DIJKHOF, Eef C. (ed.) (2020) – Medieval documents as artefacts: Interdisciplinary perspectives on codicology, palaeography and diplomatics. Hilversum: Verloren, 432 p., ISBN: 9789087045685

Interdisciplinary perspectives

From May 29 to May 31 2017, the imposing building of the Palace of Parliament hosted the fifth Edition of the Congress of “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, the oldest and most important University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Romania, on the anniversary of 160 years since it was founded. Under the already famous motto, “Initiation, Evolution, Excellency”, 35 scientif...

Epistolary Documents in High-Medieval History- Writing

Queueing Theory and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Remote access to dynamically changing information elements is a required functionality for various network services, including routing and instances of context-sensitive networking. Three fundamentally different strategies for such access are investigated in this paper: (1) a reactive approach initiated by the requesting entity, and two versions of proactive approaches in which the entity that ...

Heuristic Thinking: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Medical Error

Approximately 43 million adverse events occur across the globe each year at a cost of at least 23 million disability-adjusted life years and $132 billion in excess health care spending, ranking this safety burden among the top 10 medical causes of disability in the world.1 These findings are likely to be an understatement of the actual severity of the problem, given that the numbers merely refl...

Contribution to the Discrimination of the Medieval Manuscript Texts: Application in the Palaeography

This work presents our first contribution to the discrimination of the medieval manuscript texts in order to assist the palaeographers to date the ancient manuscripts. Our method is based on the Spatial Grey-Level Dependence (SGLD) which measures the join probability between grey levels values of pixels for each displacement. We use the Haralick features to characterise the 15 medieval text sty...