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Gliricola porcelli
No full textGliricola porcelli (Schrank, 1781) Pediculus porcelli Schrank, 1781: 500, pl. 1: fig.1. Pediculus saviae Schrank, 1803: 186. Unnecessary nomen novum for Pediculus porcelli Schrank, 1781. Pediculus bifurcatus Olfers, 1816: 83. Unnecessary nomen novum for Pediculus porcelli Schrank, 1781. Gyropus gracilis Nitzsch, 1818: 304. Unnecessary nomen novum for Pediculus porcelli Schrank, 1781. Gyropus porcelli perfoliatus Neumann, 1912b: 216. Gyropus bicaudatus Paine, 1912b: 441, pl. 20: fig. 3. Gliricola mexicana Zavaleta, 1946: 435, figs 1A–F. Gliricola porcelli (Schrank, 1781); Werneck 1948: 38. Gliricola porcelli (Schrank, 1781); Price et al. 2003: 76. Type host: Cavia porcellus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Guinea pig. Type locality: Not given in the original description. Malaysian host: Cavia porcellus. Malaysian locality: Ampang (Selangor) Peninsular Malaysia (this paper). Geographical distribution: Worldwide, except Antarctica. Remarks: Gliricola porcelli was collected from a pet guinea pig in a veterinary clinic located in Ampang, Selangor, and identified by the first author (A.- R.K.). This is the first record of G. porcelli from Malaysia.Published as part of Kazim, Abdul-Rahman, Houssaini, Jamal, Tappe, Dennis & Heo, Chong-Chin, 2023, An annotated checklist of the chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera, Amblycera Rhynchophthirina) from domestic and wild mammals in Malaysia, pp. 40-60 in Zootaxa 5263 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5263.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/779779
‘TESTAMENTUM PORCELLI’
No full textThe ‘Testamentum Porcelli’SummaryThis paper is a translation and commentary of the anonymous fourth-century pamphlet referred as the Testamentum Porcelli. Notwithstanding the humorous nature of the work, it became the subject of scholarly dispute focused on its actual meaning and potential author. The main concepts, together with the characters associated with them, are presented in footnotes and commentaries with an explanation of particular issues, e.g. the structure of the text, Roman law, and allusions to pagan festivals and customs.</jats:p
‘TESTAMENTUM PORCELLI’
No full textThe ‘Testamentum Porcelli’SummaryThis paper is a translation and commentary of the anonymous fourth-century pamphlet referred as the Testamentum Porcelli. Notwithstanding the humorous nature of the work, it became the subject of scholarly dispute focused on its actual meaning and potential author. The main concepts, together with the characters associated with them, are presented in footnotes and commentaries with an explanation of particular issues, e.g. the structure of the text, Roman law, and allusions to pagan festivals and customs
Associazione tra tiroidite di Hashimoto e ispessimentointima-medio carotideo in una popolazione di donne obese o in sovrappeso
No full textIron from the Sky. The meteoritic origin of Tutankhamun’s iron dagger
No full textSince Howard Carter’s discovery in 1925 1, the meteoritic origin of the iron dagger blade from the sarcophagus of the ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamun (14th Century BC), part of the King’s funerary collection now at the Egyptian Museum of Cairo, has been the subject of debate. In this presentation, we report on the work carried out by the author in collaboration with Comelli et al. (2016). It is shown that the composition of Tutankhamun’s iron dagger blade (Fe plus 10.8 wt% Ni and 0.58 wt% Co), accurately determined through portable x-ray fluorescence spectrometry, strongly supports its meteoritic origin. This study confirms that ancient Egyptians attributed great value to precious objects made by meteoritic iron. However, it is as yet unclear if such dagger blade made of meteoritic iron was manufactured in Egypt or imported from Anatolia
Morfologia degli stadi larvali di Habronyx heros Wesmael (Ichneumonidae - Anomaloninae) con note di biologia
No full textThe author describes the larva! features of Habronyx heros Wesmael (Hymenoptera, Ichneu- monidae, Anomaloninae). The five larva! instars were on, the first of which was caudate and the others worm-like. The morphologicals details of the head were studied: the first instar had strongly schlerotized mandibles and well shaped maxilae and an inferior labrum with sensilla; the second instar was ligthly schlerotized, while the third, fourth and fifth instars showed a pro- gressive thickening of the peristoma, the dorsal half of the head and the inferior labrum. The key for last instar larvae (from Gauld, 1976) was modified according to the hypostomal spur varia- bility ecountered.
The !ife cycle and the competition among larvae into the host was observed and outlined
Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Worsened Health-Related Quality of Life of Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease? A Longitudinal Disease Activity-Controlled Study
No full textThe present longitudinal study aimed to investigate the burden of disease activity change on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) during the two different pandemic waves in 2020 and 2021. A sample of 221 IBD patients (recruited during March–May 2020 for T0 and March–May 2021 for T1) was included. The psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic (Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R)) and HRQoL (Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire (IBDQ)) were assessed. Post-traumatic COVID-19-related symptoms (IES-R) were not significantly different across the disease activity-related groups. Conversely, IBDQ was consistently higher in patients with persistent, quiescent disease activity compared to the other groups, as expected. Even after controlling for baseline IES-R, repeated-measures ANCOVA showed a non-significant main effect of time (p = 0.60) but a significant time-per-group interaction effect with a moderate effect size (η2 = 0.08). During the two different phases of pandemic restrictions, IBD-specific HRQoL was modified by disease-related factors such as disease activity, rather than by the post-traumatic symptoms of COVID-19. This lends further weight to the need for developing an evidence-based, integrated, biopsychosocial model of care for patients with IBD to identify subjective and objective factors that affect the burden of disease
Influence of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Disease Activity and Quality of Life in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients
No full textObjective: The present preliminary cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the extent
to which health-related quality of life of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
was influenced by the outbreak of Covid-19 while controlling for disease activity.
Methods: Two samples of 195 (recruited before Covid-19 outbreak) and 707 patients
(recruited during the Covid-19-related lockdown) were included. Psychological distress
(Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, HADS), quality of life (Inflammatory Bowel
Disease Questionnaire, IBDQ), and somatization (Patient Health Questionnaire, PHQ-12)
were concurrently assessed.
Results: Patients with active IBD were more prevalently affected by ulcerative colitis
(60.2%, !2 = 0.12) and, expectedly, showed higher psychological distress (HADS,
d = 0.34) and somatization (PHQ-12, d = 0.39), as well as poorer disease-specific
health-related quality of life (effect sizes for the total and subscale IBDQ scores in the large
range of d > 0.50). Hierarchical regression models revealed that setting (pre-Covid-19
outbreak vs. during lockdown) (p < 0.001) explained only a small portion (8%) of the IBDQ
variance. IBD-related factors (ulcerative colitis and disease activity) and psychological
factors (psychological distress and somatization) added a significant amount of 25 and
27%, respectively, to the explained IBDQ variance. The final model predicted 59% of the
explained IBDQ variance.
Conclusion: Clinical and psychological manifestations seem to be major impairments
in IBD patients both before and during the Covid-19 outbreak. Furthermore, the quality
of life of IBD patients seem to be more influenced by psychological and somatizing
distressing symptoms than the pandemic-related living conditions
RELAZIONE TRA I LIVELLI DI C3 E L'ISPESSIMENTO DELL'INTIMA-MEDIA DELL'ARTERIA CAROTIDE COMUNE IN UNA POPOLAZIONE DI PAZIENTI OBESI O IN SOVRAPPESO
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