Languages of the Iberian Peninsula

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier de Hoz Bravo
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Limited Data ◽  
Detailed Assessment ◽  
Epigraphic Evidence ◽  
First Time

Writing appeared in the Iberian Peninsula no later than the seventh century bce as an adaptation of Phoenician script, from which the Palaeohispanic scripts developed as a series of variants. These variants correspond to the linguistic and social particularities of diverse Palaeohispanic communities, notably the Tartessians, the Iberians, and the Celtiberians. The Roman occupation influenced the development of local inscriptions, some of which appeared for the first time at this moment, and in the case of the Lusitanians were only ever written in the Latin alphabet. Epigraphic evidence provides information about little understood aspects of indigenous literatures and cultures, in particular that of the Turdetanians, who followed on from the Tartessians. Limited data regarding Latin literature produced in Hispania (the Roman designation for the Iberian peninsula) by Hispanic peoples, in contrast to that of Hispanic writers active in Rome, do not allow for detailed assessment of the pre-Roman tradition.

Reading Roman Declamation

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Roman History ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
International Group ◽  
Seneca The Elder ◽  
First Time ◽  
Literary Phenomenon

Situated at the crossroads of rhetoric and fiction, the genre of declamatio offers its practitioners the freedom to experiment with new forms of discourse. This volume places the literariness of Roman declamation into the spotlight by showcasing its theoretical influences, stylistic devices, and generic conventions as related by Seneca the Elder, the author of the Controversiae and Suasoriae, which jointly make up the largest surviving collection of declamatory speeches from antiquity. In so doing, it draws attention to the complexity of these texts, and maps out, for the first time, the sociocultural context for their composition, delivery, and reception. The volume’s chapters have been authored by an international group of leading scholars in Latin literature and rhetoric, and explore not only the historical roles of individual declaimers but also the physical and linguistic techniques upon which they collectively drew. In addition, the ‘dark side of declamation’ is illuminated by contributions on the competitiveness of the arena and the manipulative potential of declamatory skill. In keeping with the volume’s overall treatment of declamation as a literary phenomenon, a section has also been dedicated to intertextuality. This comprehensive, innovative, and up-to-date treatment provides thought-provoking analyses of Roman declamation, and therefore constitutes an essential volume for both students and scholars in the fields of Latin literature, Republican Roman history, and rhetoric.

Abstract 13597: Association Between Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy Prescription in the Blanking Period and Recurrent Atrial Arrhythmias After First-time Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation

Circulation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (Suppl_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaitanya L Malladi ◽  
Michael Eskander ◽  
Florentino Lupercio ◽  
Frederick Han ◽  
Kurt S Hoffmayer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Atrial Fibrillation ◽  
Catheter Ablation ◽  
Late Recurrence ◽  
Early Recurrence ◽  
Limited Data ◽  
Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy ◽  
Reduce Risk ◽  
Artery Disease ◽  
First Time ◽  
Multivariable Adjustment

Introduction: Antiarrhythmic drugs (AAD) are often prescribed in the blanking period (BP) after catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) to reduce risk of early recurrence (ER) and late recurrence (LR). There are limited data on which AAD to use during the BP. Hypothesis: We hypothesize that specific AADs may be associated with reduced risk of ER and/or LR after ablation. Methods: A total of 478 consecutive patients (mean age 64.2 years, 67.2% male) undergoing first-time pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) ablation at a single institution were included. Outcomes of interest were: freedom from ER, freedom from LR, initial discontinuation of AAD less than 90 days after ablation, and freedom from second ablation. ER was defined as AF, atrial flutter (AFL), or atrial tachycardia (AT) > 30 seconds within the BP. LR was defined as AF/AFL/AT > 30 seconds occurring after the BP. Results: Of 478 patients, 14.9% (n = 71) were on no AAD, 26.4% (n = 126) were on propafenone/flecainide, 34.5% (n = 165) were on sotalol/dofetilide, 10.7% (n = 51) were on dronedarone, and 13.6% (n = 65) were on amiodarone. Patients on amiodarone were older, had higher BMI, and were more likely to have persistent AF, hypertension, diabetes, heart failure, and coronary artery disease. In unadjusted analyses, there were no differences between groups with regards to the risk of ER (log rank P = 0.171), discontinuation of AAD before ninety days post-ablation (log rank P = 0.235), or freedom from second ablation (log rank P = 0.147). After multivariable adjustment, patients on amiodarone or dronedarone were more likely to experience LR than those on no AAD [Adjusted Hazard Ratio (AHR) 1.83, 95% CI 1.10-3.04, p=0.02 for amiodarone; AHR 1.79, 95% CI 1.05-3.05, p=0.03 for dronedarone]. Conclusions: Following first-time AF catheter ablation, there were no differences between the presence or absence of AAD and risk of ER, while those prescribed amiodarone or dronedarone in the BP were more likely to experience LR than those on no AAD.

