I this paper, the author underlines that epigraphic material and monuments mentioning ancient cults as patrons of seafaring and seafarers in Istria – which would correspond to numerous coastal settlements and ports, villas and landing places – are scarce. It is assumed that the supreme Roman sea deity Neptune was worshipped in the temple on the capitolium in Poreč, and in the residential mariti...

The roots of modern medicine can be traced back to the 5th century BC when Hippocratic rational medicine originated on the Greek islands of Cos and Cnidos. In this study we examine the way in which practitioners conducted their profession in Graeco-Roman times, as well as their training. Medical training was by way of apprenticeship with recognized doctors, but no qualifying examinations existe...

Parts of the left ventral visual pathway are engaged selectively during the perception of words, letterstrings, and even single letters. While studies have shown overlap between activations for letters and characters across writing systems, they adopted group analyses with very limited spatial resolution, or used words and letterstrings, which have been shown to activate different regions from ...

We generalize some results of Ford and Roman constraining the possible behaviors of the renormalized expected stressenergy tensor of a free massless scalar field in two dimensional Minkowski spacetime. Ford and Roman showed that the energy density measured by an inertial observer, when averaged with respect to the observers proper time by integrating against some weighting function, is bounded ...

georges ohnet et jules verne comptent parmi les romanciers célèbres de la deuxième moitié du xixe siècle, verne étant plus connu et le plus universel, bien entendu. tous deux sont considérés comme des romanciers populaires, le deuxième dans le genre du roman d’anticipation et d’aventures et le premier dans celui du roman de mœurs. les deux étaient influencés par le plus grand phénomène du siècl...

A reconstruction of the morphological features of domestic pigs from two Roman settlements is here suggested by means of the study of skeletal and dental remains, with the aim at evaluating their degree of selection in comparison with wild boars. Material was formed by 111 bone and tooth fragments and was uncovered during the excavations of Polybius' House in Pompeii and of Roman buildings in t...

An interdisciplinary study of the archaeological landscape of the Trieste area (northeastern Italy), mainly based on airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR), ground penetrating radar (GPR), and archaeological surveys, has led to the discovery of an early Roman fortification system, composed of a big central camp (San Rocco) flanked by two minor forts. The most ancient archaeological findin...

India is a multi-lingual country where Roman script is often used alongside different Indic scripts in a text document. To develop a script specific handwritten Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system, it is therefore necessary to identify the scripts of handwritten text correctly. In this paper, we present a system, which automatically separates the scripts of handwritten words from a docum...