On Roman brick stamps ans the Latin –(a)es genitive

Medical Latin in the Roman empire

viewpoint by the late Mirko Grmek. As he points out, Epidemics 5 and 7 are remarkable examples of ancient casereporting, often giving sufficient detail to allow a precise modem diagnosis. In this respect they are in no way inferior to the more famous Epidemics 1 and 3, and show the Greek physician at the bedside in an extremely favourable light. Indeed, on at least one occasion a modem clinical...

the effect of classroom observation on eflteachers skills ans students outcomes

abstract the following study, in the first place, attempted to examine the effect of less experienced teachers participation in experienced teachers classes on their own skills and teaching methodology, in the second place, attempted to find out the role of teachers training in students achievements. for this purpose, 21 efl teachers were selected according to available sampling in kish l...

Pelagonius and Latin veterinary terminology in the Roman empire

documentary, artistic, and ethnographic material, and the range of topics considered is as wide as the scope of the Maqa-mdt itself; urban, rural and nomadic life, women, religious practices and beliefs, politics and law, trade, education and literary life, medicine, music, slavery, and customs of hospitality. Of particular interest to medical historians is the account of cupping (pp. 108-13), ...

Improving on Version Stamps

Optimistic distributed systems often rely on version vectors or their variants in order to track updates on replicated objects. Some of these mechanisms rely on some form of global configuration or distributed naming protocol in order to assign unique identifiers to each replica. These approaches are incompatible with replica creation under arbitrary partitions, a typical operation mode in mobi...

Radiology on postage stamps.