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Ballistic Thoracoabdominal Injury: Analysis of Recent Military Experience in Afghanistan
Authors: Morrison J. J. , Midwinter M. J. , Jansen J. O. 
Published: March 2011

AbstractBackgroundMilitary surgery has seen the arrival of the critical care provision and cross‐sectional imaging enjoyed by civilian trauma surgeons. Ballistic injury to the thoracoabdominal region is uncommon but potentially devastating. The aim of this study was to analyze recent military experience of managing this injury complex.MethodsThe study is a retrospective analysis of patients, admitted over a 12‐month period, to the British Military Hospital in Afghanistan with ballistic thoracoabdominal injuries.ResultsIn total, 27 patients sustained combined thoracoabdominal injury with a mean new injury severity score of 29 ± 12, revised trauma score of 5.94 ± 2.93 and predicted survival of 71.1% ± 39.1%. In all, 20 (74%) patients underwent immediate operation, and 7 (26%) were initially managed nonoperatively. Of those requiring surgery, 11 required laparotomy and tube thoracostomy, and 9 required thoraco‐laparotomy. Of the seven casualties who were initially observed and/or further investigated, two required laparotomy following computed tomography scanning, and five were managed conservatively, two of whom required delayed surgery. There were nine fatalities, all within 16 days of being wounded. Four patients died from exsanguination, one from a traumatic brain injury, and four from multiorgan failure. Five patients presented with cardiac arrest, two of whom survived.ConclusionsExploration remains the default treatment. Resuscitative thoracotomy may yield unexpected survivors, even if subsequent laparotomy is required. Nonoperative management appears to be feasible in a small proportion of patients but requires careful selection supported by cross‐sectional imaging.
The Life of Rudolf Nissen: Advancing Surgery Through Science and Principle
Authors: Fults D. W. , Taussky P. 
Published: March 2011

AbstractRudolf Nissen (1896–1981) was a surgeon whose career began in Germany during the first third of the 20th century, a period of rapid progress in biomedical technology, during which neurosurgery, anesthesiology, and other specialties emerged. A protégé and later close colleague of thoracic surgery pioneer Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875–1951), Nissen resigned from the Berlin Charité Clinic and left Germany in 1933, in response to the rise of Nazi fascism. Throughout his subsequent career in Istanbul, Turkey, the American cities of Boston and New York, and finally Basel, Switzerland, Nissen developed innovative surgical techniques, advocated for patient‐centered medical education, and promoted surgical subspecialization. A lifelong proponent of clear scientific writing, Nissen expressed, in extensively published work, his philosophy that progress in surgery depends critically on rigorously applying the scientific method, upholding professional integrity, and respecting human dignity.
Overview of the Development of Personalized Genomic Medicine and Surgery
Authors: Brunicardi F. Charles , Gibbs Richard A. , Wheeler David A. , Nemunaitis John , Fisher William , Goss John , Chen Changyi 
Published: March 2011

AbstractPersonalized genomic medicine and surgery (PGMS) represents a new approach to health care that customizes patients’ medical treatment according to their own genetic information. This new approach is the result of increased knowledge of the human genome and ways this information can be applied by physicians in the medical and surgical management of their patients. A patient’s genotype can yield important information concerning disease susceptibility and the effectiveness of medications, therefore guiding specific, targeted imaging and treatment therapies. This review summarizes major achievements of human genomic studies and applications of genomics in health care. Five years ago we developed a model for the development of PGMS in which genomic profile guides choice of therapy. In this article we discussed our progress, including an updating of the model, and a future vision of PGMS.
Laparoscopic Splenectomy: Standardized Approach
Authors: Feldman Liane S. 
Published: March 2011

