Price-setting policy determinants: micro-evidence from Brazil

The paper studies the Video Servers frequency of price changes from a survey data on Brazilian companies.The data set has the advantage of including all of the economic sectors: agricultural and food products, trading, industry and services.Strong evidence of nominal price rigidities is found on the data with average and median price durations arou

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Fatal meningococcal septicemia without meningeal signs, contribution of the peripheral smear in diagnosis: Report of a case

Project Panels Acute meningococcemia is characterized by extensive purpurae consisting of both petechiae and ecchymoses.This condition can be rapidly fatal without treatment due to shock and severe consumptive coagulopathy.We report a case of fatal meningococcal septicemia in a military recruit who presented with fever and associated rapidly progre

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