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Cardiac responses in paediatric Pompe disease in the ADVANCE patient cohort
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- Barry J. Byrne, Steven D. Colan, Priya S. Kishnani, Meredith C. Foster, Susan E. Sparks, James B. Gibson, Kristina An Haack, David W. Stockton, Loren D. M. Peña, Si Houn Hahn, Judith Johnson, Pranoot X. Tanpaiboon, Nancy D. Leslie, David Kronn, Richard E. Hillman, Raymond Y. Wang
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- Cardiology in the Young / Volume 32 / Issue 3 / March 2022
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Pompe disease results from lysosomal acid α-glucosidase deficiency, which leads to cardiomyopathy in all infantile-onset and occasional late-onset patients. Cardiac assessment is important for its diagnosis and management. This article presents unpublished cardiac findings, concomitant medications, and cardiac efficacy and safety outcomes from the ADVANCE study; trajectories of patients with abnormal left ventricular mass z score at enrolment; and post hoc analyses of on-treatment left ventricular mass and systolic blood pressure z scores by disease phenotype, GAA genotype, and “fraction of life” (defined as the fraction of life on pre-study 160 L production-scale alglucosidase alfa). ADVANCE evaluated 52 weeks’ treatment with 4000 L production-scale alglucosidase alfa in ≥1-year-old United States of America patients with Pompe disease previously receiving 160 L production-scale alglucosidase alfa. M-mode echocardiography and 12-lead electrocardiography were performed at enrolment and Week 52. Sixty-seven patients had complete left ventricular mass z scores, decreasing at Week 52 (infantile-onset patients, change −0.8 ± 1.83; 95% confidence interval −1.3 to −0.2; all patients, change −0.5 ± 1.71; 95% confidence interval −1.0 to −0.1). Patients with “fraction of life” <0.79 had left ventricular mass z score decreasing (enrolment: +0.1 ± 3.0; Week 52: −1.1 ± 2.0); those with “fraction of life” ≥0.79 remained stable (enrolment: −0.9 ± 1.5; Week 52: −0.9 ± 1.4). Systolic blood pressure z scores were stable from enrolment to Week 52, and no cohort developed systemic hypertension. Eight patients had Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome. Cardiac hypertrophy and dysrhythmia in ADVANCE patients at or before enrolment were typical of Pompe disease. Four-thousand L alglucosidase alfa therapy maintained fractional shortening, left ventricular posterior and septal end-diastolic thicknesses, and improved left ventricular mass z score.
Trial registry: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01526785 https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01526785.
Social Media Statement: Post hoc analyses of the ADVANCE study cohort of 113 children support ongoing cardiac monitoring and concomitant management of children with Pompe disease on long-term alglucosidase alfa to functionally improve cardiomyopathy and/or dysrhythmia.
The Academic Development Study of Australian Twins (ADSAT): Research Aims and Design
- Sally A. Larsen, Callie W. Little, Katrina Grasby, Brian Byrne, Richard K. Olson, William L. Coventry
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- Twin Research and Human Genetics / Volume 23 / Issue 3 / June 2020
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The Academic Development Study of Australian Twins was established in 2012 with the purpose of investigating the relative influence of genes and environments in literacy and numeracy capabilities across two primary and two secondary school grades in Australia. It is the first longitudinal twin project of its kind in Australia and comprises a sample of 2762 twin pairs, 40 triplet sets and 1485 nontwin siblings. Measures include standardized literacy and numeracy test data collected at Grades 3, 5, 7 and 9 as part of the National Assessment Program: Literacy and Numeracy. A range of demographic and behavioral data was also collected, some at multiple longitudinal time points. This article outlines the background and rationale for the study and provides an overview for the research design, sample and measures collected. Findings emerging from the project and future directions are discussed.
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Where did our intelligence come from? That is, what evolutionary drivers caused such specialization in cognition among humans? Only by adopting a comparative approach, considering the brains and cognitive skills of other animal species, can we discover how, when, and even perhaps why human intellectual skills evolved. Here we apply a process of evolutionary reconstruction to ancestors we share with other species, from the earliest primates at 74 Ma (million years ago) to the relatively recent ancestor shared with chimpanzees. Doing so highlights the importance of both social and ecological (nutritional) pressures in evolving intellect. Complex sociality was supported by increased perception, learning, and memory skills, long before the development of any ability to understand other beings as causal agents with independent minds. The latter, we argue, was driven by a need to feed more efficiently in ancestors we share with all living great apes.
