NIRMANI (written in capital letters, meaning “Creator“ or “Designer“ in Sinhalese) is a case-based design (CBD) and estimation system for the construction industry, developed by Srinath Perera and Ian Watson [1]. Retrieval of cases similar to given specifications proceeds by context-dependent recursion. It was presented as “a multi-agent case-based collaborative estimating and design system tha...

Components already represent a common solution for implementation and deployment of advanced enterprise distributed information systems. Now there is a strong need for providing effective CBD methodology support through appropriate component-based methods, tools and techniques that effectively target existing component technology. Current CBD methods and approaches do not provide a full support...

The global exposure of Sativex® (Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol [THC]:cannabidiol [CBD], nabiximols) is estimated to be above 45,000 patient-years since it was given marketing approval for treating treatment-resistant spasticity in multiple sclerosis (MS). An observational registry to collect safety data from patients receiving THC:CBD was set up following its approval in the UK, Germany, and Switzerl...

There are several attempts to model and provide guidelines for the development of COTS-based software systems. The literature offers a wide spread in terms of both viewpoints and focus. We present here our attempt to model the CBD process using a software process modeling language (E3). Our work proposes a unified view in the form of a software process model which provides a formal abstraction ...

Purpose. The recurrence of CBD stone is still observed in a considerable number of patients. The study was to evaluate the risk factors for recurrence of symptomatic CBD stone in patients who underwent cholecystectomy after the removal of CBD stone. Methods. The medical records of patients who underwent removal of CBD stone with subsequent cholecystectomy were reviewed. The risk factors for the...

Introduction The protection of biodiversity has become an important national and international issue within the past decade (see Noss and Cooperrider 1994 for a discussion of the reasons, which range from intrinsic to aesthetic). Canada, along with over 150 other countries, ratified the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD 1992), and is obliged to implement the provisions of the convent...

This literature survey aims to provide an update of the extensive survey performed by Bergamaschi and colleagues in 2011. Apart from updating the literature, this paper focuses on clinical studies and CBD’s potential interactions with other drugs. In general, the often described excellent safety profile of CBD in humans was confirmed and extended by the reviewed research. The majority of studie...

Biological diversity or biodiversity (the latter term is simply a contraction of the former) is the variety of life, in all of its many manifestations. It is a broad unifying concept, encompassing all forms, levels and combinations of natural variation, at all levels of biological organization (Gaston and Spicer 2004). A rather longer and more formal definition is given in the international Con...

We measured spatial resolution in the parafovea for targets designed to isolate either the long-wavelength (L) or the middle-wavelength (M) cones. Landolt C optotypes were presented for 100 ms on a calibrated monitor at an eccentricity of 5° to the left or right of fixation. There were large individual differences in the ratio of the resolution obtained with L targets to that obtained with M ta...