bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption through worksites and families in the treatwell 5-a-day study.
Authors: Sorensen G , Stoddard A , Peterson K , Cohen N , Hunt M K , Stein E , Palombo R , Lederman R
Published: December 2011

OBJECTIVES: We report on the results of the Treatwell 5-a-Day study, a worksite intervention aimed at increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables. METHODS: Twenty-two worksites were randomly assigned to 3 groups: (1) a minimal intervention control group, (2) a worksite intervention, and (3) a worksite-plus-family intervention. The interventions used community-organizing strategies and were structured to target multiple levels of influence, following a socioecological model. Data were collected by self-administered employee surveys before and after the intervention; the response rate was 87% (n = 1359) at baseline and 76% (n = 1306) at follow-up. A process tracking system was used to document intervention delivery. RESULTS: After control for worksite, gender, education, occupation, race/ethnicity, and living situation, total fruit and vegetable intake increased by 19% in the worksite-plus-family group, 7% in the worksite intervention group and 0% in the control group (P = .05). These changes reflect a one half serving increase among workers in the worksite-plus-family group compared with the control group (P = .018). CONCLUSIONS: The worksite-plus-family intervention was more successful in increasing fruit and vegetable consumption than was the worksite intervention. Worksite interventions involving family members appear to be a promising strategy for influencing workers' dietary habits.
Can data-driven benchmarks be used to set the goals of healthy people 2010?
Authors: Allison J , Kiefe C I , Weissman N W
Published: December 2011

OBJECTIVES: Expert panels determined the public health goals of Healthy People 2000 subjectively. The present study examined whether data-driven benchmarks provide a better alternative. METHODS: We developed the "pared-mean" method to define from data the best achievable health care practices. We calculated the pared-mean benchmark for screening mammography from the 1994 National Health Interview Survey, using the metropolitan statistical area as the "provider" unit. Beginning with the best-performing provider and adding providers in descending sequence, we established the minimum provider subset that included at least 10% of all women surveyed on this question. The pared-mean benchmark is then the proportion of women in this subset who received mammography. RESULTS: The pared-mean benchmark for screening mammography was 71%, compared with the Healthy People 2000 goal of 60%. CONCLUSIONS: For Healthy People 2010, benchmarks derived from data reflecting the best available care provide viable alternatives to consensus-derived targets. We are currently pursuing additional refinements to the data-driven pared-mean benchmark approach.
Sensory impairment and driving: the Blue Mountains Eye Study.
Authors: Ivers R Q , Mitchell P , Cumming R G
Published: December 2011

OBJECTIVES: This study examined the associations between vision, hearing, loss, and car accidents. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey of 3654 people aged 49 years and older in the Blue Mountains, Australia, was used. Each subject had a detailed eye examination and interview. RESULTS: Self-reported car accident rates in the past year among 2379 current drivers were 5.6% for those aged 49 to 79 years and 9.1% for those 80 years and older. A 2-line difference in visual acuity was associated with increased risk of accidents (adjusted prevalence ratio [PR] = 1.6), as was visual acuity worse than 6/18 in the right eye (PR = 2.0), overall moderate hearing loss (PR = 1.9), and hearing loss in the right ear (PR = 1.8). CONCLUSIONS: Sensory loss in drivers may be an important risk factor for car accidents.
Lack of Oral Health Care for Adults in Harlem: A Hidden Crisis
Authors: Zabos Georgina P. , Northridge Mary E. , Ro Marguerite J. , Trinh Chau , Vaughan Roger , Howard Joyce Moon , Lamster Ira , Bassett Mary T. , Cohall Alwyn T.
Published: December 2011

Objectives. Profound and growing disparities exist in oral health among certain US populations. We sought here to determine the prevalence of oral health complaints among Harlem adults by measures of social class, as well as their access to oral health care.

Methods. A population-based survey of adults in Central Harlem was conducted from 1992 to 1994. Two questions on oral health were included: whether participants had experienced problems with their teeth or gums during the past 12 months and, if so, whether they had seen a dentist.

Results. Of 50 health conditions queried about, problems with teeth or gums were the chief complaint among participants (30%). Those more likely to report oral health problems than other participants had annual household incomes of less than $9000 (36%), were unemployed (34%), and lacked health insurance (34%). The privately insured were almost twice as likely to have seen a dentist for oral health problems (87%) than were the uninsured (48%).

Conclusions. There is an urgent need to provide oral health services for adults in Harlem. Integrating oral health into comprehensive primary care is one promising mechanism.
Public Conceptions of Serious Mental Illness and Substance Abuse, Their Causes and Treatments: Findings from the 1996 General Social Survey
Authors: Kuppin Sara , Carpiano Richard M.
Published: December 2011

Objectives. We examined the degree to which lay beliefs about the causes of disorders may predict beliefs about what constitutes appropriate treatment.

Methods. We analyzed randomized vignette data from the MacArthur Mental Health Module of the 1996 General Social Survey (n=1010).

Results. Beliefs in biological causes (i.e., chemical imbalance, genes) were significantly associated with the endorsement of professional, biologically focused treatments (e.g., prescription medication, psychiatrists, and mental hospital admissions). Belief that the way a person was raised was the cause of a condition was the only nonbiologically based causal belief associated with any treatment recommendations (talking to a clergy member).

