MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE VIRAL ENCEPHALITIS IN BRAZIL

Management of acute viral encephalitis in Brazil

The appropriate management of acute viral encephalitis is a challenge.Clinical picture includes general symptoms and a wide range of neurological signs.Etiological diagnosis cannot be performed only by clinical means and depends on neuroimaging studies and cerebrospinal fluid molecular analyses.It is recommended since some of these viruses are trea

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Optical Characterization of Porous Sputtered Silver Thin Films

The optical properties of various porous silver films, grown with a commercial DC sputter coater, were investigated and compared for different plasma parameters.Effective Drude models were Vacuum Tool Adaptor Set successfully used for those films whose spectra did not show particular resonance peaks.For the other films, neither an effective Drude m

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Can mergers-in-progress be unmerged in speech accommodation?

This study examines spontaneous phonetic accommodation of a dialect with distinct categories by speakers who are in the process of merging those categories.We focus on the merger of the NEAR and SQUARE lexical sets DUO ABSOLUT ARNICA in New Zealand English, presenting New Zealand participants with an unmerged speaker of Australian English.Mergers-i

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