"Go Tell the Assyrians, Thou Who Passest By, That Here, Obedient to Their Laws, We Lie..."

This paper deals with a topic hardly studied by our fellow scholars: the management of casualties during the aftermath of a victorious battle for the Neo-Assyrians. The paper will propose a typology of casualties according to different points of their different kinds of status, plus some questions on some problems still encountered by modern soldiers nowadays

Patricia Fara. A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War. Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press; 2018

Obra ressenyada: Patricia Fara, A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018

Premortem Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Diagnoses in Professional Football

American-style football (ASF) has gained attention because of possible links between repetitive head injury and neurodegenerative diseases. Although postmortem pathologic changes consistent with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) have been reported in ASF players, there are currently no established premortem diagnostic criteria for CTE. Nevertheless, presented with symptoms of cognitive impairment, clinicians treating former players may be inclined to suggest CTE without a thorough exploration of comorbid factors that demonstrate similar clinical phenotypes to putative CTE. A survey of 3,913 former ASF players aged 24 to 89 was conducted for those who responded by March 2019. Despite being a postmortem diagnosis, 108 players (2.8%) self-reported clinician-diagnosed CTE. The percentage of players under age 60 years reporting a CTE diagnosis was 2.3% versus 3.7% in participants age 60 or older. Comorbidities in participants self-reporting CTE were significantly more common, including sleep apnea, hypercholesterolemia, obesity, indicators of past or current depression, hypertension, prescription pain medication use, heart conditions, and low testosterone when compared to non-CTE respondents. Patterns of reporting for obesity, hypertension, heart conditions, or hypercholesterolemia differed between older and younger participants. Cognitive impairment symptoms were significantly higher in participants self-reporting CTE. Some former professional football players have been clinically diagnosed with CTE, a postmortem condition. Comorbidities that can affect cognition were associated with CTE diagnoses in both older and younger players. Although underlying neuropathology cannot be ruled out, treatable conditions should be explored in former athletes demonstrating CTE-linked clinical phenotypes or symptoms as a means of improving cognitive health in these patients. ANN NEUROL 2020 ANN NEUROL 2020;88:106-11

Crim i càstig a Mesopotàmia

En aquest article recollim el text de la conferència que va donar Miquel Civil el dia 15 de novembre del 2001 a la sala de juntes de la Facultat de Filologia de la Universitat de Barcelona. L'acte fou organitzat per l'associació Eridu. Societat Catalana d'Amics del Pròxim Orient Antic.In this article we publish the text of the lecture given by Miquel Civil on November 15, 2001 in the boardroom of the Faculty of Philology of the University of Barcelona. The event was organized by the Eridu. Catalan Society of Friends of the Ancient Near East

Las secuelas patológicas de los campos de concentración entre los refugiados españoles en Francia

A partir de la primavera de 1945, el Hospital Varsovia de Toulouse dispensó asistencia médica a miles de refugiados republicanos españoles que permanecían exiliados en el sur de Francia. Este hospital había sido fundado en el otoño de 1944 en las afueras de Toulouse tras la invasión del Valle de Arán en el marco de la llamada Operación Reconquista de España. Revisando los numerosos casos clínicos que aparecen en las páginas de la revista Anales del Hospital Varsovia (1948-1950), se advierte que muchos pacientes presentaban enfermedades contraídas en los campos de concentración a causa de las pésimas condiciones de vida en un régimen de confinamiento. En su práctica asistencial, los médicos observaban cuadros clínicos insidiosos, de difícil diagnóstico, que tras sucesivas pruebas clínicas y de laboratorio revelaban enfermedades carenciales larvadas (debidas a la malnutrición), infecciones crónicas ocultas (tuberculosis y parasitosis intestinales) y enfermedades de transmisión sexual.From the spring of 1945, the Hospital Varsovia in Toulouse (France) provided medical assistance to thousands of Spanish Republican refugees who remained in exile in Southern France. The hospital had been founded in the autumn of 1944 in the outskirts of Toulouse after the invasion of Aran Valley in the context of the so-called Operation Reconquest of Spain. A review of clinical cases reported in the pages of Anales del Hospital Varsovia (1948-1950) shows that many patients had contracted diseases in the concentration camps because of the poor living conditions under a regime of severe confinement. Doctors described insidious diseases that were difficult to diagnose. Successive clinical and laboratory tests revealed the presence of latent deficiency diseases (due to malnutrition), chronic occult infections (tuberculosis and intestinal parasitosis), and sexually transmitted diseases

Periodic orbits of a Hamiltonian system related with the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker system in rotating coordinates

We provide sufficient conditions on the four parameters of a Hamiltonian system, related with the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Hamiltonian system in a rotating reference frame, which guarantee the existence of 12 continuous families of periodic orbits, parameterized by the values of the Hamiltonian, which born at the equilibrium point localized at the origin of coordinates. The main tool for finding analytically these families of periodic orbits is the averaging theory for computing periodic orbits adapted to the Hamiltonian systems. The technique here used can be applied to arbitrary Hamiltonian systems