Ancient and modern knowledges

On Greek, Ancient and Modern (but Rather Ancient than Modern)

In this paper a few applications of the current implementation of R are given. These applications concern typesetting problems that cannot be solved by TEX (consequently, by no other typesetting system known to the authors). They cover a wide range, going from calligraphic script fonts (Adobe Poetica), to plain Dutch/Portuguese/Turkish typesetting, to vowelized Arabic, fully diacriticized schol...

Ancient and modern rangefinders

OAKOC is an Army acronym used for planning operations: it stands for Observation and fields of fire, Avenues of approach, Key and decisive terrain, Obstacles, and Cover and concealment. The first point is therefore the Observation and fields of fire. It means that it is necessary to answer the following questions [1]: What can you see throughout your area? What fields of fire will you have in t...

Modern Architecture and Ancient Monuments

Ancient and modern environmental DNA.

DNA obtained from environmental samples such as sediments, ice or water (environmental DNA, eDNA), represents an important source of information on past and present biodiversity. It has revealed an ancient forest in Greenland, extended by several thousand years the survival dates for mainland woolly mammoth in Alaska, and pushed back the dates for spruce survival in Scandinavian ice-free refugi...

Crohn's disease: ancient and modern.

In 1932, Crohn, Ginzburg and Oppenheimer published their classical paper on regional ileitis in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).' Since then, it has been a popular pastime to document the many case descriptions ofCrohn's disease whch were published beforehand.2-4 Most of these were brief reports of small numbers.5-7 The most thorough studies were those of Moschowitz and W...