al-shanfarā (6th century bc) with a group of poets such as taabbata sharran (“he who has put evil in his armpit”) are among the best known of the sulūk (“brigand”) poets. shanfarā was depicted as living a life of solitude and hardship based on the looting and plundering. shanfarā has two long and famous odes. one of them is tāeiyeh and the other is lāmiyyatu'l arab. lāmiyyatu'l arab i...

This article explores the afterlives of manuscripts preserved in collections three middling sort families during long eighteenth century. It foregrounds role that family archives played construction and curation memory identity among non-elite this period, intersections between socio-economic status, gender, confessional a subject’s curatorial concerns, implications for our understanding archiv...

this report summarizes the results of 64 percutaneous catheter drainage of abdominal abscesses and fluid collections in 56 patients. aspiration and drainage was guided with computed tomography in 34 patients and with ultrasound in 30 patients. success rate was 90%. infected collections were successfully drained in 94% and noninfected collections in 72% . partial success was achieved in two pati...

Abstract Over the last few years, Federal Institute for material research (BAM, Berlin) together with Centre Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC, University Hamburg) have initiated a systematic investigation black inks produced from Late Antiquity to Middle Ages (ca. fourth century CE–fourteenth/fifteenth centuries CE), aimed primarily at extending and complementing findings previous sporadic st...

resistance poem is a committed poem which is not at the service of despotic ruling system interests and its desires and expresses all issues with explicit language without consideration of innovation and fantasy. there is no complexity in the resistance poem. it does not specify truth and  does not inform its audience unless the political suffrage dominate the poem then the poet’s goals are exp...

BACKGROUND Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) is a novel endoscopic technique for the treatment of achalasia. However, there are POEM-associated complications, the most common of which being gas-related. The aim of the current study was to determine the occurrence of and risk factors for gas-related complications of POEM in patients with achalasia. METHODS Retrospective analyses were performed...

This paper aims to give an account of some the manuscripts related Lothar. In its first section attempt is made at retracing a set books that could have belonged Lothar’s library, nowadays known only from secondary sources. second display codices are discussed, either commissioned by Lothar, or dedicated him, such as Gospel Book MS Par. lat. 266 those traditionally referred «Lothar-Gruppe», who...

INTRODUCTION Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) has been considered as a minimal-invasive, innovative technique for long-term treatment of all types of esophageal achalasia and other esophageal motility disorders. PATIENTS AND METHODS We report on 20 consecutive Greek patients with manometrically proved esophageal achalasia (14 patients with type I, 4 with type II, 2 with type III, and 4 with ...

Through case studies of two current projects at Johns Hopkins University’s Digital Knowledge Center (DKC), this paper discusses some document analysis applications other than straightforward transcription that were developed through direct communication with users of digital collections. These applications include lyrics extraction from sheet music, an image-based annotation collaboratory envir...

The treasure of the Essen cathedral in Germany is one of the few collections of medieval art completely preserved in the course of history, including approximately 250 objects such as crosses, crowns, swords, statues, manuscripts, and reliquaries. These precious works of art show a great variety in size, shape, material, and complexity. In the paper, ideas and concepts for recording the manifol...