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Petrarch's Lucan and the Ambiguities of Ancient Heroism
No full textThis article reconsiders the issue of Petrarch's reception of Lucan's political views. Its contention is that Petrarch does not regard Lucan as a fiercely anti-Cesar author, as scholars have often assumed, but rather as the poet of both Caesar and Pompey and as a narrator who is able to highlight the different standpoints, virtues, and shortcomings of the two opposing commanders. In his works, Petrarch exploits the ambiguities that he already finds in Lucan's text to produce ambivalent representations of both Caesar and Pompey. At the same time, Petrarch substantially re-adapts the Bellum Civile from a Christian perspective: he extols Lucan's heroes as models of fortitude, and yet in so doing shows the intrinsic inferiority of pagan heroism to Christian virtus
Traumatic Dental Injuries in adults attending a London-based trauma clinic in the UK: A seven-year survey
No full textExploring Participant Experience of an Online Programme for Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder:A Qualitative Study
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Translating Research Findings into Clinical Practice:A Systematic and Critical Review of Neuroimaging-based Clinical Tools for Brain Disorders
No full textA pivotal aim of psychiatric and neurological research is to promote the translation of the findings into clinical practice to improve diagnostic and prognostic assessment of individual patients. Structural neuroimaging holds much promise, with neuroanatomical measures accounting for up to 40% of the variance in clinical outcome. Building on these findings, a number of imaging-based clinical tools have been developed to make diagnostic and prognostic inferences about individual patients from their structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging scans. This systematic review describes and compares the technical characteristics of the available tools, with the aim to assess their translational potential into real-world clinical settings. The results reveal that a total of 8 tools. All of these were specifically developed for neurological disorders, and as such are not suitable for application to psychiatric disorders. Furthermore, most of the tools were trained and validated in a single dataset, which can result in poor generalizability, or using a small number of individuals which can cause overoptimistic results. In addition, all of the tools rely on two strategies to detect brain abnormalities in single individuals, one based on univariate comparison, and the other based on multivariate machine learning algorithms. We discuss current barriers to the adoption of these tools in clinical practice and propose a checklist of pivotal characteristics that should be included in an “ideal” neuroimaging-based clinical tool for brain disorders
Diplomatic and Security Practice under Abe Shinzō:The Case for Realpolitik Japan
No full textIn what ways are Japanese foreign and security policies changing? How far will these changes go? Will they result in a policy posture that breaks from the post-1945 approach as originally designed by Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru? This special issue presents six articles that address these questions. They tackle the relationship between recent changes in Japanese domestic policy institutions and Japanese diplomatic and security practice. In this introduction, we outline the significance of the essays’ findings and propose a methodological shift in the interpretation of Japanese policy. We make the case that Japan’s approach to diplomatic and security affairs under Abe is evidence of the emergence of a ‘Realpolitik Japan’. From this perspective, we argue that values and political ideology have translated into practical choices that make the question of the ‘break with the post-1945’ approach less relevant to understand the significance of political change