AbstractLaparoscopic splenectomy was first reported in 1991‐1992 by several groups. The impact and role of laparoscopy for splenectomy can be considered as significant as that for gallbladder disease, achalasia, esophageal reflux, and adrenal disease. In many centers, the laparoscopic approach is now routine for most cases of elective splenectomy. The laparoscopic approach is associated with reduced morbidity, especially pulmonary, wound, and infectious complications. This article reviews a standardized approach to laparoscopic and hand‐assisted splenectomy and covers indications, operative strategy, and complications. Several special considerations, including massive splenomegaly, postsplenectomy thrombosis of the portosplenic venous system, and accessory spleens are also discussed.
Continuous Hydrolysis of Cuphea Seed Oil in Subcritical Water
Authors: Eller Fred J. , Teel J. A. , Palmquist D. E. 
Published: March 2011

AbstractCuphea seed oil (CSO) is a source of decanoic acid which is useful in the preparation of estolide lubricants among other applications. Decanoic acid and other free fatty acids (FFA) can be hydrolyzed from CSO using a catalyst like KOH, followed by neutralization with HCl and extraction with hexane. This procedure, however, uses caustic materials, hazardous solvents and generates waste salt streams. This study investigated the use of water without catalysts to hydrolyze CSO in a continuous flow tubular reactor. Parameters such as the interaction of pressure and temperature, temperature, water to cuphea oil fatty acid residue (H2O:COFAR) molar ratio, and flow rate were examined. The lowest conversions of CSO to FFA were at the lowest temperature (i.e., 300 °C) and the hydrolysis was ca. 90% at 350 °C and 13.8 MPa and ca. 80% at 365 °C and 13.8 MPa. Hydrolysis increased with pressure and leveled off at 13.8 MPa. Hydrolysis increased with temperature and leveled off at ca. 330 °C. The optimal H2O:COFAR molar ratio was found to be 6:1. Conversion rates were inversely proportional to flow rate with 95% conversion at the lowest flow rate (i.e., 0.25 mL/min) corresponding to the longest residence time (i.e., ca. 45.2 min). These results demonstrate a continuous subcritical water process for hydrolyzing CSO to FFA that is effective, requires no catalysts and does not generate a waste salt stream.
The effect of dietary amino acid abundance and isotopic composition on the growth rate, metabolism and tissue δ13C of rainbow trout
Authors: Gaye-Siessegger Julia , McCullagh James S. O. , Focken Ulfert 
Published: March 2011

The aim of the present study was to test whether the dietary non-essential/conditionally essential amino acid composition has an effect on growth and protein utilisation and on δ13C of individual amino acids in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Trout were reared on six purified diets containing only synthetic amino acids in place of protein. Diet 1 mimicked the amino acid composition of fishmeal, in diet 2, cysteine (Cys), glycine (Gly), proline (Pro) and tyrosine (Tyr) were isonitrogenously replaced by their precursor amino acids serine (Ser), glutamic acid (Glu) and phenylalanine (Phe), and in diet 3, alanine (Ala), asparagine and aspartate, Cys, Gly, Pro, Ser and Tyr were isonitrogenously replaced by Glu. Diets 4, 5 and 6 resembled diets 1, 2 and 3 except that Glu contained 0·1 % 13C-enriched Glu. A control group was reared on a fishmeal-based diet. A total of forty-two trout (4·7 (sd 0·57) g) were fed one of the diets at a level of 3·5 % body mass for 10 weeks in a flow-through system. Dietary non-essential amino acid composition significantly influenced protein gain (P < 0·025) and δ13C of Ala, arginine (Arg), Gly, histidine (His), Phe and Tyr. Non-enriched Glu was predominantly found in trout fed 13C-enriched Glu, which is consistent with the fact that Glu has been shown to be used extensively in the gut as an energy source but is less consistent with the enrichment of Pro in fish fed diet 6 compared with fish fed diet 3. Further research is required to better understand the mechanisms that lead to the alteration of amino acid δ13C between diet and body tissues.
SOME PROPERTIES OF THE ZERO-DIVISOR GRAPH FOR THE RING OF GAUSSIAN INTEGERS MODULO n
Authors: OSBA EMAD ABU , AL-ADDASI SALAH , AL-KHAMAISEH BASEM 
Published: March 2011

