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Biomechanical evaluation of an integrated fixation cage during fatigue loading: a human cadaver study
Authors: Palepu Vivek , Peck Jonathan H. , Simon David D. , Helgeson Melvin D. , Nagaraja Srinidhi 
Published: January 2017

OBJECTIVE
Lumbar cages with integrated fixation screws offer a low-profile alternative to a standard cage with anterior supplemental fixation. However, the mechanical stability of integrated fixation cages (IFCs) compared with a cage with anterior plate fixation under fatigue loading has not been investigated. The purpose of this study was to compare the biomechanical stability of a screw-based IFC with a standard cage coupled with that of an anterior plate under fatigue loading.

METHODS
Eighteen functional spinal units were implanted with either a 4-screw IFC or an anterior plate and cage (AP+C) without integrated fixation. Flexibility testing was conducted in flexion-extension (FE), lateral bending (LB), and axial rotation (AR) on intact spines, immediately after device implantation, and post-fatigue up to 20,000 cycles of FE loading. Stability parameters such as range of motion (ROM) and lax zone (LZ) for each loading mode were compared between the 2 constructs at multiple stages of testing. In addition, construct loosening was quantified by subtracting post-instrumentation ROM from post-fatigue ROM.

RESULTS
IFC and AP+C configurations exhibited similar stability (ROM and LZ) at every stage of testing in FE (p ≥ 0.33) and LB (p ≥ 0.23) motions. In AR, however, IFCs had decreased ROM compared with AP+C constructs at pre-fatigue (p = 0.07) and at all post-fatigue time points (p ≤ 0.05). LZ followed a trend similar to that of ROM in AR. ROM increased toward intact motion during fatigue cycling for AP+C and IFC implants. IFC specimens remained significantly (p < 0.01) more rigid than specimens in the intact condition during fatigue for each loading mode, whereas AP+C construct motion did not differ significantly (p ≥ 0.37) in FE and LB and was significantly greater (p < 0.01) in AR motion compared with intact specimens after fatigue. Weak to moderate correlations (R2 ≤ 56%) were observed between T-scores and construct loosening, with lower T-scores leading to decreased stability after fatigue testing.

CONCLUSIONS
These data indicate that a 4-screw IFC design provides fixation similar to that provided by an AP+C construct in FE and LB during fatigue testing and better stability in AR motion.
Les installations commerciales dans la ville de Délos à l’époque hellénistique
Authors: Karvonis Pavlos 
Published: January 2017

Οι εμπορικές εγκαταστάσεις της πόλης της Δήλου στην ελληνιστική εποχή
Το άρθρο αυτό αποτελεί μια συνθετική μελέτη για τις εμπορικές εγκαταστάσεις της πόλης της Δήλου στην ελληνιστική εποχή. Εξετάζουμε τις κατασκευές που ανήκαν τόσο στις προσωρινές όσο και στις μόνιμες εμπορικές εγκαταστάσεις, προτείνουμε μια ονοματολογία και παρουσιάζουμε τους χώρους παραγωγής και εμπορίου, οι οποίοι ταυτίζονται με βεβαιότητα. Προτείνουμε στη συνέχεια κριτήρια ταύτισης των εμπορικών εγκαταστάσεων και επιχειρούμε να ανασυστήσουμε τον τρόπο λειτουργίας τους. Παρουσιάζουμε, τέλος, τα αρχιτεκτονικά προγράμματα, που οδήγησαν στην κατασκευή των χώρων εμπορίου, καθώς και τη διασπορά των χώρων αυτών μέσα στον πολεοδομικό ιστό. Διαπιστώνουμε ότι ο μεγάλος αριθμός και η ποικιλία των εμπορικών εγκαταστάσεων επιβεβαιώνουν τη φήμη της Δήλου ως μεγάλου εμπορικού κέντρου στα τέλη της ελληνιστικής περιόδου.
Les femmes et les amphores : épigraphie amphorique rhodienne et histoire de la femme dans le monde hellénistique
Authors: Garcia Sanchez Manel 
Published: January 2017

Οι γυναίκες και οι αμφορείς: επιγραφική των ροδιακών αμφορέων και ιστορία της γυναίκας στον ελληνιστικό κόσμο
Στο άρθρο αυτό παρουσιάζουμε ένα δείγμα σφραγισμάτων αμφορέων που αναφέρουν Ρόδιες γυναίκες. Προέρχονται από διάφορα κέντρα παραγωγής και κατανάλωσης της Μεσογείου, που εκτείνονται από τη Μαύρη θάλασσα έως την ιβηρική χερσόννησο. Δείχνουμε ότι δεν πρέπει να υποτιμούμε αυτήν την πηγή δεδομένων στη μελέτη της θέσης και των οικονομικών δικαιωμάτων της γυναίκας στον ελληνιστικό κόσμο.
Diplomatie et statues à l’époque hellénistique : à propos du décret de l’Amphictionie pyléo-delphique CID IV 99
Authors: Biard Guillaume 
Published: January 2017

