The behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is a clinical syndrome characterized by progressive deterioration of social behavior and cognitive functions. It is one of the most common causes of early-onset dementia and is associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). The diagnosis of bvFTD can be challenging due to its overlap with other psychiatric disorders, but obtaining a detailed clinical history from a reliable informant is essential. Diagnostic criteria for bvFTD include behavioral and cognitive features such as loss of motivation, social disinhibition, lack of empathy, repetitive behaviors, changes in eating habits, and executive dysfunction. Biomarkers such as brain imaging and genetic testing can help increase diagnostic certainty. Disease progression in bvFTD leads to disability and functional deterioration. Future research aims to improve early recognition, diagnostic accuracy, and the development of disease-modifying treatments.

Comparative regional analysis on consumption based on inventories does feature in the relevant scholarship, although mostly with a focus on the contrast between town and countryside. A common finding in that sense has been that consumers in more urbanised locations owned a wider set of possessions and novelties, particularly in regions with the presence of large metropolis. Little attention has been paid, however, to contrasts in the consumer behaviour of peasants across regions with different degrees of urbanisation and economic development. This is the perspective adopted in this chapter, with the purpose of assessing how far changes in consumption were experienced by Valencian peasants as a whole or, conversely, only by those living in particular regions.

This chapter considers the impact of digital technologies on Australian poetry, in both its production and its circulation. It charts Australian endeavours in electronic poetry, pointing out its internationalisation of Australian poetry, exploration of tensions between the global and the local, and caution regarding the dangers of increased surveillance. The chapter then discusses the experimentation with hypertext, interactivity, animation and computer coding, including the creation of a new language by mez (Mary-Anne Breeze). It considers the digital manipulation of words and voice and the poetic use of computerised text generation. It traces developments occurring between literature and game, including the use of virtual reality and 3D environments. The chapter also outlines the impact of machine learning on text generation, including the destabilisation of distinctions between human and machine creativity. After discussing the prevalence of multimedia work, it considers Indigenous digitality before turning to digital publishing such as online journals, databases and ebook publications. The chapter concludes with a reflection on the paucity of attention given to digital works in funding and prize culture.

The notion that curse tablets were used to cause harm whereas amulets were used to provide protection is a misleading oversimplification. Curse tablets have often been removed from the category of religion and consigned to the illusive one of magic. However, the existence of those tablets designated as prayers for justice illustrates that the desires which drove curse tablet creation were varied. To ascertain to what extent the use of curse tablets and amulets fitted in with polis religion, different aspects of them are examined, such as the ritualistic nature of their creation, their use of formulaic inscriptions and evidence for their use, or lack of use, of reciprocity. Examples of amulets and curse tablets are presented from the fourth century BCE through to the second century CE and from a large geographical scope. Examples from across the Greek world illustrate a paradoxical unity and sense of religious community amongst those who engaged in these practices. The incredibly personal nature of the inscriptions on curse tablets and the wearing of amulets provides an insight into Greek religious practice at an individual level.

This chapter discusses how the suburb was initially a source of anxiety and ambivalence, with the city compared unfavourably to the bush in The Bulletin in the 1890s. This was followed by representations of the suburbs as constraining creativity and promoting social and political narrowness in early twentieth-century poetry. Their reconceptualisation would occur at the end of World War II through painting and Ern Malley’s poems, with the latter evoking a sense of the suburban quotidian. The chapter then considers how a Melbourne group of poets began depicting the suburbs with both affection and parodic impulse, often demonstrating how elements of liberation and constraint are experienced simultaneously in such spaces. The chapter also discusses how Aboriginal poets explored suburbia and the uncanny in the late twentieth century. It includes a reconceptualisation of surburban domesticity in poetry by Gwen Harwood before exploring how forms such as the verse novel and the prose poem enabled detailed and linguistically rich engagements with the suburbs. Lastly, the chapter discusses the range of responses to the suburbs by migrant writers.

The purpose of this chapter is to reconstruct trends in the price of food-related objects. This chapter is divided into three sections. The first section explains the available sources for studying the value of everyday objects and reveals how a sample of prices was built for this purpose. The next section explores differences in prices over the kingdom of Valencia, showing a remarkable trans-regional uniformity. This phenomenon will be the basis for the last section, in which price trends are reconstructed at the level of the realm.

