People and intelligent computers, if there ever are any, will both have to believe certain things in order to be intelligent agents at all, or to be a particular sort of intelligent agent. I distinguish implicit beliefs that are inherent in the architecture of a natural or artificial agent, in the way it is “wired,” from explicit beliefs that are encoded in a way that makes them easier to learn...

Reply: The finding that an antipsychotic medication with strong a-antagonist properties may have caused IFIS is most interesting. Now that this syndrome of IFIS has been defined, it will be interesting to see to what extent a-antagonists besides tamsulosin are associated with this syndrome. The technique of direct intracameral injection of phenylephrine certainly deserves further study.dDavid F...

A word processor has become one of essential devices used in offices. Document files created by using a word processor are generally preserved on a floppy disk 01' floppy disks for referencE's. Nevertheless, the files stored on a floppy disk art' occasionally lost due to human errors. the life of the floppy disk and a failure of hardware devices, which comprise the word processor. This is callp...

They compared our approach with their technique 2 and described some advantages with their technique. They opined that our technique did not take advantage of the intrascleral fixation of the IOL because a 25-gauge vitrectomy was performed before IOL fixation. With their technique, an anterior vitrectomy was performed using 25-gauge trocars for haptic externalization. We recommend performing a ...

Since intraoperative floppy iris syndrome (IFIS) was first described in 2005, its association with the systemic alpha-1 adrenergic antagonist, tamsulosin (Flomax®, Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Ridgefield, CT), has become well established [1-7]. The clinical manifestations of IFIS complicating cataract surgery are poor preoperative pupil dilation, iris billowing and prolapse, and ...