Conclusions. Lay beliefs about the biological versus nonbiological causes of mental and substance abuse disorders are related to beliefs regarding appropriate treatment. We suggest areas for further research with regard to better understanding this relationship in an effort to construct effective messages promoting treatment for mental health and substance abuse disorders.
Health Policy and the Coloring of an American Male Crisis: A Perspective on Community-Based Health Services
Authors: Smith Amos L.
Published: December 2011

Health services at the community level are organized and financed in such a way that men need access but encounter barriers to care such as poor service design, lack of insurance, and the absence of health literacy.

Community health delivery systems may not be appropriate, effective, fit, or able to meet the needs they are charged to fill. Community-based health services, including health departments, are underfunded, understaffed, and unable to carry out their mission in a way that protects the health of the community.

The current design for funding and delivering health care services excludes poor men, particularly men of color. Improving the health of men requires modifications in the way health care is financed, delivered, and managed.
National Health Insurance or Incremental Reform: Aim High, or at Our Feet?
Authors: Himmelstein David U. , Woolhandler Steffie
Published: December 2011

Single-payer national health insurance could cover the uninsured and upgrade coverage for most Americans without increasing costs; savings on insurance overhead and other bureaucracy would fully offset the costs of improved care. In contrast, proposed incremental reforms are projected to cover a fraction of the uninsured, at great cost.

Moreover, even these projections are suspect; reforms of the past quarter century have not stemmed the erosion of coverage. Despite incrementalists’ claims of pragmatism, they have proven unable to shepherd meaningful reform through the political system.

While national health insurance is often dismissed as ultra left by the policy community, it is dead center in public opinion. Polls have consistently shown that at least 40%, and perhaps 60%, of Americans favor such reform.
E-Commerce and Privacy: Exploring What We Know and Opportunities for Future Discovery
Authors: Boritz J. Efrim , No Won Gyun
Published: December 2011

Electronic commerce (e-commerce) has a built-in trade-off between the necessity of providing at least some personal information to consummate an online transaction and the risk of negative consequences from providing such information. This requirement and the increased sophistication of companies' personal information gathering have made e-commerce privacy a critical issue and have spawned a broad research literature that is reviewed in this paper. Key research issues and findings are organized, using a framework defined by four key stakeholder groups—companies, customers, privacy solution providers (PSPs), and governments—as well as the interactions among them. The review indicates that the published research on e-commerce privacy peaked in the early 2000s; thus, it has not addressed many of the technological advances and other relevant developments of the past decade. Potential research opportunities for researchers in Management Information Systems (MIS) and Accounting Information Systems (AIS) include: company privacy strategies, operations, disclosures, and compliance practices; customer privacy concerns arising from company practices such as Internet activity tracking, physical location tracking, personal information gathering by social networks, and information exchanges in cloud computing environments; privacy-enhancing technologies, controls, and assurance practices developed by PSPs; and privacy regulations relating to various industries, countries, and cultures. More use of experimental and archival research is encouraged.
IT Capability and a Firm's Ability to Recover from Losses: Evidence from the Economic Downturn of the Early 2000s
Authors: Chen Changling , Lim Jee-Hae , Stratopoulos Theophanis C.
Published: December 2011

Prior literature shows that during an economic downturn firms have difficulty sustaining superior performance, and a larger percentage of firms report losses. Motivated by this literature, we explore the role of sustainability of organizational IT capability (ITC) on a firm's performance during an economic downturn. Specifically, we examine how ITC sustainability contributes to a firm's ability to recover from losses. ITC sustainability reflects a firm's ability to resist competitors' attempts to imitate or improve on its ITC. We use ITC sustainability to classify firms as sustainable (Systematic ITC), as non-sustainable (Occasional ITC), and as having no ITC (Non-ITC). Using a sample of large U.S. firms during the economic downturn of the early 2000s, we show that Systematic ITC firms achieve higher levels of firm-specific abnormal earnings and are capable of faster recovery when compared to all competitors (Occasional ITC and Non-ITC firms) and competitors with only Occasional ITC.
The Business Value of IT: A Synthesis and Framework of Archival Research
Authors: Masli Adi , Richardson Vernon J. , Sanchez Juan Manuel , Smith Rodney E.
Published: December 2011

This paper synthesizes recent empirical archival research investigating the link between information technology investment and business value. It examines (1) financial and nonfinancial measures to represent different elements of business value, (2) IT investment measures and links with firm performance, (3) IT and business complementarities that affect firm performance, and (4) the impact of business context and IT alignment with business strategy on resulting performance. The review of prior research is guided by a balanced scorecard framework that places IT in a business context and highlights the role of potential drivers and contextual factors that impact the association between IT and firm value. The paper concludes by proposing several broad avenues of future research that may be of particular interest to archival accounting information systems researchers.
Effect of a heat and moisture exchanger on heat loss in isoflurane-anesthetized dogs undergoing single-limb orthopedic procedures
Authors: Hofmeister Erik H. , Brainard Benjamin M. , Braun Christina , Figueiredo Juliana P.
Published: December 2011

Objective—To determine whether a heat and moisture exchange device (HME) prevents a decrease in body temperature in isoflurane-anesthetized dogs undergoing orthopedic procedures.

Design—Blinded randomized controlled clinical trial.

Animals—60 privately owned dogs weighing at least 15 kg (33 lb).

Procedures—Dogs were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 treatment groups (n = 20/group): HME placed immediately after anesthetic induction with isoflurane, after transfer to the operating room, or not at all. The device consisted of a hygroscopic filter placed between the endotracheal tube and the Y piece of the anesthesia circuit. Each dog was positioned on a circulating warm water blanket and had a forced-air warming blanket placed over its body. Body temperature was monitored after transfer to the operating room with a probe placed in the thoracic aspect of the esophagus.

