Current Research and Future Development in Leprosy and Tuberculosis control

INTRODUCTIONDuring recent years we have witnessed a burst of activity in leprosy research. By definition, leprosy is an infectious disease, the causative organism being cobacterium leprae. The leprosy bacillus is virtually non-toxic and may occur in large amounts in tissues with only moderate clinical symptoms. In fact, leprosy may to a great extent be regarded as an immunological disease since most symptoms arc due to immune reactions against antigens liberated from the leprosy bacilli. During recent years leprosy research has been centred, to a great extent, around studies of immunological phenomena since a better understanding of basic immunological mechanisms would provide a rational basis for improved treatment of patients with established disease, and for advancements in our understanding of the epidemiology of leprosy and its control

Restoring the “God Box”: Mies van der Rohe's Carr Chapel at IIT

Perhaps no building designed by Mies van der Rohe better exemplifies his dictum, “less is more”, than Carr Chapel. Its rectangular prismatic form and unadorned architecture led to its being called “the God Box” by the students it served at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). When a building is so simple and direct, every little detail needs to understood and attended to with great care in its conservation treatment. Combined with a chronic lack of funding, a seemingly simple project can become quite challenging and take over a decade to complete

El concepto de derecho de H.L.A. Hart y la indemnización del daño moral en Chile

In the first part of the paper we will summarize the principal aspects of the Hart´s theory of the juridical system that proposes in his classic work "The Concept of Law", across the concepts of internal and external aspect of the rules, of primary and secondary rules, of the rules of recognition, of change and of adjudication, the technologies of discretion and the adequacy of the variable standard, the relation between the right and the morality. In the second part of this work, we will explain the system of determination of the quantum of the compensation for moral damage in Chile, to conclude in the third part and end that does not exist a rule of recognition to fix the amounts compensation of the moral damage; one proposes a major effort in the foundation of the judgments on the part of the judges to advance in the creation of the above mentioned rule.En la primera parte del presente trabajo resumiremos los aspectos principales de la teoría que sobre el sistema jurídico propone Hart en su clásica obra “El Concepto de Derecho”, a través de los conceptos de aspecto interno y externo de las reglas, de reglas primarias y secundarias, de las reglas de reconocimiento, de cambio y de adjudicación, las técnicas de discrecionalidad y la adecuación del standard variable, la relación entre el derecho y la moral. En la segunda parte explicaremos el sistema de determinación del quantum indemnizatorio del daño moral en Chile, para concluir en la tercera parte y final que no existe una regla de reconocimiento para fijar los montos indemnizatorios del daño moral; se propone un mayor esfuerzo en la fundamentación de las sentencias por parte de los jueces para avanzar en la creación de dicha regla.&nbsp