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This superb guide brings the work of Filippo Coarelli, one of the most widely published and well-known scholars of Roman topography, archeology and art, to a broad English-language audience. Conveniently organized by walking tours and illustrated throughout with clear maps, drawings, and plans,'Rome and environs: an archaeological guide' covers all of the major, and an unparalleled number of minor, ancient sites in the city, and, unlike most other guides of Rome, includes major and many minor sites within easy reach of the city, such as Ostia Antica, Palestrina, Tivoli, and the many areas of interest along the ancient Roman roads.

Background Ginger contains gingerols, shogaols, paradols, gingerdiones, and terpenes which have shown to display anti-inflammatory properties and inhibit pain receptors. For this reason, ginger has been marketed as a natural ingredient for joint health.Purpose To determine whether ginger supplementation affects joint flexibility, health markers, and/or perceptions about quality of life (QOL) in individuals with mild-to-moderate joint pain.Methods Thirty men and women (56.0 ± 9.0 years, 164.4 ± 14 cm, 86.5 ± 20.9 kg, 31.0 ± 7.5 kg/m2) with a history of mild-to-severe joint and muscle pain and inflammation participated in a randomized, placebo-controlled, parallel-arm, intervention trial. Participants donated fasting blood, completed questionnaires, rated pain in the thighs to standardized pressure, and then completed 3 × 10 repetitions of squats/deep knee bends while holding 30% of body mass on days 0, 30, and 56 of supplementation. Participants repeated tests after 2 days of recovery following each testing session. Blood samples were evaluated for clinical markers of safety. Knee and hip range of motion (ROM) was assessed via goniometry, while low back flexibility was assessed via a sit-and-reach test. The short form health survey version 2 (SF-36) was administered to evaluate participant’s subjective perceptions of QOL. Participants were matched by age, sex, and body mass for double-blind and to ingest 125 mg/d of a placebo or ginger (GingerT3®, Specnova LLC, Tysons Corner, Virginia), standardized to contain 10% total gingerols and no more than 3% total shogaols for 58 days. Data were analyzed using the general linear model (GLM) analysis of variance with repeated measures, mean changes from baseline with 95% confidence intervals, and chi-squared analysis.Results Knee ROM tended to be higher in the ginger group (p = 0.063, ηp2 = 0.118) and at the end of the study (Day 56: 20.8 ° [−1.6, 43.2], p = 0.068; Day 58: 9.4 ° [−1.9, 20.7], p = 0.10). No significant interaction effects were observed in sit-and-reach results (p = 0.798, ηp2 = 0.013). Eosinophil values tended to increase over time in the ginger group (p = 0.009, ηp2 = 0.130), with significantly higher eosinophil levels observed after 58 days (p = 0.05), although still within normal ranges. The low-density lipoprotein (LDL) to high-density lipoprotein (HDL) ratio and total cholesterol:HDL ratio tended to increase over time in the ginger group after 56 days of supplementation with differences observed between groups in cholesterol (22.1 mg/dL [−4.3, 48.3], p = 0.096), LDL cholesterol (25.3 mg/dl [0.1, 50.6], p = 0.049), non-HDL cholesterol (26.5 mg/dL [−1.1, 53.7], p = 0.060), and the LDL:HDL ratio (0.64 [−.05, 1.3], p = 0.068), in part because baseline values were generally higher in the ginger group. However, values were well within normal limits for healthy individuals. When evaluating changes from baseline, the difference in the LDL:HDL ratio was the only significant difference between groups (0.37 [0.004, 0.73], p = 0.048), while the ratio of CHL:HDL tended to be higher (0.40 [−0.03, 0.83], p = 0.067) with ginger supplementation. Pairwise comparisons revealed that fasting blood glucose values were lower in the ginger group after 56 (−11.5 mg/dL [−25.1, 2.0], p = 0.092) and 58 (−13.8 mg/dL [−26.1, −1.6], p = 0.028) days. All blood values remained within normal clinical ranges. Chi-squared analysis of the SF-36 QOL responses revealed significant differences between group ratings of health compared to 1 year ago, including reducing the volume of time allocated to work and other activities, experiencing bodily pain over the last 4 weeks, feeling full of life, and anticipating their health to worsen. Perceptions tended to differ between groups when asked to rate whether health limits lifting of carrying of groceries, physical health results in accomplishing less than they would like, physical health limiting the kind of work/activities, cutting down on time spent on work or other activities, and feeling nervous, happy, tired, healthy as anybody, and that health was excellent. A total of 73.3% participants in the placebo group reported using rescue doses of analgesics, while 46.7% participants in the ginger group reported taking analgesics. However, the chi-squared analysis did not reveal significant differences in the number of participants reporting the use of rescue doses of analgesics during baseline testing (χ2 p = 0.195), after 4 weeks (χ2 p = 0.232), and after 8 weeks of supplementation (χ2 p = 0.713). Participants typically rated side effects as infrequent (1–2 times/week) and of minimal to slight severity. However, there was some evidence that participants in the ginger group reported more frequent and severe headaches, heart palpitations, and nervousness.Conclusion Ginger supplementation appears to be well tolerated and have some favorable effects on knee ROM, markers of health and perceptions about QOL and may reduce use of over-the-counter analgesics in individuals with mild-to-moderate joint pain. Registered clinical trial #ISRCTN74292348.