Application of the Solvency II Actuarial Function to general insurance firms
- Richard L. Williams, J. Anzsar, R. Bulmer, J. Buntine, M. Byrne, B. Gedalla, P. Goswamy, J. Grant, W. Heah, S. Keshani, J. Shah
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The Solvency II Directive introduces the idea of a formal Actuarial Function to have responsibility over delivering the requirements of Article 48 of the Directive. Article 48 describes the responsibilities as being concerned with technical provisions, an opinion on reinsurance adequacy, an opinion on underwriting policy and contributing to the risk management system. Considerable documentation has been produced by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) and the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority on the subject, much of it very recent to the publication of this paper. The purpose of this paper is to provide the reader with some practical insights and suggestions around addressing the requirements of Article 48 of the Solvency II Directive in general insurance firms, taking into consideration the publications of the aforementioned regulatory authorities. It is not our intention to give advice, nor to be seen to give advice, but rather to make suggestions and observations that we hope the reader will find useful. The Regulations lay down the tasks of the Actuarial Function, so insurers should consider the need for formal terms of reference, backed up by proportionate governance procedures. The Regulations also require the production of an Actuarial Function Report to document the tasks undertaken by the Actuarial Function and its results. Such a report can be an aggregate report, made up of individual component reports completed at suitable points in the Actuarial Function’s work cycle, so long as it reports on all the required tasks. The technical provisions section should cover at least all the areas laid down in the Delegated Acts. The opinions required covering reinsurance adequacy and underwriting policy are not formal “sign offs”, but contributions to the effective running of the insurer by applying the skills and knowledge of actuaries to areas for which they are not normally responsible. Again, the Delegated Acts mandate the minimum contribution the Actuarial Function should make. The responsibility for delivering the work of the Actuarial Function does not have to be given to a member of the IFoA; however, the PRA is going to require (at least) one person to be designated the “Chief Actuary”, defined as the person responsible for delivering the requirements of Article 48 of the Directive. In response, the IFoA has stated its intention to require its members holding the role of Chief Actuary, as defined by the PRA, to hold a practicing certificate. Any Actuarial Function will need to consider issues of governance, independence and conflicts of interests. The PRA intends to require the Actuarial Function to be independent of an insurer’s revenue-generating functions. In addition, normal good governance requires a degree of separation between those who perform Actuarial Function work and those who review and supervise it. There are numerous stakeholders in the Actuarial Function’s work. Some of these will rely on the output of the Actuarial Function, others will provide inputs to its work. Setting out stakeholder responsibilities clearly and in advance will be of vital importance. Good communication and coordination between these groups will be important to the efficient running of the insurer. Bringing together issues of governance, independence and meeting the Directive and regulators’ requirements will require a suitable organisational structure which will also need to consider practical issues, such as the availability of suitable staff. Many such arrangements may be possible, but all will require trading off advantages and disadvantages. The Actuarial Function is primarily about good practice and getting the most out of the actuarial skills available. For many insurers, meeting the requirements should not be unduly burdensome.
Monkeys to the Rescue of Mankind - Frans de Waal, Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press,1989
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- Politics and the Life Sciences / Volume 9 / Issue 1 / August 1990
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Brittan, Justin Broackes, Dan W. Brock, Aaron Bronfman, Jeffrey E. Brower, Bartosz Brozek, Anthony Brueckner, Jeffrey Bub, Lara Buchak, Otavio Bueno, Ann E. Bumpus, Robert W. Burch, John Burgess, Arthur W. Burks, Panayot Butchvarov, Robert E. Butts, Marina Bykova, Patrick Byrne, David Carr, Noël Carroll, Edward S. Casey, Victor Caston, Victor Caston, Albert Casullo, Robert L. Causey, Alan K. L. Chan, Ruth Chang, Deen K. Chatterjee, Andrew Chignell, Roderick M. Chisholm, Kelly J. Clark, E. J. Coffman, Robin Collins, Brian P. Copenhaver, John Corcoran, John Cottingham, Roger Crisp, Frederick J. Crosson, Antonio S. Cua, Phillip D. Cummins, Martin Curd, Adam Cureton, Andrew Cutrofello, Stephen Darwall, Paul Sheldon Davies, Wayne A. Davis, Timothy Joseph Day, Claudio de Almeida, Mario De Caro, Mario De Caro, John Deigh, C. F. Delaney, Daniel C. Dennett, Michael R. DePaul, Michael Detlefsen, Daniel Trent Devereux, Philip E. Devine, John M. Dillon, Martin C. 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II - How Green was the Green Knight? Forest Ecology at Hautdesert
