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Honorary Statues in Ancient Greece
Authors: Welsh M. K. 
Published: October 2013

My object in the following short study is to investigate the subject of honorary statues in Greek times.Since Stenersen's treatise, written in 1877, I know of no published work dealing specially with this subject, which is interesting from the light it throws on Greek life and political action, and since that date excavation and the discovery of inscriptions have added considerably to the material available. His work is a valuable source for the literary evidence on the question, but his subject is portrait-statues, and he confines himself to those from Athens.
III. —Thalamae: V.—Frankish Sculptures at Parori and Geraki
Authors: Wace Alan J. B. 
Published: October 2013

Since remains, especially of an artistic nature, that can be definitely assigned to the Frankish period, are rare in Greece, the following monuments are of some interest.The warrior relief (Fig. 1) is walled up in the house of Ioannes Sikiotes in the hamlet of Parori, at the foot of Taygetus about half an hour south of Mistra. It is of local bluish marble, and measures 85 × 53 m.; the height of the relief is 02 m. It shews a warrior en face, though his legs are represented in profile to the right; the hair does not seem to be indicated, nor is there any trace of a helmet; the eyes are roughly oval in shape and the pupils are indicated by dots; the ears are big, the nose is snub, and the mouth is rendered by a line that curves downwards at the corners; the neck is long, the body has no indication of detail except the nipples, the chest is narrow and the hips are rather wide; the legs and feet are very small.
Excavations at Palaikastro. II: § 1.—The Second Campaign—Outlying Sites
Authors: Bosanquet R. C. 
Published: October 2013

We resumed work on March 23, 1903. The headquarters of the expedition were again at Angathia. Mr M. N. Tod, Assistant-Director of the School and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, had preceded me, going overland. Mr W. L. H. Duckworth, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and University Lecturer in Anthropology, and Mr R. McG. Dawkins, Scholar of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, arrived a few days later. Mr C. T. Currelly, of Victoria College, Toronto, who had been digging for the Egypt Exploration Fund under Professor Petrie, joined us for the last six weeks of the season.The Roussolakkos trenches being full of water, I decided to start work at Kouraménos on a bay 1½ miles further north, where in 1902 I had seen the foundations of a wall running inland from the sea, enclosing the best part of the plain at the head of the bay and rejoining the sea half a mile beyond. It seemed possible that this was the wall mentioned in the Toplu inscription (Dittenberger, Sylloge2, ii. 929) as enclosing the precinct of Dictaean Zeus, the more so as large blocks were visible on rising ground near the sea. It proved however to have been a τέμενος only in the Homeric sense of an enclosed estate. The excavation gave us the ground-plan of a Mycenaean farmstead, described in detail below (p. 329) by Mr Tod and Mr Dawkins.
Excavations at Palaikastro. II: § 5.—The Houses. Block γ
Authors: Dawkins R. M. 
Published: October 2013

Block γ lies South of β on the other side of the main street. An L-shaped area, nearly 900 sq. metres, has been uncovered.Rooms1–12 form the most important house in the block. The entrance, which faces the centre of the façade of Block β, and part of the vestibule were uncovered in 1902. The façade of this house, as far as it is preserved, is built of large squared freestone blocks. On the left-hand side of the entrance they have been removed, yet enough of the sill-course remains to shew that the house-wall had several insets, and these insets occur at the places where the partition walls, that divide the rooms inside, meet the main wall. This massive style is confined to the front wall, where it was adopted to present a fine appearance on the main street.Immediately inside the threshold with its plinth and finely squared freestone blocks on both sides is a small vestibule with a recess on the left, containing a stone bench, under which passes a drain, and a threshold on the right. Facing us is a fine threshold; at each end of it is a pivot-hole, perhaps as at Tiryns once lined with bronze. This being the main door of the house the vestibule was like a porch. An earthenware bath-tub was found here in 1902.Passing through these doors we turn to the left, and passing the foot of the stairs, find ourselves in 3, a central room (megaron ?), floored with the usual pebble-concrete, from which access is gained to the other rooms. Near the remains of a slab pavement are two circular pillar bases, the only remains of the four that no doubt once existed here.
Excavations at Palaikastro. II: § 9.—Kouraménos
Authors: Dawkins R. M. , Tod Marcus Niebuhr 
Published: October 2013

