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Procopius and the Imperial Panels of S. Vitale

Analysis of the mosaics in S. Vitale at Ravenna reveals two phases in the panels of Justinian and Theodora, which the histories of Procopius help to explain. The first phase, dating from 544–45 and originally including the bishop of Ravenna Victor, probably shows the emperor and empress with their commander in Italy Belisarius, his wife Antonina, their daughter Joannina, and Theodora's grandson and Joannina's fiance, Anastasius. In the second phase, Victor's successor Maximian replaced Victor's head with his own in 548 and added a new figure, probably the general John the Nephew of Vitalian.

Procopius and the Imperial Panels of S. Vitale

Analysis of the mosaics in S. Vitale at Ravenna reveals two phases in the panels of Justinian and Theodora, which the histories of Procopius help to explain. The first phase, dating from 544–45 and originally including the bishop of Ravenna Victor, probably shows the emperor and empress with their commander in Italy Belisarius, his wife Antonina, their daughter Joannina, and Theodora's grandson and Joannina's fiancé, Anastasius. In the second phase, Victor's successor Maximian replaced Victor's head with his own in 548 and added a new figure, probably the general John the Nephew of Vitalian.

Consanguinity and its relationship to differential fertility and mortality in the Kotia: a tribal population of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Data on patterns of marriage, differential fertility and mortality were collected from 211 Kotia women residing in Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh, India. Consanguineous marriages made up just over a quarter of the total, and of these, father's sister's daughter (FSD) were more common than mother's brother's daughter (MBD). The mean inbreeding coefficient for the sample (F) was 0.0172. Women in consanguineous marriages had a lower mean number of total conceptions, live births and living offspring (net fertility) than women in non-consanguineous marriages. Significant heterogeneity was found in the means of living offspring for FSD, MBD and non-consanguineous couples, but not for conceptions and live births.

Familial Kaposi's sarcoma: case reports and review of the literature.

We report 4 new families with Kaposi's sarcoma, occurring in 2 members of the same family (2 pairs of brothers, uncle and nephew and father and son) in a series of 160 patients with Kaposi's sarcoma. In addition, HLA typing was also carried out for 6 of the 8 patients. A detailed review of the literature is also presented. The total number of familial cases of Kaposi's sarcoma is low (only 30 cases are described); the great majority of these cases consist of siblings and Italians.

Percutaneous screw removal in slipped upper femoral epiphysis.

Several authors have reported complications from screw removal after treatment of slipped upper femoral epiphysis by single screw fixation, and have attributed these to poor screw design. We have developed a simple and reliable method of screw removal which uses a cannulated 8.0 mm end-threaded cancellous screw (Smith & Nephew Richards Medical, Memphis, Tennessee) and a specially designed cannulated trephine. The method has been successful, with minimal complications, and a limited surgical exposure.

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Consanguinity and reproductive behaviour in a tribal population 'the Baiga' in Madhya Pradesh, India.

We have studied the marriage pattern and reproductive behaviour in a single Central Indian primitive tribe, the Baiga. Parents were consanguineous in 34% of marriages (19.2% mother's brother's daughter (MBD), 13.1% father's sister's daughter (FSD) and 1.7% were double first cross-cousins (DFCC). Fertility levels were significantly higher (p < 0.05) in related couples (4.7 offspring/couple) than unrelated couples (4.2/couple). Mortality (up to 20 years) was 19%. In the offspring of consanguineous couples it was higher (19.7%) than in the offspring of unrelated couples (18.6%) but the difference was not statistically significant. In consanguineous couples the reproductive period was longer than in unrelated couples, probably to allow compensation for increased reproductive losses (infant and childhood deaths). The level of social as compared to genetic parenting was about 35% as measured by tracking the inheritance of sickle gene, and allowance must be made for this in assessing the influence of consanguineous marriage on fertility and mortality.

