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La Civita in the Valley of the Sabato
Authors: Woolley C. L.
Published: August 2013

In the upper valley of the river Sabato, eight kilometres above Serino, the mountains close in on either side and at the narrowest part an irregular rounded spur juts out on the east bank. The Sabato flows at its foot, and two torrent beds, cut through the neck of the land behind, almost isolate the hill from the main mountain range; a ring of grey stone walls rising from the edge of its steep sides encloses the level ground of its summit. The ruin, marked on the survey map by an arbitrary line, is there called Civita; in the neighbourhood, as well as in such notices of it as appear in books, it shares this name with the less vague one of Sabazia. My attention was drawn to the site by Commendatore Orilia, who had himself some time ago published upon it an article in which he argued against the correctness of the name Sabatia or Sabazia and put forward the suggestion that this might be Picentia, the chief town of the Picentini after the year 260 B.C.
Antiquae Statuae Urbis Romae
Authors: Ashby Thomas
Published: August 2013

The history of the monuments and works of art of the classical period, which were in existence in Rome during the Renaissance, is of importance to us for many reasons. We may learn what were the materials which were at the disposal of the great masters in architecture, painting, and sculpture, and see in their drawings and sketches, as well as in the works which they actually executed, what use they made of the models which they had before their eyes, and what interested them in a greater or less degree. We may trace the growth of that antiquarianism out of which the science of archaeology was in process of time to develop. We may also obtain valuable information concerning much that has been destroyed or lost, or has, at least, come down to us in a very different state to that in which it was in their day.
Two Tomb-groups from Selinus
Authors: Dunbabin T. J.
Published: August 2013

K. M. T. Atkinson's study of two tomb-groups from Selinus in a recent volume of the Papers of the British School at Rome deserves attention for several reasons. It is the first time that the contents of any of these graves, excavated over fifty years ago, have been published as a whole. It is not easy in Palermo Museum to isolate and study individual grave-groups from Selinus, owing to the vicissitudes they have been through since they came out of the ground. Any publication of grave-groups has a value above that of the original vases; and many of these vases, particularly the bucchero, belong to classes which are interesting and too little studied. Mrs. Atkinson therefore deserves our gratitude for her careful and well-illustrated publication.

She goes on to draw conclusions which, if well established, would be of great historical value. No one has satisfactorily explained the existence of two well-supported dates for the foundation of Selinus, which is an important point of history and vital for absolute archaeological chronology. So her arguments and the dating of vases and graves on which she bases them deserve a rigorous examination. From such an examination it will appear that the date of the two graves and of most of their contents is substantially lower than she allows.
Documents from the Angevin Registers of Naples: Charles I
Authors: Jamison Evelyn M.
Published: August 2013

The deliberate, senseless destruction of the documents belonging to the Grande Archivio di Stato of Naples is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, single crime against history committed by the German army during the late war. The circumstances and the results of the act which reduced to ashes this vast collection of records of Southern Italy, covering more than a thousand years, are not as widely known among scholars, much less the general public, as they should be, and they seem therefore to call for some brief account in order to explain the reason of the present publication. Evacuated because of the dangers of air-warfare over Naples from the Archivio to the Villa Montesano near to S. Paolo Belsito some thirty kilometres away, and packed for the most part into 866 solid cases, this priceless treasure of over 30,000 MS. volumes and 50,000 documents under the charge of a keeper of Archives remained undiscovered by the German command until the Allied troops were already approaching.

On 28 September, 1943, however, a foraging party came to the Villa in search of calves wanted for food and found instead cases of records stored for safety. Next morning an officer accompanied by a single soldier arrived; he ordered one of the chests to be opened and carefully inspected the volumes packed within. After the purely historical nature of the deposit had been explained to him and its immense importance from this point of view, he professed himself satisfied and departed.
The Tripolitanian Gebel: Settlement of the Roman Period around Gasr ed-Dauun
Authors: Oates David
Published: August 2013

This paper summarises the results of work carried out during the years 1949–51 in the eastern Gebel of Tripolitania. The area had been visited, and some of the sites noted, by nineteenth-century travellers and by Italian archaeologists between the wars, and the adjacent plateau of Tarhuna has been the subject of a recent paper by R. G. Goodchild. My work was complementary to his, and I have not reproduced the details of information so lately set out except where they were immediately necessary.

I was able to spend long periods in the territory while holding the Scholarship in Classical Studies at the British School at Rome and a Research Scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, and I am deeply indebted both to the School and to my college for their generous support in unusual circumstances: in particular the latter, for providing a truck which carried me over fifteen thousand miles in difficult country and for a generous grant towards the cost of illustrating this paper.
The attempted Byzantine alliance with the Sicilian Norman kingdom (1166–7)
Authors: Parker John
Published: August 2013

