I. Definition of trachoma At present in different standard textbooks of ophthalmology the terminology varies. Fuchs (1924) refers to typical trachoma granules or granulations, explaining that these should not be confused with granulation tissue as their structure is entirely different. Elliot (1920) also uses the former term while Swanzy (1925) designates them either trachoma bodies or granulat...

In this paper, we discuss the potential applications of data mining techniques for the design of Web based information retrieval support systems (IRSS). In particular, we apply clustering methods for the granulation of different entities involved in IRSS. Two types of granulations, single-level and multi-level granulations, are investigated. Issues of document space granulation, query space gra...

The notion of information systems provides a convenient tool for knowledge representation of objects in terms of their attribute values, while partial ordering is usually used to research the rough monotonicity of an uncertainty measure in information systems. In this paper, we first reveal the limitations of existing partial orderings to describe information granulations in information systems...

We report three cases of masses within the cerebral dural venous sinuses shown with either MR or angiography. The dural venous sinuses of 10 patients without known venous disease were examined at autopsy. In two patients, three giant arachnoid granulations were identified. On the basis of the literature and our limited autopsy series, we suggest that these lesions identified at imaging are gian...

Hierarchy plays a crucial role in the development of the granular computing. In this paper, three different hierarchies are considered for judging whether a granulation structure is finer or coarser than another one. The first hierarchy is based on the set containment of information granulations, the second hierarchy is based on the cardinal numbers of information granulations while the third h...

This paper introduces concept lattice and granular computing into ontology learning, and presents a unified research model for ontology building, ontology merging and ontology connection based on the domain ontology base in different granulations. In this model, as the knowledge in the lowest and most basic level, the domain ontology base is presented firstly, which provides a uniform technolog...