scholarly journals Was Guðmundr á Glasisvǫllum Irish?

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-95
Author(s):  
Felix Lummer
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Old Norse ◽  
Folk Tales ◽  
Literary Figure ◽  
Local Background

This article tackles the question of a possible Irish origin for the Old Norse literary figure Guðmundr á Glasisvǫllum. The images of Guðmundr, his realm Glasisvellir, and the sometimes associated territory of Ódáinsakr fluctuate in various ways in the different saga narratives in which they occur. The variability of the Guðmundr á Glasisvǫllum narrative has caused scholars to debate its possible origin for over a century. The more widely supported notion is that a mythological compound around Guðmundr must have originated in Irish mythology and folklore rather than being an indigenous, Nordic construct. The present article aims to follow up on this discussion, comparing the original Old Norse source material and that found in Gesta Danorum to Irish accounts that might have influenced them. By highlighting the differences between the Guðmundr á Glasisvǫllum complex and the suggested Irish sources, the degree to which it seems likely the motif could actually have originated in Irish thought will be assessed. Norwegian folk tales about the magical island Utrøst will then be considered to highlight the possibility of a more local background for Guðmundr and his realm.

scholarly journals Ependymoma with Intraorbital Extracerebral Recurrence: Case Report

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (04) ◽  
pp. 342-347
Author(s):  
Lívio Pereira de Macêdo ◽  
Benjamim Pessoa Vale ◽  
Marx Lima de Barros Araújo ◽  
João Cícero Lima Vale ◽  
Yally Dayanne Oliveira Ferreira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Brain Tumors ◽  
Glial Cell ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Ependymal Cell ◽  
Intracranial Neoplasms ◽  
Cerebral Neoplasm ◽  
Neuroepithelial Tumors ◽  
Adults And Children

AbstractEpendymomas are rare neuroepithelial tumors that originate from a type of glial cell called ependymal cell. In general, they correspond to ∼ 1.2 to 7.8% of all intracranial neoplasms, and to ∼ 2 to 6% of all gliomas. Although it corresponds only to ∼2 to 3% of all primary brain tumors, ependymoma is the fourth most common cerebral neoplasm in children, especially in children younger than 3 years of age.1 2 In patients younger than 20 years of age, the majority (90%) of ependymomas are infratentorial, more precisely from the IV ventricle. In spite of this, in adults, medullary ependymomas are more frequent (60%). In this context, supratentorial and extraventricular ependymomas, as in the case reported in the present article, are infrequent in both adults and children.1 2 Both sexes are equally affected.3 Recurrence of intracranial ependymomas occurs in almost 50% of the cases, and the follow-up outcome is not favorable.4 In another perspective, the recurrence of extracerebral ependymomas is extremely rare, and even more unusual in the intraorbital site, as it occurred in the case in question.

Late Placement of the Finite Verb in Old Norse Fornyrðislag Meter

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haukur Þorgeirsson
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Word Order ◽  
Old Norse ◽  
West Germanic ◽  
Subordinate Clauses ◽  
Syntactic Difference ◽  
Finite Verb

In Old Norse poetry, there is a syntactic difference between bound clauses (subordinate clauses and main clauses introduced by a con-junction) and unbound clauses (main clauses not introduced by a conjunction). In bound clauses, the finite verb is often placed late in the sentence, violating the V2 requirement upheld in prose. In unbound clauses, the V2 requirement is normally adhered to, but in fornyrðislag poetry, late placement of the finite verb is occasionally found. Hans Kuhn explained these instances as a result of influence from West Germanic poetry. The present article argues that these instances can be explained as a remnant of the Proto-Norse word order, and that this explanation is better supported by the data.*

scholarly journals Functional Abdominal Pain in Childhood: Background Studies and Recent Research Trends

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 413-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rona L Levy ◽  
Miranda AL van Tilburg
Keyword(s):  
Abdominal Pain ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Physical State ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Functional Abdominal Pain ◽  
The Past

The present review summarizes many of the major research trends investigated in the past five years regarding pediatric functional abdominal pain, and also summarizes the primary related findings from the authors’ research program. Specific areas discussed based on work within the authors’ group include familial illness patterns, genetics, traits, and mechanisms or processes related to abdominal pain. Topics covered from research published in the past five years include prevalence and cost, longitudinal follow-up, overlap with other disorders, etiology and mechanisms behind functional abdominal pain and treatment studies. It is hoped that findings from this work in abdominal pain will be interpreted as a framework for understanding the processes by which other pain phenomena and, more broadly, reactions to any physical state, can be developed and maintained in children. The present article concludes with recommendations for clinical practice and research.

scholarly journals Sistema de rehabilitación física con 2 CH, basado en electroterapia con software de seguimiento y control de paciente

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
Arnulfo Cruz-Garrido ◽  
Gregorio Castillo-Quiroz ◽  
Elisa Gonzaga-Licona ◽  
Juan Alfonso Perez-Luna
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Specific Treatment ◽  
Clinical History ◽  
Physical Rehabilitation ◽  
Human Organism ◽  
Electromagnetic Spectrum ◽  
Special Equipment ◽  
Biological Responses