Under the Empire

2021 ◽  
pp. 73-115
Author(s):  
Avraham Faust
Keyword(s):  
Seventh Century ◽  
Place Names ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
Dramatic Decline ◽  
First Time

Chapter 4 (‘Under the Empire: Settlement and Demography in the Southwestern Margins of the Assyrian Empire in the Seventh Century BCE’) describes the settlement and demography in the period of Assyrian control. Comparing the detailed information available from the region with that provided in Chapter 2 allows us to estimate what were the consequences of the imperial takeover. The evidence shows that the provinces in the north were mostly devastated, whereas the client kingdoms prospered and, moreover, for the first time in history the south flourished more than the north. The dramatic decline in the north is also exemplified by the large number of place names that were forgotten following the Assyrian conquests. The chapter ends with an appendix on the demographic significance of deportations.

scholarly journals Origin of Recent Interstellar 60Fe on Earth

2020 ◽  
Vol 232 ◽  
pp. 02001
Author(s):  
Dominik Koll ◽  
Thomas Faestermann ◽  
Gunther Korschinek ◽  
Anton Wallner
Keyword(s):  
Limited Data ◽  
First Time ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
Conclusive Data

Over the last 20 years, evidence for a 2 Myr old supernova 60Fe influx onto Earth was provided by several authors. For the first time, independent investigations of samples from two different geological archives yielded conclusive data for a further, much younger 60Fe influx onto Earth. The origin of this influx is currently unclear because of the limited data available, the lack of consistent astrophysical models and a gap in the data between 50 kyr and 1 Myr. Possible astrophysical scenarios will be discussed with respect to the different influx patterns from different sources and a measurement to close the gap will be proposed.

scholarly journals Notes on the distribution and habitat of Ochthebius lobicollis Rey, 1885, a poorly known north-western Mediterranean coastal species (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-54
Author(s):  
Ignacio Ribera ◽  
Carles Hernando
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase ◽  
New Records ◽  
Genetic Data ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase 1 ◽  
Coastal Species ◽  
Gulf Of Lion ◽  
First Time ◽  
North Western

Ochthebius (Ochthebius) lobiccoastal habitatsollis Rey, 1885 is recorded for the first time from the Iberian Peninsula (Girona) and the island of Corsica; new records are also given for the islands of Menorca and Sardinia. The species is known only from coastal habitats through the Gulf of Lion and the Ligurian and Balearic seas, typically living in rockpools of different salinity or small trickles or freshwater runoffs. Genetic data of the cytochrome oxidase 1 gene from Iberian, Menorcan and Sardinian specimens shows less than 1% divergence, suggesting lack of isolation between populations.

scholarly journals Cirrus clouds properties derived from polarized micro pulse lidar (p-mpl) observations at the atmospheric observatory ‘el arenosillo’ (sw iberian peninsula): a case study for radiative implications

2018 ◽  
Vol 176 ◽  
pp. 05042
Author(s):  
Ana del Águila ◽  
Laura Gómez ◽  
José Manuel Vilaplana ◽  
Mar Sorribas ◽  
Carmen Córdoba-Jabonero
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Surface Radiation ◽  
Radiative Balance ◽  
Macrophysical Properties ◽  
Micro Pulse Lidar ◽  
First Time ◽  
Change Concerns

Cirrus (Ci) clouds are involved in Climate Change concerns since they affect the radiative balance of the atmosphere. Recently, a polarized Micro Pulse Lidar (P-MPL), standard system within NASA/MPLNET has been deployed at the INTA/Atmospheric Observatory ‘El Arenosillo’ (ARN), located in the SW Iberian Peninsula. Hence, the INTA/P-MPL system is used for Ci detection over that station for the first time. Radiative effects of a Ci case observed over ARN are examined, as reference for future long-term Ci observations. Optical and macrophysical properties are retrieved, and used for radiative transfer simulations. Data are compared to the measured surface radiation levels and all-sky images simultaneously performed at the ARN station.

scholarly journals Els macroforaminífers i la fauna associada del Maastrichtià del sector Prebètic valencià sud (Est de la Península Ibèrica)

2019 ◽  
pp. 55-76
Author(s):  
P. Granero ◽  
R. Robles-Salcedo ◽  
G. Lucena ◽  
L. Troya ◽  
V. Vicedo
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
Larger Foraminifera ◽  
Associated Fauna ◽  
Foraminiferal Assemblage ◽  
Foraminiferal Species ◽  
Benthic Foraminiferal Assemblage ◽  
First Time ◽  
Península Ibérica ◽  
Cretaceous Deposits

