BACKGROUND Ala-al-din abu Al-Hassan Ali ibn Abi-Hazm al-Qarshi al-Dimashqi, known as Ibn al-Nafis (1210-1288 AD), was a Muslim Syrian physician primarily famous for being the first to describe the pulmonary circulation of the blood. The most voluminous of his books is Alshamel fi Sana'at tebbi'at, which is a comprehensive medical encyclopedia. It comprised 300 volumes of notes, from which only ...

Research on early speech production has often argued that children’s representations start out being holistic. They receive more phonological feature specifications in the course of development. In this talk, we will briefly review the arguments from early production for underspecified representations, and subsequently focus on two sets of perception studies, which both confirm the underspecifi...

1 Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2 Ecological Marine Services, Millbank, QLD, Australia, 3 Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 4 NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Coral Reef Watch, College Park, MD, United States, 5 Marine Geophysical Laboratory, Physics Department, College of Science and Engi...

Era informaţiei cuprinde, în general, trei mari perioade [1]: societatea informaţională, societatea cunoaşterii şi societatea conştiinţei. În istoria României pot fi desprinse câteva etape ale erei informaţiei: O etapă premergătoare, între anii 1940-1965, în care Tudor Tănăsescu a creat şcoala româ-nească de electronică [2], Victor Toma a creat primul calculator electronic românesc cu tuburi el...

It has been recently suggested by Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos and Dvali that gravity may become strong at energies not far above the electroweak scale and thus remove the hierarchy problem. Such a scenario can be tested at both present and future accelerators since towers of Kaluza-Klein gravitons and associated scalar fields now play an important phenomenological role. In this paper we examine se...

In this paper, we investigate the bulk service queue with Bernoulli vacation schedule and restricted admissibility introduced and studied by Madan and Abu-Dayyeh, [Revista Investigacion Operacional, Vol.24, No.2, pp.113-123, 2003]. Madan and Abu-Dayyeh assume exponentially distributed service times while we allow these times to be generally distributed. We obtain various performance measures th...