THE PROBLEM of the origins of the medical school of Salerno has exercised the talents of many distinguished medical historians, who, even if they have not reached complete agreement, have purified and tested the ancient traditions and the surviving evidence. Although Kristeller's magisterial article which imposed clarity upon much that was formerly obscure seemed to have fixed the terms of the ...

There are policy, technical, and workflow gaps in library efforts to preserve online journal literature. Since libraries are increasingly involved in journal publishing, HathiTrust, a shared preservation-quality digital repository, is a natural place to archive and provide access to journal literature to ensure its long-term preservation and discoverability. The U-M Library is funding the creat...

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are smart systems that include engineered interacting networks of physical and computational components. The tight integration of a wide range of heterogeneous components enables new functionality and quality of life improvements in critical infrastructures such as smart cities, intelligent buildings, and smart energy systems. One approach to study CPS uses both sim...

BALTIMORE—In early December 1807, a mob opposed to dissection of human bodies razed the building where Baltimore surgeon John B. Davidge, MD, was teaching anatomy to aspiring physicians. The crowd carried off the cadaver. Outrage over the rampage spurred introduction of a resolution in the Maryland General Assembly to establish a medical college in Baltimore. At the time, Maryland had fewer tha...

On Saturday, January 30, 1835, President Andrew Jackson accompanied by his Vice-President, Martin Van Buren, and the Secretaries of Treasury and Navy, entered the portico of the Capitol. President Jackson had just attended the funeral service for Representative Warren B. Davis of South Carolina. Suddenly a man in the crowd pulled a pistol from beneath his coat, extended his arm, and levelled th...

this paper is a research conducted based on the basic question that why house belonging is removed from today houses. answer of this question will further demonstrate more importance and necessity of such studies compared with previous studies. this is because addressing such studies plays an important role in recognition of the principles of traditional architecture while modern designers and ...

As the Greek myths say, Apollo was the Olympian god of health. However, medicine and healing eventually became associated with his son Asclepius, now also known by the Roman name Aesculapus. The name Asclepius has also been spelled Asklepios or Asclepios in literature; in this article I have adopted the spelling that is most commonly used today. The story of Asclepius, although it deals with he...

Underpinning every digital library and digital repository there is a policy framework, which makes the digital library viable without a policy framework a digital library is little more than a container for content. Policy governs how a digital library is instantiated and run. It is therefore a meta-domain which is situated both outside the digital library and any technologies used to deliver i...