Baptism Folklore

Uveal Melanoma: Beyond a Baptism

Ophthalmologists focus on a very specialized region of the body; however, our years of general medical training are useful for patients, especially those with uveal melanoma. While hereditary uveal melanoma (UM) is very rare (<1% of uveal melanomas) [1], patients with a high frequency of personal and/or family history of cancer are found inabout 12% of unselected patients with UM [2]. The incre...

Folklore, Folklorism, and Synchronization: Preserved-Created Folklore in Israel

The Origin and Meaning of Baptism

Implementing digital folklore collections

In this paper, we present a metadata model to describe the digitized digital folklore collection of the Department of Greek Studies in the University of Athens. Folklore collection consists of different kinds of digitized material. The volume and the variety of material results to collection representation as a hierarchical structure, according to the type of objects, the corresponding chronolo...

Folklore and Medicine

Your education heretofore has been focused on the horizon which opens for the first time to-day, to fit you to receive training as entered apprentices of the mystery and art of clinical medicine and surgery. From now on you will come into contact with the raw material of our craft, the sick and suffering who seek relief within the walls of this hospital. It will be your duty and inestimable pri...