Botulinum toxin type A for Holmes tremor secondary to thalamic hemorrhage

Holmes tremor (HT) is a low-frequency rest and intentional tremor frequently affecting the upper limb. The tremor, typically aggravated by movements, may in addition show an intrinsic postural component

Innovative Rural Development Initiatives

This Interim Report provides first results from case studies of innovative rural development initiatives in Europe. They were conducted by IIASA's European Rural Development (ERD) project during 2001 -- primarily to test the feasibility of the research concept and to get a first realistic impression of rural development problems and possibilities at the IDeal level. These reports are only the first round of a much larger sample of some 40 to 50 case studies, which are planned for the next two years. The results from these initial investigations will be used to streamline the research procedure for the larger sample of case studies. The rural development initiatives in this report include the following projects: a project to promote direct marketing of organic farming products in Eastern Germany ("Scheunenhof"); an eco-tourism project in Estonia ("Viljandimaa"); a Hungarian project to promote environmental protection and tourism ("SPANC"); an EU-network project to promote integrated participatory planning in Finland, Sweden and Norway ("CROSSPLAN"); a private imitative to establish a rural high-tech company in Carinthia, Austria ("me.chanic"); a project in Finland to improve the social competence and labor qualifications of rural delinquents ("KEHYPAJA"); the project of a Swedish farmer to build a small-scale wind power plant ("PITCH WIND"); and the initiatives of a mother and son in a small Polish village to start a farm-tourism agency and an eco-technology center ("Sunflower Farm")

Bóris Schnaiderman: turbilhão e semente

Este texto é uma homenagem a Boris Schnaiderman apresentada em evento comemorativo de seus noventa anos. A autora, ex-aluna do homenageado, procura lhe esboçar um breve perfil, cruzando os fios das leituras de alguns de seus livros com aqueles advindos de sua convivência acadêmica. Procura, sobretudo, dar testemunho da relevância da atuação de Schnaiderman, em quem as múltiplas tarefas - de escritor, jornalista, professor, pesquisador – sempre estiveram reunidas por uma rigorosa exigência de cunho ético.This tribute to Boris Schnaiderman was previously presented in a celebration of his 90 years. The author, that was his former student, tried to sketch a brief profile by weaving lines extracted from some of his writings and also of their close academic approch. The special aim was to testify the relevant importance of Schnaiderman’s multiple tasks: writer, journalist, professor, researcher – acts that were always guided by a rigorous ethical requirement

Roland Barthes e a escrita fragmentária

Este ensaio tem o objetivo de refletir sobre a escrita fragmentária, tal como praticada por Roland Barthes. Desenvolve-se em dois momentos distintos. Primeiramente, esboça-se um panorama histórico sumário compreendendo alguns dos momentos mais importantes da prática do fragmento, a partir do gótico. Ao mesmo tempo, procura-se reunir as principais características do pensamento fragmentário em geral. Em segundo lugar, analisam-se os conjuntos de fragmentos barthesianos, sobretudo Roland Barthes por Roland Barthes, cuja organização se faz com base em três tipos de atividades: bricolagem, encenação, metalinguagem. Esta obra, aliás, parece estar fundada sobre um paradoxo: tendo como meta a Utopia do Neutro (a in-significância), ela nada mais faz, no entanto, senão produzir significações infinitament