Termini nicht-lateinischer Herkunft in der mittelalterlichen Musiktheorie anhand des Lexicon musicum Latinum medii aevi

The Lexicon musicum Latinum medii aevi (LmL) is a « Dictionary of Medieval Latin Musical Terminology to the End of the 15th Century ». In comparison with a comprehensive dictionary of Medieval Latin, such as the Mittellateinische Wörterbuch, there are some peculiarities of the musical terminology. Thus, five linguistic categories of increasing complexity can be found within the LmL : single letters – syllables – vocalises – single words – conjunctions of words. In addition, technical terms of non-Latin origin are also included in the LmL. Typically they occur in these areas : termini from the ancient Greek musical theory – Greek lemmata without an ancient origin – vernacular language (terms that designate musical instruments or genres) – names of neumes – intonation formulas – terms in the manuscript Montecassino 318.Das Lexicon musicum Latinum medii aevi (LmL) ist ein « Wörterbuch der lateinischen Musikterminologie des Mittelalters bis zum Ausgang des 15. Jahrhunderts ». Im Vergleich zum allgemeinen mittellateinischen Wörterbuch weist das hierin erschlossene Fachvokabular der Musik eine Reihe von Besonderheiten auf, die im Überblick dargestellt werden. Fünf sprachliche Kategorien von zunehmender Komplexität sind als musikalische Fachtermini vertreten : Buchstaben – Silben – Voka- lisen – Wörter – Wortverbindungen. Aber auch nicht lateinisch-sprachige Fachtermini der Musik werden im LmL behandelt. Typischerweise findet man sie in folgenden Bereichen : Fachbegriffe aus der antiken griechischen Musiktheorie – griechisch-sprachige Termini ohne erkennbare antike Herkunft – volkssprachige Begriffe (bei Bezeichnungen von Musikinstrumenten, von musikalischen Gattungen und in Einzelfällen) – Neumennamen – Intonationsformeln – Fachtermini in der Überlieferung in Montecassino 318

Is Routine Audiometric Evaluation Necessary in Gynaecologic Tumour Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy?

Background: Our objective was to assess the auditory function ofgynaecological tumour patients who had received cytotoxic agents and todetermine their associated risk of ototoxicity. Patients and Methods: 87patients who had undergone chemotherapy for gynaecological malignancieswere investigated. Of these patients, 79% had breast cancer, and 14%ovarian cancer. All of the patients had a subjective assessment of theirhearing function on a visual analogue scale. Audiometric tests wereperformed before and at 9 weeks, 18 weeks and 3 months after completionof chemotherapy. Results: The age of the patients ranged from 32 to 71years (mean age of 53.5 +/- 10.5 years). The average subjective ratingof the patients’ hearing function was 83.0 +/- 17.2 before and 84.8 +/-16.9 3 months after completion of chemotherapy. No significantaudiometric change at either the speech hearing frequency range (0.5-2KHz) or high frequencies was observed in the patients afterchemotherapy. There was also no significant difference in the hearingthreshold of the patients who had received platinum analogue-basedchemotherapy compared to non-platinum analogue-based chemotherapy.Conclusion: Hearing loss is uncommon in patients treated with thetypical gynaecological chemotherapy protocols. Hence, routineaudiometric testing in these patients is not necessary

The feasibility study of non-invasive fetal trisomy 18 and 21 detection with semiconductor sequencing platform

Objective: Recent non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) technologies are based on next-generation sequencing (NGS). NGS allows rapid and effective clinical diagnoses to be determined with two common sequencing systems: Illumina and Ion Torrent platforms. The majority of NIPT technology is associated with Illumina platform. We investigated whether fetal trisomy 18 and 21 were sensitively and specifically detectable by semiconductor sequencer: Ion Proton. Methods: From March 2012 to October 2013, we enrolled 155 pregnant women with fetuses who were diagnosed as high risk of fetal defects at Xiamen Maternal & Child Health Care Hospital (Xiamen, Fujian, China). Adapter-ligated DNA libraries were analyzed by the Ion Proton??? System (Life Technologies, Grand Island, NY, USA) with an average 0.3 ?? sequencing coverage per nucleotide. Average total raw reads per sample was 6.5 million and mean rate of uniquely mapped reads was 59.0%. The results of this study were derived from BWA mapping. Z-score was used for fetal trisomy 18 and 21 detection. Results: Interactive dot diagrams showed the minimal z-score values to discriminate negative versus positive cases of fetal trisomy 18 and 21. For fetal trisomy 18, the minimal z-score value of 2.459 showed 100% positive predictive and negative predictive values. The minimal z-score of 2.566 was used to classify negative versus positive cases of fetal trisomy 21. Conclusion: These results provide the evidence that fetal trisomy 18 and 21 detection can be performed with semiconductor sequencer. Our data also suggest that a prospective study should be performed with a larger cohort of clinically diverse obstetrics patients.open2

Überblick über die Geschichte des Reisens in Mitteleuropa, speziell in Deutschland

Überblick über die Geschichte des Reisens in Mitteleuropa, speziell in Deutschland : mit bes. Berücks. d. beginnenden tourist. Entwicklung am bayer. Alpenrand unter König Max II. von Bayern, exemplarisch dargest. am Beisp. d. ostallgäuer Gemeinde Schwangau. - 1993. - VI, 309 S. - Augsburg, Univ., Diss