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Diálogo entre tradição direta e indireta: variantes da tradução latina da obra de Isaac de Nínive no <em>Tractatus Pauperis</em> de John Pecham
Authors: Cambraia César Nardelli 
Published: November 2015

<span>A reconstrução do trajeto seguido pela obra de Isaac de Nínive na sua difusão em língua latina apresenta diversos desafios, dada a sua grande amplitude geográfica e temporal. No presente trabalho, examinam-se as citações de Isaac de Nínive no </span><em>Tractatus Pauperis</em><span> de John Pecham, a fim de obter melhores evidências sobre a história de sua difusão em língua latina e de refletir sobre relação entre tradição direta e indireta no processo de elaboração de edições críticas.</span>
Teoria da harmonia em Platão
Authors: Rizek Ricardo 
Published: November 2015

<p><span>Estudam-se alguns casos da teoria da harmonia em Platão. Para tal, consideram-se a concepção e a terminologia musical que Platão, a um tempo só, recebe dos pitagóricos e, daí, lega a tantos quantos escreveram sobre música em grego, como Proclo, ou em latim, como Boécio. Assim, aponta-se, em </span><em>Timeu </em><span>35a–36d, a analogia entre </span><em>autó </em><span>e média harmônica; </span><em>héteron </em><span>e média aritmética; a </span><em>ousía </em><span>intermediária e a média geométrica. Daí, o modo como a “essência” intermediária viabiliza a harmonização do “outro” com o “mesmo” compara-se ao modo como a média geométrica conjuga as outras médias numa série numérica cujos intervalos correspodem aos da escala musical pitagórica. Assim, das “partes” em que “deus” divide o “todo”, as que estão uma para outra assim como 4 para 3 correspondem à </span><em>diatessáron </em><span>ou 4ª justa [m. harmônica]; as que estão uma para outra assim como 3 para 2, à </span><em>diapénte </em><span>ou 5ª justa [m. aritmética]. A proporção de 256 para 243 desponta, então, como a razão correspondente ao </span><span><em>leîmma</em>, </span><span>isto é, à </span><em>díesis </em><span>ou “semitom” pitagórico.</span></p>
A (im)piedade de Aquiles
Authors: Campos André Malta 
Published: November 2015

<p>O objetivo deste artigo é mostrar brevemente o vínculo existente, em Homero, entre as noções de piedade/religiosidade e pena/misericórdia, valendo-se da análise do comportamento de Aquiles na <em>Ilíada</em>, sobretudo no canto 24, e recorrendo a alguns apontamentos de Aristóteles em sua <em>Retórica</em>.</p>
Editorial
Authors: Santos Marcos Martinho dos 
Published: November 2015

Em que pese ao parecer de Tucídides, que distingue entre o antigo, que se ouve, e o contemporâneo, que se vê, é para perguntar se não haveria outro meio para distinguir entre a narração fabulosa dos poetas e a narração não fabulosa dele mesmo, ou ainda, entre o “mito” e a “história”. Na verdade, haverá confins bem definidos que demarquem cabalmente os lugares de um e de outra? Interessado em tais questões, o Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras Clássicas do DLCV/FFLCH/ USP, primeiro, organizou e realizou em 2003 o colóquio “Mito e história no teatro greco-latino”. Agora, a partir da seleção de artigos produzidos por participantes do colóquio e por outros autores e também da seleção de traduções, notícias de pesquisa e resenhas, edita o presente número de <em>Letras Clássicas</em>.
Using Energy Dissipation Rate to Obtain Active Whitecap Fraction
Authors: Anguelova Magdalena D. , Hwang Paul A. 
Published: November 2015

