bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Improved Clinical Outcome after Acute Basilar Artery Occlusion since the Introduction of Endovascular Thrombectomy Devices
Authors: Nagel S. , Kellert L. , Möhlenbruch M. , Bösel J. , Rohde S. , Ringleb P.
Published: November 2013

Background: Thrombectomy devices are increasingly used for intra-arterial recanalization therapy in stroke. We analyzed whether the use of these devices modified the outcome of patients with acute basilar occlusion (BAO) at our institution. Methods: Between 1998 and 2012, one hundred forty-seven consecutive patients with acute BAO received recanalization therapy. In July 2009, for the first time, a thrombectomy device was used and hence the cohort was split into two chronological groups: BAO-1 (before July 2009) and BAO-2 (after July 2009). All patients were treated at a dedicated neurological ICU following institutional standard operating procedures. A good clinical outcome was defined as a modified Rankin scale score of 0-2 after 3 months. Univariate and multivariate analyses were applied using outcome parameters as dependent variables and baseline variables with a significant p value in univariate tests as independent variables. Results: One hundred eleven patients (BAO-1) were treated before and 36 were treated after July 2009 (BAO-2). Patients in the BAO-1 and BAO-2 groups had similar neurological deficits on admission as expressed by the Glasgow Coma Scale (BAO-1: median 4, IQR 5, vs. BAO-2: median 4.5, IQR 8, p = 0.41) and the proportion of patients who were presented intubated and ventilated was similar in both groups as well (49.5 vs. 47.7%, p = 0.85). Bridging concepts with intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA) were applied in 18.9% (BAO-1) versus 63.9% (BAO-2, p < 0.001) of cases, whereas glycoprotein IIb/IIIa antagonists were used significantly more frequently in the BAO-1 cohort (57.7 vs. 33.3%, p = 0.034). Thrombectomies were performed in 20 patients (55.5%) of the BAO-2 group but in none of the BAO-1 cohort. Complete recanalization (TICI 3) was achieved in 45.1% (BAO-1) versus 66.7% (BAO-2, p = 0.062) of patients. A good clinical outcome was observed in 13.5% of the BAO-1 group and 30.6% of the BAO-2 cohort (p = 0.026); mortality was 57.7% in the earlier group and 36.1% in the later group (p = 0.034). The frequency of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage was similar in both groups (8.1% BAO-1 vs. 2.8% BAO-2, p = 0.45). Treatment in the BAO-2 cohort was an independent predictor of good clinical outcome (OR 2.56; 95% CI 1.01-6.78) and mortality (OR 0.36; 95% CI 0.15-0.86) in an adjusted logistic regression model. Conclusion: Our results show improved outcomes in patients in the BAO-2 cohort. The treatment approach in this group was an independent predictor of both good outcome and mortality. Especially in patients with BAO - where endovascular treatment strategies are common clinical practice - bridging protocols with rtPA and modern thrombectomy devices should be used more frequently.
Sensitivity of Climate Change Detection and Attribution to the Characterization of Internal Climate Variability
Authors: Imbers Jara , Lopez Ana , Huntingford Chris , Allen Myles
Published: November 2013

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) “very likely” statement that anthropogenic emissions are affecting climate is based on a statistical detection and attribution methodology that strongly depends on the characterization of internal climate variability. In this paper, the authors test the robustness of this statement in the case of global mean surface air temperature, under different representations of such variability. The contributions of the different natural and anthropogenic forcings to the global mean surface air temperature response are computed using a box diffusion model. Representations of internal climate variability are explored using simple stochastic models that nevertheless span a representative range of plausible temporal autocorrelation structures, including the short-memory first-order autoregressive [AR(1)] process and the long-memory fractionally differencing process. The authors find that, independently of the representation chosen, the greenhouse gas signal remains statistically significant under the detection model employed in this paper. The results support the robustness of the IPCC detection and attribution statement for global mean temperature change under different characterizations of internal variability, but they also suggest that a wider variety of robustness tests, other than simple comparisons of residual variance, should be performed when dealing with other climate variables and/or different spatial scales.
A Drag-Induced Barotropic Instability in Air–Sea Interaction
Authors: Moulin A. , Wirth A.
Published: November 2013

A new mechanism that induces barotropic instability in the ocean is discussed. It is due to the air–sea interaction with a quadratic drag law and horizontal viscous dissipation in the atmosphere. The authors show that the instability spreads to the atmosphere. The preferred spatial scale of the instability is that of the oceanic baroclinic Rossby radius of deformation. It can only be represented in numerical models, when the dynamics at this scale is resolved in the atmosphere and ocean. The dynamics are studied using two superposed shallow water layers: one for the ocean and one for the atmosphere. The interaction is due to the shear between the two layers. The shear applied to the ocean is calculated using the velocity difference between the ocean and the atmosphere and the quadratic drag law. In one-way interaction, the shear applied to the atmosphere neglects the ocean dynamics; it is calculated using the atmospheric wind only. In two-way interaction, it is opposite to the shear applied to the ocean. In one-way interaction, the atmospheric shear leads to a barotropic instability in the ocean. The instability in the ocean is amplified, in amplitude and scale, in two-way interaction and also triggers an instability in the atmosphere.
Satellite Radiance Assimilation in the JMA Operational Mesoscale 4DVAR System
Authors: Kazumori Masahiro
Published: November 2013