The endeavours of Manuel I Comnenus (1143–1180) to obtain a papal coronation from Alexander III in the years 1167–1168, and to have himself recognised as Emperor in the West in place of the schismatic and simoniac Frederick Barbarossa, together with his offers in return to subject the Byzantine Church to the authority of the pope, make up one of the most curious episodes in twelfth-century diplomatic history. The story, as told by Cardinal Boso in his life of Alexander, is well known, and has been discussed by a number of historians. Boso relates that on two occasions Manuel sent an ambassador to the pope declaring his wish to unite the Greek Church (ecclesiam suam graecam) to that of Rome and proposing to do so, asking in return that the ‘crown of the Roman empire’ (Romani corona imperii) should be restored to him by the papacy, since Frederick (crowned in 1155) had so clearly shown himself to be unworthy of it. The first ambassador, identified as the sebastus Jordan, son of Robert of Capua, went to Alexander at Rome; on the second occasion the pope was at Benevento and the unnamed apocrisiarius conferred with him there. Manuel offered a great quantity of men and money, sufficient, his emissaries said, to reduce all Italy to the papal obedience, if his proposals were accepted; on both occasions, however, Alexander and his advisers, having considered the matter carefully, came to the conclusion that the emperor's plan was too doubtful and dangerous. Though cardinals were sent to Constantinople for further discussions, nothing came of it.
The frescoes of Cremona Cathedral
Authors: Boase T. S. R.
Published: August 2013

The cathedral of Cremona in its basic structure is the work of the twelfth century, of the rebuilding undertaken by Bishop Uberto Dovara after the original church was destroyed in the great earthquake of 1117. By 1190 the new cathedral was consecrated, and the neighbouring octagonal baptistery, begun in 1167, was also well advanced. But for some three centuries the citizens constantly sought to improve and embellish their work. In 1250 the commune raised the great campanile, the highest and noblest in Lombardy, and its octagonal spire commemorates the triumph of the Guelfs in 1267. The great rose window is dated by an inscription to 1274. In the following century the porch was added with the three statues of the Virgin and Child between the local patrons, St. Omobono and St. Imerio. In 1491 the facade was terminated by a lofty pediment, supported by two great volute scrolls, and enclosing four statues in niches. A gallery, connecting the façade with the Baptistery, was added in the first half of the sixteenth century, and the statues crowning it date from 1738.
Notes on the Lands of the Roman Church in the Early Middle Ages
Authors: Partner Peter
Published: August 2013

The great landed wealth of the Roman Church both before and after the foundation of the papal state in the eighth century is well known. It is also well known that the Muslim invasions and the political breakdown which took place in Italy in the ninth and tenth centuries destroyed the ancient organisation of Roman Church lands, and that in the succeeding two centuries a new and partly feudal landowning organisation emerged in the Roman territory. But it is not at all clear what this decline of the Carolingian system meant in terms of the administration and extent of church property, and of the connected changes in the relations of the Roman Church with the local landowning nobility. The present short notes have been compiled in an attempt to shed a modest amount of light on this matter.

Our possession of the letters of Gregory the Great has given us some knowledge of the ancient organisation of the papal patrimonies. But even before the papal state came into being in the eighth century, there had already been two big changes since Gregory's time—the organisation of corn supply and charitable works in Rome through the Roman diaconates, and the re-organisation of many of the papal estates into larger aggregates known as domus cultae. Both these measures tended to centralise papal control over the economic life of Rome and the District, but it it with the second that I am mainly concerned here. My business, however, is with the decline and not with the growth of the new economic system, and to its earlier nature and development I refer only briefly.
The Medieval Glazed Pottery of Lazio
Authors: Whitehouse David
Published: August 2013

Medieval archaeology in the sense of a field study involving controlled excavation is in its infancy in Italy. Scarcely a dozen excavations have been carried out with the recovery of information about the middle ages as their primary objective and little attention has been paid to the material remains of everyday life. It is not surprising, therefore, that in the past the only medieval pottery to receive lasting attention has been the tin-glazed ware which was valued as the forerunner of renaissance maiolica. Nevertheless, in recent years programmes of surface collecting and selective excavation have been initiated in two areas with the specific purpose of studying the middle ages. The two areas are Lazio and Apulia. In Apulia the Society of Antiquaries sponsored a survey of the Tavoliere, or Foggia Plain, reports on which are in active preparation.
A Bibliography
Authors: Toynbee J. M. C.
Published: August 2013

Jocelyn Mary Catherine Toynbee reached her 75th birthday on 3 March 1972. Scholar of Newnham College, Cambridge, from 1916–20; Classical Tutor at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, from 1921–24; Classical Lecturer at Reading University from 1924–27; Fellow, Lecturer and Director of Studies in Classics at Newnham from 1927–51; Classical Lecturer in the University of Cambridge from 1931–51; Lawrence Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge from 1951–62; Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge; she has throughout her career been very closely connected with the British School at Rome, as a student, as a member of the Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters, and from 1954–59 as Chairman of the Faculty. The bibliography that follows comes not only as a tribute to a distinguished scholar but also as a token of the affection and admiration in which she is held by her many friends, among them her colleagues and former pupils.