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One of the abiding impressions made by Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (henceforth SGGK) on its readers is that the Green Knight is an embodiment of nature. An earlier generation of scholars saw the poem chiefly as a museum of Celtic folklore, but Celtic paganism and the ‘Green Man’, both associated with a mystical, proto-Romantic reverence for the natural environment, remain a part of its critical heritage. Despite the manifest courtliness and hospitality practised at the Green Knight's castle, where Gawain spends Christmas week before riding to the Green Chapel on New Year's Day, the view persists that the Green Knight presides over a world that is very much ‘natural’ or ‘wild’ in contrast to Gawain's and Arthur's. This is perhaps because both in the form of Bertilak and in the form of the Green Knight, Gawain's host and adversary are represented as a man of the forest. As Bertilak (whose name is revealed to Gawain in 2445), he leads boisterous hunting parties three days in a row, traversing the forest around his castle. As the Green Knight, he maintains the seemingly remote Green Chapel in a rugged landscape that impresses Gawain as ‘wylde’ (2163), the oratory of the devil himself (2190–4), even though it stands somewhere within or very near to the forest where Bertilak hunts – in fact, it is ‘not two myle henne’ (1078), as Bertilak cheerfully informs Gawain.
IV - Pagan Gods and the Coming of Christianity in Perceforest
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Gallaphur tant erra que au troisieme jour il monta une montaigne ou il trouva ung temple … Dist l'ancien home …: – Sire, on aoure ceans la Deesse des Songes. – Par ma foy, dist Gallaphur, c'est une fole deesse. – Ne vous en gabbez pas, dist le varlet, car elle est de grand merite, et ne vous conseille point d'entrer ceans au moins que ne faittes vostre paix a elle. – Sire, dist Gallaphur, oncquez plus ne oÿ parler d'elle et le roy Perce-forest en son tamps ne souffroit aourer que le Dieu Souverain. – Sire, dist le varlet, le roy Perceforest aouroit a sa devotion. Mais après sa mort une dame nommee Sarra … donnoit respons aux pucelles de leurs songes …, tellement qu'aprez sa mort les pucelles l'ont nommé la Deesse des Songes et lui ont fait ce temple ou elles l'aourent, car personne ne veille une nuit en ce temple que … il songera aucune chose du tamps advenir dont sur ce pourveoir se pourra. – Vallet, dist Gallaphur, bien sçay que le roy Perce-forest ama moult ceste dame en son tamps, mais on ne doit pas legierement croire sy haulte aventure comme d'une femme mortelle tenir a deesse, combien que ceste nuit demourray ceans pour sçavoir aucun point de sa vertu. … Sy s'endormy … Lors lui sambla que la deesse Sarra lui vint au devant … puis l'emmena sus une tant haulte montaigne qu'il pouoit bien voir tout le païs de Bretaigne, puis lui dist: – Gallaphur, regarde, retiens et mets en memoire ce que voir pues a l'entour de toy. Atant s'en parti et Gallaphur demoura esbahi des merveilles qu'il veoit par la Grant Bretaigne.
V - Malory's Sources for the Tale of the Sankgreal: Some Overlooked Evidence from the Irish Lorgaireacht an tSoidigh Naomhtha
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Malory's Tale of the Sankgreal (henceforth M) is generally considered the ‘least original’ of his adaptations, conforming in most significant respects to the plot of the Vulgate Queste del Saint Graal (Q). The main alterations Malory appears to have made are thematic; most notably, he clearly downplays the mystical and devotional flavour of Q in his work. However, the precise extent of Malory's manipulation of his materials is hard to quantify, since the version of Q from which he was working does not match any known version of that text. Eugène Vinaver suggested that Malory's exemplar was probably closer to the lost common original of Q than to any of the surviving versions of the text. No French-language manuscript has yet been discovered that seems to represent the version known to Malory, but that does not necessarily mean that Malory's work is the only witness to this particular version of Q. The evidence of the medieval Irish translation of the Vulgate, Lorgaireacht an tSoidigh Naomhtha (L), has, so far, been largely overlooked. L's editor, Sheila Falconer, believed, like Vinaver, that the exemplar for her text ‘ranked high in the MS tradition of the Quest’ and, significantly, there are numerous points at which L and M share details not found in any known version of Q. It seems possible that L was translated from a version of Q close to, or identical with, the version Malory knew and, as such, may provide the best witness we have to the characteristics of his exemplar.