AbstractActive and total whitecap fractions quantify the spatial extent of oceanic whitecaps in different lifetime stages. Total whitecap fraction W includes both the dynamic foam patches of the initial breaking and the static foam patches during whitecap decay. Dynamic air–sea processes in the upper ocean are best parameterized in terms of active whitecap fraction WA associated with actively breaking crests. The conventional intensity threshold approach used to extract WA from photographs is subjective, which contributes to the wide spread of WA data. A novel approach of obtaining WA from energy dissipation rate ε is proposed. An expression for WA is derived in terms of energy dissipation rate WA(ε) on the basis of the Phillips concept of breaking crest length distribution. This approach allows more objective determination of WA using the breaker kinematic and dynamic properties yet avoids the use of measuring breaking crest distribution from photographs. The feasibility of using WA(ε) is demonstrated with one possible implementation using buoy data and a parametric model for the energy dissipation rate. Results from WA(ε) are compared to WA from photographic data. Sensitivity analysis quantifies variations in WA estimates caused by different parameter choices in the WA(ε) expression. The breaking strength parameter b has the greatest influence on the WA(ε) estimates, followed by the breaker minimal speed and bubble persistence time. The merits and caveats of the novel approach, possible improvements, and implications for using the WA(ε) expression to extract WA from satellite-based radiometric measurements of W are discussed.
A Consistent Treatment of Microwave Emissivity and Radar Backscatter for Retrieval of Precipitation over Water Surfaces
Authors: Munchak S. Joseph , Meneghini Robert , Grecu Mircea , Olson William S. 
Published: November 2015

AbstractThe Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Microwave Imager (GMI) and dual-frequency precipitation radar (DPR) are designed to provide the most accurate instantaneous precipitation estimates currently available from space. The GPM Combined Radar–Radiometer Algorithm (CORRA) plays a key role in this process by retrieving precipitation profiles that are consistent with GMI and DPR measurements; therefore, it is desirable that the forward models in CORRA use the same geophysical input parameters. This study explores the feasibility of using internally consistent emissivity and surface backscatter cross-sectional () models for water surfaces in CORRA. An empirical model for DPR Ku- and Ka-band as a function of 10-m wind speed and incidence angle is derived from GMI-only wind retrievals under clear-sky conditions. This allows for the measurements, which are also influenced by path-integrated attenuation (PIA) from precipitation, to be used as input to CORRA and for wind speed to be retrieved as output. Comparisons to buoy data give a wind rmse of 3.7 m s−1 for Ku+GMI retrievals and 3.2 m s−1 for Ku+Ka+GMI retrievals under precipitation (compared to 1.3 m s−1 for clear-sky GMI-only retrievals), and there is a reduction in bias from the global analysis (GANAL) background data (−10%) to the Ku+GMI (−3%) and Ku+Ka+GMI (−5%) retrievals. Ku+GMI retrievals of precipitation increase slightly in light (<1 mm h–1) and decrease in moderate to heavy precipitation (>1 mm h−1). The Ku+Ka+GMI retrievals, being additionally constrained by the Ka reflectivity, increase only slightly in moderate and heavy precipitation at low wind speeds (<5 m s−1) relative to retrievals using the surface reference estimate of PIA as input.
Putative invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in critically ill patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a matched cohort study
Authors: Delsuc Claire , Cottereau Aurélie , Frealle Emilie , Bienvenu Anne-Lise , Dessein Rodrigue , Jarraud Sophie , Dumitrescu Oana , Le Maréchal Marion , Wallet Florent , Friggeri Arnaud , Argaud Laurent , Rimmelé Thomas , Nseir Saad , Ader Florence 
Published: November 2015

Abstract
Introduction
Patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are at risk for developing invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. A clinical algorithm has been validated to discriminate colonization from putative invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (PIPA) in Aspergillus-positive respiratory tract cultures of critically ill patients. We focused on critically ill patients with COPD who met the criteria for PIPA.

Methods
This matched cohort study included critically ill patients with COPD from two university hospital intensive care units (ICUs). We studied the risk factors for PIPA as well as the impact of PIPA on short- and long-term outcomes. Whether PIPA was associated with a pattern of bacterial colonization and/or infection 6 months before and/or during ICU stay was assessed. In addition, antifungal strategies were reviewed.

