Background: To analyze the limits of agreement for the intraand inter-session measurements of intra-ocular pressure as measured by the Goldmann applanation tonometer and the Canon TX-F noncontact pulsair tonometer Methods: For this cross sectional study, 138 eyes of 138 cases of age > 16 years with no evidence of glaucomatous changes were recruited. Cases with astigmatism ≥ ±3.0 Diopters, corne...

In the third part of this article on Avicenna's Canon of Medicine, diseases of the bladder other than bladder calculus are reviewed. Avicenna covers topic on bladder infection, pelvic abscess, urethritis, cystitis, prostatitis, bladder tumors, bladder dysfunction, urinary retention, and neurogenic bladder. The interesting point is that 10 centuries ago, Avicenna had described almost all disease...

A system for the synthesis of singing on the basis of an articulatory speech synthesizer is presented. To enable the synthesis of singing, the speech synthesizer was extended in many respects. Most importantly, a rule-based transformation of a musical score into a gestural score for articulatory gestures was developed. Furthermore, a pitch-dependent articulation of vowels was implemented. The r...

From its dramatic rise in the seventh century, Islamic civilization has covered a large part of the globe, incorporating many subcultures and languages into its orbit (http:// www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/arabic/med_islam.html). Islamic medicine typifies that experience, being built on the theoretical and practical knowledge first developed in Greece and Rome. For Islamic scholars, Galen (d. ca. 210 AD)...

anon law defines a chaplain as “a priest to whom is entrusted in a stable manner the pastoral care, at least in part, of some community or special group of Christ’s faithful, to be exercised in accordance with universal and particular law” (Canon 564). The law establishes the chaplain as a canonical figure in the person of a priest who is accountable to the diocesan bishop. A deacon cannot be n...

We investigated whether seeing a pointing gesture influences the perceived lexical stress. A pitch contour continuum between the Dutch words “CAnon” (‘canon’) and “kaNON” (‘cannon’) was presented along with a pointing gesture during the first or the second syllable. Pointing gestures following natural recordings but not Gaussian functions influenced stress perception (Experiment 1 and 2), espec...

This paper presents an approach for building corporate knowledge, defined as the total knowledge acquired by an enterprise in its business dealings, through integration of its existing ontologies. We propose to represent corporate knowledge as the final merged ontology, defined under our formalism, in which a canon, or common ontology, is used as the standard under which all other ontologies ar...