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Record 9 of 133
Author(s): Hawley, Nicola L; Rousham, Emily K; Johnson, William; Norris, Shane A; Pettifor, John M; Cameron, Noel
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Pettifor, John D-5943-2012
Title: Determinants of relative skeletal maturity in South African children.
Source: Bone
Volume: 50
Issue: 1
Pages: 259-64
Published: 2012-Jan
Abstract: The variation of skeletal maturity about chronological age is a sensitive indicator of population health. Age appropriate or advanced skeletal maturity is a reflection of adequate environmental and social conditions, whereas delayed maturation suggests inadequate conditions for optimal development. There remains a paucity of data, however, to indicate which specific biological and environmental factors are associated with advancement or delay in skeletal maturity. The present study utilises longitudinal data from the South African Birth to Twenty (Bt20) study to indentify predictors of relative skeletal maturity (RSM) in early adolescence. A total of 244 black South African children (n=131 male) were included in this analysis. Skeletal maturity at age 9/10 years was assessed using the Tanner and Whitehouse III RUS technique. Longitudinal data on growth, socio-economic position and pubertal development were entered into sex-specific multivariable general linear regression models with relative skeletal maturity (skeletal age-chronological age) as the outcome. At 9/10 years of age males showed an average of 0.66 years delay in skeletal maturation relative to chronological age. Females showed an average of 1.00 year delay relative to chronological age. In males, being taller at 2 years (p<0.01) and heavier at 2 years (p<0.01) predicted less delay in RSM at age 9/10 years, independent of current size and body composition. In females, both height at 2 years and conditional weight at 2 years predicted less delay in RSM at 9/10 years (p<0.05) but this effect was mediated by current body composition. Having greater lean mass at 9/10 years was associated with less delayed RSM in females (p<0.01) as was pubertal status at the time of skeletal maturity assessment (p<0.01). This study identifies several predictors of skeletal maturation at 9/10 years, indicating a role for early life exposures in determining the rate of skeletal maturation during childhood independently of current stature.
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ISSN: 1873-2763
Accession Number: MEDLINE:22075209
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Record 10 of 133
Author(s): Fehl, Gerhard
Title: Berlin and London: two cultures and two kinds of urban squares
Source: URBAN MORPHOLOGY
Volume: 15
Issue: 2
Pages: 121-132
Published: OCT 2011
Abstract: The contrasting planning cultures that gave rise to urban squares in London and Berlin in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries are explored. The differences reflect the different roles played by king or state, the different types of interaction between landowners, builders and their clientele, the different origins of financial resources invested in urban development, the different forms of land tenure and ways of disposing of land for urbanization, and the significance of different 'conceptual paradigms' concerning urban open space. In London the concept of rus in urbe entailed primarily the upgrading of a marketable urban product (plots and dwellings), whereas in Berlin the conventional notion of public space related to a 'representative public stage' provided by a monarch and serving primarily his own glorification.
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ISSN: 1027-4278
Accession Number: WOS:000295100700003
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Record 11 of 133
Author(s): Markman, Kristina
Title: TACTICS OF MANIPULATION: A REVISIONIST STUDY OF GEDIMINAS AND THE THREAT OF TEUTONIC INVASION, 1315-1342
Source: COMITATUS-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES
Volume: 42
Pages: 115-133
Published: 2011
Abstract: In the early fourteenth century, the pagan Grand Duchy of Lithuania became a prominent player in the political, economic, military, and religious affairs of Europe and Rus'. As demonstrated by his correspondence with Western Europe, Grand Duke Gediminas (1315-1342) exaggerated Lithuania's position as a confessional and military frontier. Much like his neighboring kingdoms, the duke presented Lithuania as a victim of Teutonic incursion. The threat of Teutonic invasion, while real, was far from existential; Lithuania was quite capable of defending itself. When examined within the broader context of fourteenth-century European diplomacy, Gediminas's attacks on the Knights appear to be part of a larger political movement aimed at strengthening Lithuanian economy and shoring up commercial and military alliances.
