Ancient Theologies and Modern Times

Risks of ancient practices in modern times.

Swaddling, ie, wrapping the child to restrict movement, is an ancient practice. In the Netherlands, it is becoming increasingly popular as an intervention for excessive crying in infants. However, one must be well aware of the potential risks. We present the case reports of a twin boy and girl who had been swaddled and kept in a heated room for several days. On admission to the hospital, both i...

Latin Language and Latin Culture from ancient to modern times

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 Times