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The Hispanic Mozarabic Rite
No full textThe article tackles the issue of the theological structure of the revived Hispanic Mozarabic rite that had been formed in the Iberian Peninsula in the vicinity of the three metropolitan sees: Seville, Toledo and Tarragona. Formation of the rite was a long process, in which a prominent role was played by the great Spanish theologians, with St Isidore of Seville and St Ildephonsus of Toledo in the foreground. Suspended under the influence of Romanization of the native liturgy in the 11th century, it survived only among the Christians who lived in the areas dominated by Muslims, and after Toledo was liberated in 1085 King Alfonso VI allowed using the Hispanic Mozarabic rite in six parishes of the town. After the Vatican Council II, under the direction of the Archbishop of Toledo Cardinal Marcelo Gonzalez, the superior of the Hispanic Mozarabic rite in Spain, a revision and publication of liturgical books of this rite was begun. In its basic structure the Eucharist in the Hispanic Mozarabic rite is constituted by: a) introductory rites; b) Liturgy of the Word; c) Offertory – the Diptychs – the sign of peace; d) Eucharistic prayer; e) Communion rites. The author discusses each element of the Eucharistic liturgy of the rite in detail and he points to the exceptional features that distinguish it from the Roman liturgy: the euchological exuberance, the symbols, the interventions of the congregation, the wealth of the Liturgy of the Word, the peace rite through the Eucharistic liturgy, the presence of the Diptychs, and the gesture of the breaking of the bread that remembers the mysteries of Christ’s life
The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey VLT/ISAAC near-infrared imaging of the GOODS-South field
No full textAims. We present the final public data release of the VLT/ISAAC near-infrared imaging survey in the GOODS-South field. The survey covers an area of 172.5, 159.6 and 173.1 arcmin(2) in the J, H, and K(s) bands, respectively. For point sources total limiting magnitudes of J = 25.0, H = 24.5, and K(s) = 24.4 (5 sigma, AB) are reached within 75% of the survey area. Thus these observations are significantly deeper than the previous EIS Deep Public Survey which covers the same region. The image quality is characterized by a point spread function ranging between 0.34 '' and 0.65 '' FWHM. The images are registered to a common astrometric grid defined by the GSC 2 with an accuracy of similar to 0.06 '' RMS over the whole field. The overall photometric accuracy, including all systematic effects, adds up to 0.05 mag. The data are publicly available from the ESO science archive facility. Methods. We describe the data reduction, the calibration, and the quality control process. The final data set is characterized in terms of astrometric and photometric properties, including the PSF and the curve of growth. We establish an empirical model for the sky background noise in order to quantify the variation of limiting depth and statistical photometric errors over the survey area. We define a catalog of K(s)-selected sources which contains JHK(s) photometry for 7079 objects. Differential aperture corrections were applied to the color measurements in order to avoid possible biases as a result of the variation of the PSF. We briefly discuss the resulting color distributions in the context of available redshift data. Furthermore, we estimate the completeness fraction and relative contamination due to spurious detections for source catalogs extracted from the survey data. For this purpose, an empirical study based on a deep Ks image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field is combined with extensive image simulations. Results. With respect to previous deep near-infrared surveys, the surface density of faint galaxies has been established with unprecedented accuracy by virtue of the unique combination of depth and area of this survey. We derived galaxy number counts over eight magnitudes in flux up to J = 25.25, H = 25.0, K(s) = 25.25 (in the AB system). Very similar faint-end logarithmic slopes between 0.24 and 0.27 mag(-1) were measured in the three bands. We found no evidence for a significant change in the slope of the logarithmic galaxy number counts at the faint end
Scottish Rite Cathedral, Milwaukee, Wis.