Larger foraminifera and associated fauna from the Maastrichtian of the southern valencian Prebaetic sector (E Iberian Peninsula) The benthic foraminiferal assemblage and the associated fauna found in the Upper Cretaceous deposits of the Serra de la Solana, Valencia (Spain) have been revised. The study has allowed us to confirm the presence of the foraminiferal species Hellenocyclina beotica Reichel, Siderolites aff. calcitrapoides Lamarck, Orbitoides apiculata Schlumberger, Orbitoides gensacicus (Leymerie) and Omphalocyclus macroporus (Lamarck), as stated by previous authors. In addition, the revision has permitted to identify some other species, never cited before in Serra de la Solana and neighbour regions in Iberian Peninsula, such as Fissoelphidium operculiferum Smout and Selimina cf. spinalis Inan and two different morphotypes of rotaliids that we have left in open nomenclature, namely, Rotaliidae indet. sp. 1 and Rotaliidae indet. sp. 2. The rudists and echinoid found associated to these benthic foraminifera have been also revised. The rudist species found are Hippurites radiosus Des Moulins, Hippurites cornucopiae Defrance, Hippurites cf. lamarcki Douvillé, and Apricardia sp., the two latter cited in Serra de la Solana for the first time. The echinoid assemblage is composed of the species Pygopyrina darderi (Lambert), Linthia payeni (Coquand) and Hemipneustes striatoradiatus (Leske). The whole assemblage, typical of shallow-water platform environments, is Upper Maastrichtian in age and shows some differences in respect other contemporaneous asseblages from other paleogeographical areas.

First record of the Granulate Ambrosia Beetle, Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae), in the Iberian Peninsula

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4273 (3) ◽  
pp. 431 ◽  
Author(s):  
DIEGO GALLEGO ◽  
JOSÉ LUIS LENCINA ◽  
HUGO MAS ◽  
JULIA CEVERÓ ◽  
MASSIMO FACCOLI
Keyword(s):  
Alien Species ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
First Record ◽  
Ambrosia Beetle ◽  
Morphological Identification ◽  
Asian Origin ◽  
Mediterranean Regions ◽  
First Time

The Granulate Ambrosia Beetle Xylosandrus crassiusculus, an alien species of Asian origin, was recorded for first time in the Iberian Peninsula. Many specimens were collected in October 2016 in the Valencia region (Spain) from infested carob trees. The species is included in the EPPO Alert List as causing serious damage in many Mediterranean regions. A key for the morphological identification of the Xylosandrus species occurring in Europe is also reported. 

Tardigrades from Portugal: four new records and description of two new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2030 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAULO FONTOURA ◽  
GIOVANNI PILATO ◽  
OSCAR LISI ◽  
PAULO MORAIS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
New Records ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Name ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
First Time

Six species of Eutardigrada are recorded from Portugal; four of them, Macrobiotus crenulatus Richters, 1904, Hypsibius seychellensis Pilato, Binda & Lisi, 2006, Diphascon (Diphascon) pingue (Marcus, 1936) and D. (Diphascon) patanei Binda & Pilato, 1971 are recorded for the first time in Portugal. Two species, Minibiotus orthofasciatus sp. nov. and Bertolanius (new name of Amphibolus) portucalensis sp. nov. are new to science. Minibiotus orthofasciatus sp. nov. is one of the species of the genus with three macroplacoids, microplacoid and cuticular pores forming transverse bands. The new species differs from all existing species by one or more of the following characters: distribution of the pores, shape of the pores, absence of dots on the legs, level of insertion of the stylet supports on the buccal tube. To the new species is attributed an unembryonated egg similar to those of Minibiotus intermedius (Plate, 1888), M. poricinctus Claxton, 1998, M. floriparus Claxton, 1998, and M. weglarskae Michalczyk, Kaczmarek & Claxton, 2005 but different from them in some details. Bertolanius portucalensis sp. nov. is very similar to the other species of the genus, but it differs from them in having very small cuticular tubercles. From some of them it differs by characters of the buccopharyngeal apparatus and/or of the eggs. This is the first record of the genus and of the Eohypsibiidae family in the Iberian Peninsula.

Sclerophora peronella new to the Iberian Peninsula

2004 ◽  
Vol 36 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 265-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Amo ◽  
Ana Rosa Burgaz
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Fagus Sylvatica ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Central Spain ◽  
Beech Forests ◽  
The Third ◽  
Natural Reserve ◽  
First Time

An interesting calicioid lichen has been collected as a consequence of the study that our research group is developing in the Iberian meridional beech forests. One of these is the forest Natural Reserve “Chaparral de Montejo” (Madrid Province), which represents one of the southern biogeographic limits of Fagus sylvatica in the Iberian Peninsula. The geological substratum is Silurian clayey slate. It is located in the Supramediterranean belt of central Spain. Sclerophora peronella has been found for the first time in the Iberian Peninsula and for the third time in southern Europe. The previous records in S Europe are from Calabria (Italy) by Puntillo (1992) and from Corse (France) by Vězda (Lich. Sel. Exs. 828).

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