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Shocking, erudite, and affecting, these twenty-odd short stories, "micro-novels," and vignettes span a vast territory, from Mexico City to Washington, D.C. to the late nineteenth-century Adriatic to the blood-soaked foothills of California's gold-rush country, introducing an array of bewildering characters: a professor of Latin American literature who survives a tornado and, possibly, an orgy; an electrician confronting the hardest wiring job of his...

Background and Goal of Study: Perioperative period induced hypothermia is a common complication and is usually associated to poor outcomes.In patients submitted to elective surgical procedures, hypothermiau2019s incidence is estimated to be between 26 and 90%. Temperature evaluation is a mandatory component of anesthetic proceduresu2019 standard monitoring. Stable perioperative normothermia is considered to be a quality indicator of the provided...