Διπλωματία και αγάλματα στην ελληνιστική περίοδο : Σχετικά με το ψήφισμα CID IV 99 της πυλεοδελφικής Αμφικτυονίας.
Προτείνω εδώ την εκ νέου ανάλυση ενός ψηφίσματος της Αμφικτυονίας, που χρονολογείται στα τέλη του 3ου αι. π. Χ. Το ψήφισμα αυτό, αποτέλεσμα της αποστολής πρεσβείας από την Αντιόχεια των Χρυσαορέων, δηλαδή από τα Αλάβανδα της Καρίας, αποδίδει τιμές στην πόλη, μεταξύ των οποίων περιλαμβάνεται και η ανέγερση ενός χάλκινου ανδριάντα ύψους 3,60 μ. στο ιερό των Δελφών, που αναπαριστά το Δήμο της Αντιόχειας. Με το ίδιο μάλιστα ψήφισμα τιμάται ο Αντίοχος ο τρίτος, λαμβάνοντας έναν ανδριάντα ίδιων διαστάσεων, κάτι που αποτελεί μοναδικό γεγονός. Ύστερα από τη μελέτη των συμφερόντων και των τριών πλευρών, που συνδέονται με τη διπλωματική και στρατιωτική κατάσταση και εξηγούν την ίδρυση αυτού του εντυπωσιακού συντάγματος, που είναι πρωτότυπο ως προς τον τύπο και τη διάταξή του, εξετάζω τα ιδιαίτερα χαρακτηριστικά της αναπαράστασης του Δήμου και την εξέλιξή τους. Η βασική υπόθεση είναι ότι δημιουργήθηκε στην ελληνιστική περίοδο, δίπλα στον κλασικό τύπο του ηλικιωμένου γενειοφόρου ανδρός, ένας τύπος νεαρού και γεμάτου ενέργεια Δήμου, εμπνευσμένος από την ανανεωμένη πολιτειακή εικονογραφία. Έτσι, ένας κολοσσιαίος ανδριάντας από την Κω, η ερμηνεία του οποίου έχει προκαλέσει ζωηρές συζητήσεις, θα μπορούσε να είναι ο τιμητικός ανδριάντας ενός Δήμου.
Narcissisme de couple et espace intermédiaire à l’épreuve de la psychose juvénile
Authors: Boudarse Khalid 
Published: January 2017

Comment penser la psychose de l’adolescent en lien avec le narcissisme du couple parental ? L’auteur suppose que plus le narcissisme de couple (ou transnarcissisme) est assuré, plus l’espace intermédiaire est riche et moins le portage narcissique de l’adolescent est défaillant. Aborder le couple comme formation psychique nous amène à penser en termes de transnarcissisme et d’espace intermédiaire. En mettant l’accent sur le fonctionnement psychique du couple, l’auteur s’appuie sur deux cas cliniques pour aborder ces questions.
Des intellectuels français à la rencontre du Duce et du Führer
Authors: Saintin Alexandre 
Published: January 2017

Au gré de leurs circulations dans l’Europe brune et noire, les intellectuels français produisent des récits variés où la rencontre de l’altérité politique interroge. Incarnant les nouveaux régimes, la figure du dictateur s’impose dans les narrations des voyageurs au point d’en devenir un incontournable. Voir cette figure, comprendre les raisons d’un succès, les déraisons d’une mystique nationale, mesurer les intentions d’un régime à l’égard de la France en s’adressant à sa tête « pensante », confier son admiration, faire valoir son expertise, devenir à son tour auteur, figure d’autorité pour avoir rencontré l’autorité en personne : telles sont les ambitions des intellectuels français partis à la rencontre des dictateurs fasciste et nazi.
Experiencing Hektor
Authors: Kozak Lynn 
Published: January 2017

