STUDY DESIGN A retrospective review was performed to identify patients at risk for secondary neurologic deterioration after complete cervical spinal cord injury. OBJECTIVE To examine the causes of early neurologic deterioration in patients with complete spinal cord injury at a regional spinal cord injury center. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA After complete spinal cord injury, neurologic deteri...

This paper will give an in-depth discussion of Jesus’ expression “I am Alpha and Omega” (Apocalypse of John = Revelation 1.8) and its influence on the Manichaean writings, on the one hand, and the reason for the division of Mani’s Living Gospel into twenty-two chapters, corresponding to the twenty-two letters of the Manichaean alphabet, on the other. The pape...

In the Spring 1987 issue of AUSS I examined the important Pro toSinai tic inscription discovered in 1960 by Georg Gers ter. This inscription is located a considerable distance west of the other Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions which cluster around the mines at Serabit el-Khadem.2 Both by its location and by its contents it appears quite distinct from the usual mining inscriptions or dedications writ...

[1] Previous studies have shown strong contrasting trends in annual sea ice duration and in monthly sea ice concentration in two regions of the Southern Ocean: decreases in the western Antarctic Peninsula/southern Bellingshausen Sea (wAP/sBS) region and increases in the western Ross Sea (wRS) region. To better understand the evolution of these regional sea ice trends, we utilize the full tempor...