Chapter 7 reconstructs when post-Roman kings and their officials went to church and considers the significance of church membership in shaping their positions in post-imperial palaces. This is (unsurprisingly) much easier to do for Nicene as opposed to Homoian rulers. Prominent officials accompanied Nicene Burgundian and Merovingian kings to church. Brief glimpses of life in Homoian royal palaces imply the potential participation of Nicene courtiers at regular religious observances. It may be that officials were not expected to go to church with the king; concerns for religious accommodation may have shaped the character of these events and allowed Nicene officials to justify attendance. Those who served the king could also be subject to the local bishop. Yet two episodes of excommunication make clear that the ultimate judgement over the continued standing of royal officials—both in palace and church—remained with the king himself. Post-Roman bishops may have been keen to claim the presence of ‘our people’ in the palace (as Victor of Vita put it). Dependence on the king, commitment to legal procedure, and membership of this separate Christian community seems normally to have trumped the claims of church affiliations even when courtiers and bureaucrats interacted with clerics.

Chapter 5 is the last of three chapters to consider the material production of Dominican liturgical books. This chapter situates the context of the production of the three liturgical exemplars: Rome, Santa Sabina, XIV L 1; London, British Library, Add. 23935; and Salamanca, San Esteban, SAL.–CL.01. It examines the intersection between the Dominicans and the blossoming Parisian book trade, the pecia system of book production, and the relationship between the Dominicans at the Parisian convent of St-Jacques and their neighbouring book-maker, Guillaume de Sens. Close palaeographical and codicological study of the exemplars reveals certain guiding principles that governed the production, within which individual copyists and artists had the freedom to execute and manipulate the contents. Drawing together the three chapters of Part II, this chapter considers the interaction of the various book trades in the making of the exemplars, shedding light not only on the book-making practices of the Dominicans, but also the Parisian book trade more generally.

Elder abuse is defined as use of physical force that might result in bodily injury, physical pain, or impairment. Elder neglect is defined as failure of a caregiver to provide basic care to a patient and to provide goods and services necessary to prevent physical harm and emotional discomfort. The diagnosis of elder abuse is reliant on a clinician’s assessment of the history, exam findings, recognition of risk factors and any discovery of red flags that the patient has not been safely managed. Clinicians are required to report any suspicion of elder abuse to the appropriate hospital staff and to the proper authorities (i.e., Adult Protective Services) as mandated by the state.

The chapter describes the case of a 49-year-old male presenting with agitation and alcohol intoxication. The patient appears older than his stated age, with slurred speech, drooping eyelids, and disheveled appearance. Initial assessment reveals vital signs within normal limits, with a focus on airway, breathing, and circulation. The patient’s history includes alcohol abuse, hepatitis, and current homelessness. Physical examination findings include a large abdomen, hepatomegaly, and a forehead laceration. Management involves obtaining labs, administering medications like thiamine and folic acid, and performing a noncontrast head CT. Critical actions include monitoring glucose levels and addressing the laceration. The diagnosis is alcohol intoxication, with emphasis on the importance of recognizing and managing coexisting conditions in intoxicated patients. Key points highlight the prevalence of alcohol-related ED visits and the need for thorough assessments in these cases.

Preschool-aged children presenting to the emergency center with complaints of upper extremity pain and refusal to move the extremity can represent a variety of pathologies due to trauma, infection, hematologic, oncologic, and other etiologies. A thorough history and physical exam is crucial in narrowing the differential. Radial head subluxation, or “nursemaid’s elbow,” is one of the most common causes of traumatic injury to the upper extremity in children 2−5 years of age. This case progresses through the recognition, evaluation, and reduction techniques for the classic presentation of a child with a radial head subluxation. It is important to note that with a high suspicion of a nursemaid’s elbow, radiologic imaging is not indicated and results in an unnecessary exposure to x-ray as well as avoidable expense to the family.