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ISSN: 0069-6412
Accession Number: WOS:000293993900005
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Record 12 of 133
Author(s): Kangin, Murat; Aksu, Nejat; Yavascan, Onder; Anil, Murat; Kara, Orhan Deniz; Bal, Alkan; Kamit, Fulya
Title: Significance of Postnatal Follow-up of Infants with Vesicoureteral Reflux Having Antenatal Hydronephrosis.
Source: Iranian journal of pediatrics
Volume: 20
Issue: 4
Pages: 427-34
Published: 2010-Dec
Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the frequency of urinary tract infections (UTIs) and degree of renal parenchymal damage as well as the parameters of growth, development and nutritional status in antenatal hydronephrosis cases with vesicoureteral reflux (VUR).
METHODS: Infants, whose antenatal ultrasonography (US) showed a fetal renal pelvic diameter of 5 mm or greater were investigated. Of the 277 infants with antenatal HN, 36 [56 renal units (RUs)] were diagnosed with VUR. All cases with VUR were evaluated in terms of the frequency of UTIs, scars appearing on (99m)Technetium-dimercaptosuccinic acid scan (DMSA), growth and development [height and weight standard deviation scores (HSDS and WSDS)], and nutritional status [relative weight (RW)]. Statistical evaluation was performed using the Chi-squared test.
FINDINGS: Of these 36 patients with VUR, 25 (69.4%) were males and 11 (30.6%) females. Of the 56 RUs, 48 (85.7%) had severe VUR (≥ Grade III). The mean duration of postnatal follow-up was 37.824.50 months. The annual UTI frequency was found to be 1.250.83 episodes/year. Of these 36 infants, 32 (88.8%) recovered from VUR following either medical (17 patients, 47.2%) or surgical (15 patients, 41.6%) treatment. The initial DMSA showed parenchymal defects in 16 (44.4%) RUs, and 4 RUs showed recovery in the final DMSA. Although statistically insignificant (P>0.05), initial growth and development (HSDS: -0.170.86; WSDS: 0.000.14) and nutritional status (RW: 98.198.81) values gradually improved (0.051.06, 0.061.071 and 101.9714.85, respectively).
CONCLUSION: Postnatal early diagnosis and appropriate management of VUR in infants with antenatal hydronephrosis can prevent the occurrence of frequent UTIs, renal scarring and malnutrition, enabling normal growth and development.
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ISSN: 2008-2150
Accession Number: MEDLINE:23056742
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Record 13 of 133
Author(s): Sun, Xiao-Tang; Easwar, T R; Cielo, Balce; Song, Sang-Heon; Kim, Seung-Ju; Song, Hae-Ryong
Title: Comparison of bone age delay and recovery in Meyer dysplasia and Legg-Calve-Perthes disease: a pilot study.
Source: Journal of orthopaedic science : official journal of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association
Volume: 15
Issue: 6
Pages: 746-52
DOI: 10.1007/s00776-010-1537-2
Published: 2010-Nov
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Meyer dysplasia (MD) is a rare disease but readily mistaken for Legg-Calve-Perthes disease (LCPD). Although most published studies on MD have characterized and differentiated it from LCPD radiologically and clinically, differences with regard to bone age delay and recovery have not been sought. We deemed it necessary to distinguish bone age delay and recovery patterns between the two entities for better differentiation, prognostication, and parental advice.
METHODS: Bone age delay and recovery of eight patients who were initially diagnosed with LCPD but were found to have MD were retrospectively reviewed and compared with those of age-matched patients with LCPD. Based on hand radiographs, the radius-ulna-short bones (RUSs) and carpal bone ages were determined using the Tanner and Whitehouse 3 (TW3) method. Minimum follow-up was 2 years (range 2-5 years). Differences in RUS and carpal bone ages and recovery patterns between the two entities were analyzed using trend lines in scatter plots.
RESULTS: The mean delay of RUS bone age was significantly less in MD (0.52 0.87 years) than in LCPD (1.11 0.99 years). However, the difference between the mean carpal bone age delay in MD (1.13 1.28 years) and LCPD (1.47 1.19 years) was not significant. Trend lines showed faster bone age recovery patterns in MD than in LCPD.
