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List of Manuscripts Cited

Non-invasive ultrasound measurements in male patients with LUTS and benign prostatic obstruction: implication for diagnosis and treatment

To evaluate the role of the ultrasound assessments of the bladder/detrusor wall thickness (BWT/DWT) and the ultrasound estimated bladder weight (UEBW) in lower urinary tract symptoms diagnosis and treatment. A systematic literature search from January 1995 until February 2016 was performed on PubMed using the following terms: "bladder weight", "bladder wall thickness", "detrusor wall thickness", "LUTS", "bladder outlet obstruction" (BOO), "benign prostatic obstruction". Additional references were obtained from the reference list of full-text manuscripts. Abstracts presented at the annual congresses of the European Association of Urology, American Urology Association and the International Continence Society were also included. BWT and DWT are accurate predictors of BOO. Despite several differences in the technique assessment, population characteristics and study design, the BWT/DWT accuracy for BOO was close to 90%. Furthermore, the ultrasound evaluation of bladder/detrusor thickness correlates positively with symptoms score and the main clinical parameters in BPH patients. Lastly, BWT and DWT have proved to be optimal predictor of response to medical/surgical treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms/benign prostatic obstruction (LUTS/BPO). However, the lack of standardization among the available studies marks these methods promising but still experimental and further studies are needed to clarify the standard methodology. The ultrasound evaluation of bladder/detrusor thickness appears to be simple, highly accurate and non-invasive technique to predict BOO and to evaluate the clinical outcomes after medical/surgical treatments for LUTS/BPH. The implementation of these techniques and their standardization will probably better define their role in the diagnostic algorithms of patients with LUTS and possibly reduce the number of unnecessary pressure flow-studies.

Guyda Armstrong, Rhiannon Daniels, and Stephen J. Milner, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio. (Cambridge Companions to Literature.) Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xxxv, 256; 6 black-and-white figures. $84.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-01435-0.Table of contents available online at http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/european-literature/cambridge-companion-boccaccio?format=HB (accessed 20 July 2016)

Guyda Armstrong, Rhiannon Daniels, and Stephen J. Milner, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio. (Cambridge Companions to Literature.) Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xxxv, 256; 6 black-and-white figures. $84.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-01435-0. Table of contents available online at http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects /literature/european-literature/cambridge-companion-boccaccio?format=HB (accessed 31 May 2016); doi:10.1086/687889 T he Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio nicely complements Boccaccio: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works (University of Chicago Press, 2013) as volumes created for the sev- enth centenary of Boccaccio’s birth. In contrast to A Critical Guide’s chapters on each work, the fourteen essays of The Cambridge Companion are organized by topics, divided into four sections: “Locating Boccaccio,” “Literary Forms and Narrative Voices,” “Boccaccio’s Literary Contexts,” and “Transmissions and Adaptations.” As with any system attempting to deal with so rich and complex a subject, such categories are loose, and the essays speak to each other across their boundaries. The four essays in the “Literary Forms” section all bear “Decameron” in their titles, the only essay titles indicating the text they treat; nonetheless, the full range of Boccaccio’s writings comes into discussion throughout the volume, and the index can help readers find where particular works are treated. Also unlike A Critical Guide’s focus on Boccaccio’s reworking of the traditions he had inherited, The Cambridge Companion looks more to Boccaccio’s social contexts, material practices, and reception and influence. The volume opens with select lists of manuscripts, critical editions, and preferred transla- tions (McWilliams is the Decameron translation suggested here, but the later essay on trans- lations compares several), and a chronology of Boccaccio’s life, writings, and contemporary events. The list of manuscripts includes both autographs of Boccaccio’s own works and his copies and glosses of other texts. The select nature of these lists is justified by reference to other catalogs of Boccaccio’s writings and library, especially the Florentine catalog Boccaccio autore e copista (2013). The bibliography at the end of the volume is similarly a selection of further readings—mostly in English but also in Italian—organized by topics. Quotations from Boccaccio’s Italian are given in English without the original. Contributors to the vol- ume are distinguished international scholars in the field, and the level of scholarship is high and up to date, the slightly belated publication of the volume enabling it to cite the outpour- ing of new work in the centenary year 2013. The preface presents Boccaccio “not merely as the author of deservedly renowned liter- ary works, but as the pre-eminent cultural mediator of his age” (xiii). The opening essay, by all three editors, emphasizes Boccaccio’s mobility and connectedness within and across literary, intellectual, cultural, social, and political networks, eschewing the traditional linear biography for a “network analysis.” They point to the combination of cultural contexts in which he operated as reader, writer, lawyer, businessman, civic official, and ecclesiastic. Seek- ing out directions for future research, they suggest, for example, replacing the old pursuit of Boccaccio’s supposed love life with investigations into the real women who were “authors, translators, printers, artists, or scholars” involved in his afterlife. Beatrice Arduini’s “Boc- caccio and his desk” looks at the tools, materials, and techniques of Boccaccio’s writing practice, including his distinct choices of paper or parchment, script, layout, and ornament. Rhiannon Daniels, “Boccaccio’s narrators and audiences,” emphasizes the rhetorical and performative qualities of the texts, often with multiple audiences and varying authorial roles, Speculum 91/4 (October 2016). Copyright 2016 by the Medieval Academy of America. For permission to reuse, please contact journalpermissions@press.uchicago.edu. 160016.proof.indd Achorn International 06/14/2016 05:06PM

