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The Kos Archaeological Survey Project and the Site of Ayios Panteleimon in the Northeast Koan Region
No full textQuesto articolo presenta i risultati preliminari delle campagne 2018 e 2019 del Kos Archaeological Survey Project
- Еπιφανειακή Έρευνα στο νησί της Κω (KASP). Particolare attenzione è riservata alla scoperta del sito, precedentemente inedito, di Ayios Panteleimon, il più grande insediamento preistorico mai identificato sull’isola di Coo. Gli esiti della ricognizione sono discussi in sei sezioni, concentrate sui seguenti argomenti: i principali temi delle ricerche in corso; la metodologia del progetto; il lavoro portato a termine nel 2018 e nel 2019 nella regione nord-orientale di Coo; Ayios Panteleimon e i materiali preistorici rinvenuti nell’area del sito; Ayios Panteleimon nel più ampio contesto delle traiettorie insediative e socio-culturali di Coo nel Tardo
Bronzo (TB); i risultati preliminari del progetto e i piani per le indagini dei prossimi anni a Ayios Panteleimon. Le informazioni presentate in questo articolo dimostrano il ruolo di preminenza economica e politica esercitato da Ayios Panteleimon nella regione nordorientale di Coo durante il TB. I dati indicano che Ayios Panteleimon si distingue per le sue ricche e diverse relazioni culturali con altre aree del Mediterraneo orientale, tra cui il sudest dell’Egeo e le coste sudoccidentali dell’Anatolia, Creta, le Cicladi e la Grecia continentale. Particolarmente degne di nota sono le connessioni con le tradizioni ceramiche del Tardo Minoico (TM) IA e TM IB, che includono forme di origine cretese, importate o di manifattura locale, e vasi della cosiddetta classe Dipinta Semifine e
Impasto Light on Dark e Dark on Light, appartenente alla tradizione mista di Coo. L’importanza di queste connessioni dimostra il carattere speciale di Ayios Panteleimon nel panorama di Coo durante le fasi iniziali del TB. Il loro significativo impatto sulla cultura materiale del sito suggerisce che Ayios Panteleimon ebbe un ruolo unico nelle relazioni con Creta, inaugurando quegli intensi processi di interazione con l’Egeo occidentale, che condussero alla creazione di una identità micenea a Coo nelle fasi tarde del II millennio a.C., in particolare dal Tardo Elladico (TE) IIIA2 al TE III
Part 1—Cardiac Rehabilitation After an Acute Myocardial Infarction: Four Phases of the Programme—Where Do We Stand?
No full textCardiac rehabilitation is a well-established multidisciplinary interventional protocol that plays a pivotal role in the management and prevention of future cardiovascular events in patients with cardiovascular diseases. This patient-tailored approach includes educating patients about their cardiovascular condition and how to control the associated risk factors, an expert-designed lifestyle modification plan that may include exercise, proper nutrition, pharmacological treatment, and psychological support at each step. Exercise training represents a fundamental component of cardiac rehabilitation. It facilitates an enhancement of cardiovascular fitness, a reduction in heart rate, blood pressure and cardiac remodeling, an increase in the left ventricular ejection fraction, the optimization of endothelial function, and a reduction in inflammation and oxidative stress. Moreover, the beneficial physiological changes resulting from cardiac rehabilitation contribute to a reduction in morbidity and mortality in survivors of myocardial infarction (MI). Furthermore, the European Society of Cardiology Guidelines advocate for the initiation of cardiac rehabilitation as early as possible, while the patient who survived MI is still in hospital. This two-part comprehensive review commences with a historical overview of cardiac rehabilitation, followed by a detailed exploration of the four phases of the cardiac rehabilitation programme and its impact on cardiovascular health. In Part 2, the study aims to provide a detailed account of the optimal timing for starting cardiac rehabilitation programs and to examine the factors affecting low engagement in such programs, as well as gender-based differences in adherence
Part 2—Cardiac Rehabilitation After an Acute Myocardial Infarction: Timing and Gender Differences in Adherence; Where Do We Stand?