CONCLUSIONS: Bone age was delayed in both MD and LCPD but was less delayed in the former. RUS bone age showed more significant differences than carpal bone age when comparing the two entities and hence might be more useful for differentiating the two. Earlier bone age recovery patterns may be anticipated in patients with MD.
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ISSN: 1436-2023
Accession Number: MEDLINE:21116891
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Record 14 of 133
Author(s): Karatay, Osman
Title: The First Rus' in the Black Sea and the Construction of Sarkel
Source: BELLETEN
Volume: 74
Issue: 269
Pages: 71-+
Published: APR 2010
Abstract: The Slays, who were living peacefully under the Khazars and constantly expanding eastward, appear on the Don basin at the beginning of the 8(th) century. This place is situated on the fur trade route for between Northern Europe and Black Sea coast. Simultaneously, the Rus', a Nordic tribe from Sweden, entered among the Slav masses as warrior-traders, and came to the Khazar ethnic borders probably in the second half of the 8(th) century, but definitely at the beginning of the 9th century. Thus means they began to become acquainted with the Black Sea world. Apart from their commercial activities the Rus' sometimes tested their military might in the areas they reached. In one such occasion in 830's, they inflicted great harm on the Khazars, whom they had caught unprepared along the Don river. The latter in turn defeated them with the help of the Magyars, and subdued vast regions toward the Baltic during their counterattack. That the Khazars constructed the castle Sarkel on the Don, that Russian embassy in Istanbul could not return home due to 'fierce' peoples and had to go via the Frank domain, and that the Magyars rose in Black Sea affairs as an active force were all inter-related developments in the same period. Consequently, even though they had to strive for more than 8,5 centuries to reach the coasts, the Rus'/Russians became one of the determinative forces in the Black Sea basin.
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ISSN: 0041-4255
Accession Number: WOS:000283533800002
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Record 15 of 133
Author(s): Neumann, Iver B.
Title: Early polities: Extant literature and a nutshell case study (Rus', ca. 800-1100)
Source: INTERNASJONAL POLITIKK
Volume: 68
Issue: 4
Pages: 571-+
Published: 2010
Abstract: The article offers an overview of the literature on early polities (often known as early or archaic states). The rationale for its publication has to do with the dearth of interest in and work on the issue in Norwegian scholarly debates generally, and within the social sciences specifically. By way of a nutshell case study of early Rus', I argue that we need to address what happened in the Eurasian steppe if we are to understand early polities in what we now call Europe. Understanding early polities will help our understanding of state formation as a general phenomenon. The article is a also plug for undertaking these studies by focusing on the relations between the coterminous polities in question rather than by using the traditional inside-out focus.
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ISSN: 0020-577X
Accession Number: WOS:000285955300003
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Record 16 of 133
Author(s): Okenfuss, Max J.
Title: The Cambridge History of Russia, vol 1, From Early Rus' to 1689
Source: JAHRBUCHER FUR GESCHICHTE OSTEUROPAS
Volume: 58
Issue: 4
Pages: 569-572
Published: 2010
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ISSN: 0021-4019
Accession Number: WOS:000287468300006
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Record 17 of 133
Author(s): Rakhimzyanov, Bulat R.
Title: The Debatable Questions of the Early Kasimov Khanate (1437-1462)
Source: RUSSIAN HISTORY-HISTOIRE RUSSE
Volume: 37
Issue: 2
Pages: 83-101
DOI: 10.1163/187633110X494643
Published: 2010
Abstract: In this paper I will try to show that the Kasimov khanate was founded in 1445 as a result of an oral agreement between the exiled khan of the Golden Horde Ulug-Muhammad and Muscovite Grand Prince Vasilii II. Its foundation wasn't a voluntary measure of Muscovite rulers. It was founded in close connection with the relations between Rus' and the Golden Horde in general. It could arise only in the atmosphere of hostility and implacability typical for the Muscovite Grand Prince's house under the conditions of the rather frequent change of the Grand Princes. To provide you some historical basis, I will first speak briefly about the historiography of the problem and present my own view based mainly on the data of the "dogovornye gramory" (treaties between Russian Princes) and "letopisi" (chronicles) afterwards.
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ISSN: 0094-288X
Accession Number: WOS:000278503000001