Results—Study groups did not differ significantly with respect to body weight, body condition score, reproductive status, breed, surgical procedure, preoperative sedative and opioid administration, anesthetic induction drug, local nerve block technique, or operating room assignment. There were no significant differences among groups in esophageal temperature variables, interval between anesthetic induction and surgery, surgery duration, anesthesia duration, or oxygen flow rate. However, the relationship between temperature delta and body weight was significant and relevant (R2 = 0.23), as was the association between temperature nadir and body weight (R2= 0.10). As body weight increased, the temperature delta decreased and temperature nadir increased. No other significant relationships were identified.

Conclusions and Clinical Relevance—Inclusion of an HME in healthy dogs undergoing anesthesia for an elective orthopedic surgery did not facilitate maintenance of body temperature throughout the procedure.
Strategical Perspective of Corporate Environmental Policy
Authors: Navickas Valentinas , Kontautiene Rima
Published: December 2011

Strategical Perspective of Corporate Environmental Policy

The authors of the article analyze the benefits of corporate environmental policy in pursuance of a competitive advantage in the global market. Corporate environmental policy described as a strategic business investment opens new possibilities for their relationships with stakeholders and contributes to the promotion of social activity and to the attainment of the competitive advantage. By emphasizing the positive environmental policy's impact on competitive advantage of corporation in the global market the article treats of corporate environmental performance benefits, which are defined as improvement of relations with all stakeholders, intensification of corporation image, reputation development, business growth and customer loyalty. The paper deals with the development of Lithuanian corporate environmental policy in recent years and investigates the relationship between corporation activities and the improvement of relations with the stakeholders, which influences intensification of corporation's image and thereby increases competitive advantage of corporation. Researching the impact of corporate environmental policy on increasing competitive advantage, the authors found that active environmental performance positively influences business relationships with stakeholder groups and increases their competitive advantage in the global market.
Late Miocene and Pliocene history of the Danube Basin: inferred from development of depositional systems and timing of sedimentary facies changes
Authors: Kováč Michal , Synak Rastislav , Fordinál Klement , Joniak Peter , Tóth Csaba , Vojtko Rastislav , Nagy Alexander , Baráth Ivan , Maglay Juraj , Minár Jozef
Published: December 2011

Late Miocene and Pliocene history of the Danube Basin: inferred from development of depositional systems and timing of sedimentary facies changes

The development of the northern Danube Basin (nDB) was closely related to the Late Miocene geodynamic evolution of the Pannonian Basin System. It started with a wide rifting which led to subsidence of several basin depocenters which were gradually filled during the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene. In the Late Pliocene the subsidence continued only in the basin's central part, while the northern marginal zone suffered inversion and the uplifted sedimentary fill began to be eroded. Individual stages of the basin development are well recorded in its sedimentary succession, where at least three great tectono-sedimentary cycles were documented. Firstly, a lacustrine cycle containing Lower, Middle and lowermost Upper Pannonian sediments (A-F Zones;sensuPapp 1951) deposited in the time span 11.6-8.9 Ma and is represented in the nDB in Slovakia by the Ivanka and Beladice Formations. In the Danube Basin of the southern part in Hungary, where the formations are defined by the appearance of sedimentary facies in time and space, the equivalents are: (1) the deep-water setting marls, clays and sandy turbidites of the Endrod and Szolnok Formations leading to the overlying strata deposits of the basin paleoslope or delta-slope represented by the Algyő Formation, and (2) the final shallow-water setting deposits of marshes, lagoons and a coastal and delta plain composed of clays, sands and coal seams, represented by the Újfalu Formation. The second tectono-sedimentary cycle was deposited in an alluvial environment and it comprises the Upper Pannonian (G and H Zones;sensuPapp 1951) and Lower Pliocene sediments dated 8.9-4.1? Ma. The cycle is represented in the nDB, by the Volkovce Formation and in the southern part by the Zagyva Formation in Hungary. The sedimentary environment is characterized by a wide range of facies from fluvial, deltaic and ephemeral lake to marshes. The third tectono-sedimentary cycle comprises the Upper Pliocene sediments. In Slovakia these are represented by the Kolárovo Formation dated 4.1-2.6 Ma. The formation contains material of weathering crust preserved in fissures of Mesozoic carbonates, diluvial deposits and sediments of the alluvial environment.
Quaternary post-collision alkaline volcanism NW of Ahar (NW Iran): geochemical constraints of fractional crystallization process
Authors: Dabiri Rahim , Emami Mohamad , Mollaei Habib , Chen Bin , Abedini Mansor , Omran Nematallah , Ghaffari Mitra
Published: December 2011

Quaternary post-collision alkaline volcanism NW of Ahar (NW Iran): geochemical constraints of fractional crystallization process