This chapter sorts out how we can distinguish small worlds and conditions of risk from large worlds and conditions of uncertainty along three dimensions (section 1). Unnoticed by students of world politics, in many domains of knowledge the twentieth century saw an important collective shift in terminological resources from Newtonian humanism to post-Newtonianism and para-humanism. These two worldviews are therefore discussed (in sections 2 and 3). Both engage uncertainty more openly than Newtonian humanism does. In any field of study, including world politics, “speaking differently” in a new conceptual language can make distinct contributions to understanding – contributions that can be as important as “arguing well” by relying on conventional terminology. In this case, speaking differently helps us rethink the risk-uncertainty conundrum.

This chapter begins with the description of Australian poets as expatriates from the beginning of settlement. It argues that a perceived colonial provincialism and the smallness of the Australian market led to several well-known novelists pursuing their career abroad. The reasons for poets leaving Australia have been far more varied. Australian expatriate poets have been both short-term and long-term inhabitants of countries such as Paraguay (Mary Gilmore), England (W. J. Turner, Peter Porter, Clive James, Katherine Gallagher) and the United States (E. G. Moll, Keith Harrison, Ray Matthew, Kevin Roberts, Gail Holst-Warhaft). The chapter considers the influence of music on Porter’s poetry and his poetic meditations on death. It discusses the pursuit of an academic career by Harrison and his writing of particular locations and family relationships. Relatedly, it considers Gallagher’s remembrance of Australia and exploration of family and regeneration through the garden and its flowers. The chapter also appraises the erudition of James and his tribute and critiques of fellow poets. Lastly, the chapter charts the demise of the need for expatriatism in light of advances in travel and digital communication, while outlining the existence of a contemporary diaspora of Australian poets in many countries.

This chapter discusses the concept of the visual imaginary and the visualism apparent across all of Kenneth Slessor’s writing, including his war journalism and poetry. It argues that Slessor’s career as a film writer for the popular press is related to the visualism of his poetry and to the history of cinema in Australia. The chapter analyses the relation between the light effects in Slessor’s poetry and the existential state of the poet, including in the elegiac ‘Five Bells’. It concludes with a discussion on the relation between Slessor’s war despatches about World War II in North Africa and the elegy for the casualties of war.

In this chapter, I begin my interpretation of Arnauld’s God by outlining Arnauld’s account of our epistemic access to God. I first consider four prominent positions among Arnauld’s peers and predecessors: the empirical model, the divine illumination model, the innatist model, and the Dieu caché. I then go on to examine Arnauld’s account of our innate idea of God as well as considerations that Arnauld raises that limit the scope of knowledge we can derive from his idea. This places his view as a surprising amalgam of the innatist model and the Dieu caché. I also consider Arnauld’s rejection of the empirical model and the divine illumination model as well as briefly discussing his account of knowledge of God via faith.

This chapter explores personal religion in some of Plato’s dialogues. First, focusing on the Apology and Euthyphro, it considers Socrates’ daimonic sign and how far Socrates expresses religious attitudes independent from, in line with, or opposed to those foregrounded or sanctioned in Athens. Second, it turns to Plato’s Laws and examines the Stranger’s vision for civic religion in the imagined city of Magnesia and his prohibitions of private worship. Finally, it considers how philosophical inquiry can itself constitute personal religion. Overall, it argues that Plato does not evince a single attitude towards all the phenomena we might classify as personal religion. That the Stranger outlaws some central aspects of personal religion does not mean that he proscribes all others; we should resist the old idea that Socrates would have fallen afoul of Magnesia’s laws. While the Stranger excludes a culture of free speech of which the Socrates of the early dialogues avails himself, Magnesia is not Athens. For Plato, how far expressions of personal religion should be countenanced, regulated, or proscribed by the city turns on the nature of the city in which that question is raised.

Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a neurodegenerative disorder that primarily affects language abilities. There are three main variants of PPA: semantic variant PPA (svPPA), nonfluent variant PPA (nfvPPA), and logopenic variant PPA (lvPPA). Each variant has distinct clinical features, neuroimaging findings, and genetic and pathological associations. However, some cases do not fit neatly into these categories, known as PPA not otherwise specified. Diagnosis of PPA requires a comprehensive evaluation of language and cognitive abilities, along with neuroimaging and biomarker data. Future directions in PPA research include the development of computerized algorithms for speech analysis, the exploration of non-verbal aspects of the disorder, and the investigation of potential therapeutic interventions.