which includes the medicine of primitive peoples today, "Ancient Egypt," and "Mesopotamia." A remarkable linguist, Sigerist has used original documents most extensively. Because of language barriers, few other historians in any field could employ as wide a range of sources as Sigerist has. Moreover, he has interpreted his sources in a truly historical manner. Most histories of medicine are of t...

This prototype demonstrate a novel method for learning to find transliterations of proper nouns on the Web based on query expansion aimed at maximizing the probability of retrieving transliterations from existing search engines. Since the method we used involves learning the morphological relationships between names and their transliterations, we refer to this IR-based approach as morphological...

The chapter presents a spatial interaction entropy model that addresses the dynamics of urban growth using sites from the Late Uruk period in southern Mesopotamia as examples. The model addresses to what extent geography, transportation, and factors that make locations attractive for trade and settlement affect why some settlements grow while others stabilize or diminish in size through time. T...