In consequence of the torrential rains which made it impossible to commence work on the Roussolakkos site immediately upon our arrival at Palaikastro, an excavation was carried on from March 23rd to March 28th at a site named Kouraménos, situated close to the sea-shore about half an hour's walk north of Angathiá. Six men were employed on the first day, and an average of twenty-one on the succeeding days.About half a mile N.E. of the Kastri is a flat-topped hill named Rigoviglo, which, extending eastwards almost as far as to the beach, divides the Palaikastro plain into two well-marked portions. Over the crest of this hill there runs a wall, probably ancient, which can be traced in a wide circuit starting immediately below the hill by the sea-shore and returning to the beach at the point where the plain is terminated by the mountains which bound it on the north: in some places it stands several courses high, at others only the foundations are visible. This district must have contained a considerable number of buildings in prehistoric times, for many remains of megalithic walls can still be traced, doubtless belonging to farmsteads of the Mycenaean period. That the circuit-wall was built for purposes of defence does not seem probable: it cannot, to judge from the breadth of its foundations, have reached any great height, and the number of men required to defend a wall of such extent would be very considerable. The more likely explanation is that it served as a boundary to mark off the τέμενος of some ‘king’ from the common land of the community, and to prevent the cattle grazing on this latter from straying on to the estate reserved as the private property of the chief.
Tombs of Hellenic Date at Praesos
Authors: Marshall F. H. 
Published: October 2013

Professor Bosanquet has kindly asked me to publish the contents of the following tombs found on the east side of the gravel ridge, west of the road from Vavelloi (modern village) to ancient Praesos. The description of the objects is derived in the main from notes made at the time of excavation by Mr. J. H. Marshall in 1901 (cf. B.S.A. viii. pp. 231 ff.). I have added remarks on some of the ornaments (chiefly in gold and silver) which were discovered.Tomb 2.—Small b.-f. kylix.Tomb 3 (unbuilt).—Corinthian vase with four projecting handles; two pyxides, one broken.Tomb 6 (unbuilt).—Burnt b.-f. fragments; amphora of common ware; two toilet vases, red clay, sepia slip; small common juglet with two handles.Tomb 8 (burnt).—Bones; a few beads; b.-f. toilet vase; jug with high neck, of common ware.Tomb 9 (roughly built).—Two silver pins (one illustrated below, Fig. 4, on the r.; long-necked amphora with high shoulder handles, intact (25·8 cm. high); toilet vase with rounded sides; shell; iron axe above tomb, which was 1 m. deep.Tomb 10 (built of square blocks; floor ·71 m. down).—Silver ring; b.-f. fragments; common vase fragments, some incised with cross-hatchings; flat vase, like upper part of toilet vase, in bright red clay with sepia slip.Tomb 12 (roughly outlined and covered with irregular slabs; cremation).—Beads; burnt silver pins (?); part of iron strigil; fragments of b.-f. toilet vase; bronze ring and more beads near the tomb, probably belonging to it.
Genoese Heraldry and Inscriptions at Amastra
Authors: Hasluck F. W. 
Published: October 2013

The town of Amastra (anc. Amastris, med. Samastro), one of the most important of the ancient Greek colonies on the Euxine, and later a Genoese trading-post, lies on the neck and landward slopes of a steep peninsula forming a safe harbour on either side. The peninsula is connected by a bridge with an adjacent island, on which are a few houses still protected on the harbour side by the mediaeval town-wall. The bridge is defended on either side by a gate-tower, and the city proper and castle, which are on the peninsula, retain their lofty walls and towers, built of squared blocks evidently plundered from Roman ruins (Fig. 1). Despite this plundering and the recent construction of the new road (still unfinished in 1910) to Bartin, extensive ancient remains still survive above ground on the mainland opposite the town, notably the large Roman building of brick and opus reticulatum called the Bezestein, two columns of a temple or mausoleum, many built tombs, and considerable remains of masonry embankment and vaulting about the stream which debouches into the smaller (W.) harbour. Saving the change of ownership, the place has altered but little since Clavijo's description in 1404:—‘The town of Samastro belongs to the Genoese, and is near the sea…. on a very high hill. Opposite this hill, but more inland, there is another on which the town is built; and from one hill to another there is a great arch, like a bridge, by which people pass, and it has two gates, one at each end.
Depopulation in the Aegean Islands and the Turkish Conquest
Authors: Hasluck F. W. 
Published: October 2013