AbstractThis paper is a continuation for the study of the zero-divisor graph for the ring of Gaussian integers modulo n, Γ(ℤn[i]) in [8] (Emad Abu Osba, Salah Al-Addasi and Nafez Abu Jaradeh. Zero divisor graph for the ring of Gaussin integers modulo n. Comm. Algebra 36(10) (2008), 3865–3877). It is investigated, when is Γ(ℤn[i]) locally H, Hamiltonian or bipartite graph? A full characterisation for the chromatic number and the radius is also given.
ON WEAKLY -SUPPLEMENTED SUBGROUPS OF SYLOW p-SUBGROUPS OF FINITE GROUPS
Authors: MIAO LONG 
Published: March 2011

AbstractA subgroup H is called weakly -supplemented in a finite group G if there exists a subgroup B of G provided that (1) G = HB, and (2) if H1/HG is a maximal subgroup of H/HG, then H1B = BH1 < G, where HG is the largest normal subgroup of G contained in H. In this paper we will prove the following: Let G be a finite group and P be a Sylow p-subgroup of G, where p is the smallest prime divisor of |G|. Suppose that P has a non-trivial proper subgroup D such that all subgroups E of P with order |D| and 2|D| (if P is a non-abelian 2-group, |P : D| > 2 and there exists D1 ⊴ E ≤ P with 2|D1| = |D| and E/D1 is cyclic of order 4) have p-nilpotent supplement or weak -supplement in G, then G is p-nilpotent.
ON THE CAPABILITY OF FINITELY GENERATED NON-TORSION GROUPS OF NILPOTENCY CLASS 2
Authors: KAPPE LUISE-CHARLOTTE , MOHD ALI NOR MUHAINIAH , SARMIN NOR HANIZA 
Published: March 2011

AbstractA group is called capable if it is a central factor group. In this paper, we establish a necessary condition for a finitely generated non-torsion group of nilpotency class 2 to be capable. Using the classification of two-generator non-torsion groups of nilpotency class 2, we determine which of them are capable and which are not and give a necessary and sufficient condition for a two-generator non-torsion group of class 2 to be capable in terms of the torsion-free rank of its factor commutator group.
Conciliatory reflections on the procession of the Holy Spirit in Giles of Viterbo'sSentencescommentary
Authors: Nodes Daniel J. 
Published: March 2011

AbstractGiles of Viterbo's early sixteenth-century commentary on Peter Lombard'sLibri sententiarumincludes a discussion of the controversial Western doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son (Filioque) in its regular place at distinction 11 of book 1. In treating this issue Giles remained true to his aim of producing a commentary ‘according to the mind of Plato’ (ad mentem Platonis). Giles had access to the dialogues of Plato but only limited access to original texts of the Greek Fathers. Nevertheless, he reviewed theFilioquecontroversy in a manner which respects thesententia Graecorum, even disagreeing with a line of argumentation championed by scholastic supporters of the Augustinian tradition, including Thomas Aquinas, over the related question of whether it should be said that there is onespiratoror pluralspiratores. Giles' conciliatory position owes much to his intellectual environment, which fostered a renewed admiration for Hellenism and classical humanism. Working largely without benefit of the emerging rediscovery of Eastern patristic theology Giles nevertheless reassesses the arguments for and against theFilioquewhich he received from the Latin scholastic tradition, seeking, as he does throughout his commentary, what is true on both sides of apparently divergent teachings on divine mystery.
From Metaphysics to Kataphysics: Bonaventure's ‘Good’ Creation
Authors: Delio Ilia 
Published: March 2011

AbstractThe question of ecology is fundamentally a question of relatedness. Is the Christian tradition, at once incarnational and other-worldly, responsible for the ecological crisis? This article examines the position of Bonaventure whose unique theological-philosophical synthesis leads to a new understanding of created reality, which I term ‘kataphysics’. The foundation of kataphysics begins with Bonaventure's understanding of philosophy as a heteronymous discipline, insofar as philosophy is completed and perfected in theology. From this position he develops an understanding of Being as Goodness based on the Trinity. Bonaventure's integral relationship between Trinity and creation leads to an understanding of created reality as essentially good and intrinsically relational. The integral relation between Trinity and creation through the divine Word gives rise to a theological metaphysics; the metaphysical question becomes the christological question and hence a new understanding of created reality, kataphysics, emerges which involves relatedness. It is suggested that kataphysics undergirds a Christian philosophy of nature which has implications for an ecological stance today.
The freedom of the Spirit: the pneumatological point of Barth's ecclesiological minimalism
Authors: Hawksley Theodora 
Published: March 2011