There can be few living students of the history and monuments of classical Rome who have not at some time been influenced directly or indirectly by her work. Starting from the central themes and monuments, she has steadily enlarged her horizons to include the farthest frontiers of the Empire, responding with as much sympathy and acumen to the fumbling products of some Romano-British apprentice as to the masterpieces of the artists at the imperial court.
Caton et les Bacchanales: Séduction et Ténacité d'un Mirage Historique
Authors: Pailler Jean-Marie
Published: August 2013

CATONE E I BACANALI

È opinione abbastanza diffusa che Catone, due anni prima di essere eletto censore, fu il principale ispiratore della repressione dei Bacanali. Qui vengono discussi gli argomenti a favore di tale tesi: l'ulteriore immagine della ‘reazione catoniana’, la supposta relazione fra un discorso di C. de coniuratione e l'affare dei Bacanali, l'azione di L. Valerio Flacco, amico e sostegno di C., testimoniata dal s.c. de Bacchanalibus. In realtà, il testo epigrafico dimostra che sono state tutte le correnti politiche del Senato ad unirsi contro il ‘pericolo bacchico’, sotto la guida del console Postumio, il cui ruolo è attestato dal racconto liviano. Tutt'al più è possibile che C. si sia ulteriormente avvalorato dello spirito di questa repressione per qualificare la sua azione ed i suoi progetti. A questa propaganda va attribuita l'illusione che ha ingannato moderni storici.
Il conflitto fra Leone III Isaurico e il papato fra il 725 e il 733, e il ‘definitivo’ inizio del medioevo a Roma: un'ipotesi in discussione
Authors: Marazzi Federico
Published: August 2013

THE CONFLICT BETWEEN LEO III ISAURICO AND THE PAPACY BETWEEN 725 AND 733 AND THE ‘DEFINITIVE’ BEGINNING OF THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD IN ROME: A HYPOTHESIS UNDER DISCUSSION

This paper aims to bring to the fore an aspect of Italian history between the end of the sixth century and the first half of the eighth century which has been considered rarely to date: that is, the continuity of the strong economic ties between Rome and some regions of the Mezzogiorno, in particular Sicily and, to a lesser extent, Calabria. Thanks to the large papal estates in these regions, Rome continued throughout these centuries to secure for herself a considerable part of her own food supply through long distance provisioning, as she had done before the end of the Roman Empire in the West. In the context of extremely marked contractions of exchange and commerce, which were affecting all of western Europe at that time, this system appears to be an anomalous anachronism. However, it continued to function until external factors intervened (fiscal measures adopted by the Emperor of Byzantium, Leo III, between 724 and 733). The laborious reorganisation of the papal economic interests was probably one of the reasons why the popes were compelled to think of the idea of creating a regional political seigniory.
A Florentine prelate's real estate in Rome between 1480 and 1524: the residential and speculative property of Cardinal Francesco Soderini
Authors: Lowe K.J.P.
Published: August 2013

LA PROPRIETA DI UN PRELATO FIORENTINO TRA IL 1480 E IL 1524: LA PROPRIETA RESIDENZIALE E QUELLA SPECULATIVA DEL CARDINALE FRANCESCO SODERINI

L'articolo tratta dell'acquisto e dell'incremento, tra il 1480 e il 1524, della proprietà romana del Card. Francesco Soderini, vescovo di Firenze. Si concentra sulla questione di come il Soderini rispose alle condizioni abitative ed edilizie del mercato durante questo periodo e del rapporto di tale risposte con le esigenze famigliari e quelle dell'suo ufficio e livello sociale. Oltre a realizzare i progetti dei propri palazzi egli era anche interessato alla speculazione edilizia di negozi e piccoli appartamenti. Si discute a proposito delle proprietà Soderini in via Alessandrina, in Borgo, ai SS. Apostoli e a Tor Sanguigna, ed anche della sua villa suburbana alle falde del Gianicolo.
An archaeological field survey near Campagnano di Roma, southern Etruria
Authors: King N.
Published: August 2013

RILEVAMENTO ARCHEOLOGICO NELLA ZONA DI CAMPAGNANO DI ROMA, ETRURIA MERIDIONALE

Un rilevamento archeologico di piccola scala fu intrapreso ad ovest di Campagnano di Roma con due scopi. Il primo era quello di localizzare la rotta meridionale di una strada romana conosciuta a Vallelunga e che si pensa si congiungesse all'antica Via Cassia nei pressi del cratere di Baccano. Il secondo scopo era quello di valutare la natura dei reperti di superficie nell'area, a vent'anni dalla fine del ‘South Etruria Survey’. Oltre vent'anni di agricoltura intensiva e l'introduzione delle moderne tecniche di aratura profonda si pensa abbiano potuto influenzare il grado di recupero del materiale. I risultati del rilevamento, presentati in forma di tabella e figure, sembrano confermare questa ipotesi. Per la strada romana sono state trovate due possibili rotte e sono stati inoltre raccolti frammenti di materiale che vanno da una probabile epoca preistorica all'alto medioevo.
Further coins from Santa Cornelia (Rome)
Authors: Travaini L. , Christie N.
Published: August 2013

ALTRE MONETE DA SANTA CORNELIA (ROMA)

Successivamente alla pubblicazione nel 1991 della relazione sullo scavo dell'importante complesso religioso altomedievale di Santa Cornelia, un ulteriore gruppo di monete proveniente dagli scavi 1960-64 è stato riscoperto. Questo articolo fornisce un catalogo ed una breve discussione delle sei monete. Così come quelle pubblicate nel 1991, queste ‘nuove’ monete non permettono l'identificazione di una circolazione monetaria contemporanea alla domusculta Capracorum dell'VIII e IX secolo, ma consentono di reperire nuove informazioni sulle attività monastiche nel periodo medievale in questo sito.
Personaggi della Pompei sillana
Authors: Zevi Fausto
Published: August 2013