VI - ‘Transmuer de rime en prose’: The Transformation of Chrétien de Troyes's Joie de la Cour episode in the Burgundian Prose Erec (1450–60)
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In the prologue to the mid-fifteenth-century adaptation of the ‘rhymed story of Erec, the son of King Lac,’ the prosateur describes his work as a ‘transmutation’: ‘… pour ce que l'en m'a presentee le histoire de Erec le filz du roy Lach en rime, je, au plaisir de Dieu, occuperay mon estude ung petit de tamps a le transmuer de rime en prose …’ (Because I have been presented with the rhymed story of Erec, the son of King Lac, I shall, God willing, devote a little time to transposing it from verse into prose …). The term transmuer (to transform or change) suggests the extent of the modifications the adapter performed as he turned Chrétien's poem into prose. Readers of Arthurian romances will be familiar with the techniques the redactor deployed in appropriating Chrétien's text: abbreviation, amplification and rationalization. However, the full compass of the transformations, which occur on a socio-cultural level but more importantly, inform the literary art, may be surprising to them. Indeed, the modifications affect the structure and the meaning of the romance. While the prose text respects the general outline of the story, it abbreviates or omits many elements, but also embroiders, alters and even adds new material. In addition, it changes countless details in such a way that the adaptation is in fact a completely new text.
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III - Edward III's Arthurian Enthusiasms Revisited: Perceforest in the Context of Philippa of Hainault and the Round Table Feast of 1344
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Perceforest is the greatest of the unread Arthurian romances. There is still no complete modern edition, and in order to read the last book, you have to use the huge folio volumes produced in Paris in the early sixteenth century, designed to satisfy the enthusiasm of buyers of the new-fangled romances in book form. Neglected until a summary version by Jeanne Lods appeared in 1951, it was only with the appearance of the first volume of the Textes littéraires français edition by Jane Taylor in 1979 that it began to attract wider attention among Arthurian scholars, reinforced by the publication of all but the sixth part of the romance by 2007. Now that Nigel Bryant has produced an English version, its extraordinary riches are available to a much wider audience. This article explores the possible historical context in which it was originally composed.
I say ‘originally composed’ deliberately, because the version that we have is almost certainly a reworking in the fifteenth century of a fourteenth-century prose romance. The language is not that of the mid fourteenth century, and much of the content is similar in style to that of the Burgundian romances of the mid fifteenth century. These were new versions of twelfth- and thirteenth-century texts, by now archaic in their language.
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Arthurian Literature XXX
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The influence and significance of the legend of Arthur are fully demonstrated by the subject matter and time-span of articles here. Topics include Perceforest in historical context; a new source for Malory's Morte Darthur; magic and the supernatural in early Welsh Arthurian narrative; and ecology in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Contributors: Richard W. Barber; Nigel Bryant; Aisling Byrne; Carol J. Chase; Siân Echard; Helen Fulton; Michael Twomey; Patricia Victorin.
VIII - Remembering Brutus: Aaron Thompson's British History of 1718
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In 1842, The British History of Geoffrey of Monmouth appeared in the series The Monkish Historians of Great Britain. Already published were Bede's Ecclesiastical History, a volume of Gildas's and Nennius's Histories and the Chronicle of Richard of Devizes, along with Richard of Cirencester's description of Britain. Further works of Bede, histories by William of Malmesbury and William of Newburgh, the Saxon Chronicles and Asser's Life of Alfred were all in press. The series page announced that several of the volumes were appearing ‘in an English dress’ for the first time, but this particular book was a revised edition, by the prolific editor and translator J. A. Giles (1808–1884), of Aaron Thompson's 1718 English translation of Geoffrey's Historia regum Britannie. Giles makes it clear in his own preface that both Geoffrey and his first translator should be treated with considerable suspicion. Of Geoffrey, he writes, ‘We do not insert the BRITISH HISTORY in our series of Early English Records as a work containing an authentic narrative, nor do we wish to compare Geoffrey of Monmouth with Bede in point of veracity’. Describing Thompson's preface to the 1718 translation, Giles is blunt with respect to the former's credulity: ‘Prefixed to the work is a long introduction in which the translator endeavours to defend his author from the charge of having inserted the narrative which he professes to have translated from the Old British Tongue. It is now, of course, universally admitted that the whole series of British Kings, from Brutus downwards, is a tissue of fables’.