Abstract: In the field survey of the Stadiasmus Patarensis (SP) in 2010, the route Phellos, Kyaneai and Myra was investigated. The Tabula Peutingeriana shows a route from Patara to Antiphellos then to Korydalla and Phaselis, while the SP doesn't mention Anthiphellos, but Kyaneai and Myra. These routes (RT 56 and 57) lead from Phellos to Myra, via Cukurbag – Baslica – Baglica – Yavu (Kyaneai) – Davazlar – Mihlipinar Pass – Cakalbayat – Egridere – Sura. In the first part between Cukurbag and Baglica there are also several roads leading from the main road to the harbour settlements. The remains of the road from Phellos to Kyaneai survived only near Koletepesi and in Baglica. This is because the modern road follows this same route. But several rock cut tombs, sarcophagi, other building remains, such as a tower near Kyaneai along the modern road, indicate the ancient road passed nearby. The oracle seat of Apollon Thyrkseus on the Yavu plain can be considered a marker for a road passing in ancient time through the plain. But travellers coming from East to Kyaneai would have used another road, that between the north of Kyaneai and the main road near Nadarlar. The road from Kyaneai to Myra should have begun from the road running from the eastern necropolis of Kyaneai eastwards, while there is also another road leading from northeast of Kyaneai on the south-eastern slope of Ummu Dagi providing another option. From the Yavu plain to Davazlar no remains survive. East of Davazlar there are the remains of road pavement and the cisterns in the village indicate the passage of an ancient road. In the graveyard of the village a Christian inscription of a church donation of a certain Ioannes was discovered (No.1). The ancient road can be followed briefly to the east of Davazlar, then again around Cakalbayat, where a new Severan milestone was found (Nr.2). From Cakalbayat the road sinuates down to Egridere, from where, turning east, it passes through Sura. In the old graveyard in Sura two inscriptions, a stele and a fragment, were discovered, the grave stone of Andronikos and Moninda (N.3), the other is for Hyrtakina by Abaskantos. Then the route continues winding down to Myra, passing the Heroon to the east of Myra, where the last remains of the road survived.

Abstract: The Milliarium Aureum (or golden milestone) was a monument erected by the Emperor Caesar Augustus near the Temple of Saturn in the central forum of ancient Rome, Italy. All roads were considered to begin from this monument and all distances in the Roman Empire were measured relative to that point. To travel a road and to reach a milestone, one often needs a roadmap. At the first Annual Presidential Summit in Leuven, Belgium, in 2011, the European Respiratory Society (ERS) reflected on what must be done to prevent the rise of respiratory diseases in the future and produced the European Respiratory Roadmap [1, 2]. This roadmap has served as a guide to subsequent summits as they address the varying and complex issues of policy as it relates to respiratory medicine. The summits have developed into key advocacy events where the leadership of the ERS interacts with a wide range of decision makers in Europe relevant to respiratory medicine. Last year’s summit in Tallinn, Estonia, focused on the austerity of the times we live in and the rise of health inequalities in Europe [3]. Next year with the opening of the Italian Presidency of the European Union, the summit will travel the road from basic science to translational research and will arrive in Rome [4]. The objective of this year’s 2013 Presidential Summit in Dublin, Ireland, was to identify priority research topics that should be addressed at European level. All stakeholders were involved: medical professionals, patients, pharmaceutical industry representatives, research funders and research policymakers. The …

Abstract: We have reached an important historical milestone in America — the election of the first African-American president of the United States. And most of America has come to learn about him through what we see on television. Television is a powerful medium that has the potential to inform us and shape our views, especially about those we don’t encounter regularly in our daily lives. But what we learn can have a positive or a negative effect on our daily existence depending upon where we choose to get our news. When the issue is race, television appears to have a way to go before it is truly representative of the reality that exists for many minority groups in this country. While it is important to remember that society often plays a part in shaping the news, there are forces that edit, gatekeep, frame and manipulate what American audiences receive as news, often leading to distorted representations. And while it appears that we as a society have made great strides toward improving the minority condition in this country, there have been a number of recent reminders in the news that perhaps we have not overcome racism to the degree that the election of an African-American president might imply.

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Abstract: The following presents the first edition of a bibliographical catalog documenting Lebanese-Armenian published books from 1894 to 2012. It serves as a crucial resource for scholars, researchers, and enthusiasts delving into the diverse literary heritage of the Lebanese-Armenian community. Organized chronologically, the catalog meticulously lists titles across various genres, offering essential bibliographic details for easy reference. By tracing the evolution of published works, it illuminates the cultural dynamics and historical contexts shaping Lebanese-Armenian print tradition. This inaugural edition not only celebrates the community's contributions but also preserves its legacy for future generations, marking a significant milestone in the study of Lebanese-Armenian printing heritage.

Abstract: With the advent of internet technologies in today’s information science landscape, a number of researchers and scholars are using new media into their professional communication and scholarly work. This action shifted the patterns in using beyond than just a reference management tool and place a challenge in library science’s service on the reflection of new demographic pool’s patrons behavior and usage in using the library’s model. Librarians have to keep up on their toes, with these attributes in acquiring knowledge, tools, resources and operations to serve a unique information service model to their patrons, especially in academic and research libraries. Understanding the needs of the librarians, here at Swets, the partnership with Mendeley aims to set a milestone ahead to aid and provide a strategic alignment model for their on-progress challenging model. Together, in this paper, the illustration will focus on the discussion topic to invest and align strategically, a tool that is designed to be part of the ecological cycle in current scholarly communication lifestyle. Mendeley is not only build for a basic reference management tools to aid academics and researchers (or even undergraduate) in their daily academic writing. But, that will be beyond than just a scholar’s imagination. This includes topics as access, visible, preserve, collaborate, share, knowledge transfer, mobile and openness. This is because Mendeley rides on the open science concept, indirectly immerse the usage of the product in part of a scholar’s life in a university. This will seeds a good, positive seeding investment for librarians and research managers to look beyond the basic service model, along with the other productive competitive services and platforms, especially for Malaysia’s and South East Asia’s library and information science industry to leverage for the future in open science development.