a pergunta que dá título ao presente livro. Com uma carreira…

DESERT BIOMES MARLENE WEIGEL E N C Y C L O P E D I A O F 2 GRASSLAND LAKE AND POND OCEAN RAIN FOREST BIOMES MARLENE WEIGEL E N C Y C L O P E D I A O F 3 RIVER AND STREAM SEASHORE TUNDRA WETLAND Biomes of the World U•X•L Encyclopedia of Biomes Marlene Weigel STAFF Julie L. Carnagie, U•X•L Editor Carol DeKane Nagel, U•X•L Managing Editor Thomas L. Romig, U•X•L Publisher Meggin Condino, Senior Analyst, New Product Development Margaret Chamberlain,…

nature of intuition, the skeptical challenge of rational disagreement, and “the value problem”—the question why knowledge is preferable to mere true belief. Special features of the third edition of Epistemology include: • • • enhanced treatment of key topics such as perception, scientific hypotheses, self-evidence and the a priori, testimony, contextualism, understanding, and virtue epistemology expanded discussion of the relation between epistemology and related fields, especially…