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Achilles tendon ultrasonography may detect early features of psoriatic arthropathy in patients with cutaneous psoriasis.
2014
SummaryBackground Psoriatic arthropathy is a progressive and debilitating disease involving reduction of functional activity of the articulations with consequent deterioration of the patient's quality of life. The entheses represent the initial site of articular inflammation and the enthesis of the Achilles tendon is the first to be affected. In some patients with psoriasis, enthesitis may not be diagnosed because it is still asymptomatic. Objectives To evaluate whether ultrasonography allows early diagnosis in a larger population and to identify significant alterations of enthesitis beyond increased thickness of the Achilles tendon. Materials and methods The study was undertaken on 59 pati…
The equative sentence in Finnish Sign Language
2007
It is argued in this paper that equative sentences in Finnish Sign Language (FinSL) conform to the general schema of (NP) NP+(PI+)NP, parenthesis marking optionality of elements. With respect to this schema, it is further argued, (a) that the function of the first NP in equative sentences is always topic; (b) that topics are marked syntactically, prosodically, and morphologically in FinSL; (c) that the preferred organisation of equative sentences in general is topic-comment; (d) that there are two structurally distinct topic-comment structures in FinSL, one having the topic at the beginning of the clause and the other having the topic in the left-detached clause-external position; (e) that …
Francia : ¿instrumentalización de la COVID-19 contra la igualdad escolar?
2021
La pandemia de COVID-19 ha puesto a prueba los sistemas educativos. Este artículo trata del caso francés, en el que tuvo lugar un confinamiento de dos meses, seguido de una reanudación muy parcial y selectiva del curso antes del verano, que no llegó a funcionar de nuevo realmente hasta septiembre, en condiciones sin precedentes. Muestra que lejos de ser un paréntesis excepcional, la crisis sanitaria fue utilizada por el gobierno para tratar de imponer cambios estructurales. Estas conclusiones se derivan de un análisis de las lógicas que estaban previamente en marcha en los proyectos de reforma de la enseñanza francesa, lo que permite distinguir entre las respuestas puntuales a una situación…
Marcatge posicional i prominència en el vocalisme àton
2008
It has long been noticed that more perceptible elements tend to associate to positions that are structurally stronger to the end that several prominent features converge in the same site; and vice versa: elements of low perceptibility prototypically associate to less prominent positions ("positional markedness"). The main aim of this paper is to present the effects of positional markedness in the a-tonic vowel system of Catalan through the analysis of two cases that have not been studied in depth, i.e. the occurrence of different epenthetic vowels according to the position in which they appear in Alghero and western Catalan, and the presence of different patterns of vowel reduction in weste…
The cutting edge of spondylarthropathy research in the millennium
2002
In the last few years, with advances in technology and concept, research on the spondylarthropathies (SpA) has moved from random harvesting of piecemeal data to systematic evaluations of core puzzles. In the Second International Congress of Spondylarthropathies, held in Ghent, Belgium, on October 4–7, 2000, the most recent data were presented and these core puzzles were defined. The factors that are unique to SpA are 1) the site of inflammation is not only the synovium, but also the enthesis; 2) the essential predisposing gene is HLA– B27; 3) a number of other genes are required for development of ankylosing spondylitis (AS), a prototype of SpA; and 4) certain facultative intracellular Gram…
Archivio per l’Antropologia e la Etnologia
2017
This paper describes the study of human fibrocartilaginous entheses in a multiple indigenous sicanian Sicilian burial dated between VI and V century BC. The tomb, a cave burial, was altered by grave robbers. From the collected osteologic material it was possible to perform the sorting method and to extrapolate the NMI. The research was focused on the scoring and on the analysis of the Entheseal Changes (EC) of the long bones of upper limb and calcaneus; to extrapolate likely patterns of muscle activity according to the approach of the MSM applied in literature we have utilized the Coimbra Method. This method is a new record method who intends to replace Hawkey and Merbs already-established …