No full textExterior view of the Scottish Rite Cathedral. Divided back.Color lithograph;ColorLandscape
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
From The Firebird to The Rite of Spring: Meter and Alignment in Stravinsky’s Russian-Period Works
No full textAddressed here is the psychological complexity of meter, notated and heard, in The Firebird and Part II of The Rite of Spring. Of concern from the standpoint of the listener are the competing forces of meter, displacement, and parallelism; how these forces take precedence, with melody and harmony falling into place accordingly. Duly supplanted is the motivicism of the Classical style (developing variation), as Theodor Adorno observed some time ago. Also of consequence here are octatonic harmony and the strict performance style favored by the composer on a life-time basis
Old hagiopolite footwashing rite in tropologion SIN. GR. ΜΓ/ΝΕ 56+5
No full textIn this article, the author presents the fi rst publication and study of an ancient Hagiopolite rite of footwashing from a 9th century Greek Tropologion from Egypt, Sin. gr. ΝΕ / ΜΓ 56+5. The rite is typologically close to the rites in the Ancient Iadgari and the Georgian Lectionary, and can be dated to a time before the 7th–8th c. The ceremony was performed on Great Thursday after the Eucharistic synaxis, in the same way in the towns as in monasteries. The kernel of the rite consists of a prokeimenon, Gospel reading from Jn 13, synapte, prayer, and washing of the feet. The rite in this Tropologion diff ered from that in the Georgian witnesses by including the reading of the Gospel (Jn 13: 3–17) after the washing of the feet, rather than before it, as well as by a different hymnographical formulary, performed in a diff erent way, with refrains from psalms 118 and 50. The archaic troparia refl ected the early patristic interpretations of the washing of the feet as purifi cation from sin, receipt of the portion of Christ, and an example of humility. These texts were maintained in the liturgy for only a brief period (in Sin. gr. 734–735, 10thc.; EBE 788, 12th c.; Stavrou 43, A.D. 1122; Vatop. gr. 1488, 13th c.), but the structure of the rite itself (Gospel – synapte – prayer – footwashing), its position after the Eucharistic liturgy, and the infl uence of the ideas of the early Church Fathers has remained until today. The ancient rite was still in use in the 10th c., when new, more complicated rites appeared, with more complicated and refi ned hymnography, composed in the 7th–8th c., and a more strongly pronounced dramatic element, in which not only the footwashing itself was signifi cant, but also the commemoration of the historical event, where each participant played a specifi c role, either of Christ or of one of Apostles
Mitomycin C in highly myopic eyes - Author reply
No full textOphthalmology. 2005 Feb;112(2):208-18; discussion 219.
Mitomycin C modulation of corneal wound healing after photorefractive keratectomy in highly myopic eyes.
Gambato C, Ghirlando A, Moretto E, Busato F, Midena E.
SourceRefractive Surgery Service and Antimetabolite Therapy Research Unit, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To evaluate the role of topical mitomycin C in corneal wound healing (CWH) after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) in highly myopic eyes.
DESIGN: Prospective, double-masked, randomized clinical trial.
PARTICIPANTS: Seventy-two eyes of 36 patients affected by high (>7 diopters) myopia.
METHODS: In each patient, one eye was randomly assigned to PRK with intraoperative topical 0.02% mitomycin C application, and the fellow eye was treated with a placebo. Postoperatively, mitomycin C-treated eyes received artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months), whereas the fellow eye was treated with fluorometholone sodium 2% and artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months).
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), contrast sensitivity, manifest refraction, and biomicroscopy. Contrast sensitivity was determined using the Pelli-Robson chart. Corneal confocal microscopy documented CWH.
RESULTS: Mean follow-up was 18 months (range, 12-36). No side effects or toxic effects were documented. At 12-month follow-up examination, UCVAs (logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution) were 0.4+/-0.48 and 0.5+/-0.53 (P = .03) in mitomycin C-treated eyes and corticosteroid-treated eyes, respectively. At 1 year, corneal haze developed in 20% of corticosteroid-treated eyes, versus 0% of mitomycin C-treated eyes. At 12, 24, and 36 months, corneal confocal microscopy showed activated keratocytes and extracellular matrix significantly more evident in untreated eyes (Ps = 0.004, 0.024, and 0.046, respectively).
CONCLUSION: Topical intraoperative application of 0.02% mitomycin C can reduce haze formation in highly myopic eyes undergoing PRK.
Comment in
Ophthalmology. 2006 Feb;113(2):357; author reply 357-8
C. Charon : Le rite byzantin dans les patriarcats melkites, Alexandrie - Antioche - Jérusalem. Extraits des Χρυσοστομικά
No full textXanthopoulos Th. C. Charon : Le rite byzantin dans les patriarcats melkites, Alexandrie - Antioche - Jérusalem. Extraits des Χρυσοστομικά. In: Échos d'Orient, tome 12, n°76, 1909. pp. 184-185
Panjikaran (Joseph C.), The St Thomas Christians of the syro-malabar rite.
No full textJanin Raymond. Panjikaran (Joseph C.), The St Thomas Christians of the syro-malabar rite.. In: Échos d'Orient, tome 25, n°144, 1926. pp. 499-500
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