The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die. By Niall Ferguson. Penguin, New York. 2012. ISBN: 978-1-59420-545-3. 174 pp. Hardcovex. $ 26.95.

Wars, violent revolutions, armed struggles and economic crises constitute a major part of the world history.Many nations and states faced testing times politically as well as economically.If empires grew, economies boomed, ideologies popularized, and systems flourished then there came a time when those empires vanished, economies crippled, ideologi

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Accompany the sick in the prelude to the end of its life cycle

Objective: Perform an ethnography, palliative unit, to study the interactions of the actors, in particular that of doctors with patients, who are living this particular situation of transit to death; and the opinion of those on palliative care.Methodology: The paradigm that we ascribe is the qualitative, ontologically constructivist and epistemolog

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Sexual Dimorphic Distribution of Hypothalamic Tachykinin1 Cells and Their Innervations to GnRH Neurons in the Zebrafish

Substance P (SP) and neurokinin A (NKA), encoded by TAC1/Tac1 gene are members of the tachykinin family, which exert their neuromodulatory roles in vertebrate reproduction.In mammals, SP and NKA have been shown to regulate gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) secretion via kisspeptin neurons.On the other hand, the role

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