The Earls of Derby and the Opposition to their Estate Bills in Parliament, 1660–92: Some New Manuscript Sources

The bills introduced in 1660–2 by Charles Stanley, 8th earl of Derby, to reclaim property legally conveyed during the interregnum are well known to students of the Restoration, as their ultimate defeat is seen as evidence of the government's wish to enforce ‘indemnity and oblivion’ after the civil war. The leading members of the house of lords opposed to the bill of 1661–2 can be gauged by the protest against its passage on 6 February 1662, which has been readily available to students to consult since the 18th‐century publication of the Lords journals. A number of manuscript lists of the protesters against the bill's passage reveal that the opposition to the bill was even more extensive and politically varied than the protest in the journal suggests, which raises questions of why the printed protest is so incomplete. A voting forecast drawn up by William Stanley, 9th earl of Derby, in 1691, further reminds us of the often‐neglected point that the Stanleys continued to submit bills for the resumption of their hereditary lands well after the disappointment of 1662. Derby's manuscript calculations, though ultimately highly inaccurate, reveal much about how this particular peer envisaged the forces ranged for and against the claims of an old civil war royalist family, a good 40 years after the loss of their land.

Basic methods for the assessment of health-related quality of life in uro-oncological patients.

The evaluation of patients' expectations and quality of life in uro-oncology is considered an important outcome of treatment efficacy and satisfaction. Aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the most frequently adopted tools in uro-oncology to assess Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL). A systematic literature search until October 2015 was performed on MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, PubMed combining the following terms: "quality of life," "health-related quality of life," "kidney cancer," "bladder cancer," "prostate cancer." Additional references were obtained from the reference list of full-text manuscripts. Data were synthesized using meta-analytic methods conformed to the PRISMA statement. HRQoL is a fundamental step in evaluating treatment outcome in patients with urological cancers. HRQoL is mostly measured through several questionnaires, which are generally categorized in generic questionnaires, exploring the patient's well-being en bloc; specific questionnaires, assessing each single domain of health status; and uro-oncological specific questionnaires, mainly characterized by a modular approach. Although different questionnaires have been proposed and validated, the standard method to be adopted in urology is far from the solution and further studies should investigate the strength and weakness of the different questionnaires. HRQoL questionnaires should become a standard method to evaluate medical/surgical outcomes in uro-oncology. Their implementation may significantly improve patients' satisfaction and help physicians in the decision-making process and possibly reduce health care costs.

An HIV-positive status and short term perioperative mortality – a systematic review

Background: A contemporary summary describing the impact of an HIV-positive status on short term perioperative mortality is lacking.Objective: To collate and summarise published data related to short term perioperative mortality from studies comparing HIV-positive and HIV-negative patient groups.Method: We conducted a systematic review of the published literature by performing structured searches of two medical literature databases. Pre-defined inclusion/exclusion criteria were used to identify potentially relevant manuscripts. Further screening of the reference lists of eligible manuscripts, as well as a prior systematic review was also performed to identify any additional manuscripts that may have been relevant. Data retrieved from eligible manuscripts included, amongst other variables: study and population descriptions, surgical category (cardiac or noncardiac surgery), as well the incidence of short term perioperative mortality. Crude odds ratios were calculated for each eligible manuscript to describ...

