Explaining Incompatibilities in Data Dictionary Design through Abduction

Incompatibility in Prescriptions and How to Avoid It—With a Dictionary of Incompatibilities

way, making it a most useful and practical guide for physicians who would avoid the many pitfalls encountered in prescribing. The present volume is nearly double the size of the original volume,, is thoroughly revised and brought up to date, and is strictly in accordance with the British Pharmacopoeia of 1932 and the British Pharmaceutical Codex of 1934. The first part of the book is devoted to...

Incompatibility in Prescriptions and How to Avoid It—With a Dictionary of Incompatibilities

A Novel Face Detection Method Based on Over-complete Incoherent Dictionary Learning

In this paper, face detection problem is considered using the concepts of compressive sensing technique. This technique includes dictionary learning procedure and sparse coding method to represent the structural content of input images. In the proposed method, dictionaries are learned in such a way that the trained models have the least degree of coherence to each other. The novelty of the prop...

A creative abduction approach to scientific and knowledge discovery

In this paper we explore the range of applicability of abductive reasoning for knowledge discovery. In particular, we discuss a novel form of abduction, called creative abduction, where new knowledge is generated in the process of explaining observed events, and demonstrate its relevance to knowledge discovery. The main contribution of this paper is twofold: First, we show that creative abducti...

Religious Citations in Explaining Ethics, Medical Concepts, and Observance of the Rights of the Patients in the Medical Dictionary "Kitab al-Ma'

By studying "Kitab al-Ma'a" the enduring work by Abu Abdullah Muhammad Azdi, we find that this treatise is not just a medical encyclopedia based on medical prescriptions and the treatment of physical and mental diseases; rather, its admirable author, sometimes in the guise of a well-versed jurist, and a scholar of hadith, and a defender of the rights of the patient, created a work with  accumul...