THREE CHARACTERS FROM SULLAN POMPEII

One of the most traumatic events of Italian social history in the times of Sulla was the establishment of colonies of veterans in towns which had taken Marius's side. A particularly well studied case, given the wealth of documentation available, is Pompeii. Amongst other things, Cicero'sPro Sullathrows some light upon the issues which, in the early years after the colonialdeductio, separated the two communities in Pompeii—that is the old inhabitants and the Sullan veterans. Within this framework, this article examines, as a form of example, the cases of three people of Pompeii of the colonial period. Two of these, Norbanus Sorex and, in some senses, L. Eumachius, both of whom arrived in Pompeii as a result of the Sullan colonization, have a particular role to play in the establishment of the phenomenon of cultural uniformity which followed the general externsion of Roman citizenship. In contrast, the third case, that of the decurion M. Herennius, is an example of a member of the ancient Samnite aristocracy being restored to the height of his social privileges at a very early stage. He became a supporter of P. Sulla at the time of the Catilinarian conspiracy: the event in which he was a protagonist contributes to the clarification of some statements in thePro Sulla.
The conditions of domestic life in Pompeii in AD 79: a case-study of Houses 11 and 12, Insula 9, Region I
Authors: Berry Joanne
Published: August 2013

LE CONDIZIONI DELLA VITA DOMESTICA A POMPEI NELL'ANNO 79 d.C.: UN CASO DI STUDIO DELLE CASE 11 E 12, INSULA 9, REGIONE I

Questo articolo discute delle condizioni di vita a Pompei negli ultimi anni prima della sua distruzione dall'eruzione del Vesuvio. Si tratta di un argomento di difficile interpretazione, per il quale molte diverse teorie esistono, molte delle quali sono basate su evidenza aneddotica e/o comparativa. In contrasto, l'ipotesi presentata in questo articolo si basa sullo studio di due case collegate nella Regione I e prende in considerazione tutta l'evidenza disponibile: vecchie fotografie di scavo, resti di manufatti del 79 d.C., le strutture attualmente ancora in piedi e i risultati degli scavi del 1995 e 1996. L'evidenza disponibile è, di fatto, contraddittoria: all'interno delle stesse case vi sono segni di commercio a grande scala e di restauro, ma anche di abbandono e distruzione. Viene suggerito che queste contraddizioni possono essere spiegate con un terremoto negli ultimi mesi, o perfino settimane, prima della distruzione finale di Pompei. Gli abitanti della città dovevano aver avuto difficoltà ad affrontare la distruzione ed il caos causate da questo terremoto. Risposte individuali ad i danni causati dal terremoto sarebbero state dipendenti da numerosi fattori, quali le possibilità economiche a sostenere le riparazioni, di conseguenza l'evidenza delle due case esaminate riflette solo una delle possibili risposte. Si conclude che un numero maggiore di studi di case individuali in tutti i loro aspetti è necessario prima che si possa pienamente capire l'impatto collettivo e le conseguenze dell'attività sismica per la vita della città negli anni precedenti al 79 d.C.
III. Villanovan Veii
Authors: Ward-Perkins J. B.
Published: August 2013

The roads and gates described in the previous section are of very varied dates, and many of them were in use over a long period. They have been described first because they constitute the essential framework for any serious topographical study of Veii. Within this framework the city developed, and in this and the following sections will be found described, period by period, the evidence for that development, from the first establishment of Veii in Villanovan times down to its final abandonment in late antiquity.

Whatever the precise relationship of the Villanovan to the succeeding phases of the Early Iron Age in central Italy in terms of politics, race or language, it is abundantly clear that it was within the Villanovan period that the main lines of the social and topographical framework of historical Etruria first took shape. Veii is no exception. Apart from sporadic material that may have been dropped by Neolithic or Bronze Age hunters, there is nothing from the Ager Veientanus to suggest that it was the scene of any substantial settlement before the occupation of Veii itself by groups of Early Iron Age farmers, a part of whose material equipment relates them unequivocally to the Villanovan peoples of coastal and central Etruria.
VII. Post-classical Veii
Authors: Ward-Perkins J. B.
Published: August 2013

It is very unlikely indeed that any substantial urban community survived the events which culminated in the fall of the Western Empire. If the inscriptional evidence has been read aright, Veii was already in full decline in the fourth century. The reasons may well have been in the first place economic, namely the concentration of such wealth as there was in the hands of the well-to-do landlords whose villas are so conspicuous a feature of the local countryside, at the expense of a township which, lying off the main road and lacking any particular resources, had already begun to be something of an anachronism two or three centuries earlier. At the same time it lay near enough to the main road to be vulnerable to any marauding army; and, unlike so many other ancient Italian towns, it had no impregnable hilltop fortress to which its inhabitants could withdraw. As a functioning community Veii may well have ceased to exist by the fifth century.

The villas were less exposed, those of them at any rate that lay off the main roads; and representing as they do a less complex economy than that of the towns, they were more resilient in the face of disaster. Even at an earlier date there are very few traces of any intensive agricultural specialisation, and a great many of them were certainly still functioning in Late Antiquity.
The San Vito Tomb at Pozzuoli
Authors: Ling Roger
Published: August 2013

In addition to the series of stucco reliefs recently acquired on loan from the Victoria and Albert Museum, to three stuccoed panels from the Hartwig collection, and to a few miscellaneous pieces, the British Museum's Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities possesses nine large and eight smaller fragments of stucco-relief work about whose acquisition almost nothing is recorded. Till recently, they were not entered in the Department's Register, and had no accession numbers: the only distinguishing marks were blue diamond-shaped tabs stuck to five of them, and the numbers 63 and 99 scratched on the backs of two. Blue diamonds occur on several ancient objects which formed part of the collection of Sir William Hamilton, so it is possible that the stuccoes once belonged to the same illustrious antiquary. Indeed, a British Museum catalogue of 1817 definitely ascribes one of them to the Hamilton collection, and also reveals, in conjunction with a manuscript of 1824, that the remaining pieces were kept in the so-called ‘Hamilton Room’, most of whose contents had formerly been owned by Sir William.
The Date of the ‘Grandi Terme’ of Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli
Authors: Smith A. C. G.
Published: August 2013

LA DATA DELLE ‘GRANDI TERME’ DELLA VILLA ADRIANA A TIVOLI

Nel suo studio sui bolli laterizi di Villa Adriana, Bloch attribui le grandi terme ad un edificio della terza fase edilizia, nonostante essi contengano molti bolli non trovabili altrove in edifici posteriori alla prima fase della Villa e del Pantheon (il quale, pace W. D. Heilmeyer, è tuttora da attribuire ai primi anni del regno di Adriano).

La data più recente di Bloch per le terme dipende dall'uso della formula ‘Lucilla Veri’ sul bollo CIL XV 1049, dal momenta che secondo Mommsen e Dressel questa formula era usata solo sui bolli post-Adrianei; qui si è sostenuto che il resto del testo di questo bollo é più caratteristico del primo periodo Adrianeo di quanto suggerisca il suo contesto, e perciò dato che né i resti dei bolli laterizi nelle terme né considerazioni topografiche presentano seri ostacoli, le grandi terme dovrebbero essere riattribuite alla prima fase di Bloch.

Senza le grandi terme la terza fase di Bloch è di scarsa importanza, dato che gli altri edifici attribuiti a detta data potrebbero benissimo appartenere alla seconda fase. Probabilmente, quindi, non ci fu alcun periodo a sé stante di una maggiore attività edilizia alla Villa durante gli ultimi anni di Adriano in Italia.
Writing and Ritual: A Study of Diversity and Expansion in the Arval Acta
Authors: Beard Mary
Published: August 2013

LA SCRITTURA E IL RITUALE: UNO STUDIO DELLE DIFFERENZE E DELL'ESPANSIONE NEGLI ACTA DEGLI ARVALI

I documenti iscritti (‘Acta’) della Confraternità degli Arvali a Roma sono tradizionalmente trattati come documenti rigidamente standardizzati. Questo studio offre una nuova analisi di questo materiale religioso e dimostra sia la differenza dei documenti scritti sia la loro (a volte strana) tendenza all'espansione nel periodo compreso tra il I secolo a.C. e il III secolo d.C. Queste due caratteristiche sono poi messe in relazione con la funzione dei documenti degli Arvali—che non sono, come in genere si pensa, una pratica fonte di riferimento per i preti, ma una convalida simbolica della loro attività rituale.
Coping mit Alltagsstress in verschiedenen Problembereichen
Authors: Escher Fabian , Seiffge-Krenke Inge
Published: August 2013

Fragestellung: In der Untersuchung klinisch auffälliger Jugendlicher fehlen bislang Studien zum Coping mit alltäglichen Stressoren im Vergleich zu gesunden Jugendlichen. Methodik: Klinisch auffällige Jugendliche mit verschiedenen Störungen (gemischten Störungen einschließlich Delinquenz, Sucht, Depression) wurden anhand des Coping across Situations Questionnaire ( Seiffge-Krenke, 1995 ) und einer gekürzten Version des Youth Self Report ( Achenbach, 1991 ) mit gesunden Jugendlichen verglichen. Ergebnisse: Die verschiedenen klinischen Gruppen (n = 469) zeigten spezifische Muster hinsichtlich ihres Copings. Die Gruppe der depressiven Jugendlichen zeigten insgesamt sehr geringe Werte im Coping. Die Gruppe aus den Einrichtungen der Suchthilfe hingegen bediente sich vor allem dysfunktionaler Copingstrategien. Die Jugendlichen aus Einrichtungen der Jugendhilfe (gemischte Störungen einschließlich Delinquenz) hatten sowohl in den dysfunktionalen als auch in den funktionalen Copingstrategien höhere Werte als die beiden anderen klinisch auffälligen Gruppen. Die Kontrollgruppe zeigte mehr funktionales und geringeres dysfunktionales Coping. Die klinisch auffälligen Jugendlichen differenzierten in ihrem Copingverhalten nicht in Abhängigkeit von den unterschiedlichen Problembereichen. Es zeigte sich des Weiteren ein geringer Geschlechtseffekt im Coping. Schlussfolgerungen: Klinisch auffällige Jugendliche waren nicht in der Lage adaptiv auf verschiedene Problembereiche zu reagieren, sondern wandten situationsübergreifend dysfunktionale Copingstrategien wie Rückzug und Problemmeidung an.
A Bilateral Advantage in Controlling Access to Visual Short-Term Memory
Authors: Holt Jessica L. , Delvenne Jean-François
Published: August 2013

