Masculine crusaders, effeminate Greeks, and the female historian: relations of power in Sir Walter Scott's Count Robert of Paris

Gender employed as a methodological lens in the analysis of historical fiction can help to reveal implicit or explicit evaluative statements. It is deployed here to examine hierarchies in the military, political and cultural context of the encounter between ‘virile’ Westerners and ‘effeminate’ Greeks in Sir Walter Scott’s last novel, Count Robert of Paris (1831), which is set in Constantinople at the start of the First Crusade (1096-7). Scott’s depiction of Westerners and Orientalized Greeks is set against the geopolitical concerns of the author’s own time. The gendered perspective through which Scott constructs relationships in Count Robert makes it clear that the ancestors of modern Britain and France must control the East, represented here by the Byzantine Greeks. On the other hand, Scott’s ambivalent and fluctuating portrayal of the twelfthcentury historiographer Anna Comnena as a fictional character in the novel reveals his own uncertain stance between rejection and admiration of the female historian, as well as a more complex approach to gender dynamics in times of change

Cardiotoxicity and cancer therapy

A fundamental concept of treatment is to do no harm. However, with cancer treatment this is not always possible. Chemotherapy is associated with cardiovascular (CV) complications.1,2 This risk is even greater in the elderly patients and patients with established CV disease. More specifically, tachyarrhythmias (eg, cisplatin), bradyarrythmias (eg, paclitaxel), or QT prolongation (eg, dasatinib) have been reported. Furthermore, myocardial necrosis, coronary vaso-occlusion or vasospasm, pericardial disease (eg, cytarabine), endocardial fibrosis (eg, busulfan), and heart failure can occur. Hypotension (eg, fludarabine) or hypertension (eg, vinca alkaloids) has also been reported.1,2 Cardiotoxicity, endothelial injury, and Takotsubo syndrome have been reported in patients treated with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU).3⇓–5 Cardiotoxicity to 5-FU was reported 35 years ago.3⇓–5 Cardiotoxicity of chemotherapy has been reported in patients ranging from children through adults (eg, with anthracyclines or cisplatin).6 Adriamycin-induced myocyte damage has been attributed to the production of toxic oxygen free radicals.7 This can cause lipid peroxidation of membranes resulting in vacuolation, irreversible damage, and myocyte replacement by fibrous tissue.7 The use of angiogenesis inhibitors in cancer therapy is expanding as are the associated adverse CV effects (eg, hypertension, thromboembolism, left ventricular dysfunction, and QTc prolongation).2,8 Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) plays a role in maintaining vascular homeostasis via the production of the vasodilator nitric oxide (NO) and decreased vascular resistance through the generation of new blood vessels.2,8 Therefore, it is not surprising that inhibition of VEGF signaling (eg, … [Full Text of this Article

Ανασχεδιαμός διαδικασιών σε οργανισμούς τοπικής αυτοδιοίκησης με έμφαση στη χρήση τεχνολογιών πληροφορικής και επικοινωνιών

Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο--Μεταπτυχιακή Εργασία. Διεπιστημονικό-Διατμηματικό Πρόγραμμα Μεταπτυχιακών Σπουδών (Δ.Π.Μ.Σ.) “Διοίκηση Επιχειρήσεων (ΜΒΑ)

Eustacio de Tesalónica: los elementos paganos de algunas citas homéricas del Canto VI de la Iliada y el comentarista cristiano

The present article demonstrates the way in which the byzantine scholar of the 12th century, Eustathios of Thessalonica, treats and integrates in his Commentary on Iliad some of the Homeric citations. Precisely, our interest is to show how the Christian commentator treats the pagan elements and the polytheistic expressions of the Homeric text. By a comparative lecture between the Homeric citations in the poetic text and those in Eustathios, we attempt to demonstrate the Christian modifications of the scholar in the Homeric text, the anti-pagan commentary that he invents, the replacement of the polytheistic expressions of the Homeric text by a monotheistic version, and the «method» of the scholar to modernize, in a way, the Homeric text in his era.El presente trabajo muestra la forma en la que el comentarista bizantino del siglo XII, Eustacio de Tesalónica, incluye en su Comentario a la Ilíada algunas citas de Homero. Precisamente, nuestra intención es mostrar cómo el comentarista cristiano trata los elementos paganos y las expresiones politeístas de Homero. A través de una lectura comparativa de las citas homéricas en el texto poético de la obra de Eustacio, pretendemos demostrar las modificaciones cristianas hechas por Eustacio en Homero, el comentario anti-pagano que inventa, el reemplazo de las expresiones politeístas del texto de Homero por una versión monoteísta y el “método” de Eustacio para modernizar el texto homérico en su época

The effect of nutrient solution composition on development of Cichorium spinosum plants

In the present study, the effect of nutrient solution composition on plant growth and quality of Cichorium spinosum L. was examined. Five fertilizer treatments were applied through irrigation water differing in the nitrate: ammonium nitrogen ratio of total nitrogen, namely (1) 100:0, (2) 75:25, (3) 50:50, (4) 25:75, 5) 0:100 NO3:NH4, while an extra treatment (6) with total nitrogen only in urea form was applied. All the treatments received the same amount of fertilizer units (20-20-20 mg L-1 of N, P and K, respectively). Plants were grown in 2 L pots containing peat (Klassman-Deilmann KTS2) and harvested three times during the growing period, and when they reached marketable size. At each harvest day, plant development was assessed (number, fresh and dry weight of leaves, and rosette diameter). The results suggest that nitrogen form has a significant effect on plant growth and yield of C. spinosum plants. In particular, fresh weight and number of leaves, and rosette diameter were significantly increased when ratio of nitrate: ammonium nitrogen was 75:25 or 0:100, especially in the 1st harvest, while in the 3rd harvest treatment 100:0 showed the best results. However, this did not affect total fresh weight and number of leaves which were higher for treatments 100:0 and 75:25, respectively. Therefore, higher ammonium nitrogen rates seem to be beneficial for plant development only during the early stages, while at later growth stages nitrate nitrogen has better results. In any case, ureic nitrogen is not suggested since it has severe effects on plant development, probably due to toxicity issues.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio