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The edition and translation of the Dublin Kephalaia, belonging to the Chester Beatty Library, has significantly expanded the horizon of Manichaean studies with valuable information on the genesis and formation of the heterogeneous corpus of primary sources, in their profound textual interconnections. The importance of this Coptic text consists in revealing a circulation of characters and concepts ranging from the Iranian-Zoroastrian world to the Buddhist one and which testify to a level of cultural elaboration dealing with Mani's first experience and missionary travels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Plasma chitotriosidase activity (ChT) was previously proposed to quantify severity of sepsis. In a complex surgical case, with prolonged sepsis and consistently high ChT, we found that the least increased values occurred in stages of extreme illness, with profound hypocholesterolemia. ChT needs better characterization before becoming a reliable biomarker of septic evolution. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this article, we describe a low-cost indoor navigation system, based on the capabilities of modern smartphones commonly equipped with accelerometer, gyroscope, camera and Internet connection. The main claim of this paper is that, relaxing the requirement of best accuracy, with an intelligent use of inertial sensors, digital maps, and ambient tagging, it is still possible to get good results. Our mobile application helps the user in retrieving directions and finding places in large indoor environments where the global positioning system (GPS) is not available, such as airports, hospitals, museums and so on. The goal is to get a system able to work without the use of any physical ad hoc infrastructure and without relying on any wearable device. We name our infrastructure-free system Roodin, and its features are as follows: user-friendly interface, quick install and calibration tool, point-of-interest search and guidance. All the features presented in this paper are designed and implemented, and the application has been evaluated with real users. A summary of user evaluation is reported in the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]