399 research outputs found
Is right coronary artery hypoplasia and sudden death an underdiagnosed association?
No full textCopyright © 2007 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.Determining whether hypoplasia of a coronary artery has caused or contributed to death is often complicated by an absence of histologic evidence of myocardial ischemia in the area of the heart supplied by the affected artery and also by the lack of data for assessing coronary artery size at autopsy. A 45-year-old woman is reported who collapsed and died and who was found at autopsy to have a dominant, small-caliber, right coronary artery, with acute and chronic ischemic changes in the posterior interventricular septum supplied by the diminutive vessel. This case provides evidence that small-caliber coronary arteries may be associated with a lethal outcome. Given the difficulties that may occur in determining whether there is a causal link between small coronary artery caliber and death, it is possible that this may be an underdiagnosed cause of sudden cardiac death, rather than a coincidental finding of minimal significance.Wick, Regula; Otto, Sophie; Byard, Roger W
Mechanisms of unexpected death and autopsy findings in Leigh syndrome (subacute necrotising encephalomyelopathy)
No full textA 21-year-old previously-well woman who was undergoing medical investigations for problems with balance and suspected multiple sclerosis, developed a headache and breathing difficulties, and died suddenly and unexpected at home. The autopsy was unremarkable except for pulmonary and cerebral oedema. However, subsequent microscopy of the brain revealed characteristic features of Leigh syndrome with multifocal areas of astrogliosis, capillary proliferation, and parenchymal vacuolation. While Leigh syndrome is more commonly diagnosed in infancy, manifestations may occur throughout early life into adulthood. Sudden and unexpected death is a rare presentation that may be associated with cerebral necrosis and oedema. An awareness of the variable manifestations of Leigh syndrome is necessary in forensic practice as not all cases will present in a typical manner and sudden death may occur before a diagnosis has been established. The heritable nature of this condition makes accuracy of diagnosis essential
Inhalant deaths in south Australia - A 20-year retrospective autopsy study
No full textA 20-year retrospective study of inhalant deaths in South Australia, autopsied at Forensic Science SA, was undertaken from January 1983 to December 2002. Thirty-nine cases were identified from an autopsy pool of 18,880 cases, with a male to female ratio of 12:1. Sixty-four percent of the victims (N = 25) died during voluntary inhalation of volatile substances and 28% (N = 11) committed suicide utilizing a volatile substance or gas. The remaining 3 cases involved a workplace accident (N = 1) and 2 cases of autoerotic death where inhalants were being used to augment solitary sexual activity. The mean age of the 28 victims of accidental inhalant death of 21 years (range, 13-45 years) was considerably less than that of the 11 suicide victims of 31.5 years (range, 17-48 years). No homicides were found. Approximately one quarter of the victims were Aboriginal (N = 11), 10 of whom had died as a result of gasoline inhalation ("petrol sniffing"). Other common substances of abuse were aliphatic hydrocarbons such as butane. The study has shown that those most at risk for accidental or suicidal inhalant deaths were young males, with 92% of victims overall being male, and with 77% of victims being under 31 years of age. Gasoline inhalation remains a significant problem in Aboriginal communities in South Australia.Regula Wick, John D. Gilbert, Peter Felgate, and Roger W. Byar
A commented song of Veit Weber about the Battle of Grandson (1476)
No full textRegula Schmid published a commentary of the song by Veit Weber about the Battle of Grandson on the blog Translocations. Anthologie (A research blog that examines and comments on source texts since antiquity about looted art, art as war booty and the translocation of cultural assets). https://translanth.hypotheses.org/ueber/burgunderbeute Learn more about the author and its connection to the famous Bernese illustrated chronicles of Diebold Schilling (3 volumes with more than 600 illustra..