Antonio Di Millo is the author of an Isolario of which several copies have come down to us. Of these, two dated respectively (A) 1587 and (B) 1591 are preserved in the British Museum and a third (C) of 1590 in the Marciana at Venice. Two other copies, cited by Uzielli as existing at the Paris Bibliothèque Nationale, and the Biblioteca Municipale at Venice, seem to be no longer known at the libraries in question.The greater part of the text of the work consists of practical directions for navigators and traders, including generally a note on the population, and occasionally on the staple products of the island under discussion. The rare notes on local history are, as will be seen, of some value. The text of the three copies shews considerable variations, many notes being peculiar to each. The B.M. (A) and Marciana copies seem to be autograph: in the B.M. (B) this is true only of the maps.The author is mentioned as Antonius Meliensis by Leunclavius, who met him acting as pilot on a ship returning from Constantinople in 1585: this shows that he was actively engaged in his profession shortly before the first compilation of his Isolario and the note in (C) on Patmos shews that he was quite up to date in 1590. Millo is said by Leunclavius to have been a native of Melos and Greek by parentage.
Note On Two Zakro Sealings
Authors: Hogarth D. G. 
Published: October 2013

1. I Published a large number of clay sealings found in 1901 in a house of Late Minoan I. period at Zakro, Crete, in the Journal of Hellenic Studies (xxii. p. 76), with photographs of casts made in Candia from the different types. A representative set of duplicate sealings was afterwards presented to me by the Cretan Government and placed in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. When I became Keeper of this Museum some years later, I had these sealings recleaned and re-cast, and so obtained a clearer view of one type (No. 10 on p. 78 of the original publication). As it has some features of interest of which I was unaware previously, I republish it here.I had described it, from collation of thirty imperfectly cleaned impressions of the type, as ‘A female in long bell-skirt with hands on breast, opposed to a figure with cap and long mantle (?) from neck to feet.’ This description was wrong in several particulars. The female figure on the impression is moving to the left, and has one hand on her right breast, the other on her three-fold girdle. It is impossible to determine whether her face is turned full to the front or is seen in profile one way or the other. She is followed, not opposed, by another figure in peaked cap, cloak hanging loosely from the neck to the hips, and long round skirt. This figure, (perhaps male) bears over its left shoulder a long-handled axe.
Semi-classical bound states of Schrödinger equations
Authors: SCHECHTER M. , ZOU W. 
Published: October 2013

AbstractWe study the existence of semi-classical bound states of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation\begin{linenomath}$$ -\varepsilon^2\Delta u+V(x)u=f(u),\quad x\in {\bf R}^N,$$\end{linenomath}whereN≥ 3;, ϵ is a positive parameter;V:RN→ [0, ∞) satisfies some suitable assumptions. We study two cases: iffis asymptotically linear, i.e., if lim|t| → ∞f(t)/t=constant, then we get positive solutions. Iffis superlinear andf(u)=|u|p−2u+|u|q−2u, 2* >p>q> 2, we obtain the existence of multiple sign-changing semi-classical bound states with information on the estimates of the energies, the Morse indices and the number of nodal domains. For this purpose, we establish a mountain cliff theorem without the compactness condition and apply a new sign-changing critical point theorem.
“Earthly Angels”? A qualitative study of the domiciliary care worker role in meeting the needs of families caring for those dying at home
Authors: Percival John , Lasseter Gemma , Purdy Sarah , Wye Lesley 
Published: October 2013

