Introduction: Negative Judgement: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Perspectives

Optical coherence tomography. Ancient topics, modern perspectives.

Another reported mechanism of thrombosis, inadequate stent apposition, remains a subject of debate. With the use of OCT, it is possible to determine whether apposition of the stent struts to the vessel wall is adequate (Figure C) or poor (Figure 1D), the latter being a factor that favors adherence of thrombi and stent thrombosis. Lastly, depending on the density and uniformity of tissue growth,...

Ancient and Medieval Economic Thought and Institutions

For most of history, economics did not have a separate identity apart from social thought in general. Even as late as the eighteenth century, Adam Smith viewed economics as a subset of jurisprudence. This makes the search for fIrst principles of economic reasoning more difficult, not because the intellectual cupboard of antiquity was bare, but because the subject boundaries between the social s...

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