Mordet i Finderup Lade og det tabte Pergamentcodex – eller Jagten på den Forsvundne Skat

Svend Clausen: The Murder in Finderup Barn and the vanished Parchment Codex, or Raiders of the Lost Manuscript
 In 1286 the Danish King Erik Klipping was murdered under mysterious circumstances in a barn in Finderup, Jutland. This murder has become one of the most iconic events in Danish history and its mysteries remain unsolved. The following year some apparent perpetrators were proscribed. Most of these were powerful Danish noblemen and the Royal official Lord High Constable Stig became the most notorious of these. The sentence has been heavily debated.Already during the 1500s and early 1600s these events were described by contemporary Danish historians. Their versions of events have generally not been deemed important as it was believed that they had their knowledge solely from sources still available today.This article, however, shows that historians of this age actually did possess a now lost parchment manuscript that most likely contained the source material from the original trial following the murder. The existence of this so-called Constable Stig-manuscript has been forgotten until now, but its existence can actually be verified with certainty from manuscript lists from this age – most clearly in a manuscript list from 1595. The manuscript is also mentioned in handwritten notes by Anders Sørensen Vedel, one of the renowned historians of that age. In footnotes he made references to this manuscript, because he used its textual contents for his historical works.Apparently the Constable Stig-manuscript is also mentioned in 1608, maybe then for the last time, and at some point after this it was lost and forgotten about. Likely it burned in 1728 together with the rest of the university library. Sadly, none of its most likely important textual contents survives today. Even a debate in the 1950s regarding the source material for this murder ultimately failed to bring this lost manuscript into renewed focus.Even though its source material remains sadly lost, the existence itself of this manuscript is still important: First of all, the existence of such a manuscript shows that an actual trial must have been held in the aftermath of the murder. Even this has seemed somewhat unclear, because of the scarcity of the preserved source material. Finally, the existence of this manuscript forces us to begin looking at the works of these old historians in a different way. In the coming years it will be important to examine the preserved historical works and manuscripts of these historians thoroughly to reveal whether this can shed any new light upon any of the lost source material from the Constable Stig-manuscript.

LIBRARY OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE PRINCIPALITY OF SERBA IN 1846

This paper presents the content of the library fund (a list of books, periodicals and manuscripts) of the library of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Principality of Serbia in 1846. The fund was quantitatively analyzed according to the languages in which the works were written. The paper also explains when, how and why some titles were acquired for the library. The paper was written on the basis of relevant literature and published and unpublished archival materials of Serbian origin.

When the Provincial Dialects Were the Subject of Conversation: Eighteenth-Century Norfolk Words in BL Add MS 32640

This paper examines the Norfolk dialect words contained in BL Add MS 32640, an amateur list that George Nicol, London bookseller to George III, sent to Sarah Sophia Banks in 1789. This paper aims to determine the extent to which this specimen contributes to the historical record of the dialect, especially given that early testimonies to the vocabulary of Norfolk are not abundant. The paper first presents an overview of early sources concerned with Norfolk and East Anglian lexis. It then describes the manuscript list, paying attention to the type of vocabulary recorded and its distribution. Finally, it presents the results of the analysis that examines the data against the evidence furnished by previous and later Norfolk sources. The paper argues that the manuscript contains items that had not been recorded for Norfolk at so early a date, as well as terms whose senses, as documented in this amateur list, have gone unrecorded in other dialect sources, including Joseph Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary (1896–1905).

List of Manuscripts Cited

List of Manuscripts Cited

List of Manuscripts Cited

List of Manuscripts Cited

The Political Economy of the Publishing Industry in Nigeria

This paper explores the political economy of book publishing in Nigeria. It looks at practices in the book publishing industry and at the various forces that influence the decisions made by the established Nigerian Book Publishers to accept or reject a manuscript for publication. It argues that the drivers for most of these decisions are largely socio-economic and political and that unless checked, these drivers could distort the basic values of books which are to promote the sharing of knowledge and cultural products for the development of a nation. The article identifies a number of barriers that exclude manuscripts by authors with low status and power from the shelf of the accepted manuscript list of the major book publishing houses. It examines possible coping strategies of excluded writers, including self-publishing, the challenges that these pose and ends by arguing that putting in place a mechanism that would ensure that valuable manuscripts by authors with low power and status should be seen as social responsibility by the established publishers and governments.

The Current Indications and the Benefits of Combining a β3-Agonist with an Anticholinergic for the Treatment of OAB.

