A 12-year-old boy had a three-year history of exercise-induced pain in his limbs; in particular, the shoulders, elbows, and knees were affected. For six months he had also experienced loss of strength. He noted difficulty with walking and cycling and was hardly able to climb stairs. He developed toe walking and complained about an itchy skin rash with focal depigmentation at his neck and trunk, diagnosed as eczema. He did not complain about swallowing difficulty, yet he became cachexic because his nutritional intake was lagging, and he suffered from mood swings.

Previous history was unremarkable. His parents were healthy, as was his older brother.

This chapter places the actions of the Mansfeld Regiment within the context of military pay for the Saxon army during the 1620s. Pay for individual infantrymen varied substantially, and this chapter argues that it can be used as a proxy to determine these men’s social status. Mercenary soldiers and female members of the military community could act as subcontractors in their own right, which shaped the way they found sexual partners. Pay in the Saxon army in the 1620s seems high, and was disbursed on time. Although the Saxon army was at paper strength throughout the 1620s, this massive outlay may have been one reason Saxon finances fell apart in the 1640s. Meanwhile, the Mansfeld Regiment was paid far less than the customary rate in the Saxon army, and was swindled by the Governor of Milan.

This chapter elaborates a contextualized account of Horace’s interests in nature and the nonhuman. It traces the connections in his lyric poetry between the nonhuman environment and various concepts of nature. Drawing on long-standing poetic traditions, as well as developments in Hellenistic philosophy, Horace forges a poetry in which distilled perceptions of the nonhuman world undergird insights into ethical concepts of nature by which humans should live their lives. The chapter finds in this poetics a complex form of nature poetry that usefully complicates that concept within the history of the lyric. In order to write this poetry, Horace authenticates his vatic status through claims about his own special relationship with the nonhuman environment and the gods. Horace’s special connection to the divine allows him to enjoy a privileged relationship with his nonhuman surroundings. And it is because of this status that he can command us with urgency and authority to attend to our environments. Horace represents himself as a supernatural poet of nature, whose literary achievement transcends nature even as it teaches about nature’s limits.

In fall 1945, Lieutenant Colonel William K. Evans, the US Army’s chief civil affairs officer in Taiwan, smuggled sixty kilograms of gold bullion that he confiscated from the Japanese Tenth Area Army and offloaded it on Shanghai’s black market, returning to the United States with $108,000 in cash (worth approximately $1.5 million today). The gold was supposed to go the Chinese Nationalist government. Although US military authorities found overwhelming evidence of Evans’ guilt and had recently sentenced another colonel to ten years in prison for a nearly identical crime committed in Tokyo, Evans walked away a free man after a protracted Sino-US diplomatic struggle and two mistrials in federal court. By examining the Evans case, this chapter sheds light on the transition from extraterritoriality and formal colonialism to America’s postcolonial model of using status of forces agreements (SOFAs) to exercise jurisdiction over US forces stationed abroad.

This chapter discusses how molecular communication systems can be designed, using the various techniques described in the book. The chapter discusses system design in the context of four specific application areas: drug delivery, tissue engineering, lab-on-chip technology, and unconventional computation. In each case, the general application scenario is discussed, and specific design examples are presented.

The demands made on a modern emergency department (ED) are such that having an internal capacity to provide a range of procedural sedation is essential to its functioning. Patients arrive at every hour of the day, with pathology that may require sedation for diagnosis or treatment. The requirement for urgent action is greater than in an outpatient office or clinic, where cases are typically planned. Patients in the ED may be critically ill, or have a threat to an organ or limb that must be dealt with rapidly. Imposing on colleagues from the department of anesthesia to provide sedation for these patients is unnecessary and logistically difficult, given the after-hours and unplanned nature of these cases. Emergency physicians with training and board certification in emergency medicine have the skills to recognize these situations, and to assess the risks and benefits of procedural sedation in caring for these patients. In addition, the emergency physician has advanced airway management and resuscitation training to manage complications arising from sedation [1, 2].

In his late twenties, a 30-year-old man reported difficulty with raising his arms and running, which had progressed over subsequent years. During his teens he had been a very good soccer player.