The direct radiance assimilation scheme used in the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) global analysis system is applied to the JMA mesoscale four-dimensional variational data assimilation (4DVAR) system with two modifications. First, the data-thinning distance is shortened, and, second, the atmospheric profiles are extrapolated from the mesoscale model top to the radiative transfer model top using the U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate. Although the variational bias correction method is widely used in many numerical weather prediction centers for global radiance assimilations, a radiance bias correction method for regional models has not been established because of difficulties in estimating the biases within limited regions and times. This paper examined the use of the bias correction coefficients estimated in the global system for the mesoscale system when the radiance data were introduced instead of the retrievals. It was found that the profile extrapolation was necessary to reduce the biases. Moreover, the use of common bias coefficients enables the use of the radiance data in the same way as the global system. The radiance data assimilation experiments in the mesoscale system demonstrated considerable improvements to the tropospheric geopotential height forecasts and precipitation forecasts. The improvements resulted from the introduction of radiance data from multiple satellites into data-sparse regions and times. However, the major effect of the radiance assimilation on the precipitation forecasts was limited to weak precipitation areas over oceans; the effects on deep convective areas and over land were relatively small.
Psychoanalysis as Poetry
Authors: Vivona Jeanine M.
Published: November 2013

Like psychoanalysis, poetry is possible because of the nature of verbal language, particularly its potentials to evoke the sensations of lived experience. These potentials are vestiges of the personal relational context in which language is learned, without which there would be no poetry and no psychoanalysis. Such a view of language infuses psychoanalytic writings on poetry, yet has not been fully elaborated. To further that elaboration, a poem by Billy Collins is presented to illustrate the sensorial and imagistic potentials of words, after which the interpersonal processes of language development are explored in an attempt to elucidate the original nature of words as imbued with personal meaning, embodied resonance, and emotion. This view of language and the verbal form allows a fuller understanding of the therapeutic processes of speech and conversation at the heart of psychoanalysis, including the relational potentials of speech between present individuals, which are beyond the reach of poetry. In one sense, the work of the analyst is to create language that mobilizes the experiential, memorial, and relational potentials of words, and in so doing to make a poet out of the patient so that she too can create such language.
Failure modes characterization of impacted carbon fibre reinforced plastics laminates under compression loading using acoustic emission
Authors: Arumugam V , Sidharth A Adhithya Plato , Santulli C
Published: November 2013

Composite laminates have low resistance under dynamic loading, particularly impact loading. A low-velocity impact on laminated composites causes various types of damage, such as delamination, fibre breakage, matrix cracking and fibre matrix interfacial debonding. Post-impact compressive strength is one of the greatest weaknesses in carbon fibre reinforced plastics laminates. After impact, due to the delaminations present in the laminates, local instability is triggered, which ultimately reduces considerably their residual strength. In this work, symmetric cross ply carbon fibre reinforced plastics laminates [(0°/90°)2]12 were subjected to falling weight impact at two different velocities, 2.5 and 3.5 m/s. Compression after impact studies showed substantial differences in failure mode between the two cases, passing from end crushing to crack propagation with higher impact energy. Acoustic emission technique was able to confirm this result and characterize the different types of failure modes during compression after impact test, in particular by frequency distribution.
New and Emerging Pathogens in Canine Infectious Respiratory Disease
Authors: Priestnall S. L. , Mitchell J. A. , Walker C. A. , Erles K. , Brownlie J.
Published: November 2013

Canine infectious respiratory disease is a common, worldwide disease syndrome of multifactorial etiology. This review presents a summary of 6 viruses (canine respiratory coronavirus, canine pneumovirus, canine influenza virus, pantropic canine coronavirus, canine bocavirus, and canine hepacivirus) and 2 bacteria ( Streptococcus zooepidemicus and Mycoplasma cynos) that have been associated with respiratory disease in dogs. For some pathogens a causal role is clear, whereas for others, ongoing research aims to uncover their pathogenesis and contribution to this complex syndrome. Etiology, clinical disease, pathogenesis, and epidemiology are described for each pathogen, with an emphasis on recent discoveries or novel findings.
Between Public and Private Action
Authors: Chaskin Robert J. , Greenberg David Micah
Published: November 2013

Recent decades have witnessed shifts in the division of labor among actors in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors, leading in part to new forms of governance. Indeed, some recent scholarship argues that nongovernmental organizations may go beyond their provisional and advocacy functions to play a much more central role in actually governing by contributing directly to public decision-making and action as part of the governing process. This article examines the governance roles of neighborhood organizations acting to shape community action in Chicago and their relationships with local government. It finds that while engaging in governance processes in both direct and indirect ways, neighborhood organizations often function at the interstices of public and private action created by absences or gaps in state policy or by local action. Developing these liminal spaces may be important to increase the influence of neighborhood organizations and their capacity to contribute directly to governing.
Cross-Validation Study Using Item Response Theory
Authors: Bilbao Amaia , Las Hayas Carlota , Forero Carlos G. , Padierna Angel , Martin Josune , Quintana José M.
Published: November 2013

The Health-Related Quality of Life for Eating Disorder–Short questionnaire is one of the most suitable existing instruments for measuring quality of life in patients with eating disorders. The objective of the study was to evaluate its reliability, validity, and responsiveness in a cohort of 377 patients. A comprehensive validation process was performed, including confirmatory factor analysis and a graded response model, and assessments of reliability and responsiveness at 1 year of follow-up. The confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the two second-order latent traits, social maladjustment, and mental health and functionality. The graded response model results showed that all items were good for discriminating their respective latent traits. Cronbach’s alpha coefficients were high, and responsiveness parameters showed moderate changes. In conclusion, this short questionnaire has good psychometric properties. Its simplicity and ease of application further enhance its acceptability and usefulness in clinical research and trials, as well as in routine practice.
γ-Tocotrienol-induced autophagy in malignant mammary cancer cells
Authors: Tiwari Roshan V , Parajuli Parash , Sylvester Paul W
Published: November 2013

γ-Tocotrienol, a member of the vitamin E family of compounds, displays potent antiproliferative and cytotoxic effects in a variety of cancer cell types at treatment doses that have little or no effect on normal cell viability or growth. Autophagy is a tightly regulated lysosomal self-digested process that can either promote cell survival or programmed cell death, but the role of autophagy in mediating γ-tocotrienol-induced cytotoxicity in breast cancer is not presently completely understood. Mouse (+SA) and human (MCF-7 and MDA-MD-231) mammary tumor cells lines were exposed to 0–40 µmol/L γ-tocotrienol for a 24 h treatment period. γ-Tocotrienol treatment caused a relatively large increase in the accumulation of monodansylcadaverine (MDC)-labeled vacuoles, a marker of autophagosome formation, in all tumor cell lines. Results also showed that γ-tocotrienol treatment induced an increased conversion of microtubule-associated protein, 1A/1B-light chain 3, from its cytosolic form (LC3B-I) to its lipidated form (LC3B-II), increased Beclin-1 levels, and increased acridine orange staining as determined by flow cytometry analysis, providing further evidence of γ-tocotrienol-induced autophagy in these mammary cancer cell lines. In contrast, similar treatment with γ-tocotrienol was not found to increase autophagy marker expression in immortalized mouse (CL-S1) and human (MCF-10 A) normal mammary epithelial cell lines. Treatment with γ-tocotrienol also caused a reduction in PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling and a corresponding increase in the Bax/Bcl-2 ratio, cleaved caspase-3, and cleaved poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) levels in these cancer cell lines, suggesting that γ-tocotrienol-induced autophagy may be involved in the initiation of apoptosis. In summary, these findings demonstrate that the cytotoxic effects of γ-tocotrienol are associated with the induction of autophagy in a mouse and human mammary cancer cells.
Celebrity Drug Scandals, Media Double Standards
Authors: Tiger Rebecca
Published: November 2013

Media coverage reflects the conflicted status of drugs in a culture that both valorizes and demonizes their use. Sociologist Rebecca Tiger compares New York Times' coverage of Whitney Houston’s death and cyclist Lance Armstrong’s “performance enhancing drugs” scandal. Her analysis reveals the particular roles that race and gender play in how elite media and their readers negotiate and construct the morality tale of drug use.
The Deadly Span
Authors: Bateson John
Published: November 2013

The Golden Gate Bridge continues to be the top suicide site in the world. John Bateson argues that a barrier will save lives, end the tragedies, and not detract from the bridge’s beauty or the view–but it remains far off.
How Parents Grade Schools
Authors: Kelly Sean , Northrop Laura
Published: November 2013

Scholars Sean Kelly and Laura Northrop discuss recent changes in perceptions of school quality. They find that Americans are not positive about the overall quality of elementary and secondary schools in the United States, while beliefs about school-to-school differences in quality are often exaggerated.
From clinical trials to clinical practice: single-agent carfilzomib adverse events and their management in patients with relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma
Authors: Siegel David S.
Published: November 2013

Multiple myeloma is characterized by periods of remission followed by relapse, and eventually the disease becomes refractory to treatment. While patients with multiple myeloma frequently receive multiple lines of treatment, antimyeloma agents are associated with a number of toxicities that can impact their use and influence future treatment options. Patients with relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma are particularly challenging to treat due to the advanced state of their disease, typically greater resistance to treatment, and the presence of disease- and treatment-related comorbidities. An understanding of the safety profile of the therapeutic agents used in treating multiple myeloma is thus crucial for appropriate patient management. Single-agent carfilzomib has been approved in the United States for the treatment of patients with relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma, and has been shown to be efficacious and well-tolerated in this setting. This review examines the frequency of common and significant hematologic and nonhematologic adverse events following administration of single-agent carfilzomib in four phase II trials in relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma, and provides practical recommendations for their management.
Gifting the other, or why are nineteenth-century German bourgeois men acting like Trobriand Islanders?
Authors: Geller Jay
Published: November 2013

Taking its lead from analyses of gift exchange by Marcel Mauss and Marshall Sahlins as well as of contact by Charles Long and Jonathan Z Smith, this article elaborates a theory of the exchange, among dominant social subjects, of representations of their subjected proximate others in order to rectify the crisis precipitated by contact with otherness that threatens their claims to autonomy, authority, homogeneity, and universality. Specifically it situates the polemical exchange of representations of women among Friedrich Schlegel (Lucinde/ Lucinde), G W F Hegel (Antigone/ Phenomenology of Spirit), and Karl Gutzkow (Wally/ Wally the Skeptic) as exemplary German male bourgeois efforts to rectify the crises to subject formation generated, in part, by the emergence of gender-coded bifurcated bourgeois society and signaled by the Kantian and French Revolutions. The public dissemination of apotropaic representations screened the dependence upon proximate others by, and determined the positions among, exchange participants as well as maintained structures of domination.
Genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum among school-aged children from the Man region, western Côte d’Ivoire
Authors: Mara Sarah E , Silué Kigbafori D , Raso Giovanna , N’Guetta Simon P , N’Goran Eliézer K , Tanner Marcel , Utzinger Jürg , Ding Xavier C
Published: November 2013

Background

The genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum allows the molecular discrimination of otherwise microscopically identical parasites and the identification of individual clones in multiple infections. The study reported here investigated the P. falciparum multiplicity of infection (MOI) and genetic diversity among school-aged children in the Man region, western Côte d’Ivoire.

Methods

Blood samples from 292 children aged seven to 15 years were collected in four nearby villages located at altitudes ranging from 340 to 883 m above sea level. Giemsa-stained thick and thin blood films were prepared and examined under a microscope for P. falciparum prevalence and parasitaemia. MOI and genetic diversity of the parasite populations were investigated using msp2 typing by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP).

Results

Plasmodium falciparum prevalence and parasitaemia were both found to be significantly lower in the highest altitude village. Genotyping of the isolates revealed 25 potentially new msp2 alleles. MOI varied significantly across villages but did not correlate with altitude nor children’s age, and only to a limited extent with parasitaemia. An analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) indicated that a small, but close to statistical significance (p = 0.07), fraction of variance occurs specifically between villages of low and high altitudes.

Conclusions

Higher altitude was associated with lower prevalence of P. falciparum but not with reduced MOI, suggesting that, in this setting, MOI is not a good proxy for transmission. The evidence for partially parted parasite populations suggests the existence of local geographical barriers that should be taken into account when deploying anti-malarial interventions.
Asymmetric segregation of template DNA strands in basal-like human breast cancer cell lines
Authors: Liu Wenyu , Jeganathan Gajan , Amiri Sohrab , Morgan Katherine M , Ryan Bríd M , Pine Sharon R
Published: November 2013

Background and methods

Stem or progenitor cells from healthy tissues have the capacity to co-segregate their template DNA strands during mitosis. Here, we set out to test whether breast cancer cell lines also possess the ability to asymmetrically segregate their template DNA strands via non-random chromosome co-segregation, and whether this ability correlates with certain properties attributed to breast cancer stem cells (CSCs). We quantified the frequency of asymmetric segregation of template DNA strands in 12 human breast cancer cell lines, and correlated the frequency to molecular subtype, CD44+/CD24-/lo phenotype, and invasion/migration ability. We tested if co-culture with human mesenchymal stem cells, which are known to increase self-renewal, can alter the frequency of asymmetric segregation of template DNA in breast cancer.

Results

We found a positive correlation between asymmetric segregation of template DNA and the breast cancer basal-like and claudin-low subtypes. There was an inverse correlation between asymmetric segregation of template DNA and Her2 expression. Breast cancer samples with evidence of asymmetric segregation of template DNA had significantly increased invasion and borderline significantly increased migration abilities. Samples with high CD44+/CD24-/lo surface expression were more likely to harbor a consistent population of cells that asymmetrically segregated its template DNA; however, symmetric self-renewal was enriched in the CD44+/CD24-/lo population. Co-culturing breast cancer cells with human mesenchymal stem cells expanded the breast CSC pool and decreased the frequency of asymmetric segregation of template DNA.

Conclusions

Breast cancer cells within the basal-like subtype can asymmetrically segregate their template DNA strands through non-random chromosome segregation. The frequency of asymmetric segregation of template DNA can be modulated by external factors that influence expansion or self-renewal of CSC populations. Future studies to uncover the underlying mechanisms driving asymmetric segregation of template DNA and dictating cell fate at the time of cell division may explain how CSCs are maintained in tumors.
Total knee arthroplasty treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with severe versus moderate flexion contracture
Authors: Yan Denglu , Yang Jing , Pei Fuxing
Published: November 2013

Background

This study aims to explore the technique of soft tissue balance and joint tension maintenance in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) for the rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with flexion contracture of the knee.

Methods

This retrospective study reviewed flexion contracture deformity of RA patients who underwent primary TKA and ligament and soft tissue balancing. Based on the flexion contracture deformity, the remaining 76 patients available for analysis were divided into two groups, i.e., severe flexion group (SF) and moderate flexion group (MF).

Results

There were no intraoperative complications in this study. All patients had improved Knee Society Rating System scores and range of motion. The flexion contracture was completely corrected in MF and SF patients. There were no cases of patellar dislocation, but three cases had mild mediolateral instability in severe flexion group. Four knees (two knees in SF versus two knees in MF) had transient peroneal nerve palsy but recovered after conservative therapy.

Conclusions

TKA can be performed successfully in the RA knees with severe flexion contracture. It is very important in TKA to maintain the joint stability in the condition of severe flexion contracture deformity of the RA knee.
Effects of health on changing labor force participation in Pakistan
Authors: Mushtaq Ayesha , Mohsin Asma , Zaman Khalid
Published: November 2013

The objective of the study investigates the effects of health on changing labor force participation during Pakistan’s economic transition in the 1980s, a period of several economic liberalization and international integration on the health and financial sectors. The study employed the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) co-integration technique to estimate the short- and long-run elasticities, while the Wald coefficient restrictions tests was used to determine the dynamic short-run causality between the variables over a period of 1975–2011. The study was limited to a few variables, including age dependency, health expenditures, trade openness, population per bed, life expectancy, gross capital formation, mortality rate, secondary school enrolment and labor force participation rate, in order to manage robust data analysis. The results suggest that infant mortality rate (IMR), gross capital formation (GCF) and secondary school enrolment (SSE) decrease the labor force participation rate in the long-run, as if there is one percent increase IMR, GCF and SSE, labor force participation decreases by 0.653 percent, 0.137 percent and 0.220 percent respectively, however, these results invert the relationship in short-run. The study also finds that health expenditures has positive and significant impact on labor force participation rate in the short-run, but this result disappear in the long-run. Trade liberalization has a positive effect in the short run, while a negative effect is observed in the long run upon labor force participation rate of Pakistan. The study confirms that Pakistan did not enjoy substantial growth benefits related to health care because human capital (secondary school enrolment), trade openness, public investment and infant mortality rate have a negative impact on labor force participation rate. These findings have important policy implications.