Combination therapy with anti-muscarinics (AMs) and β3 agonists (β3As) has recently been proposed as a possible treatment for the management of patients with Overactive Bladder (OAB). A National Center for Biotechnology Information PubMed search for relevant articles published between 2007 and 2014 was performed by combining the following Patient population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome (PICO) terms: overactive bladder, antimuscarinics, β3 agonists, combination therapy, efficacy, tolerability and outcomes. Additional references were obtained from the reference list of full-text manuscripts. Abstracts presented at the annual congresses of the European Association of Urology, American Urology Association and the International Continence Society were included. The combination therapy, in the management of OAB symptoms, has recently been investigated in animal models and in a phase II randomized clinical trial. Compared with AMs monotherapy, combination treatment improved mean voided volume per micturition, micturition frequency and reduced urgency episodes. No dose related trends in adverse events (AEs) were observed between combination group and monotherapy group. Incidence of constipation was slightly increased in combination therapy group. Combination therapy seems to be an effective and safe treatment in the management of OAB. However, further cost-effectiveness studies are needed to evaluate the definitive role of this approach for the management of patients with OAB.

The Herpetological Collection of Maximilian, Prince of Wied (1782–1867), With Special Reference To Brazilian Materials

Prince Maximilian of Wied made important collections of reptiles and other vertebrate animals during pioneering expeditions to Brazil and North America. These were purchased for the American Museum in 1869. The present paper emphasizes Brazilian materials collected in 1815–1817.Prince Maximilian (aka Wied, Neuwied, and Prince Max) published extensively on this collection, especially in the Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte von Brasilien (“Contributions to the natural history of Brazil, 1825–1833”)—a meticulous account of the species collected—and in Abbildungen zur Naturgeschichte Brasiliens (“Illustrations of the natural history of Brazil, 1822–1832”).The unnumbered folio plates of the Abbildungen are so important, and so difficult to access, that the herpetological ones are resized and reprinted herein. These hand-colored plates are rare (only 300 of each were produced) and are reproduced herein “as is” with arbitrary plate numbers 1–56; this numbering approximates the organization of the present work and also the order of species presentation in volume 1 of the Beiträge.When received at AMNH, the herpetological specimens were accompanied by the Prince’s handwritten manuscript list, dated 1860, with 441 numbered items. The list is not a specimen catalog but a useful index to the collection, as indicated by its title: Verzeichniss der Reptilien-Sammlung nach Duméril, Bibron, und Jan. It includes separately numbered lists of genera and of species in the collections and therefore corresponds to taxa, not to actual specimens.Wied did not designate types, a concept not yet established; Wied, types, like Linnaean types, must be identified retrospectively. Our objective has been to identify the surviving types of Brazilian reptiles and amphibians in the Maximilian collection. Our starting point was forcibly the Beiträge, a work of singularly modern conformation. It may contain for each species a synonymy, a description, measurements, meristic data, and a discussion of distribution.The criteria for decision on the identification of types were fourfold: the description, the measurements, the scale counts, and the Abbildungen plates. A total of 21 primary type specimens were thus identified in the Wied collection (including some originally identified as types or cotypes). These include 15 holotypes (mostly newly identified) and six lectotypes (mostly newly designated).However, Wied had named about 61 species from his Brazilian collection, so approximately 40 primary type specimens of reptiles and amphibians are missing. Most of these never reached the American Museum; many had disappeared in Europe before Maximilian had started writing his 1860 manuscript catalogue. Wied wrote that he had been unable to preserve several specimens; some of the others may be in European museums or possibly in the remaining collection of his friend Blasius Merrem at the University of Marburg.

0323: A Forgotten 4th or 5th Century Greek Fragment of the Gospel of John in the Syrus Sinaiticus

That the famous Syrus Sinaiticus contains not only the Old Syriac Gospels, but also other palimpsest leaves, among them four leaves of a Greek codex of John’s Gospel, is not a secret. Nevertheless, for 120 years, this Greek fragment, though probably contemporary with the great uncials, was not registered in any list of nt manuscripts and, as a result, completely neglected. The main aim of these pages is to recall its existence and to gather the information that is available at present.

“Måske vil vi engang glædes ved at mindes dette”. Om Giacomo Castelvetros håndskrifter i Det Kongelige Bibliotek

“Måske vil vi engang glædes ved at mindes dette”. Om Giacomo Castelvetros håndskrifter i Det Kongelige Bibliotek

Strength training in soccer with a specific focus on highly trained players.