AbstractObjective:Relatively little attention has been paid to optimum ways in which community-based care services can support family caregivers in the context of end-of-life care at home. This paper addresses such concerns by focusing on the services provided by domiciliary care workers.Method:We draw on qualitative formal interviews with 42 family members, 1 patient, and 6 staff, as well as observation sessions and informal interviews with additional family caregivers and staff, to examine the aspects of domiciliary care perceived to be of most value. In particular, we compare and contrast family caregivers' experience of the support provided by generic domiciliary care workers with that of a team of specialist domiciliary care workers.Results:Our findings show that specialist domiciliary care workers had sufficient time and expertise to meet family caregivers' physical and emotional needs in sensitive, proactive, and family-centered ways, and that these attributes were not so prominent in the services received from generic domiciliary care workers.Significance of results:The availability to families of targeted support from an appropriately trained and carefully monitored team of specialist domiciliary care workers, able to operate flexibly and with staff consistency, appears to be an important foundation on which to build greater confidence in the reality of a good death at home.
Applying a palliative care approach in residential care: Effects on nurse assistants' work situation
Authors: Beck Ingela , Jakobsson Ulf , Edberg Anna-Karin 
Published: October 2013

AbstractObjectives:The aim was to investigate the effects of an intervention that applies a palliative care approach in residential care upon nurse assistants' level of strain, job satisfaction, and view of leadership.Method:A quasi-experimental, pretest and posttest design was used. Study circles with workshops involving nurse assistants (n = 75) and their superiors (n = 9) focusing on emotional and existential issues in palliative care were evaluated using a questionnaire answered by the nurse assistants at baseline (November 2009), post-intervention (May 2010), and six-month follow-up (November 2010) in comparison with controls (n = 110).Results:Directly after the intervention, the job satisfaction of the nurse assistants decreased and they perceived the leadership more negatively than before the intervention. Six months later, strain as a result of criticism from residents and their superiors and having difficulty in balancing emotional involvement had decreased.Significance of results:The intervention initially seemed to decrease the well-being of the nurse assistants, which could be the result of their increased awareness of the residents' and relatives' needs, in combination with limited support. More emphasis should be placed on the role of leadership when implementing changes in practice.
A brief course of cognitive behavioural therapy for the treatment of misophonia: a case example
Authors: Bernstein Rosemary E. , Angell Karyn L. , Dehle Crystal M. 
Published: October 2013

AbstractMisophonia is a condition of unknown cause characterized by atypically intense negative physiological and emotional reactions to hearing certain sounds – most often those associated with oral functions. Individuals with misophonia often report high levels of psychological distress and avoidance behaviours that seriously compromise their occupational and social functioning. As of yet, no effective treatment of misophonia has been identified, and health care providers often struggle when they encounter clients who have it. This case report describes the assessment, case formulation, and treatment of a client with misophonia using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), and serves as an initial contribution to the evidence base for the efficacy of CBT in the treatment of misophonia.
Activated carbons derived from coconut shells as high energy density cathode material for Li-ion capacitors
Authors: Jain Akshay , Aravindan Vanchiappan , Jayaraman Sundaramurthy , Kumar Palaniswamy Suresh , Balasubramanian Rajasekhar , Ramakrishna Seeram , Madhavi Srinivasan , Srinivasan M. P. 
Published: October 2013

AbstractIn this manuscript, a dramatic increase in the energy density of ~ 69 Wh kg−1 and an extraordinary cycleability ~ 2000 cycles of the Li-ion hybrid electrochemical capacitors (Li-HEC) is achieved by employing tailored activated carbon (AC) of ~ 60% mesoporosity derived from coconut shells (CS). The AC is obtained by both physical and chemical hydrothermal carbonization activation process and compared to the commercial AC powders (CAC) in terms of the supercapacitance performance in single electrode configuration vs. Li. The Li-HEC is fabricated with commercially available Li4Ti5O12 anode and the coconut shell derived AC as cathode in non-aqueous medium. The present research provides a new routine for the development of high energy density Li-HEC that employs a mesoporous carbonaceous electrode derived from bio-mass precursors.
National models for making and legitimating elites
Authors: Bauer Michel , Bertin-Mourot Bénédicte 
Published: October 2013

Abstract
The apparent triumph of economic rationality, the globalization of firms and the construction of the European Union all suggest that the ways of making top leaders in big German, British and French companies should be converging since these firms must cope with the same constraints. This argument, however appealing, overlooks the social dimension of the making of elites. A comparison of the heads of the 200 biggest British, French and German firms brings to light three contrasting national models for producing legitimate authority and thus sheds light on three quite different types of business elites. This is a far cry from a single European model, far indeed given that each of these three models for the making of a business elite has roots in each country’s historical and social ‘logics’. This fact endows these models with stability and makes it quite hard for a European model to even gradually emerge.
Outcomes and Predictors of Mortality and Stroke after On-Pump and Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery in Octogenarians
Authors: Raja Shahzad G. , Shah Jaymin , Navaratnarajah Manoraj , Amin Fouad , Amrani Mohamed 
Published: October 2013