Major and trace elements and Sr-Nd isotopic data are presented for the Quaternary alkaline volcanism NW of Ahar (NW Iran). The exposed rocks mainly consist of alkali basalts, trachybasalts, basaltic trachyandesites and trachyandesites. Alkali basalts and trachybasalts display microlithic porphyritic texture with phenocrysts of olivine, clinopyroxene, and plagioclase in microlithic groundmass. In the more evolved rocks (basaltic trachyandesites and trachyandesites), amphibole and biotite have appeared. Major and trace element abundances vary along continuous trends of decreasing MgO, TiO2, Fe2O3*, CaO, Co, Cr, V and Zn, and increasing K2O, Al2O3, Ba and Th with increasing SiO2. The Sr and Nd isotopic ratios vary from 0.704463 to 0.704921 and from 0.512649 to 0.512774, respectively. Alkali basalts with high 143Nd/144Nd ratio, low 87Sr/86Sr ratio and high MgO, Ni and Cr contents indicate that they were generated from relatively primitive magmas. Ba, Cr and La/Sm ratios versus Rb suggest that fractional crystallization of alkali basalts could have played a significant role in the formation of evolved rocks. Assimilation and fractional crystallization modelling, as well as Rb/Zr, Th/Yb and Ta/Yb ratios clearly indicate that crustal contamination accompanied by the fractional crystallization played an important role in petrogenesis of the trachyandesites. The small compositional differences between magma types, isotopic composition, mineralogy and nonlinear trends on Harker diagrams also indicate that magma mixing was not an essential process in the evolution of the Ahar magmas. Petrogenetic modelling has been used to constrain sources. Trace element ratio plots and REE modelling indicate that the alkali basalts were generated from a spinel-peridotite source via small degrees (~2.5%) of fractional melting.
Mogharaeceras priscum (Douvillé, 1916) a peculiar Barremian ammonite (Desmoceratoidea, Barremitinae) from Northern Sinai (Egypt)
Authors: Bulot Luc , Latil Jean-Louis , Vermeulen Jean , Aly Mohamed
Published: December 2011

Mogharaeceras priscum(Douvillé, 1916) a peculiar Barremian ammonite (Desmoceratoidea, Barremitinae) from Northern Sinai (Egypt)

The type material of the poorly known and monotypic genusMogharaecerasis revised. Relationship with Pulchelliidae, Engonoceratidae and Barremitinae are discussed. All the available evidence suggests thatMogharaecerasis an offshoot ofBarremititesand that it should be classified in the Barremitinae. New material from Egypt allows us to establish the Late Barremian age of this taxon.
Polish beech-larch stands: their structure, productivity and processes of generation
Authors: Andrzejczyk Tadeusz , Bolibok Leszek , Drozdowski Stanisław , Szeligowski Henryk
Published: December 2011

Sposób powstawania, struktura i produkcyjność drzewostanów bukowo-modrzewiowych w Polsce
Faith, Reason and Metaphysical Thinking: A Process Response to Fides et Ratio
Authors: Sia Santiago
Published: December 2011

Faith, Reason and Metaphysical Thinking: A Process Response to Fides et Ratio

Metaphysics has been subjected to much criticism from various quarters, including philosophy. The document Fides et Ratio affirms and defends its significance for religious belief. Strongly supporting the link between faith and reason, it endorses the tradition of using philosophy, with specific reference to metaphysics, to express, develop and defend theological doctrines. The encyclical also discusses the importance of metaphysics for one's philosophical outlook in life.
Pathological laughter and crying in patients with pontine lesions
Authors: Elyas Amin E. , Bulters Diederik O. , Sparrow Owen C.
Published: December 2011

Pathological laughter and crying (PLC) has been widely documented in the medical literature in association with various pathological processes in the brainstem, particularly infarction. However, it remains poorly understood. The authors present a case report and analyze all the cases in the literature to try to localize a putative faciorespiratory center. This 13-year-old girl developed a pontine abscess subsequent to sphenoid sinusitis. This increased in size despite antibiotic treatment, and she developed PLC. The abscess was then stereotactically aspirated, with resolution of the symptoms.

A PubMed search of the term “pathological laughter and crying” was performed. From these papers all reported cases of PLC were identified. Cases without neuroimaging were excluded. The remaining cases were categorized as small lesions permitting accurate localization within the pons, or large nonlocalizing lesions. All images of localizing lesions were magnified to the same size and placed on a grid. From this an area of maximal overlap was identified. The authors identified 7 cases of small localizing lesions with adequate imaging. The area of maximal overlap was in the region of the anterior paramedian pons. All the lesions involved this region of the pons. There were 28 further reports of large lesions that either resulted in gross compressive distortion of the pons or diffusely infiltrated it, and thus, although implicating involvement of a pontine center, did not allow for localization of a specific region of the pons.

The authors report a case of PLC caused by a pontine abscess. Symptoms were reversible with stereotactically assisted aspiration and antibiotic administration. Analysis of the lesions reported in the literature showed a pattern toward a regulatory center in the pons. The most consistently involved region was in the anterior paramedian pons, and this may be the site of a faciorespiratory center.
Message from the Editor-in-Chief
Authors: Leszczynski Jerzy
Published: December 2011

When I was a teeneger the 21st century was the distant future for us and the subject of science fiction novels.[...]
Modeling of the Hydration Shell of Uracil and Thymine
Authors: Shishkin Oleg  V. , Gorb Leonid , Leszczynski Jerzy
Published: December 2011

The molecular geometry of complexes of uracil and thymine with 11 water molecules was calculated using the density functional theory with the B3LYP functional. The standard 6-31G(d) basis set has been employed. It was found that the arrangement of water molecules forming a locked chain around the nucleobases significantly differs for uracil and thymine. The presence of a methyl group in thymine results in strong non-planarity of the hydrated shell. The existence of C-H...O hydrogen bonds between the water molecules and the hydrophobic part of the nucleobases is established. Interactions with water molecules cause some changes in the geometry of uracil and thymine which can be explained by the contribution of a zwitter-ionic dihydroxy resonance form into the total structure of the molecules.
Density Functional Studies of Molecular Polarizabilities. 10. Fulvenes and Fulvalenes
Authors: Hinchliffe Alan , Soscún Machado Humberto   J.
Published: December 2011

