Academic literature on the topic 'Lucini family History'

Summary This paper investigates the ties of the Statilius family to the Caesarian party and to Roman politics more generally during the last decades of the Roman Republic. After establishing the gens Statilia's origin and potential political position in Lucania, it contests earlier suppositions about what started the family's prominence in Rome proper. The paper argues that, instead of the Statilii catapulting into prominence at Rome during the time of the Augustan novus homo Titus Statilius Taurus (cos. 36, 27 BCE), their involvement began earlier, as part of the equestrian branch of the conspiratorial followers of Catiline, a datum which might provide enlightenment about the „missing clients“ of Julius Caesar's early career.

Chemosymbiosis can be identified in fossil taxa and followed through the fossil record with some certainty if several independent criteria are met. No hard part morphology reliably reflects a chemosymbiotic lifestyle, but soft part morphology can be used to demonstrate that chemosymbiosis is primitive in some groups. Throughout the evolutionary history of a taxon, faunal and facies associations can provide support for a chemosymbiotic interpretation. Biogeochemical evidence from fossil organic matter may, in some cases, demonstrate the δ13C depletion recognized as being chemosymbiotic in origin.Morphology of extant lucinacean bivalves indicates that the superfamily was primitively chemosymbiotic and suggests that the Ungulinidae and some of the Thyasiridae have secondarily lost their bacterial symbionts. This observation, along with facies and faunal data, suggests that the family Lucinidae has always been chemosymbiotic and that the Lucinidae are a reliable group to use in evaluating the paleobiological effects of chemosymbiosis.Biogeochemical evidence does suggest that lucinid bivalves were chemosymbiotic in the past and stable isotope analyses remain the only direct method for evaluating chemosymbiosis in the fossil record. For taxa with no extant members but with interesting faunal or facies associations, δ13C of the organic matrix is still the best hope of evaluating this trophic strategy.

The radiographic appearance of the breast on mammography varies among women, and reflects variations in breast tissue composition and the different X-ray attenuation characteristics of these tissues. Fat is radiologically lucent and appears dark on a mammogram. Connective and epithelial tissues are radiologically dense and appear light. These variations in appearance are commonly described as the percentage of the breast image that is radiologically dense, or as percent mammographic density (PMD). There is now extensive evidence that PMD is a risk factor for breast cancer, with a 4- to 6-fold gradient in risk between women with 75% or more PMD compared with those with 10% or less. However, the accuracy of risk prediction in individual women is modest. The extent of PMD is associated inversely with greater age, parity, and weight, and is reduced by the menopause and by tamoxifen. PMD is positively associated with greater height, a family history of breast cancer, and is increased by combined hormone therapy. The relative risk associated with density is substantially larger than the relative risk of breast cancer associated with a family history of the disease or any of the menstrual and reproductive risk factors. It is estimated that the risks of breast cancer attributable to density of 50% or more may be 16% for all breast cancers. Although combined hormone therapy and tamoxifen respectively increase a decrease both PMD and breast cancer risk, there is as yet insufficient evidence to use PMD as a surrogate marker for breast cancer.