Voltaire's Correspondence: An Epistolary Novel (review)

420 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FICTION 7:4 Deirdre Dawson. Voltaire 's Correspondence: An Epistolary Novel. The Age of Revolution and Romanticism, vol. 5. New York: Peter Lang, 1994. US$52.95. xxi + 189pp. ISBN 0-8204-2116-2. This monograph has some merit but its title is far too presumptuous. The five chapters in this work can be said to deal statistically with only a tiny fraction of Voltaire's preoccupations in the correspondence. Two of the chapters, moreover, focus on peripheral themes: the genre of the letter and editions of Voltaire's correspondence. Deirdre Dawson's deliberations on the letter as literature are interesting, but there is little here that is original. Her observations on the evidentiary value of letters, on the rapport between the writer and the recipient, on the public nature of private letters, on the circumspection found in eighteenth-century correspondence, on the difficulty of defining the genre—all these occupy a terrain that has been well trod by Bruce Redford's The Converse of the Pen: Acts of Intimacy in the Eigtheenth-Century Familiar Letter (1986) and by other scholars—for example, Rafaele Morabito in his "Pratiques épistolières et épistolarité restreinte," Orbis Litterarum 44 (1989). In contrast, Dawson's exploratory surgery on Beaumarchais's publication of the Voltaire correspondence is a cogent and illuminating study of editorial idiosyncrasies, including the deft scalpel employed by the playwright in deleting the tedious and uninteresting in the Voltaire correspondence. Palissot was correct, as Dawson reports, in questioning the utility of publishing repetitions that recur almost ad nauseam in Voltaire's letters. For years since their publication, Voltaire's letters have been ransacked systematically by scholars in an effort to ascertain whether anything new about Voltaire emerges from that literary motherlode. Most researchers have been circumspect in their conclusions; they suggest at best that the correspondence helps to flesh out, expand, or amplify what has already been known from other sources. Dawson, however, goes much further in positing the thesis that Voltaire's missives to his niece, Mme Denis, show that he was actively engaged in heterosexual fantasies and that his communications to her were thinly veiled linguistic seductions or at least attempts at seduction. Voltaire's amorous advances were encrypted because he had to hide this scandalous "incestuous" relationship with his sister's daughter. The encryptions, we are told, included letters in Italian (which only he understood) and letters in which Voltaire not only made love to Mme Denis but made love to his letters: "The letter replaces the body as object of Voltaire's affection" (p. 71). The evidence on which Dawson makes this bizarre suggestion, however, is forced and unpersuasive. Much more persuasive are the author's thoughts about Voltaire's sojourn in Geneva and the cultivating of his garden in order to perpetuate the French classical garden and its civilizing role. Dawson is right when she notes that Rousseau would have been appalled by Voltaire's beautiful but artificial reconstruction of nature: "The poet had constructed an empire in Paradise from which he could better destroy the Inferno that raged around him" (p. 124)—a trifle hyperbolic as a rationale for Voltaire's green thumb but on the right track! The best and most original section in this book pivots around d'Alembert and the "infâme." It is original not in the sense that it contains new material but in the Pascalian meaning of originality: the order is new. Dawson observes that criticism of matters religious after 1757 was risky: in 1757, in response to Damien's attempt to assassinate him, Louis xv ordered the death penalty for authors convicted of attacking religion. (Shades of Ayatollah Khomeini.) COMPTES RENDUS 421 Letters were not exempt from this chilling ordinance and it is therefore all the more admirable that Voltaire in his exchanges with D'Alembert (as with many others) advocated the destruction of the "infâme." Dawson's contribution to this phenomenon is her minidissertation on the word "infâme" itself. Its very indeterminacy was a perfect front behind which Voltaire could conveniently hide while he hurled his critical javelins at the ancien régime. The fact that both he and D'Alembert had frequent...

