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SOREN D, DELANEY F, MONTAGNETTI R, PICKEL D, WILSON J (2024). Di cosa avevano paura? Il cimitero degli infanti di Poggio Gramignano in Umbria. Dubuque, IO, USA:Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, ISBN: 9798385138913
No full textDi cosa avevano paura: La storia del cimitero infantile tardo romano di Poggio Gramignano - Lugnano in Teverina di David Soren, Delaney Fisher, Roberto Montagnetti e Jordan Wilson racconta dell'epidemia che si ritiene fosse malaria da Plasmodium falciparum, diffusasi probabilmente lungo il fiume Tevere intorno al 450 d.C., penetrata in quest’area a causa del commercio con il Nord Africa di beni come il vino trasportato attraverso grandi anfore. L'epidemia causò aborti spontanei, neonati nati morti e decessi di bambini, per un totale di circa 62 individui. Essa generò anche un'immensa paura tra la popolazione di questa comunità. Gli infanti furono trovati con pietre conficcate nelle cavità orali e grandi pietre e altri materiali da costruzione posizionate su mani e piedi per impedire ai morti di risorgere e diventare revenant. Cuccioli di cane di circa 5-6 mesi furono anch'essi sacrificati, con uno addirittura tagliato in due, e associati alle sepolture dei bambini insieme ad altri reperti come: grandi calderoni di bronzo, una bambola d'osso senza braccia e gambe, resti di caprifoglio bruciato, un artiglio di corvo, parte di un portalucerne e altri oggetti. Gli scavi, eseguiti essenzialmente sotto la direzione dei principali autori, iniziati nel 1987 con il Dr. Soren e tuttora in corso, hanno portato alla luce la più grande villa romana finora scoperta in Umbria, a nord di Roma e a sud di Siena. Sebbene la società tardo romana di quel periodo fosse presumibilmente già convertita al cristianesimo, gli scavi non hanno trovato alcuna testimonianza della professione di tale fede sul sito e si crede che, per far fronte alle misteriose morti che stavano flagellando la comunità, si fece ricorso a pratiche e culti precedenti, soprattutto l’utilizzo di talismani per scongiurare il male
Biographical Notes on Soren "Sirren" Madsen
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Pickel D, Montagnetti R, Soren D (2019). Pietre contro la malaria. ARCHEO, 412, ISSN: 1120-4559
No full textDuring the 2018 field season of the Necropilis of Poggio Gramignano - Lugnano in Teverina (Italy), a remarkable discovery was made. In the early afternoon under the beating July sun, while the cicadas sang out from the old oak tree looming over the villa’s ruins, the archaeologists involved in the project began to reveal the first signs of a new burial. Amphorae sherds capped a tegula (roof tile) leaning up against one of the storage magazine’s walls. But as excavation continued, it became clear to all that this burial was different. Not long after Gabriele and Danny had come across the first signs of this burial, the two had fully uncovered a partial “alla cappuccina” style burial, much larger than those so far discovered at Poggio Gramignano. Alla cappuccina burials are typical of this cemetery and Roman Italy in general, in which tegulae are stacked and pitched against one another to create a make-shift tomb, often for ordinary individuals. This was a partial alla cappuccina burial, constructed by leaning two large roof tiles against an existing wall of the room. Beneath the tegulae was found the remains of a single individual placed resting on the left side and facing the wall of the room. Designated as “Burial 51,” this individual and the burial are remarkable for two reasons. First, this child is much older than those infants and children so far discovered (52 in total). Based on the stage of dental development evident, this young child (whose sex remains undetermined at this moment) was around 10 years old at the time of its death. While the body had been subject to some taphonomic disturbance over time, it was well-protected by the tegulae, evidenced by the skeleton’s completeness and the high degree of articulation. This preservation made the second remarkable fact of this burial all the more apparent. A stone was found within his or her mouth. This stone was revealed to be a small limestone cut in a shape similar to a wall cubilium. A cubilium is a kind of cut stone crafted by the Romans, pointed on end and inserted into stone-faced cement walls. Because of the way the child’s head was positioned, the jaw would not have fallen open as the masseter muscles decomposed, suggesting that the placement of the stone was intentional and did not result from the slow collapse of the surrounding edifice. Moreover, this stone had cement on two sides, in which small tooth-shaped depressions are visible, lending further weight to the interpretation that the stone was purposefully inserted within the child’s mouth
D-2089: 600 East 600 North, Logan, Utah, Soren Sorenson residence. Lot 6 Block 2 Plat E
No full textD-2089: 600 East 600 North, Logan, Utah, Soren Sorenson residence. Lot 6 Block 2 Plat
-Los centenarios D. Antonio Piñana y Carmen Amaya. Conferenciantes: Soren Peñalver y Antonio Parra. Salón de los Espejos, Teatro Romea
No full text-Los centenarios D. Antonio Piñana y Carmen Amaya. Conferenciantes: Soren Peñalver y Antonio Parra. Salón de los Espejos, Teatro Rome
D-0874b: 372 North 500 West, Logan, Utah, Ray Soren and Dona Miller residence. Lot 5 Block 39 Plat A
No full textD-0874b: 372 North 500 West, Logan, Utah, Ray Soren and Dona Miller residence. Lot 5 Block 39 Plat
Genomic and molecular characterization of bovine surfactant protein D (SP-D)
No full textCollectins are a group of C-type lectins involved in the innate host defense against pathogens. They selectively recognize non-self glyco-conjugates on the surface of microorganisms and induce lysis, agglutination, and phagocytosis to eliminate invading microorganisms. With the perspective of being able to identify surfactant protein D (SP-D) polymorphisms associated with immune-compromised phenotypes in cattle, we have characterized the gene encoding bovine SP-D and its proximal promoter. Cloning and sequencing of the bSP-D gene, including the complete 5'-untranslated sequence, reveal that the gene comprises nine exons spanning approximately 10.5 kb with an organization resembling the bovine conglutinin gene. The gene localizes to the same locus as the conglutinin gene on Bos taurus chromosome 28 at position q1.8, which also includes the genes encoding CL-43 and CL-46. Several potential cis-regulatory elements, similar to elements known to regulate the transcription of human SP-D, were identified in the 5'-upstream sequence. RT-PCR analysis revealed that bovine SP-D is heavily expressed in the lung and the trachea, but also in segments of the gastrointestinal tract, the mammary glands and the salivary glands. By genotyping we assigned two potential polymorphisms leading to variations in the amino acid composition of the carbohydrate recognition domain (242 Glu/Val and 268 Ala/Gly).<br/
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
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
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