I read with grave concern the article by Josephson et al. published in The Laryngoscope (2010;120(Suppl 4):S240. High Yield Technique to Diagnose Immotile Cilia Syndrome: A Suggested Algorithm) and am compelled to respond and point out the fallacy of its conclusion. As a researcher with over 30 years of experience in the diagnosis of primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) and intimate familiarity wit...

A review of the literature on vertebrate hybridization reveals the existence of a number of narrow hybrid zones. Three hypotheses have been suggested to explain the occurrence of these zones. The ephemeral-zone hypothesis states that hybridization will end either in speciation or fusion of the hybridizing taxa by means of introgression. The dynamic-equilibrium hypothesis allows the possibility ...

Design: We propose a design in which unstructured text and coded data are fused into a single model called structured narrative. Each major clinical event (e.g., encounter or procedure) is represented as a document that is marked up to identify gross structure (sections, fields, paragraphs, lists) as well as fine structure within sentences (concepts, modifiers, relationships). Marked up items a...

On July 1, 1970, I started my fellowship in neonatology under the tutelage of Mary Ellen Avery. I entered her lab in the MacIntyre Building at McGill University in Montreal. There were no other fellows or techs working in her lab at the time. The lab was spacious but sparsely furnished. In one corner was a pneumatic surface balance, handbuilt, from the design of John Clements. A lab book lay on...

We experiment with manipulating the features at build time by indexing bigrams created from EDRM data and seeding the LSI index with thesaurus-like WordNet 3.0 strata. From experimentation, this produces fewer false positives and a smaller, more focused relevant set. The method allows concept searching using bigrams and WordNet senses in addition to singular terms increasing polysemous value an...

Towards the end of her short-lived premiership, Liz Truss did a sixteen-minute television interview in course which she said ‘deliver’ thirty-three times.1 It was as if believed that could dispel evidence failure, and reassert lost sense business usual, by merely uttering word. didn't work; iterations became more frequent desperate conversation went on. But it gave an otherwise bland performanc...

1. introduction since the early hegira centuries up to the contemporary era “one thousand and one nights” stories have been translated into arabic. during this period we have been confronted with a great many of the translators doing translation jobs from various source languages into different target languages, thus we are bearing witness to the imposition of variegated tastes and styles into ...

painting, which plays with color and form. It appears that criticism has learned very little in a century. Although we can accept, understand, and excuse the mother who disgustedly remarks that she has a 6-year-old daughter who can paint better than "that," it is depressing to find an intelligent, educated critic asking "what an abstract photograph is of" and arguing that "in photography the su...

i am deeply honored to be with you today in Florida. Thank so much for coming, your membership, friendship. everyone who put this meeting together—our local host Ryan Musgrave, and all at Rollins College made us feel welcome here. Thanks, also, our Program Committee, Barbara Lowe Anthony Neal; communications director, Dan Brunson; secretary, Dwayne Tunstall; treasurer, Bill Myers; Board; Presid...

MicroWorlds is a derivative of Logo, and also belongs to a family of computer tools known as multi-media applications. Such applications have a visual richness that is highly attractive to children with a visual learning preference. Through brain hemisphere theory some would characterise these children as having a dominant right brain hemisphere, or at least as strongly preferring to use the ri...