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This contribution discusses Ralph Lee's volume Symbolic Interpretations in Ethiopic and Early Syriac Literature, in particular his proposal about what were the channels of cultural transmission between Syriac and Ethiopic Christian literatures which could justify the consistent number of parallels found in the two poetical and liturgical traditions. Lee's model used to explain these parallels is proved questionable, and an alternative hypothesis is offered: Ephrems' poetry influenced later Syriac writers and liturgical traditions, which, in turn, experienced a long season of translation from Syriac to Arabic in a broad geographical area. As a consequence of this process, several streams of Ephremian tradition were transferred from the Arabic Christian literatures to the Ethiopic world after the twelfth century.

Les conférences de cette année ont porté sur la construction de la mémoire de la part de l'évêché d'Alexandrie comme une forme de renforcement et de développement de l'institution patriarcale. Après quelques considérations épistémologiques concernant les différents types de sources utiles pour l'histoire des structures ecclésiastiques égyptiennes, les conférences visent à démontrer le lien étroit entre le développement historique du Patriarcat, dans ses relations avec l'Égypte et la Méditerranée, et la formation de son identité et de sa mémoire historique : l'articulation temporelle, la légitimité de la juridiction sur la Cyrénaïque et les autres régions, la parenté particulière du patriarcat avec le pouvoir politique, s'expriment à travers des documents, des récits historiques, des légendes, des figures de saints, qui changent au fil du temps, tout en conservant des éléments idéologiques constants.

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La legge 9 gennaio 2019, n. 3, comunemente conosciuta come legge "spazzacorrotti", nel suo più ampio disegno riformatore di lotta alle manifestazioni corruttive, ha semplificato le condizioni di utilizzabilità del captatore informatico per i più gravi delitti dei pubblici ufficiali contro la pubblica amministrazione puniti con la reclusione non inferiore nel massimo a cinque anni. Il presente contributo vuole dare conto del sostrato di considerazioni in punto di politica criminale che hanno giustificato, per quanto riguarda lo strumento di ricerca della prova in esame, la quasi completa equiparazione di tali reati a quelli di stampo mafioso, terroristico o eversivo. Si fornirà poi un'analisi della nuova veste processuale, al fine di formulare una prognosi su quelli che si preannunciano essere gli effetti della riforma, evidenziando fin da ora le probabili criticità che una simile estensione comporta

The International Legal Research Group -European Compliance Benchmark is acooperation between The European Law Students' Association (ELSA) and K&L Gates. K&L Gates has provided ELSA with research questionsthat24 member and observer groups in our network successfullyinvestigatedin the framework of their respective national legislation. The topic of this LRG centered around the world of Corporate Compliance, as it is one of the hottest legal topicscurrently. What is meant by this is the degree to which companies abide by the regulations set for corporate governance and prevention of criminal measures in a commercial context. The questions of the LRG focused on outlining the relevant rules as well as assessing what the ramifications are for breaking them.

Frontmatter --Preface --Contents --Introduction: Expanding the Discourse on Good Christian Rulership --A. The Good Christian Ruler in the Roman Empire --Finding a Common Cause: Fourth-Century Greek Discourses on Rulership --The Good Sinful Ruler: Ambrose of Milan and Theodosius I --The Emperor's Two Cities: Augustine's Image of the Good Christian Ruler in De civitate Dei 5.24 --Pious and Impious Christian Rulers According to Egyptian Historiography and Hagiography: A First Survey of the Evidence --Faithful Rulers and Theological Deviance: Ephrem the Syrian and Jacob of Serugh on the Roman Emperor --B. The Good Christian Ruler between Persia and Rome --Images of the Good Ruler in Sasanian Iran: An Emic View --Representations of Rulership in Late Antique Armenia --The Depiction of the Arsacid Dynasty in Medieval Armenian Historiography --Vakhtang I Gorgasali (r. 447-522) as a Christian Monarch in Georgia: His Depiction in the Life of Kartli --The Creation of a "Pious" Image of King Vačʽagan II (r. c. 485-523) of Caucasian Albania in the Tale of Vačʽagan (Early Sixth Century) --Concerning Four Kings From the Land of 'Deep Ravines, Dense Forests and Dark Thickets' --C. The Good Christian Ruler in Post-Roman Traditions --The Good Ruler from a Papal Perspective: Continuities and Discontinuities in Papal Letters from the Fourth to Eighth Centuries --The Image of the Christian Ruler in the Catholic Monarchy of Visigothic Spain: Julian of Toledo's Historia Wambae --Goodness and Cruelty: The Image of the Ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire in the Period of Christianisation (Ninth Century) --A Christian King in Africa: The Image of Christian Nubian Rulers in Internal and External Sources --D. The Good Ruler under Islamic Rule --Justice and Good Administration in Medieval Islam: The Book of the Pearl of the Ruler by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih (860-940) --Images of Emperors and Emirs in Early Islamic Egypt --Shaping the Good Christian King under Muslim Rule: Constantine and the Torah in the Melkite Arabic Chronicle of Agapius of Mabbug (Tenth Century) --Index of Persons and Places --Subject Index

