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Primeiro dia de Outono 2016

AMICORE-Book: atualizado em 20/03/2016

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - 0 seconds ago
AMICORE-Book 13 março, 2016 AMICORE-BOOK [image: ISFC logo139.jpg] AMICOR PROJETO DE E-BOOK Aproveito a mensagem de Alerta semanal para convidar para uma visita a um novo Blog que estou inaugurando onde pretendo reunir artigos meus, muitos já publicados - inclusive esparsos pelo Blog AMICOR - como um projeto de E-Book ou mesmo de um futuro livro. Índice para o AMICORE-BOOK.BLOGSPOT.COM: *Estendendo a opinião* *AMICOR* *Carnaval* *Bôrtolo Achutti* *Histórias que meu pai contava - 1* *Histórias que meu pai contava - 2* *Histórias que meu pai contava - 3* *Bairro Itararé - SM* *O Tre... mais »

Consciousness, Memory, and Sense of Self

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The Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten: A Trailblazing Exploration of Consciousness, Memory, and How Our Sense of Self Arises“This is the very essence of memory: its self-referential base, its self-consciousness, ever evolving and ever changing, intrinsically dynamic and subjective.”BY MARIA POPOVA [image: The Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten: A Trailblazing Exploration of Consciousness, Memory, and How Our Sense of Self Arises] *“One can’t write directly about the soul,”* Virginia Woolflamented. *“Looked at, it vanishes.”* A century later, we may have rendered the notion of the soul u... mais »

MCI women

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Medscape Medical News > Neurology Verbal Memory Advantage May Delay MCI Diagnosis in Women Pauline Anderson March 18, 2016 Women's superior verbal memory may be an advantage early in life, but perhaps not so much when it comes to early diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI). New research, published online March 16 in *Neurology*, reveals that despite similar levels of hippocampal atrophy, older women have better verbal memory than older men. Because verbal memory deficits are used to diagnose amnestic MCI (aMCI), women could be missing out on early detection of this condition, sa... mais »

AD infectious ethiology

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Medscape Medical News > Psychiatry Role of Infection in Alzheimer's Ignored, Experts Say Nancy A. Melville March 18, 2016 The potentially critical role of infection in the etiology of Alzheimer's disease is largely neglected, despite decades of robust evidence from hundreds of human studies, as well as the possible therapeutic implications, experts say. "Despite all the supportive evidence, the topic [of linking infections to Alzheimer's disease] is often dismissed as 'controversial,' " the authors of an editorial, signed by an international group of 33 researchers and clinicians, wri... mais »

Prostate cancer test

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 6 horas
RNA sequencing opens door to accurate, highly specific test for prostate cancer By admin - March 13, 2016 201 0 A study on non-coding RNA (Ribonucleic Acid) from prostate cancer patients has identified a series of new prostate cancer markers which can be found in urine. Combining these RNA markers into a single test potentially opens the door for simple, accurate non-invasive testing for prostate cancer. This work is presented at the European Association of Urology Congress in Munich. Current tests for prostate cancer, such as the PSA and PCA3 tests, are not particularly accura... mais »

Economic Risk

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 19 horas
Calculate Your Economic Risk *Recomendado pela AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja* - - - GÉRARD DUBOIS MARCH 18, 2016 Gray Matter By MARK R. RANK and THOMAS A. HIRSCHL TWO economic issues loom especially large in the United States today: widespread economic insecurity and soaring levels of income inequality. These are not just issues of interest to academics and policy makers; they are a prime concern of ordinary citizens. “How much economic risk do *I* face in the future?” you may wonder. “How does my risk differ from that of others?” Plenty of professors, including ours... mais »

Computer backup

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Platelet and Erythrocytes

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Platelet interaction with erythrocytes and propensity to aggregation in essential thrombocythaemia Mia-Jeanne van Rooy, PhD , Prof Etheresia Pretorius, PhD[image: correspondence][image: email] Published Online: 14 May 2015 [image: Article has an altmetric score of 11] DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(14)62293-5 | [image: show]Article Info - Summary - Full Text - Tables and Figures 3 years after diagnosis with essential thrombocythaemia (*JAK2* Val617Phe mutation) in January, 2011, a healthy 26-year-old white woman was referred to the Applied Morphology Research Cent... mais »

Prostate Cancer

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Defining new standards of care for men with prostate cancer Howard I Scher[image: email] Open Access[image: Article has an altmetric score of 3] DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)01235-0 - Summary - Full Text - Tables and Figures - References Improving the outcomes of medical or surgical castration for men with prostate cancer has been an elusive goal since the approach was first reported in the 1940s.1 However, this situation changed at the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in 2014, when results reported from the ChemoHormonal Therapy Ver... mais »

Test for Cancer detection

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 2 dias
FEATURE 16 March 2016 How a simple blood test could spot cancer earlier Even in the earliest stages of disease, tumours give their presence away by releasing genetic clues into the bloodstream. We are starting to decipher them [image: blood spots] Written in blood? Science Photo Library CASEY LIM (not her real name) was 11 weeks pregnant when she gave a blood sample to test for Down’s syndrome. It revealed multiple abnormalities in fragments of DNA circulating in her blood. Further analysis showed that the mutant DNA wasn’t from the fetus but from Lim’s own white blood cells. A fo... mais »

life's ancestor

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Ultimate family tree: Tracing the oldest ancestor of all life Somewhere on Earth, 4 billion years ago, matter came to life for the first time. Clues to the identity of the original life form lurk in every one of us [image: Darwinian Ida] Our Darwinian ancestor lurks within P. Rona/OAR/NURP/NOAA/SPL In the beginning was Ida, the initial Darwinian ancestor – the first material on Earth to transform from inert to, well, ert. Ida begat Luca, the last universal common ancestor, and the molecule that gave rise to every kind of life on Earth, from lowly bacteria to the giant panda. But... mais »

World Happiness Report 2016

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OVERVIEW The *World Happiness Report* is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness. The first report was published in 2012, the second in 2013, and the third in 2015. The World Happiness Report 2016 Update, which ranks 156 countries by their happiness levels, was released today in Rome in advance of UN World Happiness Day, March 20th. Leading experts across fields – economics, psychology, survey analysis, national statistics, health, public policy and more – describe how measurements of well-being can be used effectively to assess the progress of nations. The reports review ... mais »

25 more Powerfull Companies

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THE MAGAZINE These 25 Companies Are More Powerful Than Many Countries by Parag Khanna and David Francis Going stateless to maximize profits, multinational companies are vying with governments for global power. Who is winning? MORE

87 Essential Films

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Spike Lee Shares His NYU Teaching List of 87 Essential Films Every Aspiring Director Should See [image: Spike Lee Shares His NYU Teaching List of 87 Essential Films Every Aspiring Director Should See] 1 min read openculture.com / in Education, Film| July 29th, 2013 28 CommentsI’m sure you’ve heard by now: wealthy, successful film director Spike Lee hopes to fund his next film via a Kickstarter campaign. Yes, that’s right,

To Quit Smoking

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To Quit Smoking, It's Best To Go Cold Turkey [image: To Quit Smoking, It's Best To Go Cold Turkey] 2 min read npr.org / Rae Ellen Bichell Nicola Lindson-Hawley remembers how hard it was for her mom to stop smoking. "One of the reasons I find this topic very interesting and why I went into ... read more

The Circle of Life

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*The Circle of Life* All 2.3 Million Species Are Mapped into a Single Circle of Life Lineages of all known species on Earth are finally pieced together By Mark Fischetti on March 1, 2016 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Email Print Share via - Google+ - Stumble Upon Since Charles Darwin's day, biologists have depicted how new organisms evolve from old ones by adding branches to numerous trees that represent portions of the animal, plant and microbial kingdoms. Researchers from a dozen institutions recently completed a three-year effort to combine tens ... mais »

The Mind Diet

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*The MIND diet*, created by researchers at Rush University Medical Center, has repeatedly ranked as the easiest to follow and second best diet overall in terms of reducing the risk for hypertension, heart disease, and stroke. It has now been found to protect against dementia. The name MIND stands for Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay, where DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. In a recent study, the MIND diet lowered the risk for Alzheimer's disease by 53% in participants who rigorously adhered to it and by nearly 35% in those who follow... mais »

Einstein documentos

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 5 dias
*Documentos de Einstein acessíveis* Quando Albert Einstein morreu em 1955, deixou os direitos autorais de todos os seus documentos pessoais para a Universidade Hebraica de Jerusalém (Israel) e para a Universidade de Princeton (EUA). São cerca de 80 mil páginas que incluem cartas, cadernos, cartões postais e diários que o gênio da física deixou em caixas e sótãos em vários países por onde viveu. As universidades se uniram em 1986 para estudar todos estes documentos, esforço chamado de Einstein Papers Project. Tudo isso deve virar 30 livros. Até agora, 13 volumes estão prontos, com a do... mais »

Quotes

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20 Quotes From Children’s Books Every Adult Should Know 18K Views View Page

US Highest-Paying Job

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What's the Highest-Paying Job in the U.S.? JONATHAN CHEW FROM FORTUNE MAGAZINE Glassdoor revealed its list of the top 25 jobs on Wednesday. Physicians have topped this year’s list of the 25 highest-paying jobs in America. In the latest report by jobs marketplace Glassdoor released on Wednesday, physicians are expected to bring home a median base salary of $180,000, which is highest among all occupations. Lawyers and research and development managers fill out the top three. One common thread that unites the top-paying jobs is the high level of skill required, and the protection of these... mais »

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