At the Iliad's climax, the great Trojan hero Hektor falls at the hands of Achilles. But who is Hektor? He has resonated with audiences as a tragic hero, great warrior, loyal husband and father, protector of a doomed city. Yet never has a major work sought to discover how these different aspects of Hektor’s character accumulate over the course of the narrative to create the devastating effect of his death.
This book documents the experience of Hektor through the Iliad’s serial narrative. Drawing on diverse tools from narratology, to cognitive science, but with a special focus on film character, television poetics, and performance practice, it examines how the mechanics of serial narrative construct the character of Hektor. How do we experience Hektor as the performer makes his way through the epic? How does the juxtaposition of scenes in multiple storylines contribute to character? How does the narrative work to manipulate our emotional response? How does our relationship to Hektor change over the course of the performance?
Lynn Kozak demonstrates this novel approach through a careful scene-by-scene breakdown and analysis of the Iliad, focusing especially on Hektor. In doing so, she challenges and destabilises popular and scholarly assumptions about both ancient epic and the Iliad’s ‘other’ hero.
Amplifying Islam in the European Soundscape
Authors: Arab Pooyan Tamimi 
Published: January 2017

Public manifestations of Islam remain fiercely contested across the Global West. Studies to date have focused on the visual presence of Islam - the construction of mosques or the veiling of Muslim women. Amplifying Islam in the European Soundscape is the first book to add a sonic dimension to analyses of the politics of Islamic aesthetics in Europe.
Sound does not respect public/private boundaries, and people experience sound viscerally. As such, the public amplification of the azan, the call to prayer, offers a unique opportunity to understand what is at stake in debates over religious toleration and secularism. The Netherlands were among the first European countries to allow the amplification of the azan in the 1980s, and Pooyan Tamimi Arab explores this as a case study embedded in a broader history of Dutch religious pluralism.
The book offers a pointed critique of social theories that regard secularism as all-encompassing. While cultural forms of secularism exclude Muslim rights to public worship, Amplifying Islam in the European Soundscape argues that political and constitutional secularism also enables Muslim demands for amplifying calls to prayer. It traces how these exclusions and inclusions are effected through proposals for mosques, media debates, law and policy, but also in negotiations on the ground between residents, municipalities and mosques.
Corpus Linguistics and 17th-Century Prostitution
Authors: McEnery Anthony , Baker Helen 
Published: January 2017

Corpus linguistics has much to offer history, being as both disciplines engage so heavily in analysis of large amounts of textual material.
This book demonstrates the opportunities for exploring corpus linguistics as a method in historiography and the humanities and social sciences more generally. Focussing on the topic of prostitution in 17th-century England, it shows how corpus methods can assist in social research, and can be used to deepen our understanding and comprehension.
McEnery and Baker draw principally on two sources – the newsbook Mercurius Fumigosis and the Early English Books Online Corpus. This scholarship on prostitution and the sex trade offers insight into the social position of women in history.
Mobile Access to Clinical Information at the Point of Care
Authors: Mncube-Barnes Fatima M , Lee Ben , Esuruoso Olumuyiwa , Gona Phil N , Daphnis Stephane 
Published: January 2017

Purpose: Librarians partnered with the Chief Resident and coordinators of the Internal Medicine residency program to assess how a formalized approach of introducing mobile access to clinical knowledge at the point of care enhanced medical practice. This three-year long study demonstrated that over time residents were able to adapt handheld computing with support on how the technology could facilitate successful completion of their work role-related tasks. Methods: Three cohorts of internal medicine residents were issued iPads at the beginning of their second year and trained in accessing institutional resources from the digital library. Pre- and post-intervention surveys were respectively administered at the beginning of the second year and end of the third year of training. Institutional technical and resource support were made available for each cohort. Pre- and post-intervention responses were compared using two sample methods and summarized through descriptive statistics. Results: 68 residents (38% women, mean age = 35.1, SD = 5.1 years) completed the pre-intervention survey questionnaires and 45 completed the post-intervention surveys. There were significant improvements in the residents’ level of computer experience, familiarity with medical information Apps, and appreciation for the electronic medical record. Additionally, residents preferred a highly capable computer system for clinical purposes and positively perceived the potential effects of computers and electronic medical record on medicine. Conclusion: Study findings suggested that institutions played a critical role in providing technology training to their resident physicians, especially in mobile access to clinical information at the point of care. The residents showed appreciation of iPads and library support that facilitated successful completion of their work role-related tasks. Replicating this study with a larger sample size derived from multiple sites is suggested for future studies that should also include mid-level healthcare professionals such as Physician Assistants and Advanced Nurse Practitioners.
Wheat Bran Dietary Fiber: Promising Source of Prebiotics with Antioxidant Potential
Authors: Gunenc Aynur , Alswiti Christina , Hosseinian Farah 
Published: January 2017