Introduction

‘O my friends, there is no friend.’ Many chapters in Politics of Friendship com¬mence with this paradoxical phrase that has been attributed to Aristotle by different thinkers within the philosophical tradition. According to Derrida, the two elements are the ‘two disjoined members of the same sentence’ (PF, 1). Disjoined, indeed, because we find a reference to two different times; hence, we are not dealing with a straightforward contradiction. While the first element calls on the friends who were, or the friends who will be (the performative part summons them or remembers them – this is the time of the future and of the past), the following element is tied to the present in the sense that at this very moment, there is no friend. It is the aim of this short essay to trace this double temporality of friendship as articulated in the first chapter, ‘Oligarchies: Naming, Enumerating, Counting’, of Politics of Friendship. I seek to demonstrate how the temporality of interruption and disjunction indicates that friendship always already involves a type of mourning, and, thereby, survival. The second aim consists in showing how the notion of survival and its corresponding temporality might raise the suspicion that Derrida offers an interpretation of time as a transcendental condition of being, but must rather be read as an anachronous thinking of history.

Complex fluids can be found all around us, from molten plastics to mayonnaise, and understanding their highly nonlinear dynamics is the subject of much research.

This text introduces a common theoretical framework for understanding and predicting the flow behavior of complex fluids. This framework allows for results including a qualitative understanding of the relationship between a fluid’s behavior at the microscale of particles or macromolecules, and its macroscopic, viscoelastic properties. The author uses a microstructural approach to derive constitutive theories that remain simple enough to allow computational predictions of complicated macroscale flows.

Readers develop their intuition to learn how to approach the description of materials not covered in the book, as well as limits such as higher concentrations that require computational methods for microstructural analysis.

This monograph’s unique breadth and depth make it a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students in fluid mechanics.

In his final years, American society finally punished Bieral for his violence, embracing the principle of the rule of law. His dismissal from the customs office and attempted assassination of Port Surveyor Hans Beattie led to imprisonment. The chapter examines his trial, insanity defense, and eventual pardon, contextualizing his downfall within the rise of civil service reform. Bieral’s family tragedies and his son’s criminal career underscored the generational consequences of a violent life, but he remained a popular figure. His death in a veterans’ home and burial in a national cemetery mark a quiet end to a tumultuous life. The chapter reflects on the cultural legacy of Bieral’s persona and the societal ambivalence toward violent masculinity.

What will happen to the global economy during a rapid zero-carbon transition? To generalise the earlier findings, in this chapter, we lay out a key contribution of this book, which is a theory for the life cycle of products and sectors in the economy. We explain how new sectors of industrial production appear, grow, live and decline. We use this theory to explain why the economy evolves along great waves of innovation. We then provide evidence to show why the green transition will be no different.

This chapter argues for the role of collective cognition in creating Roman religious reality. Inauguratio, through which priests were created, was no empty orthopraxic ritual but a means of generating collective belief in order to create socio-religious status and power. Ideally, when Romans judged the ritual of inauguratio efficacious, they collectively believed that Jupiter had sent auspicial signs approving a candidate and that the candidate was therefore a priest. Collective belief was what made the priest a priest, with all the powers and duties concomitant with that status. But the Romans were typically blind to the collective-intentional nature of their social reality. Thus the standard Roman explanation of inauguratio mystifies sacerdotal ontology, holding that priests were priests as a result of Jupiter’s nod. Constitutive beliefs are distinguished from non-constitutive, merely religious beliefs. The Romans’ collectively held constitutive beliefs about sacerdotal status and power actually constituted priests as priests. Although Jupiter’s agency could not be constituted by Roman collective belief, it was a genuine religious belief and part of Roman conceptions of the basis of sacerdotal authority.

Intussusception is a medical condition in which a segment of the intestine invaginates, or telescopes, into an adjacent section of the intestine. This can lead to obstruction of the intestines and a decrease in blood flow to the affected area. It is most common in infants between 3 months and 3 years of age and can cause intermittent episodes of severe abdominal pain followed by episodes of lethargy with associated vomiting, diarrhea, and a late finding of rectal bleeding. Intussusception is considered a medical emergency and requires immediate treatment, which typically involves an air or barium enema or surgery to correct the obstruction.

This appendix provides detailed equations for the model used in Chapter 5 to illustrate economic evolution.

An introduction to morphology or the structure of words, discussing the difference between words and morphemes, allomorphy, affixation, compounding, other word formation processes such as clipping, blending, acronyms, and initialisms, idioms, reduplication, genericization, and the humorous use of homophones, homographs, and misheard forms.