Jel codes

H51, I21, J21.
IgA+ plasma cells in murine intestinal lamina propria as a positive regulator of Treg differentiation
Authors: Kim Myun Soo , Kim Tae Sung
Published: November 2013

Continuous exposure to commensal bacteria gives rise to a complex intestinal immune system that maintains local tolerance, which requires Foxp3-expressing Treg. Recently, the regulation of TFH function by plasma cells has been reported, but effects of intestinal LP-PCs, one of the richest plasma cells in the body, on T cell differentiation have not been studied. Here, we investigated whether IgA+ LP-PCs from murine small intestines had effects on T cell differentiation. Surprisingly, when IgA+ LP-PCs were cocultured with CD4+ T cells, Foxp3 expression was increased significantly in CD4+CD25− T cells. Results using the Transwell coculture system revealed that soluble factors from LP-PCs, TGF-β, and RA were involved in the induction of Foxp3 expression. Furthermore, Foxp3+CD25− T cells were decreased in PP after intestinal depletion of plasma cells. In addition, intestinal colony transfer from SPF to germ-free mice was demonstrated to generate IgA+ LP-PCs and Foxp3+ T cells with meaningful correlation in LP. We report for the first time that IgA+ LP-PCs induce Foxp3 expression in T cells through TGF-β and RA. LP-PCs generated by commensal bacteria may play a crucial role in intestinal immunity through the induction of Treg, as well as IgA production.
Ο κώδικας «Κριτίου» είναι του Νικολάου Καρατζά
Authors: Aποστολόπουλος Δημήτρης Γ.
Published: November 2013

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Ευρετήριο
Authors: Μιχαηλάρης Π. Δ.
Published: November 2013

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Χρονικά – Ειδήσεις
Authors: Eranistes Eranistes
Published: November 2013

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Χρονικά – Ειδήσεις
Authors: Eranistes Eranistes
Published: November 2013

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Table des matières
Authors: Eranistes Eranistes
Published: November 2013

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Περιεχόμενα του εικοστού έκτου τόμου
Authors: Eranistes Eranistes
Published: November 2013

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Περιεχόμενα του εικοστού εβδόμου τόμου
Authors: Eranistes Eranistes
Published: November 2013

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Bilan des études sur Théodore Agallianos : 1966-2011
Authors: Blanchet Marie-Héléne
Published: November 2013

A REPORT ON STUDIES ABOUT THEODORE AGALLIANOS (1966-2011)

C. Patrineles devoted his doctoral thesis to Theodore Agallianos’ life and writings and also edited two of his speeches. In this still authoritative book, he listed all the manuscripts containing Agallianos’ works and all the existing editions. This article provides an update of this information in light of recent studies; it also catalogues the entire bibliography published about Agallianos since 1966.

MARIE-HELENE BLANCHET
Γνωστά και άγνωστα ιστορικά έργα της Τουρκοκρατίας σε χειρόγραφο κώδικα του Νικολάου Καρατζά
Authors: Παΐζη–Αποστολοπούλου Μάχη
Published: November 2013

KNOWN AND UNKNOWN HISTORICAL TEXTS
REGARDING THE OTTOMAN PERIOD
FOUND IN A MANUSCRIPT OF NIKOLAOS KARATZAS

MS 5 of the Kourilas Collection, now preserved at the University of Ioannina, contains 41 historical texts concerning mainly the history of the Ottoman Empire during the 17th and 18th centuries. The manuscript was written by the eminent 18th-century collector and scholar Nikolaos Karatzas. Many of the texts are unedited. This preliminary study includes a list of these texts, their incipits and some paleographical notes.

MACHI PAIZI-APOSTOLOPOULOU
Αναφορές για τον Κοραή και το έργο του στον αγγλοσαξονικό κόσμο
Authors: Βλαχάκης Γιώργος Ν.
Published: November 2013

REFERENCES TO KORAIS AND HIS WORK IN THE ANGLO-SAXON WORLD

This paper presents some of the most significant references to Adamantios Korais in the Anglo-Saxon world of the late 18th century and the 19th. Through these references, readers may garner a view of the image that Western scholars had of the intellectual movement in Greece before the revolution of 1821, as well as gaining an idea of the opinion of Anglo-Saxon scholarly circles about Korais and his work. This evidence is of some importance because it gives us a more complete picture of the status Greek scholars in general and Korais in particular held outside of the Greek-speaking world of the period.