The potential of wheat bran (WB) addition as a prebiotic source were demonstrated using yogurt with probiotics (Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium lactis). Yogurts (with 4% WB) were significantly (P < 0.05) different in total bacterial counts (9.1 log CFU/mL), and total titratable acidity % (TTA, 1.4%) compared to controls during 28 days cold storage (4°C). Additionally, WB-total dietary fiber contents and their bound phenolic profiles were investigated as well as the antioxidant activity of WB-water extractable polysaccharides (WEP) was studied. HPLC analysis of alkaline hydrolyzed DF fractions showed that insoluble DF had higher phenolic acids (84.2%) content than soluble DF (15.8%). Also, crude-WEP showed stronger antioxidant activity compared to purified-WEP with an ORAC of 71.88 and 52.48 µmol TE/g, respectively. Here we demonstrate WB has potentials as a source of prebiotics, which may have the potentials for functional foods and nutraceutical applications.
The Significance of an Antenna for Jamming Resistance of a GPS Receiver
Authors: Felski Andrzej , Gortad Marta 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
At present jamming is considered one of the main threats to a GPS receiver’s user, both in dynamic and stationary conditions, and especially regarding telecommunication synchronization. Threats stemming from the use of cheap jammers, more and more commonly referred to as Personal Protecting Devices, available on the Internet, are especially dangerous. Despite the formal ban on using them, there is evidence that they are in common use. Therefore the problem which has hitherto been considered marginal needs to be urgently investigated. Reports dealing with investigations on jamming focus mostly on analyses of effects of various jammers on receivers. This article presents part of the results of experiments focused on the effects and it shows that the effects of jamming when the same device is used depend on both the receiver and the antenna it employs.
The Principles of Classified Information Protection Handled in Communication and Information Systems Within the Realisation of European Defence Agency Research Projects
Authors: Sobczyński Tomasz 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
The article presents the aspects of Communication and Information Systems security principles for classified Information Security Management System implemented within the realization of European Defence Agency research and technology projects. In the content of article, author characterised the rules and procedures, resulting from the legal acts, which regulates IT security procedures of classified information processing, obtained during the realisation of research process. Special attention has been focused on the European Defence Agency projects during which common IT security procedures are very important to provide not only the proper level of secrecy but also to ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability of all information processed during the research process.
Size of Sclerosing Foams Prepared by Ultrasound, Mechanical Agitation, and the Handmade Tessari Method for Treatment of Varicose Veins
Authors: Critello Costantino Davide , Fiorillo Antonino S. , Matula Thomas J. 
Published: January 2017

ObjectivesSclerotherapy is a therapeutic method used in the treatment of varicose veins and works by occluding damaged blood vessels with a chemical solution. Foam sclerotherapy is an attractive treatment because the results are more effective than those obtained by using liquid sclerosants. However, serious neurologic complications, which are likely related to air embolism, have been reported after treatment with foams generated by the handmade method (Tessari technique) most often used clinically. We present an alternative ultrasonic technique for preparation of sclerosing foams to treat varicose veins.MethodsThree methods of foam generation were compared: ultrasound, mechanical agitation, and Tessari techniques.ResultsOptical microscopic analyses showed that low‐frequency ultrasound can generate foams with smaller bubble distributions compared to those produced by handmade and mechanical agitation methods: 98% of the bubble population was less than 55 ± 10 μm for sonicated foams (mean ± SD, 19 ± 1.8 μm; maximum bubble size, <138.3 ± 32.5 μm), 196.7 ± 38.2 μm for mechanically agitated foams (mean, 37.1 ± 10.6 μm; maximum bubble size, <350 ± 70.9 μm), and 211.7 ± 20.8 μm for handmade foams (mean, 30.8 ± 3.8 μm; maximum bubble size, <445 ± 32.8 μm).ConclusionsLow‐frequency ultrasonic foam generation yields smaller bubbles and more uniform size distributions than other investigated methods. These properties may reduce serious adverse events reported for sclerotherapy of varicose veins, increasing the safety of foam treatment.
The role of plasma slowdown in the generation of Rhea's Alfvén wings
Authors: Khurana Krishan K. , Fatemi Shahab , Lindkvist Jesper , Roussos Elias , Krupp Norbert , Holmström Mats , Russell Christopher T. , Dougherty Michele K. 
Published: February 2017

