Background: Research into the impact of personal health record-enabled consumer systems is still in its infancy.  Little is known about effective designs of web-based personally controlled health management system (PCHMS), how people use these systems in their real-life settings, nor…

In ancient mentions of gifts to the gods, a number of terms suggest motives, and a listing of these can be exploited to assess religious intentions and mentalities.

Philo in his biographies of biblical figures anticipates the moral and anecdotal cast of Plutarch’s Lives, for both were influenced by the Stoicism that they encountered in Rome.

The extant odes provide no evidence for the common view that some must have first been performed at Panhellenic sanctuaries immediately after the victory.

The phenomenon of selective reading and copying of Thucydides’ History, attested to by authors and papyri, reflects the teaching and the practice of rhetoric in the Imperial age.

The lamp, in the shape of a mummified Osiris, has only a few parallels; it contains inscriptions with magical formulas that can be paralleled in other magical texts.

Gregory’s idea of theōsis, which came to be influential in Eastern Christianity, draws not on a Platonic notion of imitation of God but more on the Stoics’ ‘familiarity’ with the divine.

Damascius’ comments on the theory of recollection may well come from a lost work of Plutarch, to judge from the structure and sequence of the arguments.

Eustathius repeatedly assesses passages of Homer with a view toward showing their utility to contemporaries in the living practice of oratory.

This article brings in the second part general information about half-wave impedance repeater. The third part describes the basic functional principles of the half-wave impedance repeater using Smith chart. The main attention is focused in part four on the derivation…