Results
Fifty cases of PIPA in critically ill patients with COPD in the ICU were matched with one hundred control patients with COPD. The ICU short- and the long-term (at 1 year) mortality were significantly increased in the PIPA group (p < 0.001 for all variables). PIPA was a strong independent risk factor for mortality in the ICU (odds ratio 7.44, 95 % confidence interval 2.93–18.93, p < 0.001) before vasopressor therapy, renal replacement therapy, and duration of mechanical ventilation. Before ICU admission, the use of corticosteroids and antibiotics significantly increased the risk of PIPA (p = 0.004 and p < 0.001, respectively). No significant difference in bacterial etiologic agents responsible for colonization and/or infection was found between the groups. Antifungal treatment was started in 64 % of PIPA cases, with a poor impact on the overall outcome.

Conclusions
PIPA was a strong death predictor in critically ill patients with COPD. The use of corticosteroids and antibiotics before ICU admission was a risk factor for PIPA. PIPA was not associated with a specific bacterial pattern of colonization or infection. Prompting antifungal treatment in critically ill patients with COPD who have PIPA may not be the only factor involved in prognosis reversal.
Surgical management of vascular anomalies in children at a tertiary care hospital in a resource-limited setting: a Tanzanian experience with 134 patients
Authors: Chalya Phillipo L. , Kayange Neema M. , Rambau Peter F. , Manyama Mange , Gilyoma Japhet M. 
Published: November 2015

Abstract

Background
Vascular anomalies pose major diagnostic and therapeutic challenges among pediatricians and pediatric surgeons practicing in resource limited countries. There is paucity of published data regarding this subject in Tanzania and Bugando Medical Centre in particular. This study describes our experiences on the challenges and outcome of surgical management of childhood vascular anomalies in our environment.

Methods
Between January 2009 and December 2013, a prospective study on the surgical management of vascular anomalies was undertaken at Bugando Medical Centre.

Results
A total of 134 patients (M; F = 1:2.5) were studied. The median age at presentation was 6 years. Of the 134 patients, 101 (75.4 %) were diagnosed as having vascular tumors and 33 (24.6 %) had vascular malformations. The head and the neck were the most frequent anatomical site recorded as having a tumor (56.7 % of patients). Out of 134 patients, 129 (96.3 %) underwent surgical treatment. Failure to respond to non-operative treatment (86.8 %), huge disfiguring/obstructing mass (4.7 %), infection (3.1 %), ulceration (3.1 %) and hemorrhage (2.3 %) were indications for surgical intervention. Tumor excision and primary wound closure was the most common type of surgical procedure performed in 80.6 % of patients. Surgical site infection was the most frequent complications accounting for 33.8 % of cases. Mortality rate was 1.5 %. Tumor excision and primary wound closure gave better outcome compared with other surgical options (p < 0.001). Outcome of injection sclerotherapy in 3 (3.7 %) children, serial ligation of feeder vessels employed in 2 (1.6 %), and conservative treatment in 5 (3.7 %), were poor and required conversion to surgical excision. Despite low mortality rate recorded in this study, but ugly scar, 14 (20.6 %) and limb deformity, 6 (8.8 %) were problems. The overall result of surgical treatment at the end of follow up period was excellent in 108 (87.1 %) patients.

Conclusion
Surgical excision and primary wound closure gave good outcome which could be employed in complicated and vascular anomalies which failed to respond to other treatment in regions with limited resources.
Presence, Absence, and Victoria's Hair
Authors: Cifor Marika 
Published: November 2015

Abstract
An affective archival encounter with a hair likely belonging to Victoria Schneider, a trans woman, sex worker, and activist, prompts the author's exploration of affect and embodiment in trans archives. This artifact animates how archives can value trans bodies in their centrality, affect, and power by embracing bodily traces, making visible what is absent, and giving due consideration to capturing bodily experience.
Trans/Feminist Oral History
Authors: Brown Elspeth H. 
Published: November 2015