The Physiotherapist uses special equipment for electrotherapy, based on the generation and management of interferential currents, voltage and frequencies (sine waves, sawtooth and square), applying energy from the electromagnetic spectrum to the human organism, generating on the tissues, desired biological responses and therapeutic. In the present article, a viable reengineering proposal was developed for teams dedicated to the application of electrotherapy as a means of physical rehabilitation, based on the analysis, emphasizing the improvements to be implemented, to give timely follow-up to the patient and fundamental support to the physiotherapist. The design was contemplated and integrated a system for physical rehabilitation (2 CH), based on electrotherapy and thermotherapy, with software for control and punctual patient follow-up, creating a folder of clinical history since the patient arrives, plotting the progress or setbacks for the generation of reports, allowing the software to suggest changes or continuation with the treatments always with the corresponding medical authorization. The existing professional teams for this area are very expensive, the most complete incorporate an interface in the instrument, but there is no software that relates the patient to the medical part, they do not provide patient follow-up, much less suggest a specific treatment based on the history.

Drowning in data? - publication and rescue archaeology in the 1990s

Antiquity ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 65 (249) ◽  
pp. 822-828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Data Publication ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject

In a characteristically stimulating recent article in ANTIQUITY, Barry Cunliffe has touched on many of the most important issues concerning the publication of ‘rescue’ excavations in Britain in the 1990s (Cunliffe 1990). The purpose of the present article is to follow up some the points which Cunliffe has raised.Publication, and the dissemination of information, is the lifeblood of any academic discipline, and questions of what is published (and of what is read!), where, how and by whom are of central importance for archaeology. Over the past two decades in Britain, and particularly in England where the volume of work has been greatest, there has been a recurrent concern with the problem of how to publish the results of ‘rescue’ archaeology. Rescue excavations can generate very large quantities of data, collected for reasons which are often largely beyond archaeological control, and the problems (both intellectual and practical) of publishing this material are considerable. In Britain the issues have been the subject of expert examination on two occasions since 1970 -the Frere (1975) and Cunliffe (1983) reports - and now in the 1990s the topic is firmly on the archaeological agenda again. This paper is intended as a contribution to the continuing debate.

scholarly journals Semantic and (morpho)syntactic constraints on anticausativization: Evidence from Latin and Old Norse-Icelandic

Linguistics ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michela Cennamo ◽  
Thórhallur Eythórsson ◽  
Jóhanna Barðdal
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Old Norse ◽  
Grammatical Relations ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Case System ◽  
Syntactic Constraints ◽  
Diachronic Development ◽  
Verbal Arguments

AbstractThe diachrony of valency patterns is generally an understudied phenomenon. The present article investigates anticausativization from a diachronic perspective, highlighting the parameters determining the morphosyntactic encoding of this type of intransitivization in two early Western Indo-European languages, Latin and Old Norse-Icelandic. It is shown that the structural and lexical aspects of a verb’s meaning and their interplay with the inherent and relational characteristics of verbal arguments affect the synchronic distribution and the diachronic development of the anticausativation strategies in the languages investigated. These features interact, in the course of time, with changes in the encoding of voice and grammatical relations, such as the demise of the synthetic mediopassive and the recasting of the case system.

scholarly journals The XXL Survey

2018 ◽  
Vol 620 ◽  
pp. A5 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Adami ◽  
P. Giles ◽  
E. Koulouridis ◽  
F. Pacaud ◽  
C. A. Caretta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Present State ◽  
Luminosity Function ◽  
Selection Function ◽  
Clusters Of Galaxies ◽  
Temperature Relation ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Cluster Sample ◽  
Medium Mass

Context. In the currently debated context of using clusters of galaxies as cosmological probes, the need for well-defined cluster samples is critical. Aims. The XXL Survey has been specifically designed to provide a well characterised sample of some 500 X-ray detected clusters suitable for cosmological studies. The main goal of present article is to make public and describe the properties of the cluster catalogue in its present state, as well as of associated catalogues of more specific objects such as super-clusters and fossil groups. Methods. Following from the publication of the hundred brightest XXL clusters, we now release a sample containing 365 clusters in total, down to a flux of a few 10−15 erg s−1 cm−2 in the [0.5–2] keV band and in a 1′ aperture. This release contains the complete subset of clusters for which the selection function is well determined plus all X-ray clusters which are, to date, spectroscopically confirmed. In this paper, we give the details of the follow-up observations and explain the procedure adopted to validate the cluster spectroscopic redshifts. Considering the whole XXL cluster sample, we have provided two types of selection, both complete in a particular sense: one based on flux-morphology criteria, and an alternative based on the [0.5–2] keV flux within 1 arcmin of the cluster centre. We have also provided X-ray temperature measurements for 80% of the clusters having a flux larger than 9 × 10−15 erg s−1 cm−2. Results. Our cluster sample extends from z ~ 0 to z ~ 1.2, with one cluster at z ~ 2. Clusters were identified through a mean number of six spectroscopically confirmed cluster members. The largest number of confirmed spectroscopic members in a cluster is 41. Our updated luminosity function and luminosity–temperature relation are compatible with our previous determinations based on the 100 brightest clusters, but show smaller uncertainties. We also present an enlarged list of super-clusters and a sample of 18 possible fossil groups. Conclusions. This intermediate publication is the last before the final release of the complete XXL cluster catalogue when the ongoing C2 cluster spectroscopic follow-up is complete. It provides a unique inventory of medium-mass clusters over a 50 deg2 area out to z ~ 1.

