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Timing space / Spacing time. Narrative principles in Assurbanipal hunt reliefs of Room C in the North Palace of Nineveh
No full textThe theme of the royal lion hunt occupies several rooms in the North Palace of Assurbanipal at Nineveh; if Sennacherib’s Southwest Palace can in fact be rightly considered a monument for display of military successes of the Assyrian king and his army, the palace built by Assurbanipal (the last
Assyrian king to commission the construction of a new royal residence) is especially devoted to the representation of hunting, with the creation of specific rooms and corridors showing the Assyrian king in the attitude of hunter. The architecture and decoration of the rooms of the North Palace are built around the theme of the hunt, with a predominant role for the lion as the only worthy royal antagonist.
The emphasis on hunt by the sculptors of Assurbanipal is then particularly evident if compared to the figurative programmes of previous kings, where the hunt acquired a completely different political meaning (Sargon II) or was totally cancelled from palace relief cycles (Sennacherib)
Transcatheter Mitral Valve Chordal Repair: Current Indications and Future Perspectives
No full textTranscatheter Mitral Valve Repair (TMVRe) technologies constitute a rapidly expanding field, and have the potential of being adopted as a valuable alternative to surgery in selected patients. TMVRe devices can be distinguished depending on the targeted part of the Mitral Valve (MV) apparatus. Standard classification includes leaflet repair, direct/indirect annuloplasty, chordal repair, and ventricular/chamber remodeling devices. We present the current device situation on chordal repair technologies. Nowadays, transapical off-pump beating heart chordal implantation procedure has become a safe and reproducible option for Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation (DMR). Besides the truly minimally-invasiveness of the procedure, another unique advantage offered by a beating-heart chordal implantation is the real-time assessment of chordal length adjustment during heart cycle with a normally filled left ventricle. Currently, one system is commercially available in Europe, the NeoChord DS 1000 (NeoChord, Inc., St. Louis Park, MN) and the Harpoon TDS-5 (Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, CA) should become available soon. There is also a diffuse and strong interest to move from a transapical procedure toward a fully transcatheter (transfemoral and transeptal) procedure as shown by the increased number of preclinical programs under development. Interestingly, to achieve outcomes that equate to those of open surgery in DMR, transcatheter therapies will need to follow rigid indications due to strict patient selection criteria for each device, or adopt multiple techniques in a single repair procedure for complex MV disease. Continuous analysis of current clinical results together with future dedicated trial will be of extreme importance to foster the new and upcoming field of transcatheter MV therapy technology development
Storia e cronologia della Siria antica
No full textIl contributo è incentrato sulla cronologia e sulla storia della Siria tra il Tardo Calcolitico e l'Età del Ferro
Transapical mitral valve repair procedures: primetime for microinvasive mitral valve surgery
No full textMitral valve (MV) regurgitation affects more than four million people in the United States (US) and Europe, with an incidence of 1%–2% of the western population. Its prevalence increases with age, affecting up to 10% of the population above 75 years.1 According to current American and European guidelines, surgery is the gold standard therapy to treat mitral regurgitation (MR) in symptomatic patients, supporting surgical repair over replacement with extracorporeal circulation whenever possible.2 Despite MR represents the most frequent valvular heart disease requiring surgery in the United States and the second most common in Europe,3 up to onethird of patients with severe MR are never referred and nearly half are denied for surgery because of prohibitive risk due to age and comorbidities.4 Moreover, by 2030, the increase of the population age will translate in an estimated increase of 50% in heart failure prevalence, resulting in a significantly higher rate of MR, especially due to functional mechanisms.5 Therefore, new less‐invasive therapies are needed to further expand the slice of population to be treated
Entrepreneurship across cultures. A BR approach
No full textWe employ BRT as the theoretical basis for a quantitative analysis aimed at investigating the effects of cultural values on the intention to become an entrepreneur, intention which results from the value individuals give to the reasons for and reasons against their behavior. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) longitudinal data of entrepreneurial behaviors were employed to extract the variables under investigation over the period of 2007 up to 2017. In addition, cultural beliefs were estimated at a country level using Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) project data (House et al., 2004). Partial Least Square approach to Structural Equation Modeling will be employed for analyses of the data over tim
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
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