Recent research on visual short-term memory (VSTM) has revealed the existence of a bilateral field advantage (BFA – i.e., better memory when the items are distributed in the two visual fields than if they are presented in the same hemifield) for spatial location and bar orientation, but not for color ( Delvenne, 2005 ; Umemoto, Drew, Ester, & Awh, 2010 ). Here, we investigated whether a BFA in VSTM is constrained by attentional selective processes. It has indeed been previously suggested that the BFA may be a general feature of selective attention ( Alvarez & Cavanagh, 2005 ; Delvenne, 2005 ). Therefore, the present study examined whether VSTM for color benefits from bilateral presentation if attentional selective processes are particularly engaged. Participants completed a color change detection task whereby target stimuli were presented either across both hemifields or within one single hemifield. In order to engage attentional selective processes, some trials contained irrelevant stimuli that needed to be ignored. Targets were selected based on spatial locations (Experiment 1) or on a salient feature (Experiment 2). In both cases, the results revealed a BFA only when irrelevant stimuli were presented among the targets. Overall, the findings strongly suggest that attentional selective processes at encoding can constrain whether a BFA is observed in VSTM.
Mycobacterium bourgelatii sp. nov., a rapidly growing, non-chromogenic species isolated from the lymph nodes of cattle
Authors: Guérin-Faublée Véronique , Flandrois Jean-Pierre , Pichat Catherine , Boschiroli Maria Laura , Lamy Brigitte
Published: August 2013

Three independent strains of a rapidly growing, non-chromogenic member of the genus

Mycobacterium

were isolated from lymph nodes of French cattle. Identification of the isolates was carried out using a polyphasic approach. The nearly complete SSU rRNA gene sequences (>1200 bp) of the strains MLB-A23, MLB-A30 and MLB-A84T were identical. A phylogenetic analysis of these unique SSU rRNA gene sequences showed that these strains were most closely related to

Mycobacterium intermedium

. Further phylogenetic analysis based on concatenated sequences (2854 bp) of four housekeeping genes (hsp65, rpoB, sodA and tuf), the transfer–messenger RNA (tmRNA) and SSU rRNA genes indicated that these three strains represented a distinct species that shares a common ancestor with

M. intermedium

. Phylogenetic and phenotypic data strongly indicate that the strains MLB-A23, MLB-A30 and MLB-A84T belong to a novel mycobacterial species for which the name Mycobacterium bourgelatii sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is MLB-A84T ( = CIP 110557T = DSM 45746T).
Nocardioides endophyticus sp. nov. and Nocardioides conyzicola sp. nov., isolated from herbaceous plant roots
Authors: Han Ji-Hye , Kim Tae-Su , Joung Yochan , Kim Mi Na , Shin Kee-Sun , Bae Taeok , Kim Seung Bum
Published: August 2013

Two Gram-stain-positive, non-motile, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped actinobacterial strains were isolated from the surface-sterilized roots of mugwort (Artemisia princeps) and horse-weed (Conyza canadensis), and subjected to taxonomic characterization. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis indicated that the isolates, designated MWE 3-5T and HWE 2-02T, should be placed in the genus

Nocardioides

of the family

Nocardioidaceae

. The strains were closely related to

Nocardioides hankookensis

DS-30T, which exhibited 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity values of 97.99 and 99.09 % with strains MWE 3-5T and HWE 2-02T, respectively. The genome relatedness of

N. hankookensis

DS-30T with strain MWE 3-5T was 35.8 %, and that with strain HWE 2-02T was 36.4 %, whereas that between the two isolates was 43.2 %. Strains MWE 3-5T and HWE 2-02T possessed MK-8(H4) as the major isoprenoid quinone, and ll-diaminopimelic acid in the cell-wall peptidoglycan. The main fatty acids were iso-C16 : 0, iso-C17 : 0 and C18 : 1ω9c for strain MWE 3-5T and iso-C16 : 0, 10-methyl C18 : 0 and C18 : 1ω9c for strain HWE 2-02T. Based on phenotypic, genotypic and phylogenetic studies, the following two novel species are proposed: Nocardioides endophyticus sp. nov. (type strain, MWE 3-5T = KCTC 29122T = JCM 18532T) and Nocardioides conyzicola sp. nov. (type strain, HWE 2-02T = KCTC 29121T = JCM 18531T).
Global consumer innovativeness and consumer electronic product adoption
Authors: Chao Chih-Wei , Reid Mike , Mavondo Felix
Published: August 2013

Purpose

– Despite the importance of the diffusion of new products, there is not yet a single scale to measure consumer innovativeness and new product adoption behavior efficiently and effectively across countries. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between consumer innate innovativeness, vicarious innovativeness, domain specific innovativeness, the desire for unique consumer products, and the adoption of consumer electronic products across three countries in the Asia-Pacific region: Australia, China, and Taiwan.