We report accurate Ab Initio Hartree Fock (HF) and Density Functional Theory (DFT) studies of the static dipole polarizabilities and first hyperpolarizabilities of the [n] fulvene and the [n,m] fulvalene series of molecules (with n, m = 3,5,7). Calculations are also reported for the parent cycloalkenes: cyclopropene, cyclopentadiene and cycloheptatriene (1-3 respectively). Geometries were optimized at the HF/6-311G(3d,2p) level of theory. All the fulvenes (4-6) and the smaller fulvalenes (7, 9 and 10) are found to be planar. Pentaheptafulvalene (11) is slightly non-planar whilst heptafulvalene (12) has a folded C2h structure. Calculated C-C bond lengths are consistently smaller than the experimental values. Dipole polarizabilities and non-zero hyperpolarizabilities were calculated at the HF/6-311++G(3d,2p) and BLYP/6-311++G(3d,2p) levels of theory, using HF/6-311G(3d,2p) geometries. Dipole polarizabilities correlate well with those given on the basis of atom additivity. Molecules (8), (9) and (11) show very large dipole hyperpolarizabilities.
An Approach to Improve the Quality of Infrared Images of Vein-Patterns
Authors: Lin Chih-Lung
Published: December 2011

This study develops an approach to improve the quality of infrared (IR) images of vein-patterns, which usually have noise, low contrast, low brightness and small objects of interest, thus requiring preprocessing to improve their quality. The main characteristics of the proposed approach are that no prior knowledge about the IR image is necessary and no parameters must be preset. Two main goals are sought: impulse noise reduction and adaptive contrast enhancement technologies. In our study, a fast median-based filter (FMBF) is developed as a noise reduction method. It is based on an IR imaging mechanism to detect the noisy pixels and on a modified median-based filter to remove the noisy pixels in IR images. FMBF has the advantage of a low computation load. In addition, FMBF can retain reasonably good edges and texture information when the size of the filter window increases. The most important advantage is that the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) caused by FMBF is higher than the PSNR caused by the median filter. A hybrid cumulative histogram equalization (HCHE) is proposed for adaptive contrast enhancement. HCHE can automatically generate a hybrid cumulative histogram (HCH) based on two different pieces of information about the image histogram. HCHE can improve the enhancement effect on hot objects rather than background. The experimental results are addressed and demonstrate that the proposed approach is feasible for use as an effective and adaptive process for enhancing the quality of IR vein-pattern images.
Les perles de faïence du Bronze ancien en Bretagne, méditerranéennes ou occidentales ?
Authors: Briard Jacques , Bourhis Jean , Warren S.E.
Published: December 2011

En Bretagne les premières découvertes de perles de faïence eurent lieu à Crac'h, Crozon et Penestin. Les fouilles récentes ont largement augmenté leur nombre avec les découvertes de l'Ile de Groix, Plouhinec et Saint-Nicolas-du-Pélem. A Plouhinec, 2 perles annelées et 2 biconiques proviennent d'un coffre à poterie. Les perles en faience semblent apparaître au Chalcolithique et surtout dans les tombes féminines du Bronze ancien. Les analyses montrent une composition siliceuse avec cuivre et traces d'étain. Cette composition se rapproche de celles des perles britanniques sauf à Saint-Nicolas-du-Pélem (antimoine, comme en Europe centrale). La répartition géographique dénote une influence d'origine méditerranéenne mais aussi l'existence d'ateliers occidentaux de fabrication.
Note sur des céramiques médiévales inédites à Rennes
Authors: Bardel Annie
Published: December 2011

This article discusses a group of medieval vessels used in a funerary context found during excavations inside the church of Vieux Saint-Etienne, Rennes, France. They are one-handled pitchers caracterised by a beige fabric with external turning marks and are typical of the XIII-XIV centuries. They are distinguishable in their form from other known productions in that the neck isout-turned with an under-collar and does not have an over hanging rim as is the usual case. These are vessels of good quality, thin walled, relatively well fired and probably mass produces with a fine well-washed sedimentary clay, the origin of which is as yet unknown.
Le complexe mégalithique du Petit-Mont à Arzon (Morbihan)
Authors: Lecornec Joël
Published: December 2011

After six excavations from 1979 to 1984, after the first excavation by D.de Cussé in 1865, some restorations by Z. Le Rouzic from 1905 to 1936, and a destruction on the east side in 1943, Petit-Mont looks like a large megalithic building with two cairns and two short dolmens built latedly. The finds collected show an occupation of the monuments from the beginning of the middle Neolithic period to the third century after Christ.
Les nécropoles à sarcophages des Pays de la Loire
Authors: Prigent Daniel , Bernard Émile
Published: December 2011

L'étude des nécropoles du Haut Moyen-Age des Pays de la Loire, pauvre en mobilier, est encore peu avancée. Cette région présente pourtant l'intérêt d'être une zone charnière ; l'étude de la répartition des sites à sarcophages monolithes montre une nette diminution de ce type de sépulture vers l'ouest. En Bretagne, passée la vallée de la Vilaine, les sarcophages disparaissent presque complètement. Cet article résume quelques éléments actuellement connus sur ces nécropoles.
Sépulture du Hallstatt final, rue d'Isigny à Caen (Calvados)
Authors: Edeine Bernard , Marin Jean-Yves
Published: December 2011