Abstract A 40 yo African American female with pmhx of T2DM, DLD was admitted for worsening leg and arm pain that started a year prior but had worsened in the last 6 months. Pain started in the right arm and progressed to include the right leg and left leg. She had presented to the ER 3 times in the last 3 weeks with no diagnosis and prescribed anti-inflammatories. On ROS she had unintended weight loss of 50 lbs. Pain was not relieved with anti-inflammatories or narcotics. She was diagnosed with diabetes in the previous 5 years and had not been compliant with her medications. Plain x-rays showed OA of the hip. An osseus survey showed multiple expansile, bubbly, and lucent intramedullary lesions consistent with polyostotic fibrous dysplasia versus multiple myeloma. CT showed a radiolucent lesion of the left femur with absence of normal bone trabeculae. Her labs showed normal calcium, phosphorous, renal function, PTH and no evidence of monoclonal gammopathy. Vitamin D was low at 8.2 ng/ml (6.6–49 ng/ml). CT CAP showed no concern for malignancy in other organs. A lipid profile was done and showed elevated fasting triglycerides of 2617 mg/dL (<150 mg/dl) and LDL direct 54 mg/dl (<100 mg/dl). A1c was 11.2% on admission. She denied any use of alcohol, estrogens, SSRI’s. No history of pancreatitis. On physical exam she did not have tendinous xanthomas, eruptive xanthomas, palmar xanthomas, or lipemia retinalis. Family history not significant for lipid disorders. Patient was fasted for 24 hours and then started on intensive insulin regimen as well as fenofibrate for hypertriglyceridemia. Triglycerides came down to less than 500 over 7 days. She was evaluated by ortho for her bone lesions and underwent bone lesion biopsy as well as prophylactic IMN of her bilateral femurs for prevention of impending fragility fractures. Bone biopsy was significant for xanthoma of the bone. Following discharge, she remained on fenofibrate and fish oil as well as a basal/bolus insulin regimen. Triglycerides remained controlled. She has not followed up outpatient for further workup. This case highlights an atypical presentation of triglyceride deposition in the setting of hypertriglyceridemia. It shows that hypertriglyceridemia should be included in the differential for lytic lesions when preliminary workup is negative. It also highlights that complications other than pancreatitis and cardiovascular disease can significantly alter a patient’s life if triglycerides go untreated.

Abstract Introduction Parathyroid crisis is a serious, life-threatening complication of primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) which causes severe symptomatic hypercalcemia and affects multiple organ systems. PHPT is far less common in children and young adults, but they are frequently symptomatic often with kidney and skeletal involvement. We report a case of young adult who presents with severe symptomatic hypercalcemia with classical skeletal findings. Case A 23-year-old man with past medical history of autism spectrum disorder and obesity presented with extreme fatigue, malaise, epigastric pain, nausea and vomiting for 5 days. Patient also reported diffuse bilateral lower extremity pain for 1 year with weakness and difficulty in ambulation for 1 month. He did not see any provider in the last 2 years. He was not on any prescription or over the counter medications. He was found to have severe hypercalcemia with corrected calcium of 14.7 mg/dL, low phosphorus 1.6 mg/dL, low 25 hydroxy vitamin D <4 ng/mL, very high parathyroid hormone (PTH) 1859 pg/mL and high alkaline phosphatase 1167 U/L. No prior history of hypercalcemia. No family history of hypercalcemia, thyroid cancer, pheochromocytoma, pituitary or pancreatic tumor. CT abdomen was performed on admission due to severe gastrointestinal symptoms which revealed left nephrolithiasis, sclerotic changes in the end plates of the spines and multiple lucent lesions throughout femoral necks, symphysis pubis, and sacroiliac joints. It also showed chronic rib fractures. Knee x ray showed bilateral extensive sub-periosteal, sub-tendinous and subligamentous bony resorption and brown tumors. Patient was treated with aggressive intravenous (IV) hydration, calcitonin and IV pamidronate with gradual improvement in serum calcium. Thyroid ultrasound showed left inferior 3.2 cm mass suspicious for parathyroid adenoma. Surgical team was consulted. Patient underwent left inferior parathyroidectomy along with left hemithyroidectomy due to concern for parathyroid cancer. Surgical pathology showed parathyroid adenoma. Patient required aggressive calcium supplementation, along with vitamin D, calcitriol and magnesium to prevent severe hypocalcemia and hungry bone syndrome. He recovered well and was discharged with outpatient follow up. Conclusion Our case highlights that parathyroid crisis is a serious endocrine emergency associated with significant morbidity and urgent surgical intervention after stabilizing serum calcium level leads to a favorable outcome. The finding of parathyroid adenoma is interesting because the constellation of severe skeletal involvement, nephrolithiasis and significantly elevated PTH and calcium in our patient was concerning for parathyroid carcinoma. Clinicians should consider both in patients with severe hypercalcemia and PTH more than 5 times upper limit of normal. The characteristic finding of osteitis fibrosa cystica in our case is rare in United States and is seen in <2% of patients with PHPT due to routine biochemical screening leading to early diagnosis of asymptomatic cases. Presentation: Saturday, June 11, 2022 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

