VHL is an on-line ( digital library ) and common space for the convergence of the cooperative work of producers, intermediaries, and users of information on healthcare science, built and developed by the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information ( also known as BIREME ) in 1998.
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In the later bireme dromons of the 9th and 10th centuries, the two oar banks ( " elasiai " ) were divided by the deck, with the first oar bank was situated below, whilst the second oar bank was situated above deck; these rowers were expected to fight alongside the marines in boarding operations.
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Such a vessel, used as a merchantman, might take on a passenger, as Lycinus relates in the second-century dialogue " Love Affairs " ( ? ), traditionally attributed to Lucian of Samosata : " I had a speedy vessel readied, the kind of bireme used above all by the Liburnians of the Ionian Gulf ."
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In common with the general characteristics of the " dromMn " type, the " chelandion " was a bireme galley, i . e . with two rows of oars, which provided its main means of propulsion, although it also featured one or two lateen sails, and was steered by two quarter rudders at the stern.
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BIREME, as a specialized center PAHO / WHO, coordinates and conducts technical cooperation activities on the management of scientific information and knowledge with the aim of strengthening and expanding the flow of scientific health information in Brazil and in other Latin American and Caribbean countries as a key condition for the development of health, including its planning, management, promotion, research, education, and care.
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"' Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ci�ncias da Sa�de "'( Literature in the Health Sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean, in Portuguese language ), acronym "'LILACS "', is an on-line bibliographic database in medicine and health sciences, maintained by the " Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information " ( also known as BIREME, located in S�o Paulo, Brazil.
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The most common theory on the arrangement of oarsmen in the new ship types is that of " double-banking ", i . e ., that the quadrireme was derived from a bireme ( warship with two rows of oars ) by placing two oarsmen on each oar, the quinquereme from a trireme by placing two oarsmen on the two uppermost levels ( the " thranitai " and " zygitai ", according to Greek terminology ), and the later hexareme by placing two rowers on every level.