Les vestiges du premier Age du Fer sont particulièrement rares en Normandie. Ainsi même si les conditions de la découverte sont très mauvaises, le mobilier recueilli rue d'Isigny à Caen apporte de précieux renseignements sur cette période. La présence en particulier d'un bracelet à boules terminales permet d'affiner la datation. Enfin cette trouvaille est un nouveau témoin de l'ancienneté de l'occupation du site de Caen.
La nécropole gauloise de Nonant-le-Pin (Orne)
Authors: Edeine Bernard , Jigan Claude
Published: December 2011

La nécropole de Nonant-Le-Pin (Orne) est l'un des rares sites gaulois de Normandie à avoir livré des objets datant du début de La Tène.
Un fragment de gobelet en verre moulé à décor de gladiateurs recueilli à Corseul (Côtes-du-Nord)
Authors: Fichet de Clairfontaine François
Published: December 2011

Le verre au gladiateur est le second exemplaire de gobelet de type Morin-Jean 83 découvert à Corseul. Le fragment, sur lequel on distingue un mirmillon, est proche des verres de Colchester, Limoges ou Chavagnes-en-Pailliers. La fonction de cet objet demeure incertaine, de même que la localisation du ou des ateliers producteurs. Le contexte archéologique permet cependant de dater le verre de Corseul des années 50 après J. C. au début des années 60 après J.C.
L'Age du Bronze dans la région de La Guerche (Ille-et-Vilaine)
Authors: Briard Jacques , Lecerf Yannick , Leroux Charles-Tanguy , Meuret Jean-Claude , Onnée Yvan
Published: December 2011

Deux dépôts de bronzes découverts dans la région de La Guerche à Moutiers et Domalain ont été découverts en 1965 et 1975. Us montrent la richesse du Bronze moyen de Haute-Bretagne avec les haches à talon de type breton et les bracelets décorés du type de Bignan. L'éventail des décors de ces derniers complète la connaissance du vieux style géométrique européen. Les analyses métallurgiques révèlent des bronzes à forte teneur en étain et faible proportion de plomb. L'inventaire des autres dépôts de la région a permis de rappeler un ensemble intéressant, celui de La Guerche qui comprend une pointe de Palmela "relique" en contexte du Bronze final à haches à douille et bracelets décorés.
Un cimetière protohistorique à Plaudren (Morbihan)
Authors: Lecornec Joël , Le Ray Jean
Published: December 2011

The excavation at Plaudren-Les Grandes Routes was justified by a clearing of land in which there was an Iron Age protohistoric cemetery. The cemetery was composed of eleven tombs. One of them was particularly interesting because of the artifacts it contained : a lot of little drinking cups, a metallic hoard including a sword, and the iron part of a shield. The cemetery could be dated from the late second century to the first cenrury B.C.
Le potier Eridubnos dans l'ouest de la Gaule
Authors: Jigan Claude
Published: December 2011

The potter Eridubnos is known by rare stamps found between the river Loire and the river Seine.
Un site sous-marin sur la côte de l'Armorique. L'épave antique de Ploumanac'h
Authors: L'Hour Michel
Published: December 2011

En 1983, fut découvert dans les Sept-Iles un gisement sous-marin qui a livré deux cent soixante-et-onze lingots de plomb. Ceux-ci portaient un grand nombre d'inscriptions dont certaines évoquent des tribus celtiques de la Grande-Bretagne romanisée, les Brigantcs et les Icenes. L'étude épigraphique n'offre guère de critère de datation unique et indiscutable. Elle impose en revanche un réexamen minutieux de l'histoire politique et économique de la Bretagne romanisée. Les études archéométrique et pétrographique de quelques éléments de tuile trouves sur le site permettront peut-être de dater avec précision l'épave de Ploumanac'h.
Un gravoir médiéval au Faubourg de l'Evière d'Angers (Maine-et-Loire)
Authors: Comte François , Gaborit-Chopin Danielle
Published: December 2011

In 1985, a rare medieval object was discovered during an excavation near the castle of Angers. This toilet article used for hairdressing can be dated, from the archaeological context and its design, around 1300. Few similar objects are known to be kept in European Muséums. It is not explained why it lay in a town suburb.
Introduction à une étude métrologique des tuiles et briques gallo-romaines
Authors: Goulpeau Louis
Published: December 2011

Après un rappel des textes anciens relatifs aux données métrologiques sur les matériaux en argile cuite dans le monde romain, la collecte des données archéologiques disponibles est décrite avec ses difficultés et ses limites. Avec pour base les 99 mesures inventoriées par Blanchet en 1920, c'est un ensemble de 564 données complètes dont nous disposons aujourd'hui.

Pour les briques carrées depilae, l'emploi de la paume comme unité de base est certaine. Pour les tegulae et les briques rectangulaires, une proportion générale de 4/3 entre la longueur et la largeur est mise en évidence avec peut-être une normalisation des modules, différente entre le nord et le sud de la Loire. Nous expliquons ce rapport 4/3 à partir de considérations anatomiques : rapport entre les dimensions du pouce et du doigt, ou de la main et de la paume. Les multiples façons d'obtenir des demi-modules pour les briques sont illustrées.
Etude comparative de populations gallo-romaines et mérovingiennes en Ile-de-France et Normandie
Authors: Auboire Guy
Published: December 2011

A partir de neuf échantillons de populations antiques (trois d'époque gallo-romaine, six d'époque mérovingienne), provenant de Basse-Normandie et d'Ile-de-France et d'un groupe irlandais pré-roman, regroupant au total 417 sujets masculins, nous tentons, à l'aide des distances généralisées de Mahalanobis et Rao, modifiées par Pineau, de mettre en évidence des ressemblances morphologiques entre ces populations.