The family Palaeothentidae contains some of the dentally more specialized of the small-bodied marsupials of South America and was a clade almost equivalent with the Abderitidae in having been the most abundant caenolestoids. They were unquestionably the most diverse, containing two subfamilies, nine genera, and 19 species, with a distribution ranging from Colombia to Tierra del Fuego. The best and most continuous record of the Palaeothentidae is from Patagonian Argentina where eight genera and 17 species are recognized. There, the Palaeothentidae ranged in age from the Deseadan (later Oligocene) through the late Santacrucian (middle Miocene—the Santacrucian record lasting from about 19.4 m.y. to considerably less than 16.05 m.y. before the present). The family appears to have survived longer in Colombia. The palaeothentine Palaeothentes boliviensis (Bolivia) and the incertae sedis genus and species Hondathentes cazador (Colombia) are the only taxa restricted to an extra-Argentine distribution.Two palaeothentid subfamilies are recognized. The subfamily Acdestinae is new and is erected to accommodate four genera and five species of herbivorous to frugivorous palaeothentids known from the Deseadan through the middle–late Santacrucian. Three of those genera are new (Acdestoides, Acdestodon, and Trelewthentes), as are three acdestine species placed in the genera Acdestodon, Trelewthentes, and Acdestis. The largely faunivorous Palaeothentinae includes four genera and 13 species; the genera Propalaeothentes and Carlothentes are new and new species are described for the genera Propalaeothentes (2) and Palaeothentes (3). Carlothentes is named for Ameghino's Deseadan species Epanorthus chubutensis, and Ameghino's genus Pilchenia is resurrected to accommodate Deseadan P. lucina. New species include: Acdestodon bonapartei, Trelewthentes rothi, Acdestis lemairei, Palaeothentes marshalli, P. migueli, P. pascuali, and Propalaeothentes hatcheri.The Palaeothentinae contains more generalized palaeothentid species than does the Acdestinae, but also includes some very specialized forms. The most generalized known palaeothentid is the Colombian Hondathentes cazador. Both the Acdestinae and Palaeothentinae have large- and small-bodied species; Palaeothentes aratae was the largest palaeothentid (about 550 g), and P. pascuali n. sp. the smallest (about 50 g). The oldest known members of both subfamilies consist of five of the six largest palaeothentids.The evolutionary history of the Palaeothentidae is complicated by thick sequences containing no fossils, several lacunae in sequences that yield fossils, and a continent-wide distribution of localities. By far the densest and most continuous record of the family exists in the coastal Santa Cruz Formation of Patagonian Argentina. Three major clades exist within the Palaeothentidae: 1) the incertae sedis species Hondathentes cazador; 2) the Acdestinae; and 3) the Palaeothentinae (including the new genus Propalaeothentes). The evolution of dental characters in these clades is documented with the aid of 719 new specimens (about 80% of the hypodigm of the family), most of which (about 90% of the new specimens) have precise stratigraphic data.Biostratigraphic study of the new samples was assisted by a new technique of temporal analysis of paleosols and by radiometric age determinations, the latter indicating that the upper part of the Pinturas Formation (16.6 Ma) is older than the lower part of the Santa Cruz Formation (16.4 Ma) and that the top of the marine Monte León Formation (Grupo Patagonica) is older than either (19.4 Ma).Fifty-two gnathic and dental characters were used to identify the taxonomy and to reconstruct the phylogeny of the Palaeothentidae. Analysis of sequencing of appearances of derived characters documents rampant convergences at all taxonomic levels and considerable phenotypic plasticity (variable percent representation of different mutable character morphs) in the organization of the palaeothentid dentition. Certain highly generalized character states survive for the duration of the family in some lineages, whereas others are phenotypically lost for a time and then reappear as a minor percentage of character variability. In general, replacement faunas of palaeothentids were morphologically more generalized than their antecedent forms. The high rate of character mutability and the survival and reappearance of generalized dental characters in the Palaeothentidae were probably related to massive events of pyroclastic deposition that periodically caused at least local extinctions of small mammal populations throughout the duration of the Patagonian middle Tertiary. Dental character regression indicates that palaeothentids arose prior to the Deseadan from a relatively large-bodied marsupial having generalized tribosphenic molars with more or less bunodont cusps; probably an unknown member of the Didelphidae.

