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The article aims to briefly overview the three types of inscriptions on the vessels of the Nagyszentmiklós treasure (NSM) as an uniform evidence of the existence of specific religious beliefs in the Middle Danube area in the 8th – 9th c. The emphasis of the study is on deciphering the runiform inscriptions, which the author considers as cryptography of sacred concepts and names of a Christian community with Gnostic conceptions and ideas. At the basis of their decoding he placed the decipherment of individual runiform graphemes and short texts in related written monuments from the Lower Danube area (Pliska, Murfatlar, etc.). The concepts and names decoded (Tetragrammatôn, Hexagrammatôn, Eôn, Five/the Fifth Eon, Hiueh, Eueh and others) allow establishing that they are cryptograms, attested in the ideas about the God of Gnostic Christians in the first centuries AD in the Middle East. This is evidenced by the use of specific Semitic and Greek graphemes in the three types of inscriptions from the treasure. Their use on vessels of precious metal in the Early Middle Ages is part of these beliefs and is evidence of their stability and transfer to the Middle and Lower Danube area by adherents of Christian Gnosis, most likely the doctrine of the socalled Valentinians. The link of repetitive or similar cryptograms and Greek-language texts to vessels of identical or similarshape and similar use allows those marked with them to be distributed in “sets” that met the cult and ritualneeds of different categories of believers in Christian Gnosis (“pneumatikoi”, “psyxikoi” and “hylics”). Finally, the author tries to highlight cultural and historical traces of the presence of a population with similar ideas in the region of the Middle Danube. Although fragmentary and hypothetical, they allow us assuming that the so-called Danube runic script was in fact a relic of the life of Gnostic-Christian sects in Central and Southeastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages

APOPHYSEAL AVULSION FRACTURES OF ANTERIOR INFERIOR ILIAC SPINE

We aim to present diagnostic approach and results from surgical treatment in avulsion fractures of the apophysis of Spina Iliaca Anterior Inferior (SIAI). Material and methods.  During the period 2011 – 2021, seven(7) children with acute traumatic apophysiolysis of SIAI, were operated on, 61 A1.2 fracture by AO/OTA classification.  All of the patients are boys with average age 14,1±1,35 years.  In all cases the right SIAI is affected and the mechanism of the injury is sports trauma.  The diagnostic methods used by us are complete orthopedic clinical examination, AP radiographs of the pelvis and lateral radiographic projections of the hip joint by modified Dunlap technique and also CT scan with 3D reconstruction of the pelvic bones (3cases).  In four (4) cases the apophysiolyses are Salter-Harris type I and in three cases – SH type II.  The average size of the avulsed bone fragment is 3cm/1cm measured on CT scan and 29,66±3,14 mm on AP radiographic view.  Dislocation of the fractured fragment is greater than 1,5cm.  In four children the diagnosis from the outpatient care is neglected or primary wrong.  This fact procrastinated the treatment for between 15 and 30 days.  In the rest of the cases the treatment is prompt in an urgent matter.   For all patients open reduction and internal fixation with screw osteosynthesis is performed by using one (4 cases) or two (2 cases) 3,5mm cannulated titanium screws.  Consolidation of the fracture and the functional condition by Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS) have been followed.

From text to structured data: Converting a word-processed floristic checklist into Darwin Core Archive format

The paper describes a pilot project to convert a conventional floristic checklist, written in a standard word processing program, into structured data in the Darwin Core Archive format. After peer-review and editorial acceptance, the final revised version of the checklist was converted into Darwin Core Archive by means of regular expressions and published thereafter in both human-readable form as traditional botanical publication and Darwin Core Archive data files. The data were published and indexed through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) and significant portions of the text of the paper were used to describe the metadata on IPT. After publication, the data will become available through the GBIF infrastructure and can be re-used on their own or collated with other data.This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.NHM Repositor

Adaptability Approaches in Digital Libraries

This paper examines some approaches for endowing digital libraries with adaptability capabilities in order to scaffold and enhance end user experience. The paper provides a general overview of techniques and methods commonly adopted for achieving adaptability. It also discusses how these can be implemented, and to this end illustrates specific examples and guidelines drawn from the practical experience that the authors are currently gaining in the Share.TEC European project, a context in which adaptability is key to managing and responding to considerable diversity in user requirements

Proximal femoral varus osteotomies in childhood-development of osteosynthesis materials

Proximal femoral osteotomies are one of the most commonly used surgical techniques and play an important role in the spatial correction of the hip joint in a number of pediatric orthopedic disorders such as Legg-Calve-Perthes disease, Slipped capital femoral epiphysis, Developmental dysplasia of the hip, osteoarthritis, etc.14,21,23,28,30,31 The development of orthopaedic osteosynthesis for fixation of bone fragments includes the use of Kirschner wires, intraosseous nail plates, AO-plates with fixed angle, external fixators, etc.  Over time, many of the techniques and osteosynthesis materials have fallen into disuse and have remained only of historical significance. The purpose of this study is to follow how osteosynthesis fixation devices for varus osteotomies in the proximal femur have historically evolved and developed from the beginning to the present

Cyclophyllidean cysticercoids from Echinogammarus tibaldii (Amphipoda, Gammaridae) from Lake Piediluco, Italy

AbstractIn August 2007, 856 specimens of Echinogammarus tibaldii Pinkster et Stock, 1970 from the Lake Piediluco (Central Italy) were collected from 3 different sites and examined for larval helminths. Fourteen amphipods (1.63%) were infected with larvae of Lateriporus teres (Dilepididae) and one amphipod (0.12%) was infected with Microsomacanthus microsoma (Hymenolepididae). Adults of both species are known from waterfowl and gulls. The present results constitute new host records for both cestode species and the first finding of L. teres in Italy

Recommender Systems and Repository Search: the Share.TEC Proposal

This paper presents a general overview of possible approaches for implementing recommender systems and describes a specific implementation in the context of the Share.TEC project, which aims to foster the sharing of digital resources in the Teacher Education field. An outline of the main functionalities is given, together with a brief technical description of how these have been implemented

Challenges of Clinical Decision Support System Development

One of the high-growing areas in medicine is research and development of advanced IT technologies for clinical decision support. Clinical decision support system (CDSS) must be able to store the necessary clinical data and also to analyze this data, and process and interpret the results for a specialist. This article is focused on interdisciplinary research and development challenges in developing a complex information system for searching and selecting a suitable donor for bone marrow transplantation using an advanced DNA-based donor search model. The particular challenges are summarized and the approaches to tackle them are described

Share.TEC System Architecture

This paper presents the Share.TEC system architecture and the first system prototype. This description stresses on the main system components and underlying technologies, standards and protocols. The main system functionalities are following logically from the main use cases and user requirements. The system design allows a tight integration between data, which have been automatically harvested from various external repositories, and a representation of the ontology that describes all aspects of the teacher education domain. The proposed implementation relies on modern features such as searching a net of digital objects interconnected by custom-defined relations. A multicultural system which accommodates to the user preferences requires specific user interface. The dynamic approach for presenting the information to the user, based on the teacher education ontology, contributes to the flexibility of the system