BackgroundData concerning the physical demands of soccer (e.g., activity pattern) suggest that a high level of performance requires well-developed neuromuscular function (NF). Proficient NF may be relevant to maintain and/or increase players’ short- (intense periods of soccer-specific activity; accelerations, decelerations, and sprinting) and long-term performance during a match and throughout the season.ObjectiveThis review examines the extent to which distinct modes of strength training improve soccer players’ performance, as well as the effects of concurrent strength and endurance training on the physical capacity of players.Data sourcesA selection of studies was performed in two screening phases. The first phase consisted of identifying articles through a systematic search using relevant databases, including the US National Library of Medicine (PubMed), MEDLINE, and SportDiscus. Several permutations of keywords were utilized (e.g., soccer; strength; power; muscle function), along with the additional scanning of the reference lists of relevant manuscripts. Given the wide range of this review, additional researchers were included. The second phase involved applying six selection criteria to the articles.Results and conclusionsAfter the two selection phases, 24 manuscripts involving a total sample of 523 soccer players were considered. Our analysis suggests that professional players need to significantly increase their strength to obtain slight improvements in certain running-based actions (sprint and change of direction speed). Strength training induces greater performance improvements in jump actions than in running-based activities, and these achievements varied according to the motor task [e.g., greater improvements in acceleration (10 m) than in maximal speed (40 m) running movements and in non-squat jump (SJ) than in SSC-based actions (countermovement jump)]. With regard to the strength/power training methods used by soccer players, high-intensity resistance training seems to be more efficient than moderate-intensity resistance training (hypertrophic). From a training frequency perspective, two weekly sessions of strength training are sufficient to increase a player’s force production and muscle power-based actions during pre-season, with one weekly session being adequate to avoid in-season detraining. Nevertheless, to further improve performance during the competitive period, training should incorporate a higher volume of soccer-specific power-based actions that target the neuromuscular system. Combined strength/power training programs involving different movement patterns and an increased focus on soccer-specific power-based actions are preferred over traditional resistance exercises, not only due to their superior efficiency but also due to their ecological value. Strength/power training programs should incorporate a significant number of exercises targeting the efficiency of stretch-shortening-cycle activities and soccer-specific strength-based actions. Manipulation of training surfaces could constitute an important training strategy (e.g., when players are returning from an injury). In addition, given the conditional concurrent nature of the sport, concurrent high-intensity strength and high-intensity endurance training modes (HIT) may enhance a player’s overall performance capacity.Our analysis suggests that neuromuscular training improves both physiological and physical measures associated with the high-level performance of soccer players.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40798-015-0006-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

Syriac manuscripts of the 9th-10th centuries from a codicological perspective

The ninth and tenth centuries were a period of transition for Syriac, as well as for other scribes, with changes in both material and script. On the basis of the 70 dated Syriac manuscripts that survive from this period, the following topics are covered: provenance, layout, quires, colophons and modes of dating, palimpsests, and costs. An appendix offers a list of dated manuscripts in Syriac, Arabic, Greek, and Georgian, which link Sinai with Syria and Palestine.

Newly Identified Treatises by John Foxal

John Foxal (Ioannes Anglicus) was an English Franciscan active primarily in Italy in the latter half of the fifteenth century. His philosophical and theological positions were Scotist, and in his works he comments upon various texts of John Duns Scotus with reference to the Scotist school of thought active in the early fourteenth century. In this article we supplement the list of extant manuscripts, provide a revised list of Foxal’s treatises and offer an edition of one of these, the Tractatus de propositione per se nota.

Frequency of movement in bed to assess risk of pressure ulcer – A systematized review / Häufigkeit von Bewegung im Bett zur Einschätzung der Dekubitusgefährdung – Eine systematisierte Übersichtsarbeit

Abstract The key criteria for identification of pressure ulcer risk are mobility and activity. In practice and research, it is currently not possible to assess these criteria with reliable instruments. New technical methods allow a quantified metric measurement of the mobility of patients lying in bed. However, it is unclear how to interpret such data. Therefore, the aim of this systematized literature review was to identify (i) reference values for frequencies of movements during sleep, and (ii) critical values for the clinical diagnosis of pressure ulcer risk. A literature search was conducted in the MedLine, CINAHL, Trip Database, the Cochrane Library, PEDro, Google Scholar databases and by handsearching the reference lists of eligible manuscripts for the period 2008-2013. One review and nine primary studies were selected. Pressure ulcer risk studies showed poor methodological quality while they showed a high heterogeneity of the measurement methods for the detection of movement during sleep. This observed heterogeneity did not allow to compare the study results. Less studies reported reference values compared to studies reporting correlations with pathological conditions such as sleep quality and pressure ulcer risk. After critically reviewing the studies, no valid data on the frequency of movement during sleep and on critical values for the clinical diagnosis of pressure ulcer risk was found. To interpret the results of a new measurement method and its efficacy, more diagnostic studies and high-quality randomized controlled trials are needed.