CURRENT ONCOLOGY—VOLUME 15, NUMBER 1 4 Copyright © 2008 Multimed Inc. On January 14, a bright light in the field of cancer research was extinguished with the sudden death of Dr. Judah Folkman. Folkman first introduced the concept of tumour angiogenesis as a key factor in tumour growth and a target for tumour therapy in 1970. Despite the great skepticism accorded his work, he persisted in his st...

This paper contains an analysis and appreciation of one of Moses Maimonides' authentic medical works, his Treatise on Asthma. After a brief biographical section, passages from the work are cited and analysed to illustrate the approach of this medieval physician who organised the knowledge of Greeks and others who preceded him. Maimonides presents a logical and systematic approach to the prevent...

Josephus elevates Moses' role and diminishes the miraculous in the Amalek episode. In the Pentateuch Josephus, defensive about the charge that Jews preach genocide, omits the command to eliminate Amalek; rather, Moses predicts it. In 1 Samuel he explains that G-d so hated them as to order it. As to the parallel command to exterminate the seven Canaanite nations, this was necessary, says Josephu...

This paper presents a finite-state approach to phrase-based statistical machine translation where a log-linear modelling framework is implemented by means of an on-the-fly composition of weighted finite-state transducers. Moses, a well-known state-of-the-art system, is used as a machine translation reference in order to validate our results by comparison. Experiments on the TED corpus achieve a...

This paper describes our Statistical Machine Translation systems for the WMT09 (en:fr) shared task. For this evaluation, we have developed four systems, using two different MT Toolkits: our primary submission, in both directions, is based on Moses, boosted with contextual information on phrases, and is contrasted with a conventional Moses-based system. Additional contrasts are based on the Ncod...

In Exodus 2, Moses has two mothers; his Hebrew mother, who nurses him and the daughter of Pharaoh, financially supports adopts him, names him. Pharaoh’s appears in scholarly discussions, yet little attention is given to her role as mother Moses. Indeed, this motherhood downplayed biblical texts, also scholarship, wherein Pharaoh absent from many discussions mothers at times relegated beneath bi...