No full textCardiac rehabilitation is a beneficial multidisciplinary interventional protocol that improves cardiovascular health and reduces mortality and morbidity rates in patients with cardiovascular diseases. Multiple studies have demonstrated that the implementation of such protocols in patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) dramatically improved patients’ outcome. It is unfortunate that in practice, in spite of the advantages of cardiac rehabilitation, this approach is seldom employed. Indeed, only some guidance, such as American College of Cardiology and European Society of Cardiology guidelines, recommends cardiac rehabilitation in their protocols. In particular, the European guideline recommends its early implementation while the patient is still in hospital, whereas the American guideline suggests that it should be approximately three weeks after discharge. In Part 1 of this two-part comprehensive review, we provided a historical overview of cardiac rehabilitation, a detailed examination of each component of the cardiac rehabilitation programme, and its impact on cardiovascular health. In Part 2, the objective was to provide a comprehensive explanation of the optimal timing for the commencement of the cardiac rehabilitation programme, and to elucidate the factors that influence low engagement in such programmes, as well as the gender-based differences in adherence
Biomarkers of Importance in Monitoring Heart Condition After Acute Myocardial Infarction
No full textDespite notable advancements in cardiovascular medicine, morbidity and mortality rates associated with myocardial infarction (MI) remain high. The unfavourable prognosis and absence of robust post-MI protocols necessitate further intervention. In this comprehensive review, we will focus on well-established and novel biomarkers that can provide insight into the processes that occur after an ischemic event. More precisely, during the follow-up, it is of particular importance to monitor biomarkers that indicate an increase in myocardial stretch and stress, damage and death of cardiomyocytes, remodelling of the extracellular matrix, oxidative stress, and inflammation. This enables the identification of abnormalities in a timely manner, as well as the capacity to respond promptly to any changes. Therefore, we would like to highlight the importance of well-known markers, such as natriuretic peptides, high-sensitivity troponins, soluble suppression of tumorigenicity 2, galactin-3, C-reactive protein, and interleukins in post-MI settings, as well as biomarkers such as adrenomedullin, growth differentiation factor-15, insulin-like growth factor binding protein 7, amyloid beta, vitamin D, trimethylamine N-oxide, and advanced glycation end-products that recently emerged in the cardiovascular filed. The implementation of novel post-MI protocols, which encompass the monitoring of the aforementioned biomarkers deemed pertinent, in conjunction with adherence to established cardiac rehabilitation programmes, along with the already well-established therapeutic strategies and control of cardiovascular risk factors, has the potential to markedly enhance patient outcomes and reduce the elevated level of morbidity and mortality
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Synchrotron Radiation-Based Micro-XANES and Micro-XRF Study of Unsuccessfully Produced Egyptian Blue from the Late Hellenistic Production Site of Kos (Dodecanese, Greece)
No full textThis paper examines the production technology of Egyptian blue, an ancient artificial pigment, through the investigation of an unsuccessfully produced pellet derived from the Hellenistic production site of Kos (Dodecanese, Greece). This heterogeneous material was investigated by a combination of laboratory and synchrotron radiation-based (SR) techniques: scanning electron microscopy coupled with energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry, micro-Raman spectroscopy, high-resolution SR micro-X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, and SR micro-X-ray absorption near-edge structure spectroscopy (XANES), at the ID21 beamline of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. Principal component analysis of a large dataset of 171 micro-XANES spectra acquired on the archaeological samples and on a series of reference copper compounds emphasizes high variations of XANES features due to different speciation and also orientation effects, as demonstrated by the simulated XANES spectra. The results indicate that, rather than inadequate firing temperatures that could have led to the reddish cuprite (Cu2O), unsuccessful production may occur due to the use of inappropriate starting materials, which contain an unusually high iron content. The contextual interpretation underlines the intertwined relationship between the production of Egyptian blue and metallurgy
Managing Environmental Challenges with Anthropogenic Bedrock Modification: Archaeological Survey Evidence from the Upper Basin (USA) and the Island of Kos (Greece)
No full textHuman-environmental interaction studies typically focus on large-scale landscape modifications of vegetation or
soils and rarely address smaller-scale human alterations to site settings. This approach is based on a broad
concept of environment as “set” having spatially dispersed and regionally defined attributes, as opposed to
something that is mutable at the scale of individual groups of humans living at a specific location. This paper
examines how two prehistoric groups, the Final Neolithic to Early Bronze Age 2 occupants on the island of Kos,
Greece and the Late Formative Period occupants in the Upper Basin, northern Arizona, selected and modified
habitation locations involving exposed bedrock. Although chronologically separated by thousands of years and
occupying different continents, these two groups share similarities in population size, socio-political complexity,
and environmental challenges. In facing these challenges, both groups apply practical, but different, approaches
that utilized one of the most prevalent globally available resources – limestone bedrock
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