History of Medicine Schedule and Abstracts 2009-2010

From Genes to Genome: An historical perspective (David Wheeler) Ignaz Semmelweis: Medical Prophet Without Honor (Ronald L. Young) Why Lewis Thomas, MD is Not a Bore: The Life of a Biology Watcher (Steven Greenberg) Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans (Vivien Spitz) Illuminating Autism: Passing the Torch from the Twentieth Century (Student Essay Contest Winners) (Lynn Yudofsky) Healing Beyond Hippocrates: The Temples of Asclepius and Public Health Care in Ancient Greece (Andrew Baldwin) Iron Wills and Iron Lungs: The Polio Years in Texas (Heather Green Wooten) William Osler and the Inspirational Uses of History (Michael Bliss) Working Too Hard and Achieving Too Much: The Cost of Being Harvey Cushing (Michael Bliss) Medicine in Ancient Egypt (Gene Boisaubin) The History of Diabetes (Jeff Unger)

Raw as Archival Still Image Format: A Consideration

Source materials like fine art, over-sized, fragile maps, and delicate artifacts have traditionally been digitally converted through the use of controlled lighting and high resolution scanners and camera backs. In addition the capture of items such as general and special collections bound monographs has recently grown both through consortial efforts like the Internet Archive's Open Content Alliance and locally at the individual institution level. These projects, in turn, have introduced increasingly higher resolution consumer-grade digital single lens reflex cameras or "DSLRs" as a significant part of the general cultural heritage digital conversion workflow. Central to the authors' discussion is the fact that both camera backs and DSLRs commonly share the ability to capture native raw file formats. Because these formats include such advantages as access to an image's raw mosaic sensor data within their architecture, many institutions choose raw for initial capture due to its high bit-level and unprocessed nature. However to date these same raw formats, so important to many at the point of capture, have yet to be considered "archival" within most published still imaging standards, if they are considered at all. Throughout many workflows raw files are deleted and thrown away after more traditionally "archival" uncompressed TIFF or JPEG 2000 files have been derived downstream from their raw source formats [1][2]. As a result, the authors examine the nature of raw anew and consider the basic questions, Should raw files be retained? What might their role be? Might they in fact form a new archival format space? Included in the discussion is a survey of assorted raw file types and their attributes. Also addressed are various sustainability issues as they pertain to archival formats with a special emphasis on both raw's positive and negative characteristics as they apply to archival practices. Current common archival workflows versus possible raw-based ones are investigated as well. These comparisons are noted in the context of each approach's differing levels of usable captured image data, various preservation virtues, and the divergent ideas of strictly fixed renditions versus the potential for improved renditions over time. Special attention is given to the DNG raw format through a detailed inspection of a number of its various structural components and the roles that they play in the format's latest specification. Finally an evaluation is drawn of both proprietary raw formats in general and DNG in particular as possible alternative archival formats for still imaging.

Offenes Sendschreiben an die Nationen Europa's und an die Stände Norwegen's

aus d. Quellen dargest. von M. Pinner

Offenes Sendschreiben an den hohen Reichstag des Norddeutschen Bundes : die Eheschließung, Ehescheidung und Eidesleistung der Juden nach ihren Ritualgesetzen im Vergleich mit den darauf bezüglichen Gesetzen in den Staaten des Norddeutschen Bundes und die Nothwendigkeit gleichmäßiger Gesetze ; die Dringlichkeit der faktischen Aufhebung des höchst nachtheiligen Judengesetzes vom 23. Juli 1847 ; ein Beitrag zur Geschichte Deutschlands und der Juden

von M. Pinner

Allgemeine Geschichte des israelitischen Volkes : von d. Entstehung bis auf unsere Zeit ; ein kurzer Abriß

bearb. von Ephraim Willstätter

Binjan Selomo : Aedificium Salomonis ; kolel qorot lesonenu haqdosa, enth.: eine vollst. Geschichte d. hebräischen Sprache, des Thalmuds und vieler merkwürdiger Begebenheiten des Alterthums, die bis dahin gänzlich unbekannt geblieben ; nebst einem Anh. d. Targumen alles Confessionen, die sich um d. hebräische Sprache u. d. Thalmud verdient gemacht haben

hrsg. von Sal. Ephr. Blogg

Geschichte der hebräischen Sprache und Literatur : nebst einem Anhang die Targumen betreffend

von S. E. Blogg

Die rechtlichen und sozialen Verhältnisse der jüdischen Gemeinden : Speyer, Worms und Mainz : von ihren Anfängen bis zur Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts

von Ephraim Carlebach

Gründliche Beweise, wie der Jude bei einer Eidesleistung gesonnen ist

von S. Blogg

Denkschrift für die Juden Preußens bes. für die Juden Berlin's oder: Gründliche Darstellung der den jüdischen Vorständen zustehenden Rechte in religiöser, politischer und gesetzlicher Hinsicht : nebst e. Anh.: Die jüdische Religion, ihr Verfall, ihre Verbesserung, ihre Andacht

von M. Pinner

Histoire des Juifs d'Alsace et particulièrement de Strasbourg depuis le milieu du XIIIe jusqu'à la fin du XIve siècle

par Max Ephraim

Or Meʾir : kolel reshimat sifre Yiśraʾel, kitve yad ṿe-nidpasim, ha-nimtsaʾim be-vet otsar sefarim ha-gadol shel ... Meʾir Zultsberger be-Filadelfya; ʿim heʿarot, maʾamarim ṿe-shirim mi-kitve yad shonim ...

me-et Efrayim Deinard

Der lefit fon Efrajim : eine bibliše ertzehlung

nach dem frantzezišen bearbeiṭeṭ fon Dawid Oṭṭenzoser

Natan he-ḥakham : ayne dramaṭishe unṭerhandlung iber emuna un religion ; in 5 ersheynungen

ferfasṭ in dayṭshen fin ... Goṭṭhold Efrayim Lessing ; fray iberzeṭtsṭ un bearbayṭeṭ in'm yudishen zshargon fin Yitsḥaḳ Yoʾel Linyetsḳi