Niflings are nephews and nieces

Niflings are nephews and nieces

Smith &amp; Nephew DonJoy neutralizes pain with new TENS Bracing System

Smith &amp; Nephew DonJoy neutralizes pain with new TENS Bracing System

Niflings are nephews and nieces

Journal of Genetic CounselingVolume 3, Issue 2 p. 165-165 Letters To The Editor Niflings are nephews and nieces Sarina M. Kopinsky, Sarina M. Kopinsky 5405 E. 2nd Avenue, Denver, Colorado, 80220Search for more papers by this author Sarina M. Kopinsky, Sarina M. Kopinsky 5405 E. 2nd Avenue, Denver, Colorado, 80220Search for more papers by this author First published: June 1994 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01423179AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume3, Issue2June 1994Pages 165-165 RelatedInformation

Ludruk Revisited: An Epistolary Interview with James L. Peacock

Hélène Bouvier (HB): How did you first become interested in theatre?James L. Peacock (JLP): Most interesting to me, though perhaps less interesting to anyone else, is the question, ‘Why should I, the son of an engineer (one feature shared with Victor Turner whose mother, however, was an actress), study theatre?’ I had no background in it, and I had hardly even seen a play before I went to Java. I think I know a source. It is during World War II, my father is preparing to invade Normandy, while my mother, my sister and I have moved in with her widowed mother in rural Alabama. My mother's sister, a concert pianist, and her sister's son had also moved in because the sister's husband, also a pianist, was also overseas. This boy and my sister play act. I don't. I make things. Every morning I put on my shorts (nothing else, no shoes, no shirt) at the crack of dawn and go outside to play in the yard, especially the ‘sand pile’ where I construct forts and tunnels. (The one dream I remember is of finding a soldier I lost in the sand: my absent father, perhaps?) While my cousin and sister play, sometimes I watch. We grow up. He goes to New York and becomes an actor and musician. I become an anthropologist.I have never acted in a play (except a pornographic skit in my college fraternity, in which I was a great success among the ‘brothers'), but I have always stared at people (today, women, but when I was growing up, men), and I would draw them, not while looking at them but later, alone—as teenager cartoon fantasies, like the Phantom or Superman, except more human.

