As the first non-Spanish speaking member of the pop group MDO — a reincarnation of the Puerto Rican super-group Menudo – he helped expand the band ’ s followers from Puerto Rico to all of Central America.

can earn a Diploma in Osteopathic Medicine, either a DO-DAAO from the DAAO ( German-American Academy for Osteopathy ), a DOM ™ from the DGOM ( German Society of Osteopathic Medicine ), or an MDO ( Medical Doctor of Osteopathy ) from the DGCO ( German Society for Chirotherapy and Osteopathy ) if additional educational requirements are met.

The MDO matures from ventral to dorsal during development.

In zebrafish, it was shown that the expression of two Shh genes, shh-a and shh-b ( formerly described as twhh ) mark the MDO territory, and that Shh signaling is sufficient for the molecular differentiation of both the prethalamus and the thalamus but is not required for their maintenance and Shh signaling from the MDO / alar plate is sufficient for the maturation of prethalamic and thalamic territory while ventral Shh signals are dispensable.

SHH signaling from the MDO induces a posterior-to-anterior wave of expression the proneural gene Neurogenin1 in the major ( caudal ) part of the thalamus, and Ascl1 ( formerly Mash1 ) in the remaining narrow stripe of rostral thalamic cells immediately adjacent to the MDO, and in the prethalamus.

* MDO ( band ), a Puerto Rican boy band, a spin-off from Menudo

The gradient methods unique to the MDO community derive from the combination of optimality criteria with math programming, first recognized in the seminal work of Fleury and Schmit who constructed a framework of approximation concepts for structural optimization.

Hernández recorded a total of seven CDs during this period, including Tiempo de Amar (" Time to Fall in Love "), MDO, Un Poco Más (" A Little More "), Subir Al Cielo ( which was also recorded in English as Little Piece of Heaven ), and a Greatest-Hits CD.

Portillo was a member of Mexican group Liberacion and later a member of MDO.

Portillo was in MDO with Didier Hernandez, Abel Talamantez and Alexis Grullon, among others.

Didier Hernández was chosen as a member of Menudo in 1995 ; two years later, Edgardo Díaz had sold the band's original name and renamed it MDO.

Members of the SHH family and of the Wnt family are the main principal signals emitted by the MDO.

After its induction, the MDO starts to orchestrate the development of the thalamic anlage by release of signalling molecules such as Shh.

As defined by Prof. Carlo Poloni, MDO is " the art of finding the best compromise ".

First, the popular gradient-based methods used by the early structural optimization and MDO community are reviewed.

Response surface methodology, developed extensively by the operations research community, received much attention in the MDO community in the last dozen years.

During his seven years as a member of MDO, Hernández became a teen idol in Puerto Rico and across Latin America.

The following synopsis focuses on optimization methods for MDO.

At the moment the players of Meridian 59 have noticed the previous ownerships of Meridian 59 as eras, thus meaning that there has been a 3DO Era, An interim MDO era ( wherein the German partner who had provided Meridian for pay-for-play continued to do so after 3DO folded and many American players created new accounts on MDO servers ), a Near-Death studio Era and currently the players of Meridian 59 are in the K-Brothers Era (" Kirmse Brothers " Era )

After leaving MDO in 2001, Curtis signed on to play Nico Castaneda in the American soap opera Guiding Light, appearing in 86 episodes throughout the season.

He has been working on a tour called " Intimo " presenting ex (' MDO ") members in diferent countries in Latin America.

With MDO, Portillo toured across Latin America, the United States, and Mexico.

At the interface between the expression domains of Fez and Otx, the mid-diencephalic organizer ( MDO, also called the ZLI organiser ) is induced within the thalamic anlage.

The MDO is the central signalling organizer in the thalamus.

In mice, the function of signaling at the MDO has not been addressed directly due to a complete absence of the diencephalon in Shh mutants.

The Methodist Diaconal Order ( MDO ) currently admits both men and women to the Order.

Since the functions of a deacon are primarily pastoral, the MDO may therefore be regarded as an order of Regular clerics.

Multi-disciplinary design optimization ( MDO ) is a field of engineering that uses optimization methods to solve design problems incorporating a number of disciplines.

MDO allows designers to incorporate all relevant disciplines simultaneously.

For example, the proposed Boeing blended wing body ( BWB ) aircraft concept has used MDO extensively in the conceptual and preliminary design stages.

The success of structural optimization in the 1970s motivated the emergence of multidisciplinary design optimization ( MDO ) in the 1980s.

Jaroslaw Sobieski championed decomposition methods specifically designed for MDO applications.

MDO practitioners have investigated optimization methods in several broad areas in the last dozen years.

Evolutionary methods led the way in the exploration of non-gradient methods for MDO applications.

The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.

The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences defines psychological altruism as " a motivational state with the goal of increasing another ’ s welfare ".

Psychological altruism is contrasted with psychological egoism, which refers to the motivation to increase one ’ s own welfare.

One way is a sincere expression of Christian love, " motivated by a powerful feeling of security, strength, and inner salvation, of the invincible fullness of one ’ s own life and existence ".

Another way is merely " one of the many modern substitutes for love, ... nothing but the urge to turn away from oneself and to lose oneself in other people ’ s business.

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" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England ’ s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.

George Wittkowsky argued that Swift ’ s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.

In response, Swift ’ s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.

Critics differ about Swift ’ s intentions in using this faux-mathematical philosophy.

Charles K. Smith argues that Swift ’ s rhetorical style persuades the reader to detest the speaker and pity the Irish.

Swift ’ s specific strategy is twofold, using a " trap " to create sympathy for the Irish and a dislike of the narrator who, in the span of one sentence, " details vividly and with rhetorical emphasis the grinding poverty " but feels emotion solely for members of his own class.

Swift ’ s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator ’ s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.

Once the children have been commodified, Swift ’ s rhetoric can easily turn " people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound ".

Swift uses the proposer ’ s serious tone to highlight the absurdity of his proposal.

In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift ’ s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).

James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian ’ s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.

Johnson notes Swift ’ s obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works A Modest Proposal and Apology.

He reminds readers that " there is a gap between the narrator ’ s meaning and the text ’ s, and that a moral-political argument is being carried out by means of parody ".