Abstract The 1960 Italian film Rocco and His Brothers (Rocco e i suoi Fratelli) is one of the greatest exemplars of Italian post-war cinema. The film depicts the disintegration and deterritorialization of an immigrant family from Lucania, a southern Italian village in Basilicata, and their relocation to Milan. The director of the film, Luchino Visconti, continuously alludes to the protagonist’s fascination with their hometown (paese). This nostalgic and wholesome image of paese contrasts the ubiquitous alienation and exploitation in the industrial North. The film is replete with signs and metaphors which explicitly and implicitly reinforce the evident tension between the immigrant family and an industrialized metropolis. Based on an interview with Mario Licari, Visconti’s assistant who accompanied him on location visits, this article offers an opportunity to revisit significant locations of the film such as Quartiere Fabio Filzi, the Alfa Romeo Factory, Milan Duomo, Ponte Della Ghisolfa, Parco Sempione, Stazione Centrale and Circolo Arci Bellezza. Underpinned by the theories of Giorgio Agamben, Antonio Gramsci and Andre Bazin this essay creates a theoretical framework that works in parallel with a detailed analysis of the scenes, original archival material, dialogues, places, and history of architecture of the locations. The article demonstrates how urban and architectural spaces not only accommodated the narrative of the film but shaped, twisted and structured the story of the masterpiece. The paper shows how Visconti succeeded in visualizing a ‘hidden’ Milan that was never appeared on the silver screen before Rocco and His Brothers.

It is a well-known story how, after the death in 1683 of John Collins (F.R.S. 1667), the mathematical correspondent of Barrow, Newton, Wallis, James Gregory and so many more, Collins’s voluminous collection of books and papers passed into the possession of William Jones (1675-1749; F.R.S. 1712), himself an avid collector and transcriber of the manuscripts of Newton, Halley and others. Because Jones had acted as tutor to George Parker, later second Earl of Macclesfield, and afterwards lived for many years at Shirbum Castle, Oxon., this enhanced collection has remained ever since with that family. It is equally well known that the book edited by S.J. Rigaud in 1841, The Correspondence of Scientific Men of the Seventeenth Century , was drawn from the riches of the Macclesfield collection. Most of the letters had not been printed before and not many have been re-edited since. However, when in 1712 Isaac Newton prepared his biographical riposte against Leibniz in defence of his original discovery of the method of fluxions, he printed extracts from a number of letters found in Jones’s collection, and the original letters (or drafts) used in this way remained (as evidence) in the possession of the Royal Society - of which of course Newton was President - the Society being formally the publisher of the resultant slim volume, Commercium Epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum de Analysi promota: jussu Societatis Regiae in lucent editum (London 1712). Today that collection of letters remains in the Royal Society’s library mounted in its own particular guard-book. 1

Well known for providing a thorough yet concise view of the natural history of psychiatric disorders, this popular text has been newly updated chapter by chapter in this seventh edition. As in previous editions, each chapter systematically covers the definition, historical background, epidemiology, clinical picture, natural history, complications, family studies, differential diagnosis, and clinical management of each disorder. Terminology has been updated for consistency with changes made in DSM-5. Recent epidemiological and neurobiological findings are provided, including the long-term course of mood disorders, genetics and neuroimaging of schizophrenia and mood and other disorders, cognitive changes in relation to depression and dementia, brain stimulation techniques, outcome studies of eating disorders, and epidemiology of substance use disorders. This edition reaffirms the importance of careful psychiatric diagnosis as the essential foundation for treatment decisions. No other text provides such a lucid, well-documented and critically sound overview of the major syndromes in psychiatry. Medical students, psychiatric residents, and other students will continue to find Psychiatric Diagnosis a unique guide to the field.