514 research outputs found
Gait Alterations in Two Young Siblings with Progressive Pseudorheumatoid Dysplasia
Full text linkProgressive pseudorheumatoid dysplasia (PPRD) is an autosomal recessive inherited skeletal dysplasia characterized by progressive non-inflammatory arthropathy affecting primarily the articular cartilage. Currently, little is known about the functional musculoskeletal aspects of these patients. In particular, an abnormal gait pattern has been described, without a clear hypothesis of the underlying causes in terms of muscular activity. This study presents the case of two siblings, 4 and 9 years old, a boy and a girl, respectively, suffering from PPRD at different stages of the disease. In addition to the clinical assessment, an instrumental gait analysis was performed. Swelling of the interphalangeal finger joints and fatigue were present in both cases. Gait abnormalities consisted of a relevant reduction in the ankle plantarflexion in the terminal phase of the gait cycle, associated with reduced gastrocnemius EMG activity and increased activity of the tibialis anterior, resulting in overloading at the initial peak of ground reaction forces. Gait anomalies observed were similar in both siblings with PPRD, although at different ages, and confirm walking patterns previously described in the literature. The calf muscle strength deficit and reduced activity during the stance phase of gait present in these two siblings indicate the typical absence of the propulsive phase. A stomping gait pattern, with the foot striking the ground hard on each step, was originally described. Further neurophysiological investigations are required to determine the origin of muscle weakness
Portraits of Livia in Asia Minor
Full text linkBu çalışmada, Roma İmparatorluğu'nun doğudakien önemli eyaletlerinden birisi olan Küçük Asya'da elegeçmiş Livia portreleri tipolojik acıdan ele alınacaktır.Söz konusu eserler, bugüne kadar Livia portrelerinikonu alan birçok çalışmada ele alınmıştır. Ancak konuile ilgili en kapsamlı ve güncel yayın, E. Bartman'a aittir.Araştırmacı yayınında adı geçen coğrafyadaki portreleri Marbury Hall tipinin birer varyantı olarak kabuletmiştir. Ancak tarafımızca yapılan gözlemler, bu portrelerin Fayumtipini de ayırt edici özelliklerine sahip olduklarını ve hatta bu iki tipe yabancı unsurları da taşıdıklarını ortaya koymuştur. Makalede öncelikli olarakbu iki tipin ayırt edici özelliklerinden bahsedilecek, ardından Küçük Asya eserlerinin bu tiplerin hangi özellik/özelliklerine sadık kalınarak uygulama bulduğu üzerinde durulacak ve yabancı unsurlar için de önerilersunulacaktır.This article treats from a typological perspective the portraits of Livia, portraits originating from the major eastern provinces of the Roman Empire, as also from Asia Minor. These portraits have already been analysed in scholarly works. In this respect E. Bartman has presented the most recent and comprehensive scientific analysis. The author has stated that the portraits in question were variants of the Marbury Hall statuary type. However, observation shows these portraits carry the characteristics of more than one portrait-type, for example of the Fayum type. In addition, they have completely different elements from this type. The following article first addresses the differences between the two types and subsequently, the question is discussed, as to which characteristics of these types can be observed in the Livia portraits fromAsia Minor. Finally, the postulated different elements arestated
Developing an open access croplands research database through global collaboration
Full text linkThis article describes the processes, challenges, and outcomes of a project undertaken by Kansas State University (K-State) Libraries and a global community of researchers. The project, initiated by
librarians in the newly created Faculty and Graduate Services Department, involved collaboration with a K-State agronomist. The
initial concept was to create an open access database of croplands research submitted by researchers from the Global Research
Alliance Croplands Research Group, a consortium of over 30 countries. Due to the project’s complexity, it was determined that a more manageable approach would be to pilot the project by including research from only the United States and Australia to resolve problems before scaling up to include all 34 countries in the GRA Croplands Research Group
Reflections on the author, context and audience of the so-called Apotheosis of Poppaea (P.Oxy. LXXVII 5105)
No full textDiscussione e commento storico di un testo esametrico greco su papiro contenente la divinizzazione ed il catasterismo di Poppea Sabina, moglie di Nerone. Attribuzione del testo al poeta di corte Leonides di Alessandria
Livia: Data-Centric Computing Throughout the Memory Hierarchy
No full text© 2020 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM. In order to scale, future systems will need to dramatically reduce data movement. Data movement is expensive in current designs because (i) traditional memory hierarchies force computation to happen unnecessarily far away from data and (ii) processing-in-memory approaches fail to exploit locality. We propose Memory Services, a flexible programming model that enables data-centric computing throughout the memory hierarchy. In Memory Services, applications express functionality as graphs of simple tasks, each task indicating the data it operates on. We design and evaluate Livia, a new system architecture for Memory Services that dynamically schedules tasks and data at the location in the memory hierarchy that minimizes overall data movement. Livia adds less than 3% area overhead to a tiled multicore and accelerates challenging irregular workloads by 1.3× to 2.4× while reducing dynamic energy by 1.2× to 4.7×
Mirror Acts: Dramatic Form in Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author and Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
No full textPirandello is among the first playwrights to reshape the very notion of theatre and pave the way for a postmodern understanding of the human. By fixing one of drama’s cardinal axes—space—and making it simultaneously literal and inherently static—Pirandello frees the other—time—thereby undoing the core of the dramatic arc. This simple shift repositions both plot and characters, placing them in a cosmology which tauntingly ignores them. Their experience—and by extension the human experience—becomes inherently aimless. In this latter light, Pirandello’s characters are an anticipation of Beckett’s. While this is indubitably an important point of contact between the two, it is the similarity in their structural redefinition of spacetime, that allows both to pave the way for a pivotal revolution of form that will bloom in the works of their heirs—Pinter and Stoppard, primarily—and anticipate postdramatic theatre. In this light, Six Characters in Search of an Author, first staged in Rome and Paris in 1921 a time when Beckett would have been exposed to a response to it, plants a lasting seed
Per un’educazione universale. La via del Buddhismo nelle società post-secolari
No full textThe paper examines Buddhism as a religion that suggests to the post-modern and post-secular West a new, inclusive, non-violent and ecological education. It proposes an universal education that responds to the request of religiosity of our societies. Buddhism is investigated as a millennial pedagogy, in which the path of spiritual growth coincides with a path of self-education that is articulated through an interior and social education. The center of the Buddhist doctrine is the meditation (dhyan), that leads the disciple, with the support of a master and the community, for a rebirth that, declaring him as the author of his own realization, leads him to establish empathic relationship with the others human beings
The Making of a London Author
No full text“The Making of a London Author” will expand further on Joyce’s interactions with Cambridge-based institutions such as C. K. Ogden’s Orthological Institute and London-based ones, including the publisher Faber and Faber and Eliot’s work there. Scholarship has largely overlooked Eliot’s ambitious plans for the international availability of Joyce’s work through London: the promotion of the Anna Livia Plurabelle record, the Anna Livia Plurabelle and Haveth Childers Everywhere pamphlets, and the contract for the long-pending Finnegans Wake. The chapter will delineate Joyce’s close collaborations with Ogden and Eliot to promote his work through divergent media alongside Herbert Hughes’ presentation of the Anna Livia Plurabelle record in London’s Daily Telegraph newspaper. The impact of such strategies on other publishing outlets including the Times newspaper will also be assessed.</p
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