Agricola and the "Basevi Codex"

The Ophthalmic Prescriber's Codex

The Archimedes Codex

We learned, of course, something of the curious story of the oldest (by 400 years) surviving manuscript of some of Arch imedes ’ works, collected in a Byzantine codex that contained the end of Equilibrium of Planes , great parts of The Sphere and the Cylinder and Measurement of the Circle, a sizable portion of On Floating Bodies, one folio of The Stomachion, and a large portion of The Method. T...

The Arithmetic Codex: Theory and Applications

We define the notion of an arithmetic codex (or codex, for short), and as a special case, arithmetic secret sharing. This notion encompasses as well as generalizes, in a single mathematical framework, all known types of specialized secret sharing schemes from the area of secure multi-party computation, i.e., the so-called (strongly) multiplicative linear secret sharing schemes. These schemes we...

The British Pharmaceutical Codex, 1949

Antimicrobial resistance and the activities of the Codex Alimentarius Commission.

The Codex Alimentarius Commission has been working on the subject of antimicrobial resistance, mainly through the activities of the Committee on Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Foods and the ad hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance. Principal texts developed by Codex include the 'Code of Practice to Minimize and Contain Antimicrobial Resistance (CAC/RCP 61-2005) and 'Guid...