AbstractThis piece discusses current trans oral history projects that bring together feminist methodologies, transgender studies, and queer archives. I offer a map of some of these oral history projects, and their archive partners, while offering some reflections concerning how prior work in transgender ethnography and poststructuralist history are helping to shape contemporary approaches to trans oral history. Projects discussed include the LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory, the Transgender Archives (University of Victoria), the Digital Transgender Archive, the New York City Trans Oral History Project, the Trans Oral History Project, and the Transgender Oral History Project, Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota Libraries.
Radical Living Archives and Trans* Embodiment
Authors: Kotlarczyk Abbra 
Published: November 2015

Abstract
Multimedia artist Shu Lea Cheang's Brandon was supported by the Guggenheim Museum New York in 1995 as a multiauthor/multi-institutional collaboration. Created in response to the news of the Nebraska murder of transgender youth Brandon Teena in 1993, the project exists as a feminist hypertext and as such can be regarded as a living archive of transgender embodiment. Due to the work's current offline status, questions arise as to how it might be factored beyond its material presence, as a temporal placeholder for radical and affective archiving. Major sociocultural factors such as the introduction of the information super highway at the time of the project's creation allow for a topographical look at how digital codes and online interfacing factor as potential forms of emancipation regarding transgender embodiment and performativity.
Evaluation of pre-hospital point-of-care testing for lactate in sepsis and trauma patients
Authors: Younger Paul , McClelland Graham 
Published: November 2015

Objective: Lactate is a significant marker of critical illness and mortality in sepsis and trauma patients. The purpose of this study is to evaluate point-of-care lactate testing by paramedics in a UK ambulance service. Methods: Selected enhanced care paramedics were trained to use the lactate meter in patients with suspected sepsis and patients who trigger the major trauma bypass protocol. Feedback was collected on the practicalities of using the meter and the potential impact on the diagnosis of sepsis. Results: Data were collected on 114 patients, 96% had suspected sepsis (n=109) and 4% (n=5) were patients who had sustained trauma. The participants found that the ability to take lactate readings was useful and increased their confidence in their clinical decision making. Conclusions: Point-of-care lactate measurement is feasible in pre-hospital care and appears to support paramedics in their decision making.
An insight into the demands and stressors experienced by Community First Responders
Authors: Kindness Peter , Fitzpatrick David , Mellish Chris , Masthoff Judith , O'Meara Patrick , McEwan Murray 
Published: November 2015

Background: Community First Responders (CFR) are volunteers who respond to appropriate medical emergencies while an ambulance is en route. The emergencies that CFRs attend are situations where stress is inherent, yet little is known of which stressors and demands are present and which are considered to be the greatest attributer to stress experienced. Objective: This survey aims to gain further understanding of the demands and stressors experienced by CFRs. Design: An online survey using a modified NASA-TLX scoring system was distributed to CFRs throughout Scotland (n=535). CFRs were asked to gauge the demands and stressors experienced during a ‘typical’ and their ‘most stressful’ callout, what would be the biggest cause of stress if present and the most stressful time-period during callouts. Results: 88 CFRs started the survey with 40 continuing to completion. Frustration that the CFR could not help the patient more was considered to be the biggest stressor for both a typical and most the stressful callout. Emotional demand was the most present demand in a typical callout and mental demand in the most stressful callout. If present, loneliness and isolation was deemed to be the biggest cause of stress for CFRs. Prior to arrival at scene was the most stressful time. Conclusions: This insight provides a valuable appraisal for the Scottish Ambulance Service of the CFR scheme and the concerns and demands experienced by its volunteers. The results also act as a cross-sectional study for research investigating stress alleviation through human-computer interaction in the pre-hospital care domain.
Pre-hospital lactate monitoring for adults with sepsis
Authors: Charlton Karl 
Published: November 2015