"In the aftermath of the 2014 Ebola outbreak, media coverage was scrutinized for sensationalism, weakness in explaining scientific uncertainty, dehumanization of patients, and lack of contextualization. The current COVID-19 crisis presents an opportunity to assess whether the media learned its lesson. Results are mixed. Early reporting on the origin of COVID-19 in "wet markets" indicates that the media continues to do poorly with contextualization. On the other hand, stories on mortality and the infectiousness of COVID-19 indicate there has been improvement. The situation remains fluid as COVID-19 threatens to transform into a pandemic at the time of submission. Data from new countries may alter the reported rates of lethality and infectiousness, and media reporting on these changes may or may not be responsible. The explosion of social media, as a medium to promote reporting, could provide bioethicists a tool to direct the public to reliable stories and criticize inaccurate ones. Using a bioethics perspective, this poster will critically evaluate the quality of U.S. and Italian news media's reporting on the evolving scientific understanding of COVID-19 and its contextualization. The presentation will employ QR technology to provide links to media coverage of COVID-19 from the U.S. and Italian news media. After critically appraising the quality of COVID-19 reporting, this poster will consider if bioethicists: 1) should provide comment to the media on pandemics; 2) should correct reporting for the public and 3) have a duty to publicly criticize sensationalism in the media. "

"Informed consent (IC) in older adults (≥ 70 years of age) is often complex. This holds even truer in the setting of organ transplantation (OTx), requiring patients to be informed of the risks and benefits associated with multiple options: whether or not to pursue a transplant, to opt for a living – where appropriate – or deceased donor, to consider a variety of choices concerning the potential for poorer organ quality or increased risk of disease transmission and others. IC overlaps with shared decision-making (SDM) in the presence of high-risk procedures, with low levels of certainty, and when two or more treatment alternatives exist. Patient decision aids (PDAs) (i.e. paper-based/electronic evidence-based tools) have been developed to complement and enhance SDM in clinical practice. Studies have proven PDAs to be an effective means to improve transplant knowledge, to foster patient participation, and to diminish decisional conflict across different settings in OTx. However, research is lacking on the effectiveness and appropriateness of these tools in older adults, which are increasingly entitled to receive OTx. The objective of our work is 1) to present the challenges posed by the use of PDAs in this group of patients and 2) to identify gaps so as to inform the agenda for research on this emergent issue. Our findings suggest that future studies should aim to the development, implementation and evaluation of PDAs for the oldest, more vulnerable segments of this specific patient population. "

"The Ethics Consultant (EC), where present, is called on to offer a resolution to ethical dilemmas at different times over the course of treatment. However, it is not yet clear under which particular circumstances the intervention of the EC should be requested when chronic diseases occur following an acute event. As part of the treatment of these evolutionary chronic conditions, the pathway is often complex and may involve multiple actors (i.e. departments, hospitals, and others). The role of the EC is often limited to a single department and to an isolated event. Therefore, there is frequently no possibility to take into consideration all of the options inherent to the entire continuum of care and of their consequences for the patient. From intensive care units, rehabilitation wards, long-term hospitalization, through to palliative care, the pathway presents important ethical-clinical questions for the patient, for the healthcare team, and for family members. For these reasons, our objective is to develop a model of consultation integrating the EC along the continuum of care. By analyzing a series of cases, we developed an integrated model of consultation allowing the EC to intervene at different subsequent stages of the process. Our findings suggest that this model is an effective means to allow the EC to provide support in relation to single events but also to coherently pursue – within a collaborative setting across different departments – a specific course of treatment which is respectful of clinical indications and of patients' and caregivers' preferences along the whole pathway. "

We thank CERN for the very successful operation of the LHC, as well as the support staff from our institutions without whom ATLAS could not be operated efficiently. We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC, and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST, and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR, and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF and DNSRC, Denmark; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DSM/IRFU, France; GNSF, Georgia; BMBF, HGF, and MPG, Germany; GSRT, Greece; RGC, Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF, I-CORE, and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; FOM and NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and NRC KI, Russian Federation; JINR; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZŠ, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, SNSF, and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; MOST, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, the Canada Council, CANARIE, CRC, Compute Canada, FQRNT, and the Ontario Innovation Trust, Canada; EPLANET, ERC, FP7, Horizon 2020, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, European Union; Investissements d'Avenir Labex and Idex, ANR, Région Auvergne, and Fondation Partager le Savoir, France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales and Aristeia programmes cofinanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; BSF, GIF, and Minerva, Israel; BRF, Norway; Generalitat de Catalunya, Generalitat Valenciana, Spain; the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom. The crucial computing support from all WLCG partners is acknowledged gratefully, in particular from CERN, the ATLAS Tier-1 facilities at TRIUMF (Canada), NDGF (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), CC-IN2P3 (France), KIT/GridKA (Germany), INFN-CNAF (Italy), NL-T1 (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), ASGC (Taiwan), RAL (UK), and BNL (USA), the Tier-2 facilities worldwide and large non-WLCG resource providers. Major contributors of computing resources are listed in Ref. [74]

We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF and DNSRC, Denmark; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DSM/IRFU, France; GNSF, Georgia; BMBF, HGF, and MPG, Germany; GSRT, Greece; RGC, Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF, I-CORE and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; FOM and NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and NRC KI, Russian Federation; JINR; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZŠ, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC and Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; MOST, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, the Canada Council, CANARIE, CRC, Compute Canada, FQRNT, and the Ontario Innovation Trust, Canada; EPLANET, ERC, FP7, Horizon 2020 and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, European Union; Investissements d'Avenir Labex and Idex, ANR, Région Auvergne and Fondation Partager le Savoir, France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; BSF, GIF and Minerva, Israel; BRF, Norway; Generalitat de Catalunya, Generalitat Valenciana, Spain; the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom.