Moments in Pharmacy had its origins in the mind of a single pharmacist during the Great Depression. Nurtured for more than a decade, and pursued with fervor for 20 years after that, the idea led to the creation of these paintings and the accompanying stories, which for 50 years have used the tools of art and narrative to present highlights of the most important events in the ancient profession ...

MOTIVATION Lateral gene transfer is a major mechanism contributing to bacterial genome dynamics and pathovar emergence via pathogenicity island (PAI) spreading. However, since few of these genomic exchanges are experimentally reproducible, it is difficult to establish evolutionary scenarios for the successive PAI transmissions between bacterial genera. Methods initially developed at the gene an...

In 1975, Sarah Pomeroy’s Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity1 broke ground in the study of women in the ancient world, pulling much relevant information together in one book for the first time. This new volume in Blackwell’s Companions to the Ancient World series ambitiously sets out “to draw together, in a methodologically self-conscious way, the advances in schol...

one of the important philosophical issues and debates dating back over two thousand years, and the beginning of wisdom in ancient greece has been proposed, is the problem of essence. some believe that the discussion on the issue of substance is aristotelian thought, and believe that the roots of this attribution in aristotle approach to the existence and its relation with the essence and nature...

1 Reconstructing Paleogenomes 245 1.1 Ancient DNA 245 1.1.1 The Nature of Ancient DNA 245 1.1.2 The Common Effects of DNA Damage 246 1.2 The Recovery and Sequencing of Ancient DNA 246 1.2.1 Ancient DNA Extraction 246 1.2.2 DNA Library Preparation 247 1.2.3 Capture-Based Target Enrichment 248 1.2.4 Quantification of aDNA and Sequencing 249 1.3 Assembly and Analysis of a Paleogenome 250 1.3.1 Ini...

This paper describes an instrument that can compose a song using predicates of Ancient Greek Music. It employs the methodology and musical notation of this specific music system and at the same time, it provides a mapping mechanism that depicts the whole process to composition predicates of the usual notation of Western Music. The aim of this application is to facilitate the efforts of Ancient ...

the symptoms of today’s disease can help scientist to take a diagnostic approach toward those of the ancient times. the knowledge of the survey of disease in the ancient times is called pathology. ancient pathology focuses on the source, evolution and progression of diseases in the human groups in history. in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a lot of precise and detailed descriptiv...