Design/methodology/approach

– Data were collected through a survey in Melbourne, Australia, Shanghai, China and Taipei, Taiwan. The conceptual model was tested using structural equation modeling.

Findings

– This study finds that domain specific innovativeness primarily influences the adoption of such products across the three countries. The study further suggests that vicarious innovativeness affects Australians
'
new product adoption behavior. In contrast, the desire for unique consumer products is a predictor of new product adoption for customers with a Chinese cultural background. Surprisingly, the authors find that consumer innate innovativeness has a negative effect on vicarious innovativeness.

Research limitations/implications

– This study provides further insights into relationships between consumer innovativeness measures.

Practical implications

– This study enhances marketers
'
capabilities to develop various launching strategies in different countries and providing further insights into relationships between consumer innovativeness measures.

Originality/value

– This study highlights the importance of relationships among various types of consumer innovativeness in order to expand our understanding of relationships and approaches to measure innovativeness and adoption.
Bricks or clicks
Authors: Fu Yelin , Lai K.K. , Liang Liang
Published: August 2013

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is twofold: to investigate performance of both manufacturer-owned channel and traditional retail channel when the manufacturer encroaches upon the traditional channel in different forms (brick-and-mortar and online form) under different market structures (Stackelberg and Bertrand). To examine the effect of acceptance of the online channel and travel cost on profits of two channels.

Design/methodology/approach

– The Hotelling model is employed to depict consumers
'
channel choice behavior, where the consumer surplus captures travel cost, spatial distance and consumer heterogeneity in acceptance of the online channel. A game-theoretical framework is developed to determine the optimal encroachment form and market structure for both manufacturer-owned and traditional retail channels.

Findings

– This paper finds that, in either form of encroachment, Stackelberg market structure always outperforms Bertrand market structure, and channel choice significantly relies on parameters, i.e. consumer acceptance of the online channel and travel cost. Moreover, a Pareto zone is proposed in which both channels consider the strategy that the manufacturer opens bricks-and-mortar channel under Stackelberg market structure as the optimal strategy.

Originality/value

– The present work fills a theoretical and practical gap for a structured analysis of the channel performance when the manufacturer encroaches upon the incumbent retail channel in different forms and under different market structure.
Evaluating the impact of corporate brand on consumer satisfaction
Authors: Anisimova Tatiana
Published: August 2013

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the impact of a corporate brand on consumer satisfaction and ascertain which corporate brand attributers had the most influential effects on consumer satisfaction.

Design/methodology/approach

– Using a multiple regression method and an Australian sample of 235 consumers, this paper tests a relationship between consumer-perceived corporate brand and consumer satisfaction.

Findings

– The results demonstrate that a corporate brand acts as a critical predictor of consumer satisfaction thus providing support for the research proposition. The three components of consumer value (functional, emotional and symbolic) were found to be critical and consistent predictors of consumer satisfaction. Corporate associations and core organizational values were also found to be the drivers of consumer satisfaction.

Research limitations/implications

– Although the cross-sectional nature of data collection method limits the data to a single point in time; this research contributes important insights into the factors affecting one of the key performance indicators such as consumer satisfaction.

Practical implications

– The findings have important implications for a corporate branding strategy implementation and effective corporate brand communications that can be employed for enhancing the relationship with the existing consumers as well as acquiring new consumers.

Originality/value

– Consumer satisfaction has primarily been studied as a mediator through which a brand impacts on consumer loyalty. This paper extends existing research by considering a corporate brand as an antecedent and a driver of consumer satisfaction. To address the disparity between operationalisation and conceptualisation of the corporate brand construct, this study maintains a corporate brand is a multidimensional construct and measures it accordingly.
The dual roles for accountants in sustaining rural communities
Authors: J. Carter Amanda , L. Burritt Roger , D. Pisaniello John
Published: August 2013

Purpose

– This paper explores the role of accountants as part of the necessary infrastructure in rural community development providing specialised knowledge and skills to business owners who may lack the expertise required to ensure successful business operations.

Design/methodology/approach

– Perceptions of seven rural development officers from separate Rural Development Boards and two local governments in South Australia are canvassed through a set of interviews.

Findings

– Findings challenge the notion that use of modern communication technology, which allows for accountants and their accountancy practices to be located anywhere in the world, is sufficient to fulfil their role in rural communities. Instead, a critical dual role for accountants is identified which includes a community development function.

Research limitations/implications

– The research is limited by the geographic area from which the participants were selected. While this controlled for any possible jurisdictional differences between states in Australia, the participants targeted comprise only a relatively small group.

Originality/value

– The paper identifies an important role for accountants in rural communities hitherto unidentified. Accountant contributions to rural development and the sustainability of rural communities is highlighted.
Fine‐granularity semantic video annotation
Authors: El‐Khoury Vanessa , Jergler Martin , Abebe Bayou Getnet , Coquil David , Kosch Harald
Published: August 2013

Purpose

A fine‐grained video content indexing, retrieval, and adaptation requires accurate metadata describing the video structure and semantics to the lowest granularity, i.e. to the object level. The authors address these requirements by proposing semantic video content annotation tool (SVCAT) for structural and high‐level semantic video annotation. SVCAT is a semi‐automatic MPEG‐7 standard compliant annotation tool, which produces metadata according to a new object‐based video content model introduced in this work. Videos are temporally segmented into shots and shots level concepts are detected automatically using ImageNet as background knowledge. These concepts are used as a guide to easily locate and select objects of interest which are then tracked automatically to generate an object level metadata. The integration of shot based concept detection with object localization and tracking drastically alleviates the task of an annotator. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach

A systematic keyframes classification into ImageNet categories is used as the basis for automatic concept detection in temporal units. This is then followed by an object tracking algorithm to get exact spatial information about objects.

