The Coffin Maker Speaks

The Coffin-Lowry syndrome.

The Coffin-Siris syndrome.

We report a white female infant with typical features of Coffin-Siris syndrome including thick eyebrows, flat nasal bridge, anteverted, wide nose tip, generalised hypertrichosis, scalp hypotrichosis, absence of the fifth fingernails and toenails, absence of the distal phalanges of the fifth fingers and of the second to fifth toes, small patellae, inguinal hernia, and sucking and feeding difficu...

Who speaks for the microbes?

In discussing emerging infectious diseases, the focus is often on the clinical effects of the host-parasite relationship, i.e., the impact on the health and survival of humans and animals, rather than the examination of the biology of the pathogen. It seems fitting to take a moment to reflect on how pathogens " got that way in the first place. " Thus, while we discuss emerging infections, it is...

Golog Speaks the BDI Language

In this paper, we relate two of the most well developed approaches to agent-oriented programming, namely, BDI (Belief-Desire-Intention) style programming and “Golog-like” high-level programming. In particular, we show how “Golog-like” programming languages can be used to develop BDI-style agent systems. The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, it demonstrates how practical agent system...

Who ‘Speaks’ to the Schizophrenic?

The hallucination of spoken voice is a complex phenomenon. But we mention more about what is spoken in what person than about who speaks. The speaker cannot be neglected just because he has not been 'ranked' for the purpose of diagnosis. Each schizophrenic has his own style of hallucinating. There is a method-reasonable or otherwise-of the choice of speaker. The speaker may be the persecutor, G...