Le calcul, confirmé par ailleurs par une classification hiérarchique ascendante et une analyse en composantes principales, est réalisé à partir de variables crâniennes et post-crâniennes. Il met en relief et confirme la continuité du peuplement entre ces deux périodes.

Néanmoins, deux groupes attirent l'attention par la faible distance réalisée avec les Irlandais : Réville, dans le Cotentin, et la série du Vexin français. Cette enquête pourrait être le point de départ de recherches historiques et archéologiques qui permettraient de vérifier si, à l'orée du christianisme, ou plus tard, des groupes d'origine irlandaise ont pu, via la Grande-Bretagne, coloniser les côtes de la Manche de notre pays.
L'habitat du Haut Moyen-Age de Creac'h Gwen à Quimper (Finistère)
Authors: Menez Yves , Batt Michael , Le Bihan Jean-Paul , Morzadec Hervé , Bardel Jean-Pierre , Giot Pierre-Roland
Published: December 2011

Une fouille de sauvetage urgent a révélé en 1986, au lieu-dit Creac'h Gwen près de Quimper, les vestiges d'un important habitat de la fin du haut moyen-âge. Cet établissement, ordonné par un réseau de fossés, comportait notamment un bas-fourneau, un four à sécher le grain, ainsi que les restes de plusieurs constructions sur poteaux, dont un grand bâtiment "à trois nefs". La céramique, abondante, mise au jour dans ces structures, forme un lot homogène et original, aux formes parfois inédites.
La sépulture mégalithique à entrée latérale du Petit Vieux-Sou à Brécé (Mayenne)
Authors: Bouillon Roger
Published: December 2011

Excavation and restoration of the megalithic monument of the Petit Vieux-Sou at Brécé (Mayenne) confirmed the pre-excavation identification of the ruins as a lateral-entrance gallery grave with mound. Charcoal from within the mound has been dated at 3960 _+_ 70 BP placing the monument in the Late Neolithic towards the middle of the third millennium BC (calibrated).

The overall style - architecture, orientation... - makes significant comparisons possible with similar monuments in northern Armoriea. However, the position of the access passage at Brécé, exactly midway along the gallery, is noteworthy. The grave goods recovered include a main range of unornamented flat or round base vases with a lithic assemblage essentially of flint flakes and polished stone axes. These goods have their affinities with those of the Armorican lateral-entrance gallery graves : Quessoy and Saint-Quay-Perros may be cited though there are comparisons to be made with certain Paris Basin sites notably the Seine-Oise-Marne type trench graves and the Eteauville ossuary.
Le site de Sandun à Guérande (Loire-Atlantique) : l'occupation du second Age du Fer
Authors: Letterlé Frédérik , Le Gouestre Didier , Le Meur Nelly
Published: December 2011

A l'occasion de la fouille de l'habitat ceinturé du Néolithique moyen de Sandun à Guérande, ont été découvertes des structures datant du début du second Age du Fer. Il s'agit principalement d'un bâtiment à trois nefs, d'un «grenier» à sept poteaux, d'un «four à piliers» et d'un fossé d'enceinte (non défensif) contenant des dépôts rituels. Les relations logiques entre structures indiquent l'existence d'au moins deux phases d'occupation, probablement séparées par un faible laps de temps. Une datation radiocarbone a donné 2410 +_ 60 BP.
Les signes lapidaires sur les monuments de Caen (XIe-XIIe s.)
Authors: Coppola Giovanni , Marin Jean-Yves
Published: December 2011

With the aid of examples chosen from the romanesque monuments of Caen, this short essay attempts to show now the different types of masons'marks can be a source of information for the study of the 11th to 12th centuries. Despite their fragility, which has lead to the disappearance of a large number, these marks engraved in the stone, are still numerous and are evidently underused. It thus seems urgent to establish regional inventories permitting true protection and rational use of these marks.
Les instruments à vent en terre cuite du XVIIIe siècle trouvés au Mont Saint-Michel (Manche)
Authors: Jigan Claude
Published: December 2011

Les instruments à vent en céramique du XVIIIe siècle découverts au Mont Saint-Michel illustrent un des aspects du folklore des pèlerinages michaéliques.
Etat provisoire d'une prospection de longue durée : le site mésolithique de Quillien (Le Cloître St-Thégonnec, Finistère)
Authors: Gouletquer Pierre , Léopold Pierre
Published: December 2011

The collection of lithic material, combined with an empirical localization of artefacts has revealed two concentrations on the site at Quillien, which clearly correspond to two phases of occupation. One has produced azilian backed points, the other is related to the so-called Bertheaume group, characterised by dwarf microliths.
Découverte à Pornic (Loire-Atlantique) d'un site de l'âge du Bronze final (nouveau golf-Est)
Authors: Tessier Michel
Published: December 2011

Un nivellement étendu pour la réalisation d'un nouveau golf à Pornic (Loire-Atlantique) a mis au jour de nombreuses structures archéologiques en creux : en particulier une petite fosse contenant cendres et céramiques caractéristiques de l'âge du Bronze final signant la présence d'un habitat de cette période.