Eye-opening delivery from Smith &amp; Nephew

Eye-opening delivery from Smith &amp; Nephew

First Nursing Awards from Smith &amp; Nephew Foundation

First Nursing Awards from Smith &amp; Nephew Foundation

African Sacred Kings: Expectations and Performance in the Cameroon Grassfields

In a paper published in 1962 Phyllis Kaberry drew attention to the elaborate nature of political organization in the Bamenda of Cameroon and referred to the unique combination of sacred kingship and palace societies vested with retainer functions. The political institutions that she considered gave these kingdoms a distinctive, Grassfields character to African sacred kingship: social distinctions among royals, commoners, tributaries, and slaves; a constituted privy council; a closed regulatory association; and a princes' fraternity with only Limited political functions. In an age when anthropologists seem more eager to deconstruct the labels and categories of their forbears than to re-examine them through actually doing ethnography, her use of such apparently loaded terms as king,(1) prince, royal, and privy council would appear to undermine the enduring value of her work. But to do so would impute common meaning where none was intended. The point is that while Kaberry's (1952, 1959, 1962) use of such terms may appear to beg very important questions as to what kind of king, what kind of royalty, and so on, the very rich and detailed ethnography that she produced (particularly in collaboration with the historian Sally Chilver) provides a wealth of material and potential answers to questions we have only just begun to formulate. In this light I propose to outline some features of the late nineteenth century development of the political and ritual aspects of kingship in the kingdom of Babungo in the Bamenda in order to reappraise its tendencies towards absolutism and its qualities of sacredness. Babungo, a long-established, highly centralized, and elaborate polity, was a kingdom with strong traditions in the plastic arts that developed innovative metallurgical processes linked to extraordinarily high levels of iron production in the course of the nineteenth century (Warnier and Fowler 1979; Fowler 1990). It resisted the forces of attraction and dissolution exerted by the expanding neighboring kingdoms of Bamum, Nso', and Kom, and provided refuge for groups displaced by them; it fought off the fearsome onslaughts of mounted slave raiders from the north; and it buffered the attempts of the intrusive Chamba kingdom of Bali Kumbat to carve out its own sphere of hegemony in the immediate region. A number of technical, social, and economic factors had enabled Babungo to become a major and very prosperous center of iron production by the second half of the nineteenth century. At the same time Babungo was constricted by its logistical position in the region, one which inhibited expansion of its political and prestige system at the expense of its neighbors. This situation bore the seeds of internal conflict and potential schism which, in the final quarter of the nineteenth century, rose to the surface in the form of a dynastic succession dispute, following the death of the barren king Nywifon. The succession dispute gravely threatened the integrity of the kingdom. It was only a fortuitous set of historical circumstances culminating in the arrival of Zintgraff (1895) and the brave and shrewd actions of die successful candidate Sangge, a sister's son (2) of Nywifon, that enabled Babungo to survive as an independent polity into the colonial period. An extraordinary event took place one fateful day early in the dry season of 1889 when the Babungo king, Sangge, set out furtively with one wife and one retainer against the wishes of his senior council, and crossed beyond the boundaries of the kingdom's defensive perimeter to personally entreat Eugen Zintgraff, himself beating a hasty retreat out of Kom, to come and take refuge. This was no mere act of submission to an agent in the vanguard of European colonialism. It was, rather, a shrewd, informed, and heroic ploy intended to bolster Sangge's own precarious position as king and also to safeguard the integrity of the kingdom in the face of hostile neighbors. …

Smith and Nephew 1992 awards total £200,000

Smith and Nephew 1992 awards total £200,000

Recurrent Hereditary Polyserositis or Familial Mediterranean Fever: An Overview

The etiology and pathogenesis of recurrent hereditary polyserositis (RHP) remain undetermined. There is a good evidence for a genetic basis (transmission being by a recessive Mendelian mode of inheritance), but not all cases have a family history and an infective (or other environmental) components has not been excluded. The marked variation in presentation and complications (in particular the prevalence of amyloid deposition) in different series suggests that this might not be a homogeneous entity. Vascular involvement is a basic prerequisite for the periodic attacks, and evidence for transient immunological abnormalities is incontrovertible. There are no reliable diagnostic techniques. Colchicine is of value in treatment, but its mode of action is unclear. More macro- and microepidemiological studies are required and will be of paramount importance. Clinical observations and molecular genetic studies should address the possibility that two or more immunological or metabolic defects might be interwoven; why for example do only some affected groups develop AA amyloidosis? Simple, non-invasive diagnostic tests are required for the uncomplicated disease and also for the presence of amyloid deposition. Preventive strategies might eventually involve genetic engineering techniques, but in the immediate future, education of doctors and other health care workers - to raise the "index of awareness" of RHP, in order that colchicine treatment can be commenced early in the disease - forms an important strategy. Colchicine therapy is not without complications and an alternative chemotherapeutic agent should be sought.

James Russell Lowell's Nephews

Alice Leach Robert Elwell Mary Lea John West also spelled Lee Elizabeth Legg no record had grandchildren Susanna Marsh Thomas Rix [widow] Price no record unknown Agnes Redding no record had grandchildren Margaret Rogers No died 1678 Mary Sawyer no record had grown child Mary Smith no record had married child Jennett Starkweather no record had grown child Mary Tarbox No died 1690 [widow] Wallis no record had married child Mary Whittier John Knight [widow] Williams no record

Schleiermacher as Innovator and Inheritor; God, Dependence, and Election

Every parent is also a child. This truism of kinship is not as obvious as it might seem. A very young nephew of mine once insisted I could not be his grandmother's son because I was not a son but an uncle. He had not grasped the possibility that I could be both.

Smith &amp; Nephew film dressing

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