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The liturgical and textual tradition of Acts and Paul in the Byzantine apostolos lectionary
No full textThe Apostolos is a corpus of manuscripts containing New Testament and liturgical material. For Byzantines it was the primary form in which the Acts and Epistles were received as Scripture. Lectionary studies were almost abandoned after the mid-twentieth century, and the recent revival of interest in the Greek Lectionary has concentrated exclusively on the Gospel Lectionary. The last study of the Apostolos is five decades old and reflects the methodologies of another era. Building upon the work of recent Lectionary scholarship this thesis takes a new approach to the Apostolos, analysing New Testament and liturgical textual traditions together.
The text of Acts and the Pauline corpus as transmitted in the Lectionary is compared with the continuous text. It is shown that one Apostolos witness is not usually copied to another and that consequently there is no ‘Lectionary text’ of Acts and Paul. Instead, Apostolos copies reflect textual variation in the evolving Byzantine tradition. Digital methods allow the present thesis to explore groupings among Apostolos manuscripts combined with detailed attention to the contents of each codex. This study concentrates on the Apostolos in its scribal, monastic, liturgical, and theological context as well as in light of other manuscript traditions.
Please cite this work as:
Gibson, S. (2016) The liturgical and textual tradition of Acts and Paul in the Byzantine apostolos lectionary. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Birmingham. Available at https://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/6589/ (Accessed: day/month/year)
The author has published this work as a monograph. The published monograph should be cited as the following:
Gibson. S. (2018) The Apostolos: The Acts and Epistles in Byzantine Liturgical Manuscripts. Georgias Press LL
On the Phenomenology and Typology of Errors in Old Russian Apostolos Manuscripts from the 12th–14th Centuries
No full textThe article analyzes errors in two Old-Russian Apostolos manuscripts: Apostolus Christinopolitanus from the 12th century (an example of the commented type) and Tolstovskiy Apostolus from the 14th century (an example of the continuous type). The result of this research is new information about the reception of loan words, text reinterpretation, the influence of antigraphs and comments, and the personality of the Tolstovskiy scribe. The author corrects errors on both lexical and grammatical levels. Some of the lexical errors are provoked by deformations in the Greek text (homonym and paronym mixing). There are also various transformations of appellatives to onyms, and vice versa. All of this might occur in the antigraph as well as in the Tolstovskiy manuscript. Grammatical errors are fixed on the macro- and microlevels. There are cases of incorrect text segmentation within syntagms and between paragraphs in the Tolstovskiy manuscript which take place owing to the influence of the Praxapostolos and the commented type of Apostolos. Both manuscripts are also influenced by comments. This is reflected in grammatical and semantic alteration of the main text and, more rarely, in direct comments included in the main text, although the latter is not supposed for the continuous type to which the Tolstovskiy manuscript belongs. As for the chirographer of the Tolstovskiy manuscript, his background could not be characterized by a high level of literacy or by rich knowledge of the New Testament. He obviously did not have any Greek copies or more correct Slavonic copies at his disposal
On the Phenomenology and Typology of Errors in Old Russian Apostolos Manuscripts from the 12th–14th Centuries
No full textThe article analyzes errors in two Old-Russian Apostolos manuscripts: Apostolus
Christinopolitanus from the 12th century (an example of the commented type) and
Tolstovskiy Apostolus from the 14th century (an example of the continuous type). The
result of this research is new information about the reception of loan words, text
reinterpretation, the influence of antigraphs and comments, and the personality of
the Tolstovskiy scribe. The author corrects errors on both lexical and grammatical
levels. Some of the lexical errors are provoked by deformations in the Greek text
(homonym and paronym mixing). There are also various transformations of
appellatives to onyms, and vice versa. All of this might occur in the antigraph as
well as in the Tolstovskiy manuscript. Grammatical errors are fixed on the macroand
microlevels. There are cases of incorrect text segmentation within syntagms
and between paragraphs in the Tolstovskiy manuscript which take place owing
to the influence of the Praxapostolos and the commented type of Apostolos. Both
manuscripts are also influenced by comments. This is reflected in grammatical
and semantic alteration of the main text and, more rarely, in direct comments
included in the main text, although the latter is not supposed for the continuous
type to which the Tolstovskiy manuscript belongs. As for the chirographer of the
Tolstovskiy manuscript, his background could not be characterized by a high
level of literacy or by rich knowledge of the New Testament. He obviously did not
have any Greek copies or more correct Slavonic copies at his disposal
On the phenomenology and typology of errors in Old Russian apostolos manuscripts from the 12th-14th centuries
No full textThe article analyzes errors in two Old-Russian Apostolos manuscripts: Apostolus Christinopolitanus from the 12th century (an example of the commented type) and Tolstovskiy Apostolus from the 14th century (an example of the continuous type). The result of this research is new information about the reception of loan words, text reinterpretation, the influence of antigraphs and comments, and the personality of the Tolstovskiy scribe. The author corrects errors on both lexical and grammatical levels. Some of the lexical errors are provoked by deformations in the Greek text (homonym and paronym mixing). There are also various transformations of appellatives to onyms, and vice versa. All of this might occur in the antigraph as well as in the Tolstovskiy manuscript. Grammatical errors are fixed on the macroand microlevels. There are cases of incorrect text segmentation within syntagms and between paragraphs in the Tolstovskiy manuscript which take place owing to the influence of the Praxapostolos and the commented type of Apostolos. Both manuscripts are also influenced by comments. This is reflected in grammatical and semantic alteration of the main text and, more rarely, in direct comments included in the main text, although the latter is not supposed for the continuous type to which the Tolstovskiy manuscript belongs. As for the chirographer of the Tolstovskiy manuscript, his background could not be characterized by a high level of literacy or by rich knowledge of the New Testament. He obviously did not have any Greek copies or more correct Slavonic copies at his disposal
Page management in hybrid memory systems
No full textRecent byte-addressable Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) technologies enable hybrid memory systems comprising of both DRAM and NVM technologies. Such systems have the potential to address the capacity requirements of data intensive workloads and achieve high performance. The main challenge lies in dynamically managing data placement between DRAM and NVM in a flat address space configuration, where the Operating System can allocate pages to either of the two memories. Prior work on this area has proposed software and architectural techniques that can dynamically swap memory pages between the two memories. However, due to the high swap overhead, initiating swaps solely based on hardware counters or relying on software methods hinders the potential for performance gains due to their conservative decision making.
In this work, we introduce Prefetching, a novel hybrid memory management scheme that exploits page correlation to identify forthcoming memory accesses and commence swaps ahead of time. The page management techniques proposed by Prefetching effectively hide the overhead of data movement between memories. We evaluate our design with simulations across 17 benchmarks from three different benchmark suites. Thanks to Prefetching's highly accurate swaps, we improve performance by up to 20% and reduce average main memory access time by up to 33% when compared to prior state-of-the-art.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2021-05-01The student, Apostolos Kokolis, accepted the attached license on 2019-04-25 at 19:30.The student, Apostolos Kokolis, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2019-04-25 at 19:43.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2019-04-26 at 08:37.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #13935 on 2019-08-22 at 15:08:47Made available in DSpace on 2019-08-23T20:36:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Author biographies
No full textDiane Apostolos-Cappadona is Adjunct Professor of Religious Art and Cultural History, Georgetown University. Her research, teaching, and publications are centered on the interconnections of art, gender, and religion, and discuss issues such as the human figure, the body, and iconoclasm. She has a particular interest in the iconology of biblical women, including Mary Magdalene, Salome, and Judith. Guest curator for ”In Search of Mary Magdalene: Images and Traditions” (2002), she coordinates th..
Retraction Note: WELL.ME - Wellbeing therapy based on real-time personalized mobile architecture, vs. cognitive therapy, to reduce psychological distress and promote healthy lifestyle in cardiovascular disease patients: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (Trials DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-13-157)
No full textThe Editors-in-Chief are retracting this article [1]. After publication concerns were raised with respect to inconsistencies between this trial protocol and the trial registry entry. Subsequent investigation has shown that patient recruitment had been completed before submission of the protocol to the journal, which is a breach of the journals editorial policy. Concerns have also been raised that one of the reviewers was added to this article as an author after revision. Michele Carenini and Wendy Moreno Pea agree with this retraction and Angelo Compare does not agree with this retraction. Vassilis Kouloulias, Vontas Apostolos, Enrico Molinari, Enzo Grossi and Efstathopoulos Efstathios did not reply to correspondence about this retraction. © 2018 The Author(s)
Systematic reviews with language restrictions and no author contact have lower overall credibility: a methodology study
No full textZhen Wang,1–3 Juan P Brito,4 Apostolos Tsapas,5 Marcio L Griebeler,4 Fares Alahdab,1,3 Mohammad Hassan Murad,1,3,61Robert D and Patricia E Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, 2Division of Health Care Policy and Research, Department of Health Sciences Research, 3Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, 4Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, and Nutrition, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; 5Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; 6Division of Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USABackground: High-quality systematic reviews (SRs) require rigorous approaches to identify, appraise, select, and synthesize research evidence relevant to a specific question. In this study, we evaluated the association between two steps in the conduct of an SR – restricting the search to English, and author contact for missing data – and the overall credibility of a SR.Methods: All SRs cited by the Endocrine Society's Clinical Practice Guidelines published from October 2006 through January 2012 were included. The main outcome was the overall A Measurement Tool to Assess Systematic Reviews (AMSTAR) score, as a surrogate of SR credibility. Nonparametric Kruskal–Wallis tests and multivariable linear regression models were used to investigate the association between language restriction, author contact for missing data, and the overall AMSTAR score.Results: In all, 69 SRs were included in the analysis. Only 31 SRs (45%) reported searching non-English literature, with an average AMSTAR score of 7.90 (standard deviation [SD] =1.64). SRs that reported language restriction received significantly lower AMSTAR scores (mean =5.25, SD =2.32) (P<0.001). Only 30 SRs (43%) reported contacting authors for missing data, and these received, on average, 2.59 more AMSTAR points (SD =1.95) than those who did not (P<0.001). In multivariable analyses, AMSTAR score was significantly correlated with language restriction (beta =-1.31, 95% confidence interval [CI]: -2.62, -0.01, P=0.05) and author contact for missing data (beta =2.16, 95% CI: 0.91, 3.41, P=0.001). However, after adjusting for compliance with reporting guidelines, language restriction was no longer significantly associated with the AMSTAR score.Conclusion: Fewer than half of the SRs conducted to support the clinical practice guidelines we examined reported contacting study authors or searched non–English literature. SRs that did not conduct these two steps had lower quality scores, suggesting the importance of these two steps for overall SR credibility.Keywords: evidence-based medicine, research design, validity, quality of evidenc
Improving the “real life” management of schizophrenia spectrum disorders by LAI antipsychotics: A one-year mirror-image retrospective study in community mental health services
No full textSchizophrenia poses a significant economic burden on the healthcare system as well as it has a significant impact on society at large. Reasons for such a high economic burden of schizophrenia include the frequent relapses and hospitalizations occurring in this disorder. We analyze the effectiveness of long-acting injectable antipsychotics (LAIs) compared to oral medications, in terms of “clinical process management” in a sample of patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia spectrum disorder treated in community mental health centers. An observational, retrospective, mirror-image study was carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of LAIs compared to oral medications in terms of number of hospitalizations, emergency visits and planned visits on a 10-year period (from July 2007 to June 2017). Differences between first and second generation LAIs were also explored. Our findings show that hospitalization and emergency visits are significantly decreased with the use of LAIs, while planned visits are increased in patients treated with LAIs. Our results suggest that LAIs, in particular, second generation ones, reduce hospitalization rates and emergency visits, improving the economic burden of schizophrenia. Therefore, LAIs should be considered a cost-effective treatment in the management of schizophrenia under routine conditions.</div
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