La juxtaposition dans un même territoire aux limites naturelles d'installations d'époques successives suggère que des conditions fort comparables ont présidé à l'implantation de ces différentes cultures : de l'âge du Bronze Final jusqu'au haut Moyen âge.
Les thermes d'Entrammes (Mayenne)
Authors: Naveau Jacques
Published: December 2011

Découverts en 1987, les thermes d'Entrammes (Mayenne) sont partiellement conservés en élévation grâce à leur transformation précoce en église. Ils appartient à un complexe archéologique de la fin de la Tène et de l'époque gallo-romaine, réunissant autour d'un gué un oppidum, une dizaine d'enclos et deux fana. Le monument, dont le plan est en enfilade, a gardé presque intacts deux de ses murs, qui présentent des architectures de briques (arcades, niche surmontée d'un tympan, oculi), ainsi que des témoins importants de ses sols sur hypocauste. Toutes les salles chaudes sont dotées d'absides latérales. De la première église date un aménagement liturgique comprenant un escalier et la base d'un autel.
Aux origines de la sculpture bretonne : la satuette gallo-romaine ( ?) à double face de Laz (Finistère)
Authors: Eveillard Jean-Yves
Published: December 2011

Cette statue provient d'une ferme de Laz (Finistère), où elle était exposée dans les années 1950. Elle est en leucogranite du sud du département et de facture rudimentaire. Elle offre la particularité d'être à double face adossée : d'un côté on distingue un personnage plus âgé, tenant un bâton et une bourse, de l'autre un personnage jeune tenant son phallus. C'est une oeuvre qui a probablement été produite à l'époque gallo-romaine mais avec un substrat celtique très présent. Elle est également instructive sur les origines de la sculpture bretonne chrétienne.
Un aspect méthodologique original de la prospection aérienne à travers l'exemple du nord du Finistère
Authors: Daire Marie-Yvane
Published: December 2011

De récentes prospections aériennes printannières, dans le nord du Finistère, ont révélé un nouvel intérêt méthodologique : des enclos à fossés, dont les plans sont nettement définis, sont détectés sur terres labourées, dans des conditions particulières.
Fouille d'un bas fourneau et de ses structures annexes à l'étang du Perray, en Plélan-le-Grand (Ille-et-Vilaine)
Authors: Andrieux Jean-Yves , Garçon Anne-Françoise , Coignard Joël , Fontugne Michel , Herbaut Claudie , Larcher Guy , Loyer Stephane , Moinerais Marc , Plaine Jean
Published: December 2011

The analysis of archaeological traces discovered near the Perray pond shows several sites connected to the direct metallurgy of iron. Among them, appears a bloomery remarkably preserved together with several secondary structures. Both a preliminary thermoluminescence study of the bloomery and a radiocarbon dating allow us to exclude a post gallo-roman chronology.
Les pierres gravées de Goarem Kerbilaët en Plonéour-Lanvern (Finistère) et leur contexte méso-néolithique
Authors: Le Goffic Michel
Published: December 2011

Le site de Goarem Kerbilaet, connu depuis 1962, a livré à plusieurs prospecteurs une industrie lithique témoignant de l'occupation de cet espace au Mésolithique et au Néolithique. En outre des pierres gravées de motifs géométriques révèlent un sens artistique évolué pour une civilisation qui peut être rapportée - au moins provisoirement - au début du mésolithique armoricain.
Un atelier de potier à Landieul
Authors: Pirault Lionel , Bonnin Nicolas
Published: December 2011

En juillet 1991, une opération de sauvetage menée au village de Landieul à Herbignac par le Service régional de l'archéologie a permis de dégager des friches un remarquable ensemble composé de deux fours à pots appartenant à une batterie qui en comptait cinq à l'origine. Trois tranchées de sondage ont été réalisées en arrière des deux fours. Grâce à l'abondant matériel recueilli sur place, elles ont permis de dresser la typologie des formes céramiques fabriquées dans l'atelier du potier Dalino dans le courant de la première moitié du XXème siècle.
Les stations du Mésolithique final de Falaise et de Saint-Pierre-du-Bû
Authors: Dietsch Marie-France
Published: December 2011

Le sauvetage urgent entrepris sur ces deux sites contigus a livré des séries lithiques d'importance inégale, la première issue de tamisages et la seconde, d'une fouille de 137 m2. Cette dernière n'a permis de découvrir ni structures ni véritable concentration de matériel. Malgré la présence d'outils indiscutablement néolithiques, plusieurs caractères communs aux deux assemblages - style Montbani du débitage, présence de lames Montbani et d'armatures à retouches inverses plates - permettent d'identifier pour la première fois dans la région, une occupation du Mésolithique final. Les armatures se distinguent de celles que l'on connaît en Bretagne et se rapprochent des séries du nord de la France, en particulier par la latéralisation dextre.
Deux occupations du Néolithique ancien à l'ouest du Pays de Caux (Seine-Maritime)
Authors: Ghesquière Emmanuel , Marcigny Cyril , Lefèvre Philippe , Blancquaert Geertrui
Published: December 2011

Ces deux gisements ont été découverts lors de fouilles préventives liées aux travaux autoroutiers de l'A29 (Le Havre - Saint-Saëns). Ils sont implantés à l'ouest du Pays de Caux, proches de l'embouchure de la Seine. Le premier de ces sites nous a permis d'observer une industrie lithique à débitage lamellaire et à armature trapézoïdale, a laquelle étaient associés quelques tessons céramiques. En l'absence d'un corpus important ce locus est attribué à un Mésolithique dans sa phase récente ou à un Néolithique ancien. Le second site est quant à lui attribué au Villeneuve-Saint-Germain récent. Le mobilier céramique est exclusivement composé de décors plastiques (boutons et cordons) et l'industrie lithique est orientée vers un débitage d'éclats. On notera la présence, au sein de l'assemblage, d'une lame en silex tertiaire et de deux fragments de bracelets de schiste. Ces deux lambeaux d'occupation renouvellent la question de la néolithisation d'une zone géographique encore trop mal connue.