The short but significant experiment of the Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy left politically ephemeral albeit culturally surprisingly durable traces peninsula. Among them, epigraphy takes centre stage when discussing decrees, laws, and public documents, which are a direct expression rulers’ will to gain greater visibility disseminate their voice. However, is also crucial knowing names, professions...

Begun in 2021, the first team encounter of project “Conques Global World” generated an innovative reinterpretation site. Departing from nineteenth- and twentieth-century explication Conques as ideal image Romanesque Middle Ages, site is here envisaged a space memorialization past for present. This memorialization, we argue, began fact at church’s conception, with founders’ decision to reflect c...

Abstract Scholars have generally underestimated the level of Roman involvement in Africa period between annexation Carthage 146 b.c . and Caesar's victory at Thapsus 46 ., land which Romans annexed has been conventionally called public ( ager publicus ). This paper analyses surviving text African provisions epigraphic lex agraria 111 notes that term is not attested provincial section law. The a...

Abstract A shipwreck of the 3rd/2nd decade BC found near Comacchio (prov. Ferrara, Italy) in 1980 contained not only well-preserved technical equipment and commercial goods but also 102 Roman lead ingots. Since then, origin ingots has been intensively discussed. Domergue et al. (2012) connected epigraphic elements with isotope analyses favored southeastern Spanish ore mines being source metal. ...

The "evidence-based medicine" (EBM) paradigm is centered on the concept of "best evidence" and clinical studies based on this approach are more likely to be considered by physicians in their practice. In this paper we describe an ontology representing the concepts involved in evidence-based medicine and meta-analysis and show how an ontological approach can be applied both for revisiting EBM co...

Shared decision-making (SDM) invokes the bidirectional communication between physicians and patients required to involve the patient's preference in the eventual treatment choice. This paper will explain what SDM is, why it is important, and how it is performed in clinical practice. It is an essential part of evidence-based medicine, as it helps determine whether the available evidence on the p...

Full or partial loss of function in the upper limb is an increasingly common due to sports injuries, occupational injuries, spinal cord injuries, and strokes. Typically treatment for these conditions relies on manipulative physiotherapy procedures which are extremely labour intensive. Although mechanical assistive device exist for limbs this is rare for the upper body. In this paper we describe...

[This corrects the article on p. 105 in vol. 18, PMID: 28116018.].