Die OECD und die Bildungsplanung der freien Welt
No full textDurch Instrumente wie PISA erlangte und erhielt die OECD die Autorität, über Erfolg und Scheitern nationalstaatlicher Bildungspolitiken zu urteilen. Regula Bürgi beleuchtet aus historischer Perspektive die Denkstile und Netzwerke, mittels derer diese internationale – vornehmlich wirtschaftspolitische – Organisation zu einer Bildungsexpertin avancieren konnte. Basierend auf vielfältigem Quellenmaterial dringt die Autorin in das Räderwerk der Organisation vor und identifiziert Schlüsseleigenschaften des OECD-Erfolgs.; Instruments such as PISA have given OECD the authority to judge relative successes and failures of national education policies. Regula Bürgi examines from an historical perspective the thinking styles and networks by means of which this international - primarily economic-political - organization could advance to become an expert in the field of education. Based on diverse source materials, the author penetrates the architecture of the organization and identifies key characteristics of OECD's success
Die OECD und die Bildungsplanung der freien Welt
No full textDurch Instrumente wie PISA erlangte und erhielt die OECD die Autorität, über Erfolg und Scheitern nationalstaatlicher Bildungspolitiken zu urteilen. Regula Bürgi beleuchtet aus historischer Perspektive die Denkstile und Netzwerke, mittels derer diese internationale – vornehmlich wirtschaftspolitische – Organisation zu einer Bildungsexpertin avancieren konnte. Basierend auf vielfältigem Quellenmaterial dringt die Autorin in das Räderwerk der Organisation vor und identifiziert Schlüsseleigenschaften des OECD-Erfolgs.; Instruments such as PISA have given OECD the authority to judge relative successes and failures of national education policies. Regula Bürgi examines from an historical perspective the thinking styles and networks by means of which this international - primarily economic-political - organization could advance to become an expert in the field of education. Based on diverse source materials, the author penetrates the architecture of the organization and identifies key characteristics of OECD's success
Dalla prassi alla regula: la storia della perpetuatio obligationis
No full textReview article of Gregor Albers, Perpetuatio obligationis. Leistungspflicht trotz Unmöglichkeit im klassischen Recht, «Forschungen zum Römischen Recht, 61» (Köln, Böhlau Verlag, 2019), p. xvi, 419. — The book under review is about the formation of the regula of perpetuatio obligationis. The author studies the cases dealt with by the Roman jurisprudence and reconstructs the development of the institution by placing the opinions of the jurists – from the veteres up to the Severian regula - in a historical perspective
Die "Regula pastoralis" Papst Gregors des Großen: Eine pastoraltheologische Relecture
No full textBald nach seinem Amtsantritt veröffentlicht Papst Gregor der Große (590–604) die Regula pastoralis, in der er über das Ideal eines Hirten und dessen Verkündigungsauftrag schreibt. Der folgende Beitrag geht auf den Entstehungskontext und den Inhalt der Regula ein, weist auf patristische Traditionslinien hin, in denen der Verfasser steht, und fragt wirkungsgeschichtlich nach der pastoraltheologischen Relevanz dieses hochbedeutsamen Textes der Pastoralgeschichte bis in die Gegenwart hinein.
Soon after his inauguration, Pope Gregory the Great (590–604) published the Regula pastoralis, in which he writes about the ideal of a pastor and the pastor’s mission to preach. This article deals with the context of the origin and content of the Regula, pointing out the patristic lines of the tradition of the author and discussing the pastoral-theological relevance of this highly significant text of pastoral history up to the present
HyperHamlet – intricacies of data selection
No full textHyperHamlet is a database of allusions to and quotations from Shakespeare's Hamlet, which is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation as a joint venture between the Departments of English and German Philology, and the Image & Media Lab at the University of Basel. The compilation of a corpus, whose aim is to document the "Shakespeare phenomenon", is intricate on more than one level: the desired transdisciplinary approach between linguistics, literary and cultural studies entails data selection from a vast variety of sources; the pragmatic nature of intertextual traces, i.e. their dependence on and subordination to new contexts, further adds to formal heterogeneity. This is not only a challenge for annotation, but also for data selection. As the recognition of intertextual traces is more often than not based on intuition, this paper analyses the criteria which underlie intuition so that it can be operationalised for scholarly corpus compilation. An analogue to the pragmatic model of ostensive-inferential communication with its three constitutive parts of speaker's meaning, sentence meaning and hearer's meaning has been used for analytical heuristics. Authorial intent - in a concrete as well as in an abstract historical sense - origin and specific encyclopaedic knowledge have been found to be the basic assumptions underlying data selection, while quantitative factors provide supporting evidence
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