Vesperae solennes de confessore : K. V. 339 /

Publisher's no.: Edition Breitkopf Nr. 1533.

Diui Mesue et noua quedam vltra ea que secum associari co[n]sueueru[n]t Opera ... Mundini de lentiis super canones eius vniversales expositio luculentissima. Christophori Georgii florentini super eius antidotarium expositio clarissima. Christophori eiusdem tractatus de aqua & ptisana ordeacea conficienda fo. 98. Petri Apponensis fructuose additiones. fo. 142. Nicolai medicorum expertissimi antidotarium paruum. fo. 271. Ioa[n]nis de Sancto amando super idem Nicolai antidotarium expositio facu[n]dissima. fo. 303. De quid pro quo. i. de simplicibus in eade[m] operatione co[m]municantibus assu[m]matio. fo. 342. Synonimorum medicinalium. i. nominum ide[m] medicinale significantium tractatus. fo. 342. Bulcasis siue seruitoris medicorum profundissimi libellus copiosissimus. fo. 346. Preclarum Saladini pro aromatariis compendium. fo. 357. Gentilis Fulginei de dosi medicinarum inuestiganda libellus. fo. 339. Alchi[n]di medicorum... de medicinaru[m] co[m]positar[um] gradib[us] i[n]uestiga[n]dis libellus. 373. Subtilissimus Habe[n]guefit de simplicibus medicinis libellus. fo. 369. Egregius Apulei... de ponderibus et mensuris libellus. fo. 372. Antidotorum in Mesue & Nicolai antidotariis contentorum index. fo. 377. Remediorum variis egritudinibus conferentium summula copiosissima. fo. 38. Additiones noue ad multa i[n] Mesue & Nicolai antidotariis...

Contiene además las adiciones de Francesco di Piedimonte al Grabadin de Mesue (f. 142-271), y el comentario de Matthaeus Platearius al Antidotarium de Nicolás Salernitano (f. 271-303), acompañado del texto original.

Stable isotope and Mg/Ca record of IODP Site 339-U1385

Although millennial-scale climate variability (<10 ka) has been well studied during the last glacial cycles, little is known about this important aspect of climate in the early Pleistocene, prior to the Middle Pleistocene Transition. Here we present an early Pleistocene climate record at centennial resolution for two representative glacials (marine isotope stages (MIS) 37-41 from approximately 1235 to 1320 ka) during the "41 ka world" at Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Site U1385 (the "Shackleton Site") on the southwest Iberian margin. Millennial-scale climate variability was suppressed during interglacial periods (MIS 37, MIS 39, and MIS 41) and activated during glacial inceptions when benthic d18O exceeded 3.2 per mil. Millennial variability during glacials MIS 38 and MIS 40 closely resembled Dansgaard-Oeschger events from the last glacial (MIS 3) in amplitude, shape, and pacing. The phasing of oxygen and carbon isotope variability is consistent with an active oceanic thermal bipolar see-saw between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres during most of the prominent stadials. Surface cooling was associated with systematic decreases in benthic carbon isotopes, indicating concomitant changes in the meridional overturning circulation. A comparison to other North Atlantic records of ice rafting during the early Pleistocene suggests that freshwater forcing, as proposed for the late Pleistocene, was involved in triggering or amplifying perturbations of the North Atlantic circulation that elicited a bipolar see-saw response. Our findings support similarities in the operation of the climate system occurring on millennial time scales before and after the Middle Pleistocene Transition despite the increases in global ice volume and duration of the glacial cycles.

Terminally ill cancer patients’ wish to hasten death

This exploratory study investigated factors associated with the wish to hasten death among a sample of terminally ill cancer patients. Semi-structured interviews conducted on a total of 72 hospice and home palliative care patients were subjected to qualitative analysis using QSRNUDIST. The main themes to emerge suggested that patients with a high wish to hasten death had greater concerns with physical symptoms and psychologica l suffering, perceived themselves to be more of a burden to others, and experienced higher levels of demoralization, while also reporting less confidence in symptom control, fewer social supports, less satisfaction with life experiences and fewer religious beliefs when compared with patients who had a moderate or no wish to hasten death. The implications of these findings will be discussed.

Micro-structure differences in kaolinite suspensions

SEM observations of the aqueous suspensions of kaolinite from Birdwood (South Australia) and Georgia (USA) show noticeable differences in number of physical behaviour which has been explained by different microstructure constitution.. Birdwood kaolinite dispersion gels are observed at very low solid loadings in comparison with Georgia KGa-1 kaolinite dispersions which remain fluid at higher solids loading. To explain this behaviour, the specific particle interactions of Birdwood kaolinite, different from interaction in Georgia kaolinite have been proposed. These interactions may be brought about by the presence of nano-bubbles on clay crystal edges and may force clay particles to aggregate by bubble coalescence. This explains the predominance of stair step edge-edge like (EE) contacts in suspension of Birdwood kaolinite. Such EE linked particles build long strings that form a spacious cell structure. Hydrocarbon contamination of colloidal kaolinite particles and low aspect ratio are discussed as possible explanations of this unusual behaviour of Birdwood kaolinite. In Georgia KGa-1 kaolinite dispersions instead of EE contact between platelets displayed in Birdwood kaolinite, most particles have edge to face (EF) contacts building a cardhouse structure. Such an arrangement is much less voluminous in comparison with the Birdwood kaolinite cellular honeycomb structure observed previously in smectite aqueous suspensions. Such structural characteristics of KGa-1 kaolinite particles enable higher solid volume fractions pulps to form before significantly networked gel consistency is attained.