Internet Alternatives to Traditional Proctored Testing: Where Are We Now?

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy T. Tippins
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Context Effects ◽  
Response Patterns ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Test Security ◽  
Video Cameras ◽  
The Future ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Unproctored Internet Testing

Early in 2006, my colleagues and I published an article on unproctored Internet testing (UIT) in employment settings (Tippins et al., 2006). The purpose of that article was to identify the issues surrounding UIT and the ways in which those issues might be resolved. The panel of experts addressed a number of important questions about (a) the uses and applications of UIT and (b) the major issues and known problems associated with UIT, including test security, examinee identification, cheating, ethical use of tests, subgroup and cultural issues, standardization, and context effects. In addition, the panelists attempted to predict the future of UIT, highlight the research needed to facilitate UIT and provide advice to practitioners contemplating UIT. In the present article, “UIT” is used to refer to Internet-based testing completed by a candidate without a traditional human proctor. Thus, nontraditional forms of or alternatives to proctoring may be in place, such as quantitative analyses of response patterns, the use of video cameras, or follow-up testing with traditional proctoring.

scholarly journals Isolated Splenic Vein Thrombosis: An Unusual Cause and Review of the Literature

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyfettin Köklü ◽  
Aydın Köksal ◽  
Ömer Yolcu ◽  
Gürsel Bayram ◽  
Zişan Sakaoğulları ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Portal Hypertension ◽  
Gastrointestinal Bleeding ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Splenic Vein ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Splenic Vein Thrombosis ◽  
Pancreatic Diseases ◽  
Vein Thrombosis ◽  
One Year

Isolated obstruction (mainly due to thrombosis) of the splenic vein usually results in left-sided portal hypertension and isolated fundal varice formation. This syndrome is a rare cause of gastrointestinal bleeding. Pancreatic diseases are among the most common etiologies of splenic vein obstruction. Renal disorders are rarely reported as a cause of splenic vein thrombosis. In the present article, a case of a 26-year-old woman with a perirenal abscess presenting with gastrointestinal bleeding as a complication of an isolated splenic vein thrombosis is described. The thrombosis could not be visualized with ultrasonography and angiography because of its extremely proximal localization. Fundal varices disappeared following splenectomy and nephrectomy. Follow-up at one year revealed the patient to be well both clinically and endoscopically.

scholarly journals De George Sand à Henry Murger : note sur les débuts du bohémianisme (1835-1845)

1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Françoise Genevray
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Initial Phase ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
George Sand ◽  
Literary Figure ◽  
History Of ◽  
La Boheme ◽  
Xixe Siecle

L'étude de la bohème est une page importante dans l'histoire des représentations de l'artiste au XIXe siècle. La décennie considérée dans cet article correspond à l'intervalle séparant l'émergence de la bohème comme motif littéraire et sa consécration définitive par les feuilletons de Henry Murger (1845-1849). La double appellation bohème / bohémien pèse encore fortement à ce stade sur la figure journalistique et littéraire de l'artiste pauvre ou de l'intellectuel démuni que l'on rencontre chez Balzac (Illusions perdues) et Champfleury (Chien-Caillou). Cependant, les travaux sur la bohème (J. Seigel, N. Heinich, A. Glinoer) s'attachent peu aux multiples textes de Sand, qui, des Lettres d'un voyageur (1834-1836) à Teverino (1845) en passant par Consuelo et La dernière Aldini, intéressent cette phase initiale du bohémianisme. La fin de l'article met l'accent sur Horace (1842), roman où la figure mythique, presque intemporelle, du bohémien, artiste indépendant et vagabond, fait place à l'analyse d'une situation historique et d'un état social contraignants, qui n'offrent guère d'avenir aux talents créateurs d'origine populaire.AbstractThe study of bohème is an important chapter in the history of nineteenth-century representations of the artist. The decade under scrutiny in the present article corresponds to the interval between the emergence of bohème as a literary motif and its definitive consecration through Henry Murger's feuilletons (1845-1849). The dual designation as bohème/bohemién still bears heavily, at this point, on the journalistic and literary figure of the penniless artist or the destitute intellectual as portrayed by Balzac (Illusions perdues) and Champfleury (Chien-Caillou). Research work on bohème (J. Seigel, N. Heinich, A. Glinoer), however, takes little account of Sand's numerous texts which, from Lettres d'un voyageur (1834-1836) to Teverino (1845) including Consuelo and La dernière Aldini, belong to this initial phase of bohemianism. The end of the article focuses on Horace (1842), a novel where the mythical, almost timeless figure of the bohemian as an independent, wandering artist gives way to an analysis of the constraints imposed by a historical situation and social conditions that offer very little scope for a promising future to creative talents of humble birth.

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