AbstractKarl Barth's ecclesiology has come under fire in recent years from those who find his work on the church insufficiently concrete. Proponents of concrete ecclesiologies argue that Barth's use of the wirkliche Kirche/Scheinkirche motif, and his general lack of attention to the way in which the assent of faith takes shape in the concrete church, result in the belittling of the concrete church. In turn, this lack of regard for the visible church creates problems relating to the role of the Holy Spirit. This article rereads Barth's lack of concentrated attention on the concrete church and argues that his ecclesiological minimalism functions as a theological crash barrier. By attending to the structure and doctrinal context of Barth's sections on the church in the Church Dogmatics, Barth's reticence to pronounce on the concrete church can be seen not as omission or denigration, but as a methodological principle preserving the freedom of the Holy Spirit in relation to the concrete church. The way in which Barth opens up space for the work of the Spirit in the historical, sinful church has much to offer those in search of a challenging, faithful, realistic and pastorally careful concrete ecclesiology.
Emergence, reductionism and the stratification of reality in science and theology
Authors: McKenzie Ross H. 
Published: March 2011

AbstractThe success of reductionism as a method in the natural sciences has heavily influenced modern theology, much of which attempts to reduce theology to other disciplines. However, the past few decades in science have shown the limitations of reductionism and the importance of emergence. The properties of complex systems with many constituents cannot be understood solely in terms of the constituent components and their interactions. I illustrate emergent properties and concepts with specific examples from geometry, condensed matter physics, chemistry and molecular biology. Emergence leads to a stratification of reality which affirms that ontology determines epistemology. To show the significance of emergence for the dialogue between theology and the natural sciences parallels are drawn with the theology of Karl Barth. The approach here is distinctly different from most writing on emergence and theology which embraces ‘strong’ emergence (which most scientists consider speculative), an immanent God and does not engage with orthodox Christian theology. Aspects of Barth's theology which are particularly relevant include his view that theology is an autonomous discipline which is not reducible to anthropology or history, the irreducible character of revelation, and the emphasis that ontology determines epistemology.
The contribution of comparative research to the development and testing of life history models of human attachment and reproductive strategies
Authors: Maestripieri Dario 
Published: March 2011

AbstractResearch with nonhuman primates can make important contributions to life history models of human attachment and reproductive strategies, such as: including parental responsiveness into female reproductive strategies, testing the assumption that adult attachment is a reproductive adaptation, assessing genetic and environmental effects on attachment and reproduction, and investigating the mechanisms through which early stress results in accelerated reproductive maturation.
Tight translational control by the initiation factors eIF4E and eIF(iso)4E is required for maize seed germination
Authors: Dinkova Tzvetanka D. , Márquez-Velázquez Norma A. , Aguilar Raúl , Lázaro-Mixteco Pedro E. , Sánchez de Jiménez Estela 
Published: March 2011

