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Adolf Furtwangler's concept of Roman copies and lost Greek originals has been largely dismantled in recent scholarship. Nevertheless, Romans created a sophisticated visual vocabulary which included direct quotations of Greek models, as well as allusions to styles associated with particular periods or individual Greek artists. The art-historical consciousness of Roman artists, patrons and visually literate viewers was not limited to the elite, but also pervaded works of private funerary art which often employed recognizably Greek compositions and body types for rhetorical effect in order to access abstract concepts of heroism, virtue and apotheosis. Ultimately, sculptural quotations and replications from the Greek are not symptomatic of a derivative and imitative artistic culture, but rather reveal a highly original and particularly Roman aesthetic of hybridity.

Representations of the emperors were ubiquitous elements in the lives of Romans at every level of society. As both artistic and literal embodiments of the imperial presence, these images functioned as effigies. When a 'bad' emperor was overthrown or assassinated, his images were often mutilated or destroyed. The disfigurement of imperial portraits is closely linked to the abuse of corpses of condemned criminals and arena victims. This article explores the relationship between mutilated images and corpses in ancient Rome and elucidates the communicative aspects of intentional disfigurement.

Objective: To review the literature concerning the role of rifampin in the combination treatment of Legionella pneumophila pneumonia. Data Sources: A search of MEDLINE and Ovid databases was conducted (January 1970-May 2011) using the search terms Legionella pneumophila, pneumonia, Legionnaires' disease, rifampin or rifampicin, macrolide, fluoroquinolone, erythromycin, clarithromycin, levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, and moxifloxacin Study Selection and Data Extraction: In vivo studies published in English that compared antimicrobial therapies including rifampin for the treatment of Legionella pneumonia, as well as in vitro studies including an assessment of rifampin bioactivity, were included. Data Synthesis: Macrolides and fluoroquinolones have been effective as monotherapy in the treatment of L. pneumophila pneumonia. This review includes evidence summaries from 4 bioactivity evaluations. 6 clinical studies, and 6 reported cases of combination rifampin use. Combined with supporting evidence, the role of combination rifampin therapy is further delineated. Conclusions: Interpretation of the data is limited by the potential for selection bias and lack of consistent comparators. Rifampin therapy should be considered only for patients with severe disease or significant comorbid conditions (eg. uncontrolled diabetes, smoking, or obstructive lung disease) including immunocompromised hosts and those refractory to conventional monotherapy regimens. Caution for significant adverse drug events and drug-drug interactions should be taken with the addition of rifampin.

The possibility of using multiple-wavelength holography to obtain desensitized hologram interferometry is being investigated analytically and experimentally. A simple analysis has been performed, and its conclusions are supported by experimental results. These results indicate that the new techniques will extend by several orders of magnitude the range of displacements amenable to measurement to hologram interferometry.

Employing holographic techniques, Hildebrand and Haines have demonstrated that a multiple frequency source can be used to generate range contours on or near an image. Supplementing their system with an auxiliary imaging system, we show that contours can be generated over much larger surfaces. With our modified system, it is also very easy to generate contours denoting constant depth rather than constant range. Experimental results are presented that show depth contours representing separations of 9.25 micro over a surface area of about 80 cm(2).

The plays of Seneca the Younger, minister and philosopher under Nero, are today increasingly studied, appreciated - and performed. Here, in a collection of papers from an international cast, scholars explore both established questions, such as the playwright's subtleties of characterisation, his relation to contemporary Roman spectacle and art - and the problems arising in translating him to modern text or stage.

Southwest Research Institute, acting on behalf of the Air Force Coating Technology Integration Office (CTIO), has completed a test program assessing dry media blast (DMB) selective stripping of a coating system originally developed to work well with high-pressure water blast stripping. The goal was to determine any feasibility of using a DMB process for selective stripping of the topcoat from the coating system containing the barrier coating.

A method was developed for obtaining traces of the motion of a ballistic galvanometer coil as a function of time. The traces show that the lag of the galvanometer coil depends on the impulse time. The study also shows the relationship between the impulse time and the maximum deflection of the galvanometer coil.

The final technical report on holographic testing research includes a number of specific investigations conducted at the Radar and Optics Division of Willow Run Laboratories and at Cooley Electronics Laboratory of The University of Michigan. The investigations described include the following: (1) interferometric detection of microcracks; (2) detection of debonds in honeycomb sandwich structures, (3) real-time monitoring of stress-corrosion cracking, (4) interferometry of three-dimensional, refractive-index fields, (5) measurement of vibrational amplitudes, (6) holographic contouring, (7) optical determination of rms surface roughness, and (8) non-destructive inspection of shell casings and projectiles. The report also includes a brief introductory section on holography and holographic interferometry and a brief glossary of technical terms for the benefit of readers who are not acquainted with this technique.

Excerpt To the Editor:We read with great interest the recent article by Achkar and Carey (1) and the accompanying editorial by Waye (2). The clinical significance of hyperplastic polyps in the left...

A new multiple index technique is presented for holographically generating contours of constant depth. With this technique it is possible for the first time to use the multiple index method for obtaining high contrast contours denoting small depth changes over large surfaces. The improved multiple index technique is compared with an analogous multiple frequency system. Experimental results obtained with both of these techniques are also presented.