Objective Octogenarians, as the fastest growing stratum of the population and with the highest prevalence of coronary artery disease, are being increasingly referred for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). The general perception is that the presence of comorbidities and the propensity for neurological injury expose them to a higher risk for mortality and morbidity after conventional on-pump CABG, and therefore, off-pump CABG should be preferentially offered to octogenarians to improve outcomes. This study evaluates the in-hospital outcomes and predictors of mortality and stroke in octogenarians undergoing on- and off-pump CABG at our institution. Methods From January 2000 to December 2010, a total of 290 octogenarians underwent off-pump (n = 217) and on-pump (n = 73) CABG. Their data were prospectively entered into the cardiac surgery database (Patients Analysis & Tracking System; Dendrite Clinical Systems, Ltd, Oxford, England, United Kingdom) and analyzed retrospectively. Outcome measures included in-hospital mortality, major complications, and length of stay. Multivariate analysis was performed to identify predictors of combined outcome of in-hospital mortality and stroke. Results The mean ± SD age of the patients was 82 ± 2.0 years. Preoperative demographics were similar for the on-pump and off-pump groups. The patients who underwent off-pump CABG had a lower number of distal anastomoses performed compared with the patients who underwent on-pump CABG [mean difference, 0.2; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.02–0.4; P = 0.03]. However, the ratio of grafts (received/needed) was the same in both groups. In-hospital mortality for the entire cohort was 7.2%, with no significant difference between the groups for death (6.0% vs 11.0%; P = 0.08), stroke (2.8% vs 2.8%; P = 1.0), other major complications, and length of hospital stay. Independent predictors of combined outcome identified from the multiple logistic model included heart failure [odds ratio (OR), 4.4; 95% CI, 1.5–13.0; P = 0.008], diabetes (OR, 2.6; 95% CI, 1.0–6.0; P = 0.046), nitrate infusion (OR, 2.9; 95% CI, 1.1–8.0; P = 0.04), postoperative renal failure requiring hemofiltration (OR, 8.6; 95% CI, 3.5–21.1; P < 0.001), and postoperative ventricular arrhythmias (OR, 7.3; 95% CI, 1.9–27.8; P = 0.009). Conclusions Both on-pump and off-pump CABG are reasonable revascularization strategies in octogenarians. Careful patient selection and individualized treatment decisions can minimize postoperative mortality and morbidity in octogenarians undergoing on- and off-pump CABG.
Assessment of a New Type I Endoleak Repair Technique Using an Anchoring Device
Authors: Tuan Pham Minh , Ohtake Hiroshi , Ryuta Seguchi , Watanabe Go 
Published: October 2013

Objective Type I endoleaks are one of the most frequent and life-threatening complications of thoracic endovascular aortic repair. This study aimed to assess the use of suture-anchoring devices for repairing type I endoleaks. Methods The descending aortic aneurysm model (saccular type) was made by side-to-end anastomosis to a Dacron graft. A Matsui-Kitamura stent graft was deployed to create a proximal type I endoleak. Approximately 5 mm above the upper rim of the anastomosis, the aorta was punctured by the pistol of the suture-anchoring device with a T-shaped bar under fluoroscopy. Sutures were applied until angiography showed the absence of a type I endoleak. During the process, two pressure measurements were used to perform continuous assessments of aortic pressure and intra-aneurysm sac pressure. Results A mean ± SD of 5 ± 1 anchoring shots were used to eliminate type I endoleaks. The device performed well, and no complications were observed. The mean ± SD intrasac pressures before stent graft deployment, during endoleak maintenance, and after repair were 118 ± 5, 61 ± 4, and 26 ± 5 mm Hg, respectively. The postrepair pressure was significantly decreased ( P < 0.001; Student t test). Conclusions Despite some anatomic and clinical limitations identified during the experiments, the effectiveness of the suture-anchoring device was confirmed. Further improvement of the device will soon lead to its use as a less invasive endoleak repair procedure.