Purpose To demonstrate clearing of chronic corneal opacities and improvement of visual acuity with the use of BostonSight prosthetic replacement of the ocular surface ecosystem (PROSE) treatment in ocular surface disease. Observations We undertook retrospective analysis of the medical records of a series of patients who underwent PROSE treatment from August 2006 to December 2014. Patients wer...

Dynamic Aspect-Oriented Programming (d-AOP) is an important tool to implement adaptation in a wide variety of applications. In particular, large distributed infrastructures, middleware, and pervasive computing environments can greatly benefit from d-AOP to adapt software systems at run time. In this paper, we discuss the design of PROSE, an open source, generic platform for software adaptation....

ions seem to be simultaneously the principal goal and bane of modern computer science[20]. This is particularly true in modern systems in which the system software stack has become a monumental tower of babel. At its foundation we have the virtualization engine or hypervisor, multiplexing system resources between multiple logical partitions. Each of these logical partitions is running an operat...

Reading and writing is modelled in CSP using actions containing the symbols ? and !. These reading and writing actions are synchronous and there is a oneto-one relationship between occurrences of pairs of these actions. It is cumbersome to ease the restriction of synchronous execution of the read and write actions. For this reason we introduce the half-asynchronous parallel operator that acts o...

The main purpose of this study was to examine the citation patterns of discussion sections employed by local and international article writers in ESP and EGP subdisciplines of applied linguistics. Eighty article discussion sections were selected from well-established local and international journals in the field of applied linguistics, and they were sorted according to Thompson and Tribble’s (2...

Based on psychological studies which show that metaphors and other non-literal constructions are comprehended in the same amount of time as comparable literal constructions, some researchers have concluded that literal meaning is not computed during comprehension of non-literal constructions. In this paper, we suggest that the empirical evidence does not rule out the possibility that literal me...

abbasid era is one of the most precious ears among islamic literature ones. taking no notice of the privileges of the aforementioned period, the critics have considered its abominations. appraising this era’s literature with scrutiny, one would culminate that on the contrary, there were lots of famous literati who have endeavored in favor of promulgation of social and human values such as abota...

We investigate the effectiveness of different linguistic cues for distinguishing literal and non-literal usages of potentially idiomatic expressions. We focus specifically on features that generalize across different target expressions. While idioms on the whole are frequent, instances of each particular expression can be relatively infrequent and it will often not be feasible to extract and an...

Abstract Literary occasionalisms, new words coined by writers with a particular poetic aim in view, often pose great challenge for translators. Given recent advances machine translation (MT), could literary translators benefit from MT when it comes to the of occasionalisms? We address this question considering work Austria’s most important nineteenth-century comedy writer, Johann Nestroy (1801–...