GEORGE N. VLAHAKIS
Ένα αγνοούμενο χειρόγραφο της Βακτηρίας των αρχιερέων και η ανεύρεσή του
Authors: Φώσκολος π. Μάρκος , Πιτσάκης Κωνσταντίνος Γ.
Published: November 2013

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Ένας αβιβλιογράφητος Μπερτολδίνος
Authors: Κατσιγιάννης Αλέξανδρος
Published: November 2013

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Χρονικά – Ειδήσεις
Authors: Eranistes Eranistes
Published: November 2013

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Η συμβολή του Άλκη Αγγέλου στην έρευνα του Νεοελληνικού Διαφωτισμού. Εργογραφία
Authors: Eranistes Eranistes
Published: November 2013

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Βαρνάβας ο Κύπριος και η πυρκαγιά του 1696 στην Κωνσταντινούπολη
Authors: Παΐζη–Αποστολοπούλου Μάχη
Published: November 2013

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Η περί εμφύτων ιδεών επιχειρηματολογία του Θεοδώρου Καβαλλιώτη
Authors: Ψημμένος Νίκος Κ.
Published: November 2013

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Περί υποτροφιών: τέλη του 18ου αιώνα
Authors: Κουμαριανού Αικατερίνη
Published: November 2013

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La “Nouvelle administration politique” de Rhigas. Dimension sociale et politique de la citoyenneté de ses membres
Authors: Noutsos Panagiotis
Published: November 2013

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Κοραής και Ι. Π. Κοκκώνης. Νεότερα στοιχεία για τις σχέσεις τους το 1826
Authors: Αποστολόπουλος Δημήτρης Γ.
Published: November 2013

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Η “Χρηστοήθεια” του Αντ. Βυζάντιου και ο “Galateo” του Giovanni della Casa. Οι πρώτες συσχετίσεις
Authors: Φραγκίσκος Εμμ. Ν.
Published: November 2013

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Κοραϊκά παραλειπόμενα
Authors: Φραγκίσκος Εμμ. Ν.
Published: November 2013

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Συμπληρωματικά περί των Στοχασμών του Ευγενίου Βούλγαρη
Authors: Μακρίδης Βασίλειος Ν.
Published: November 2013

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Ευρετήριο
Authors: Μιχαηλάρης Παναγιώτης Δ.
Published: November 2013

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Τα κίνητρα. Πρώτη δοκιμή προσέγγισης στο θέμα
Authors: Αγγέλου Άλκης
Published: November 2013

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Οι χειρόγραφες διαλέξεις του Γεωργίου Σουγδουρή «Εις τα του φιλοσόφου περί γενέσεως και φθοράς» (1674)
Authors: Πέτσιος Κώστας Θ.
Published: November 2013

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Le Glaneur
Authors: Eranistes Eranistes
Published: November 2013

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Πρωτοσέλιδα
Authors: Eranistes Eranistes
Published: November 2013

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Η γαλλική «Encyclopédie». Ένα πρότυπο του έργου του Ρήγα «Φυσικής απάνθισμα»
Authors: Καραμπερόπουλος Δημήτριος Απ.
Published: November 2013

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Η πολυσημία των συμβόλων και το «Ρόπαλον του Ηρακλέους» του Ρήγα
Authors: Δρούλια Λουκία
Published: November 2013

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Ηπειρώτες έμποροι στην Ιταλία κατά το 18ο αιώνα (Νέα αρχειακά στοιχεία)
Authors: Γιαννακοπούλου Ελένη
Published: November 2013

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Δύο στιχουργήματα σχετικά με την κοινωνική κρίση στη Σμύρνη το 1819
Authors: Λάππας Κώστας
Published: November 2013

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Ο πατμιακός κώδικας του Πλάτωνα, ο Villoison και ο Κοραής
Authors: Φραγκίσκος Εμμ. Ν.
Published: November 2013

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Κοραής και Guilford
Authors: Αγγελομάτη–Τσουγκαράκη Ελένη
Published: November 2013

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“Δονκιχωτισμοί” και “καραγκιοζιλίκια”
Authors: Αγγέλου Άλκης
Published: November 2013

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Συντακτικά του Ευγένιου Γιαννούλη
Authors: Πιτσάκης Κ. Γ.
Published: November 2013

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Le Glaneur: Table des matières
Authors: Eranistes Eranistes
Published: November 2013

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Μια «Μετριότης» του 1567. Συμβολή στη μελέτη των χειρόγραφων συγχωροχαρτιών
Authors: Μιχαηλάρης Μ. Δ.
Published: November 2013

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Όταν πατριαρχικές υπογραφές αναζητούν ταυτότητα
Authors: Ευαγγέλου Γιούλη
Published: November 2013

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Τo ποίημα τοy Βολταίρου "Traduction du poème de Jean Plokof" και o ρωσοτουρκικός πόλεμος του 1768-1774. Μια ακόμα αθησαύριστη απόδοσή του στα ελληνικά
Authors: Παπακωνσταντίνου Κατερίνα
Published: November 2013

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Ανεκπλήρωτα εκδοτικά σχέδια, 1811-1821. Οι μαρτυρίες του προεπαναστατικού τύπου
Authors: Φραγκίσκος Εμμ. Ν.
Published: November 2013

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Μια αθησαύριστη έντυπη πηγή (1715-1718) για την αθωνική μονή Ιβήρων και τον "άρχοντα" Διονύσιο Σπανδούνη
Authors: Κοτζαγιώργης Φωκίων
Published: November 2013

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Ο Αργύρης Φιλιππίδης και η Μερική Γεωγραφία του. Ένα σχόλιο.
Authors: Δημητρόπουλος Δημήτρης
Published: November 2013

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Ο Α. Κοραής και η Κεφαλονιά. Η ονοματοδοσία της λέσχης «Μουσείον ο Κοραής» (1843).
Authors: Πετράτος Πέτρος
Published: November 2013

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Εκκλησιαστικές πλαστογραφίες
Authors: Μιχαηλάρης Παναγιώτης Δ.
Published: November 2013