AbstractA characteristic mechanism of gene expression regulation during seed germination is the selective translation of mRNAs. Previous findings indicate that the two cap-binding complexes eIF4F (with eIF4E and eIF4G subunits) and eIF(iso)4F [with eIF(iso)4E and eIF(iso)4G subunits] are differentially expressed during maize seed germination. In addition, several studiesin vitrohave suggested that these factors may participate in selective mRNA translation. The translational activities of eIF4E and eIF(iso)4E were testedin vitrousing transcripts from two different sets: dry (0 h) and 24-h-imbibed maize embryonic axes.In vitrotranslation of these mRNA pools in the presence of the recombinant eIF4E or eIF(iso)4E, and the native cap-binding complexes from dry- or 24-h-imbibed axes, produced different profiles of proteins which were visualized by two-dimensional protein gels and autoradiography. The data indicated that eIF(iso)4E was particularly required for translation of the stored mRNAs from dry seeds, and that eIF4E was unable to fully replace the eIF(iso)4E activity. In addition, the dry seed mRNA pool was translated by the cap-binding complex isolated from dry seeds better than by the complex isolated from 24-h-imbibed seeds, whereas the translational efficiency of the mRNA pool from 24-h-imbibed seeds was similar between the cap-binding complexes from these two stages. Interestingly, eIF(iso)4E was more abundant than eIF4E in dry seeds, while both cap-binding proteins were present at similar levels in 24-h-imbibed seeds. These results suggest that the ratio of eIF(iso)4E to eIF4E in the corresponding eIF4F complex is critical for the mechanisms of translational control during maize germination.
An alternative to synchronous tree substitution grammars
Authors: MALETTI ANDREAS 
Published: March 2011

AbstractSynchronous tree substitution grammars (stsg) are a (formal) tree transformation model that is used in the area of syntax-based machine translation. A competitor that is at least as expressive as stsg is proposed and compared to stsg. The competitor is the extended multi bottom-up tree transducer (mbot), which is the bottom-up analogue with the additional feature that states have non-unary ranks. Unweighted mbot have already been investigated with respect to their basic properties, but the particular properties of the constructions that are required in the machine translation task are largely unknown. stsg and mbot are compared with respect to binarization, regular restriction, and application. Particular attention is paid to the complexity of the constructions.
Efficiently generating correction suggestions for garbled tokens of historical language
Authors: REFFLE ULRICH 
Published: March 2011

AbstractText correction systems rely on a core mechanism where suitable correction suggestions for garbled input tokens are generated. Current systems, which are designed for documents including modern language, use some form of approximate search in a given background lexicon. Due to the large amount of spelling variation found in historical documents, special lexica for historical language can only offer restricted coverage. Hence historical language is often described in terms of a matching procedure to be applied to modern words. Given such a procedure and a base lexicon of modern words, the question arises of how to generate correction suggestions for garbled historical variants. In this paper we suggest an efficient algorithm that solves this problem. The algorithm is used for postcorrection of optical character recognition results on historical document collections.
Regular relations for temporal propositions
Authors: FERNANDO TIM 
Published: March 2011

AbstractRelations computed by finite-state transducers are applied to interpret temporal propositions in terms of strings representing finite contexts or situations. Carnap–Montague intensions mapping indices to extensions are reformulated as relations between strings that can serve as indices and extensions alike. Strings are related according to information content, temporal span and granularity, the bounds on which reflect the partiality of natural language statements. That partiality shapes not only strings-as-extensions (indicating what statements are about) but also strings-as-indices (underlying truth conditions).
Antipsychotic utilisation and polypharmacy in Italian residential facilities: a survey
Authors: Ghio L. , Natta W. , Gotelli S. , Ferrannini L. 
Published: March 2011

Objective.To evaluate the prescribing practices in psychiatric residential facilities, with particular focus both on the antipsychotic dose and polypharmacy as well as the variation of antipsychotic patterns during a patient's stay within the facilities.Methods.Fifteen residential facilities of Liguria region in Italy were included. Data were collected through a chart review during a one-day census. Frequency of psychotropic patterns was estimated. Different non-parametric tests were used to analyse the changes in prescription patterns as well as the relationship among antipsychotic dose, the number of antipsychotics and anticholinergic use.Results.The study sample includes 362 patients, 61.9% males. On the census day 77.5% of patients received psychotropic polypharmacy and 57.2% antipsychotic polypharmacy. Antipsychotic polypharmacy was related to the total antipsychotic daily dose and to anticholinergic use. A trend towards an increase of antipsychotic and psychotropic polypharmacy and higher doses of antipsychotics over the period of stay within the facilities was noted. This tendency was related to the length of stay in the facility.Conclusions.Compared to earlier studies in the same clinical environment a significant increase in the use of psychotropic and antipsychotic polypharmacy was observed. The risk of prescribed polypharmacy seems to be related to time spent in the facility.