Thus, Spoke Cafour: Reading of Al- Sawad Book

Thus spoke the user to the wizard

Wizard-of-Oz (WOZ) simulations are a popular means for investigating the properties of human-computer interaction. In this paper the findings from a WOZ experiment for evaluating different design options for a spoken dialogue system are presented. In addition to the documentation of the outcomes of this evaluation in terms of standard quantitative measures we also present findings from a more q...

Reading the book of life

With the publication of the human genome sequence, we are passing into a new phase in the analysis of what is popularly being called the ‘Book of Life’. However symbolic the shift, it is nevertheless palpable: the data will be in a more or less contiguous, more or less stable form, constituting a reference text against which coding and regulatory regions, polymorphisms, model organism sequences...

Introduction of Kitab Al-Abnija al haqaiq al-Adwiya a book written by Heravi

The "Kitab al-abniya an haqa iq al-adwiya" (Book of the Foundations of Pharmacognosy) also Known as "Rozat ol-ons wa manfa 'ar on-nafs" is the most ancient medical book in Persian (Farsi), which was written by Abu Mansur Movaffaq ibn Ali Heravi during the period of Mansur ibn Noh Samani between the years 350 to 366 lunar hegira. The book deals with 584 mineral, herbal and animal-based drugs. Th...

RAZI AND HIS BOOK ON AL- TIN AL NISHABURI

Book Reading in Urban China

Authors’ Note: We wish to thank Hui Niu for her assistance in preparing data files and Yu Lee for his extensive help in all phases of data management and statistical analysis. An earlier version of this material was presented at “Repositioning Hong Kong and Shanghai in Modern Chinese History,” a conference at the University of Hong Kong. Financial support for both data collection and analysis w...