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Μουσικοί απόηχοι της Γαλλικής Επανάστασης στα Επτάνησα
Authors: Καρδάμης Κώστας
Published: November 2013

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"Όσα και δια λήθην, η αιδώ άνεξομολόγητα είασε". Νέα στοιχεία για τα συγχωροχάρτια
Authors: Τσακίρης Βασίλειος
Published: November 2013

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Ανέκδοτη επιστολή του Αδαμάντιου Κοραή προς τον Heinrich Karl Abraham Eichstädt
Authors: Μακρίδης Βασίλειος Ν.
Published: November 2013

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"Αν ήρχιζε μετά είκοσι χρόνους...". Ο Κοραής, οι κοινωνικές ιδέες του Διαφωτισμου και η Ελληνική Επανάσταση
Authors: Πολίτης Αλέξης
Published: November 2013

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Οι αναστολές ενός φιλελεύθερου εκδότη. Οι εκκλησιαστικές πηγές και ο Δ. Σ. Γκίνης
Authors: Πιτσάκης Κωνσταντίνος Γ.
Published: November 2013

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Ευγένιος Βούλγαρης, «Collectio Epistolica». Tο αθησαύριστο "Επιστολάριο" του και το ζήτημα της διπλής χειρόγραφης παράδοσης της επιστολογραφίας του
Authors: Αποστολόπουλος Δημήτρης Γ.
Published: November 2013

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Tο φιλοσοφικό έργο του Edmundus Purchotius και το Συνταγμάτιον της Μεταφυσικής του Βικεντίου Δαμοδού
Authors: Πέτσιος Κώστας Θ.
Published: November 2013

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«Ο μέγας Κοραής απεβίωσε την 6 Απριλίου». Ανέκδοτη επιστολή του Φίλιππου Φουρναράκη προς τον Θωμά Σπανιολάκη (1833)
Authors: Μαντούβαλος Ίκαρος
Published: November 2013

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Postcolonial ecocriticism, island tourism and a geopoetics of the beach
Authors: Poddar Namrata
Published: November 2013

Over last two decades, the oceanic world has expanded considerably the scale of literary studies and challenged the field’s landlocked notions of national, ethnic or cultural belonging. Much ink has been spilled on the creolizing potential of sites like islands, archipelagoes, ships and ports as they redefine the cartography of postcolonial studies. More recent scholarship on both American and postcolonial ecocriticism have also accredited tropical islands with pioneering debates on environmentalism, sustainability and conservation concerns, even if the former have espoused a predominantly terracentric focus. Developing some of the current concerns in literary, postcolonial and ecocritical studies and interweaving them with maritime, island, tourism and animal studies, this article endeavours a close reading of three francophone novels from the Indian Ocean region: Ananda Devi’s La Vie de Joséphin le fou (2003), Amal Sewtohul’s Histoire d’Ashok et d’autres personnages de moindre importance (2001) and Nathacha Appanah’s Blue Bay Palace (2004). In focusing on one of the most iconic, consumed and globalized sites of islands cultures – the beach – , this article explores the ways in which Mauritian fiction’s articulation of place plays with various intertextual sources, voices and scales to offer fresh possibilities to the field of postcolonial francophone ecocriticism.

Ces vingt dernières années, le monde maritime a considérablement étendu le champ de sa contribution aux études littéraires, rejetant notamment les notions territoriales d’appartenance nationale, ethnique ou culturelle. Beaucoup d’encre a coulé sur le potentiel créolisateur de lieux tels que les îles, les archipels, les  bateaux et les ports, lieux qui tracent déjà une nouvelle cartographie des études postcoloniales. Malgré une orientation plus ‘terrestro-centrée’, les recherches produites plus récemment dans le domaine de l’écocritique américaine ou postcoloniale ont également mis en valeur le rôle précurseur des îles tropicales dans les débats sur l’environnement, la durabilité et la conservation de la nature. A travers l’observation de thèmes majeurs dans les domaines littéraires, postcoloniaux et écocritiques, et leur confrontation aux études animales, maritimes, insulaires et touristiques, cet article propose une lecture détaillée de trois romans francophones de l’océan Indien: La Vie de Joséphin le fou (2003) d’Ananda Devi, Histoire d’Ashok et d’autres personnages de moindre importance (2001) d’Amal Sewtohul et Blue Bay Palace (2004) de Nathacha Appanah. Examinant en particulier la plage, un des sites les plus emblématiques, consommés et globalisés des cultures insulaires, cette étude explore les divers procédés par le biais desquels la fiction mauricienne parvient à donner un sens au lieu, par des entrelacs d’échos intertextuels, de voix et d’échelles spatiales, signalant par là de nouveaux enjeux pour l’écocritique postcoloniale (et) francophone.
University students’ point of views to facilitators and barriers to sexual and reproductive health services
Authors: Abedian Kobra , Shahhosseini Zohreh
Published: November 2013

Aim: The right to health is a universal human right, and this includes sexual and reproductive health services. The aim of this study is to explore the opinions of Iranian university students toward facilitators and barriers to sexual and reproductive health services.

Materials and methods: In 2012, a random sample of 548 university students completed anonymous, self-administered questionnaires. Topics covered the participants’ attitudes towards facilitators and barriers to sexual and reproductive health services in personal, interpersonal, and structural domains.