Background: Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that claims 37 000 lives in the UK. The sepsis six care bundle was developed by the surviving sepsis campaign in 2002 to address this high mortality rate. Part of this care bundle involves measuring blood lactate which is prognostic of mortality. Lactate can be measured by paramedics in the pre-hospital setting using hand held monitors similar to blood glucose machines, with accuracy that is comparable to laboratory measured lactate. Method: A focused electronic literature search was carried out on a number of different databases as well as a hand search of specific relevant journals. Data was also obtained from reference harvesting, although the limitations of this was appreciated. Experts in the field were also contacted with relevant data obtained. An ongoing pre-hospital trial monitoring lactate was also identified and these researchers were contacted with relevant data obtained. Conclusions: Pre-hospital lactate monitoring would promote better recognition of sepsis in adults and improve the quality of care. It could be used to initiate a specific treatment regime such as intravenous antibiotics. This would reduce the numbers of patients admitted to intensive care, helping to reduce mortality and costs for the NHS.
Independent prescribing: a journey to provide the best possible care
Authors: Sharman Andy 
Published: November 2015

Many patients benefit, and will continue to benefit, as a result of paramedics being able to administer medicines under standards set by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, regarding the use of patient group directions (PGDs), patient specific directions (PSDs) and exemptions. It is not uncommon, however, for these mechanisms to prove ineffective. This can result in delays for patients receiving the care that is best suited to their individual needs. This article looks at how independent prescribing by paramedics would allow patients to receive the care and medicines they need, resulting in a far greater number of patients benefiting from improved and more timely care and greater convenience.
Honor the Past. Then Get Over It.
Authors: Swenson Sue 
Published: November 2015

Abstract
This speech was presented at a conference, the National Goals in Research, Policy, and Practice, held in Washington, DC, on August 6-7, 2015. The conference was a working meeting to summarize the current state of knowledge and identify a platform of national goals in research, practice, and policy in intellectual and developmental disabilities. The meeting was jointly organized by the Research and Training Center on Community Living, Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota; Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Developmental Disabilities and Health, Institute on Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois Chicago; Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Advancing Employment for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Institute for Community Inclusion, University of Massachusetts Boston; The Arc of the United States; Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD); and American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD), with the support of National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR).
Multivariate Criteria Most Accurately Distinguish Cardiac from Noncardiac Causes of Dyspnea
Authors: Ahmad Mirza Nubair , Yusuf Syed Hasan , Ullah Rafath , Ahmad Mirza Mujadil , Ellis Mary K. , Yousaf Haroon , Paterick Timothy E. , Ammar Khawaja Afzal 
Published: November 2015

Cardiopulmonary exercise testing provides oxygen pulse as a continuous measure of stroke volume, which is superior to other stress-testing methods in which systolic function is measured at baseline and at peak stress. However, the optimal peak oxygen pulse criterion for distinguishing cardiac from noncardiac causes of exercise limitation is unknown.
In comparing several peak oxygen pulse criteria against the clinical standard of cardiopulmonary exercise testing, we retrospectively studied 54 consecutive patients referred for cardiopulmonary exercise testing. These exercise tests included measurement of oxygen consumption, carbon dioxide production, breathing reserve, arterial blood gases at baseline and at peak stress, exercise electrocardiogram, heart rate, and blood pressure response. Results were blindly interpreted and patients were categorized as members either of our Cardiac Group (abnormal result secondary to cardiac causes of exercise limitation) or of our Noncardiac Group (normal or abnormal result secondary to any noncardiac cause of exercise limitation).
The accuracy of the peak oxygen pulse criteria ranged from 50% for univariate criterion (≤15 mL/beat), to 61% for oxygen pulse curve pattern, to 63% for bivariate criterion (≤15 mL/beat for men, ≤10 mL/beat for women), to as high as 81% for a multivariate criterion. All multivariate criteria outperformed oxygen pulse curve pattern, univariate, and bivariate criteria.
This is the first study to evaluate the optimal peak oxygen pulse criterion for differentiating cardiac from noncardiac causes of exercise limitation. Multivariate criteria (especially a criterion incorporating age, sex, height, and weight) should be used preferentially, as opposed to the commonly used univariate and bivariate criteria.