Findings

Experimental results showed that SVCAT is able to provide accurate object level video metadata.

Originality/value

The new contribution in this paper introduces an approach of using ImageNet to get shot level annotations automatically. This approach assists video annotators significantly by minimizing the effort required to locate salient objects in the video.
Incidence of “diabesity” among morning walkers of Jaipur city (India)
Authors: Chandra Ram , Chaturvedi Richa , Singh Nimali
Published: August 2013

Purpose

The purpose of the study was to find the incidence of “diabesity” among morning walkers of Jaipur city (20‐60 years).

Design/methodology/approach

Totally 303 subjects willing to participate in the study were included, out of which 211 were males and 92 were females. Subjects were categorized into two age groups 20‐40 and 40‐60 years. Height (cm), weight (kg), waist circumference (cm), hip circumference (cm) and fasting blood glucose values of morning walkers were measured.

Findings

There was no significant difference in the incidence of “diabesity” among both the genders. The mean body mass index of females (28.47+4.3) was higher than that of males (26.55+3.42). Mean waist‐to‐hip ratio values were 0.86+0.07 for females and 0.92+0.13 for males. Age was better correlated with systolic blood pressure (r=0.276 (M); r=0.359 (F)) than diastolic blood pressure (r=0.037 (M); r=0.165 (F)) for both males and females.

Originality/value

The study aimed at assessing incidence of “diabesity” among the individuals who are regular with morning walk.
Environmentally driven technical innovation by Australian construction SMEs
Authors: Hardie Mary , Allen Jonathon , Newell Graeme
Published: August 2013

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether technical innovations by construction industry small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with an environmental focus, require any specific circumstances for successful marketplace delivery.

Design/methodology/approach

– A value tree of significant factors was developed from a literature review. This was tested by a survey of established technical innovators within SMEs in the area of Sydney and environs, using analytic hierarchy process methodology.

Findings

– The regulatory environment was demonstrated to be much more important to environmental innovators than to others. Conversely the influence of clients and end users was less significant for the environmentally focused innovators.

Research limitations/implications

– The sample size was necessarily small because the subjects were all peer recognised technical innovators. Analysis of variance was used to identify significant differences between environmentally focused and other innovations among the survey respondents.

Social implications

– Performance-based standards were seen to be significant enablers for environmentally focused innovation delivery. A degree of flexibility in building regulations may be crucial to innovation delivery by SMEs.

Originality/value

– The paper stresses the importance for regulators of reaching an understanding of the restrictions that prescriptive standards may put of those seeking to improve the environmental performance of the construction industry.
Valuing older workers in the voluntary sector
Authors: Wilson Nick
Published: August 2013

Purpose

– This paper reports on research into the employment of older workers, paid and unpaid, in the voluntary sector. It draws on six case studies which were the research focus. The research was designed to test the hypothesis that the voluntary sector has been in the forefront of utilising the knowledge, skills and talents of older workers and to draw out practical guidance for other organisations in this and other sectors.

Design/methodology/approach

– The author consulted over 30 people with a known interest in older workforce issues and/or employment in the voluntary sector and, from these discussions, identified six organisations to be the subject of structured telephone interviews. The interviewees were all at chief executive or senior management level.

Findings

– The research confirmed that older workers, whether they are paid employees or volunteers, are of great value to the voluntary sector. This is because of their life experience and skills and, particularly in the case of volunteers, their availability and flexibility. The six organisations on which the research focused provided excellent examples of good practice. However, this does not generally involve employment policies and practices with a specific focus on older workers but, rather, policies and practices which embrace older workers.

Originality/value

– Earlier research has usually focused on the private and public sectors. South East England Forum on Ageing wanted this project to focus specifically on the voluntary sector and this decision was vindicated by the fact that, in searching the literature and discussions with authorities, the author did not identify previous research on older workers specifically focused on this sector.
The undercurrent of grief and loss in care homes
Authors: Bradley Andy
Published: August 2013

Purpose –

The paper was written to highlight the common experience of older people in care homes who are often left to deal with loss and grief without the explicit emotional validation and support needed.

Design/methodology/approach –

Beginning with a real world example of an older person who felt suicidal at the prospect of moving into a care home the paper analyses the common culture in care homes and goes onto describe a new paradigm of care giving (“the compassionate community”).

Findings –

The paper highlights the need for a shift of culture and leadership thinking in the care homes.

Practical implications –

Older people need more opportunities to share their losses and grief and staff teams must develop their role so that it moves beyond physical caring to embrace the emotional and spiritual aspects of the lives of the people they care for.

Originality/value –

This paper issues a radical call for an shift in thinking and values and suggests a route map which will enable full expression of the emotional lives of the people being cared for.