There is growing interest in the development of transient, multiphysics models for nuclear reactors and analysis of uncertainties in those models. Reduced-order models (ROMs) provide a computationally cheaper alternative to compute uncertainties. However, the application of ROMs to transient systems remains a challenging task. Here, a 1-D, twogroup, time-dependent, diffusion model was used to explore the potential of three different ROMs: the intrusive POD-Galerkin and DMD-Galerkin methods and the purely datadriven DMD. For the problem studied, POD-Galerkin exhibited by far the best accuracy and was selected for further application to uncertainty propagation. Perturbations were introduced to the initial condition and to the cross-section data. A greedy-POD sampling procedure was used to construct a reduced space that captured much of the variation in the uncertain these parameters. Results indicate that relatively few samples of the uncertain parameters are needed to produce a basis for POD-Galerkin that leads to distributions of the quantities of interest that match well with those obtained from the full-order model using brute-force, forward sampling.

Background: the objective of this study is to evaluate gait symmetry in female dancers of different dance styles aged 19–21 years. The findings would enable us to understand the effects of long-term training on dancers’ gait. Material and methods: 21 dancers (8 modern dancers, 6 ballet dancers, and 7 Korean dancers) and 15 normal participants completed three validated walking tests at normal speed on a 5 m × 1 m walking track. Results: The modern dancer group showed a significant difference from the control group in terms of step length symmetry index. The right hip sagittal plane ROM was smaller in both the ballet dancer group and the Korean dancer group than in the control group. There was a significant difference in sagittal plane hip ROM in the Korean dancer group compared with the control group. The hip symmetry index in the horizontal plane was greater in all three groups of dancers than in the control group. Conclusions: Long-term training between different dance styles leads to different gait asymmetry effects in dancers.

PEPAdb (Prehistoric Europe's Personal Adornment Database) is a long-term, open-ended project that aims to improve access to archaeological data online. Its website (https://pepadb.us.es) publishes and analyses datasets about prehistoric personal adornment, drawing on the results of various research projects and bibliographic references.

\"Humanist collaborators also contributed to the development of visual projects in many ways. That they served as advisors and propagandists is well known, but we have scant knowledge of exactly how they worked with artists, and especially with architects. How did their ideas make their way into form? The role of the humanist advisor has been studied primarily in respect to the representational media of painting and sculpture, focusing on so-called iconographic programs or inventions; but their role in architectural projects is much less understood\"-- Provided by publisher.

Vortex shedding around circular cylinders is a well known and studied phenomenon that appears in many engineering fields. A Reduced Order Model (ROM) of the incompressible ow around a circular cylinder is presented in this work. The ROM is built performing a Galerkin projection of the governing equations onto a lower dimensional space. The reduced basis space is generated using a Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) approach. In particular the focus is into (i) the correct reproduction of the pres- sure field, that in case of the vortex shedding phenomenon, is of primary importance for the calculation of the drag and lift coefficients; (ii) the projection of the Governing equations (momentum equation and Poisson equation for pressure) performed onto different reduced basis space for velocity and pressure, respectively; (iii) all the relevant modifications necessary to adapt standard finite element POD-Galerkin methods to a finite volume framework. The accuracy of the reduced order model is assessed against full order results.