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Research and Markets has announced the addition of SBD’s new directory “European Navigation Sales Forecast” to its offerings.

In a release, Research and Markets noted that report highlights include:

RDS TMC has become almost ubiquitous as the European standard for delivering traffic information to navigation systems, and TPEG is emerging as the next-generation approach for delivering higher quality traffic and travel content. This report provided in an easy- to-use excel format is part of Traffic & Travel research stream from the 2009 subscription package and provides a 7-year sales forecast for the fitment of RDS TMC and the deployment of TPEG.

Five year sales forecast for OE navigation system sales by manufacturer, supplier and geographic criteria. The sales forecasts help determine growth over the next five years for the navigation market with additional information on embedded navigation systems such as the variations between low-cost and high-end functionality.

The sales forecasts help determine growth over the next five years for the navigation market with additional information on embedded navigation systems such as the variations between low-cost and high-end functionality.

These forecasts answer the following key questions:

-What market growth can be expected for each of the navigation device types?

-Has market growth for PND systems peaked and when will it be overtaken by Smartphone navigation?

-When will OE embedded systems experience the same level of sales as it did 2008?

Report information:

http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/3d2114/ european_navigatio

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Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal, Dec, 2009 by Jose G. Rigau-Perez

El Monstruo

MANUEL ZENO GANDIA, Edition and introduction by Miguel Angel Nater, San Juan: Editorial Tiempo Nuevo, 2008; 79 pages; $13.00; ISBN: 0975545337

Editorial Nuevo Tiempo has rescued El Monstruo, a short novel, from the archives of the Manuel Zeno Gandia legacy. Its title refers to a child disfigured by congenital malformations, who is loved by his mother and his physician, but not by his father. Curiously, that is the history of the text itself, rejected as inadequate for publication by its author, Zeno Gandia. Nevertheless, in imitation of one of the principal characters in the novel, a physician, there is reason to celebrate the appearance of this Monster. It enriches not only literature, but also the sources of our medical history and the means to educate health professionals in the twenty-first century.

Manuel Zeno Gandia was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, in 1855, and died in San Juan in 1930. In 1866, his family moved to Barcelona, where he studied “bachillerato” (high school). He graduated from medical school in Madrid in 1875. Therefore, he became an adult in Spain at the time of the revolution against Queen Isabel II and lived in the capital during the First Republic and the Alfonsine restoration. While still a student, he published a monograph in 1873 entitled “The Infuence of Climate on Human Diseases. ” He later furthered his training with an internship at Hopital St. Andre in Bordeaux, France (1). The institution dated back to 1390, but the establishment of a medical faculty in 1874 had resulted in the renovation and expansion of its facilities and, above all, a completely modern educational environment (2). Months later, Zeno visited Paris (the world capital for medical advances at that time) and other cities in France. He returned to Madrid and then immediately to Puerto Rico in 1876. He settled first in Arecibo, where he wrote El Monstruo in 1878, then moved to Ponce in 1880, where he established his medical practice. For several years, until 1898, he also occupied the position of port physician or quarantine officer (3). After the American invasion, his medical work was replaced by political, journalistic and literary activities. He advocated independence for Puerto Rico as a leader of the Union Party, until it changed its platform and relegated sovereignty to a distant goal.

In spite of Zeno Gandia’s abundant poetic production, he is best known for his four “Chronicles of a Sick World”, published between 1894 and 1925: the novels Garduna, La charca [The stagnant pond], El negocio [The business] and Redentores [Redeemers]. He is considered a naturalist writer in the school of Emile Zola mainly by the style of the first two novels, in which he describes human behavior, without hiding its baseness or cruelties, with the supposedly impartial eye of a scientific observer. Zola reached popularity around 1867 and Zeno undoubtedly became familiar with his work in Madrid or France. El monstruo demonstrates, 10 or 15 years before the writing of Zeno’s greatest novels, his interest in the analysis of human weakness. The text shows the additional influence of Victor Hugo by citing the novel L’homme qui rit (1869), about a disfigured child who grows up in a circus. Zeno’s main character in El monstruo is also reminiscent of the hunchback Quasimodo in Hugo’s Notre Dame de Paris, published in 1831.

In the second chapter of Zeno’s book, Juan, an expectant father, is anguished by the indications that some tragedy has occurred during his wife’s delivery. He is about to enter the bedchamber when the physician, another important character in the plot, appears on the threshold. The doctor only increases Juan’s apprehension with words like: “Science has intricate mysteries … You are a man and one more pain is of no importance when added to the many we suffer in life”. For a long while he raises enigmas, names of illustrious physicians, and medical terms in Spanish and Latin, until Juan, completely confused, storms into the bedroom, stares at his son and leaves horrified. The author leaves no doubt that he shares the reader’s dismay at the physician’s inappropriate and “inopportune speech”.

The child, whom the narrator considers “a frightfully ugly being”, had “an enormously voluminous head and the face pushed and folded into a corner”; only one eye, wide and long earlobes, harelip, short neck, irregular chest, crooked back, and, ironically, six “perfectly developed” fingers on the right hand. As if this were not enough, he is later scarred by smallpox at the age of two. In real life, the problems that the author accumulates on the newborn would produce death in early infancy.

When Zeno wrote, physicians could not “explain” the development of a congenital malformation (4)
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