Results: Mean age of participants was 21.57 years and 57.82% were female. The maximum score of facilitators and barriers to sexual and reproductive health services was related to “Young people’s participation in sexual and reproductive health services provision” and “Fear of stigmatization”, respectively. The results showed that among female university students, the mean score of personal and structural facilitators was significantly higher than the mean score of interpersonal ones (F=12.23, p<0.001). This difference was also reported in barrier factors (F=5.51, p=0.004).

Conclusion: Results highlight the roles of policy makers and health service providers in improving accessibility to provided services for young people through the enforcement of facilitators and reduction of barriers, particularly in the areas of personal and structural facilitators focusing on female services.
A comprehensive review of mental health gatekeeper-trainings for adolescents and young adults
Authors: Lipson Sarah Ketchen
Published: November 2013

Mental disorders account for a larger burden of disease among adolescents and young adults than any other class of health conditions, and most of these disorders are untreated. Gatekeeper-trainings represent a potentially powerful mechanism for increasing access to treatment. This article is a comprehensive review of 21 gatekeepertraining studies conducted in schools and other youth settings around the world. Despite the widespread use of these programs, little is known about how they actually affect the abilities and actions of trained gatekeepers and the subsequent help-seeking behaviors of adolescents and young adults. Certain outcomes (knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy) have been commonly measured whereas others (behaviors, skills, and population-level outcomes) have rarely been assessed. The studies reviewed here also suggest that positive training effects often diminish over time. The article identifies opportunities for advancing gatekeeper-training research and practice.
Prokofiev and the Myth of the Father of Nations
Authors: Orlov Vladimir
Published: November 2013

Prokofiev’s cantata Zdravitsa (1939) was appreciated by Soviet officialdom immediately upon its premiere, and its fame lasted throughout subsequent decades. In post-Stalin times, however, critics re-evaluated the cantata, arguing that Zdravitsa had not been written as pro-Stalinist propaganda. Eventually, the idea that it was not Stalin but “the people” whom Prokofiev actually glorified in this cantata became the accepted interpretation of the piece, unchallenged even today.

Based on insights drawn from the musical and literary sources of Zdravitsa, its relationship to the pseudo-folk Soviet tradition, and its critical reception, the present article proposes a revised framework for interpretation. I show that Prokofiev’s cantata fully corresponds to the Stalinist cultural Myth of the Father of Nations, as represented in Soviet arts and media. Examining archival sources and scholarly literature, I describe the official demands on the cantata. In the second part of the essay I undertake a thorough exploration of the music, identifying its adherence to Socialist Realist aesthetics in Stalin’s times.
An Assay to DetectIn VivoY Chromosome Loss inDrosophilaWing Disc Cells
Authors: Szabad Janos , Bellen Hugo J , Venken Koen J T
Published: November 2013

Loss of the Y chromosome in Drosophila has no impact on cell viability and therefore allows us to assay the impact of environmental agents and genetic alterations on chromosomal loss. To detect in vivo chromosome loss in cells of the developing Drosophila wing primordia, we first engineered a Y chromosome with an attP docking site. By making use of the ΦC31 integrase system, we site-specifically integrated a genomic transgene encompassing the multiple wing hair (mwh) locus into this attP site, leading to a mwh+Y chromosome. This chromosome fully rescues the mwh mutant phenotype, an excellent recessive wing cell marker mutation. Loss of this mwh+Y chromosome in wing primordial cells then leads to manifestation of the mwh mutant phenotype in mwh-homozygous cells. The forming mwh clones permit us to quantify the effect of agents and genetic alterations by assaying frequency and size of the mwh mosaic spots. To illustrate the use of the mwh+Y loss system, the effects of four known mutagens (X-rays, colchicine, ethyl methanesulfonate, and formaldehyde) and two genetic conditions (loss- and gain-of-function lodestar mutant alleles) are documented. The procedure is simple, sensitive, and inexpensive.
Quantitative Trait Loci Affecting Liver Fat Content in Mice
Authors: Minkina Olga , Cheverud James M , Fawcett Gloria , Semenkovich Clay F , Kenney-Hunt Jane P
Published: November 2013

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition in which excess fat accumulates in the liver, is strongly associated with the metabolic syndrome, including obesity and other related conditions. This disease has the potential to progress from steatosis to steatohepatitis, fibrosis, and cirrhosis. The recent increase in the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome is largely driven by changes in diet and activity levels. Individual variation in the response to this obesogenic environment, however, is attributable in part to genetic variation between individuals, but very few mammalian genetic loci have been identified with effects on fat accumulation in the liver. To study the genetic basis for variation in liver fat content in response to dietary fat, liver fat proportion was determined using quantitative magnetic resonance imaging in 478 mice from 16 LG/J X SM/J recombinant inbred strains fed either a high-fat (42% kcal from fat) or low-fat (15% kcal from fat) diet. An analysis of variance confirmed that there is a genetic basis for variation in liver fat content within the population with significant effects of sex and diet. Three quantitative trail loci that contribute to liver fat content also were mapped.
Velocity field in a reservoir in the presence of an air-core vortex
Authors: Sarkardeh Hamed , Jabbari Ebrahim , Zarrati Amir Reza , Tavakkol Sasan
Published: November 2013

The velocity field in a reservoir in the presence of surface vortices was experimentally studied. Experiments were performed with a horizontal intake and with a constant submerged depth and two different intake Froude numbers. The spline smoothing method was used to improve the graphical presentation of the measured data. Results are presented and compared in different horizontal sections in the reservoir. A downward conical flow over the intake axis and an upward one below the intake axis were observed in the reservoir. Finally, the prevailing domains of vertical and horizontal velocities were determined.