AbstractAlfvén wings are known to form when a conducting or mass‐loading object slows down a flowing plasma in its vicinity. Alfvén wings are not expected to be generated when an inert moon such as Rhea interacts with Saturn's magnetosphere, where the plasma impacting the moon is absorbed and the magnetic flux passes unimpeded through the moon. However, in two close polar passes of Rhea, Cassini clearly observed magnetic field signatures consistent with Alfvén wings. In addition, observations from a high‐inclination flyby (Distance > 100 RRh) of Rhea on 3 June 2010 showed that the Alfvén wings continue to propagate away from Rhea even at this large distance. We have performed three‐dimensional hybrid simulations of Rhea's interaction with Saturn's magnetosphere which show that the wake refilling process generates a plasma density gradient directed in the direction of corotating plasma. The resulting plasma pressure gradient exerts a force directed toward Rhea and slows down the plasma streaming into the wake along field lines. As on the same field lines, outside of the wake, the plasma continues to move close to its full speed, this differential motion of plasma bends the magnetic flux tubes, generating Alfvén wings in the wake. The current system excited by the Alfvén wings transfers momentum to the wake plasma extracting it from plasma outside the wake. Our work demonstrates that Alfvén wings can be excited even when a moon does not possess a conducting exosphere.
F3 layer development during quiet and disturbed periods as observed at conjugate locations in Brazil: The role of the meridional wind
Authors: Batista Inez S. , Candido C. M. N. , Souza J. R. , Abdu M. A. , de Araujo R. C. , Resende L. C. A. , Santos A. M. 
Published: February 2017

AbstractIn this work we use ionospheric data from two low‐latitude stations located north and south of the geomagnetic equator, at approximately the same magnetic longitude, in order to study the occurrence of the F3 layer. The location of the stations being at almost geomagnetically conjugate points is such that the effects of the electric field/vertical plasma drift and diffusion will be almost symmetric around the magnetic equator. Under this configuration it is possible to deduce the effect of meridional wind in the F3 layer occurrence. Our results show that during the December solstice the layer will be present at the Southern Hemisphere (SH) location in 97% of the days and in the Northern Hemisphere (NH) location in only 4% of the days. In the June solstice the situation is reversed with the occurrence in the NH being 82% and 16% in the SH. For the March equinox the occurrence is low at both locations (4% in NH and 7% in SH), being mainly present during magnetically disturbed periods. The analysis of the effective meridional wind based on the Horizontal Wind Model and on the asymmetry of the F layer peak height observed at the two locations confirms the ubiquitous role of the wind in the F3 layer formation and/or persistence during both quiet and disturbed periods. The B0 parameter, that is a measure of the thickness of the bottomside F region profile, revealed to be a good proxy for the F3 layer occurrence.
Remote sensing evidence of decadal changes in major tropospheric ozone precursors over East Asia
Authors: Souri Amir Hossein , Choi Yunsoo , Jeon Wonbae , Woo Jung‐Hun , Zhang Qiang , Kurokawa Jun‐ichi 
Published: February 2017

AbstractRecent regulatory policies in East Asia reduce ozone precursors, but these changes are spatially and temporally nonuniform. This study investigates variations in the long‐term trends of tropospheric NO2, HCHO, and HCHO/NO2 ratios to diagnose ozone sensitivity to changes in NOx and volatile organic compound using the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI). Using an adaptive‐degree polynomial filter, we identify extremums of time series of NO2 to determine when and how NO2 change. Due to the regulations in China, trends which were predominantly upward turned downward. The years undergoing these changes primarily happened in 2011 and 2012. OMI column densities, however, suggest that NOx sources in South Korea, the Pearl River Delta (PRD), Taiwan, and Japan have not consistently decreased. Specifically, as Chinese exports of NO2 started subsiding, increasing trends in NO2 columns over several Korean cities, including Seoul, become evident. To quantify the changes in NOx emissions from summertime 2010 to 2014, we conduct a 3D‐Var inverse modeling using a regional model with MIX‐Asia inventory and estimate NOx emissions (in 2010 and 2014) for the PRD (1.6 and 1.5 Gg/d), the Yangtze River Delta (3.9 and 3.0 Gg/d), north China (15.6 and 14.3 Gg/d), South Korea (1.6 and 1.5 Gg/d), and Japan (2.7 and 2.6 Gg/d). OMI HCHO shows upward trends in East Asia resulting from anthropogenic effects; however, the magnitudes are negative in the PRD, Japan, North Korea, and Taiwan. OMI HCHO/NO2 ratios reveal that while South Korea, Japan, and the south of China have undergone toward more NOx‐sensitive regime, areas around the Bohai Sea have become more NOx saturated.