The English word ‘Bible’ comes from the Greek word biblion. This word meant “roll” or “book”. It was usually a roll of papyrus or reed-like plant that was dried and fashioned into a writing material. This word occurs in the LXX copy of Daniel 9:2, and in Revelation 10:2. But today the word “Bible” means much more than just a book. It carries a sense of majesty as being the ultimate book par exc...

Information retrieval systems tend to adopt very simple representations for the elements involved in the retrieval process. We believe that highly expressive formalisms can play a role in future retrieval systems, provided that they are complemented by successful and efficient indexing and retrieval techniques. In this work, we follow a bottomup approach in which starting from a very simplistic...

The aim of this study was to determine whether spontaneous respiration influences pulmonary artery input impedance, a question that has received little attention in the literature. Impedance values were assessed during three different phases of the respiratory cycle, namely inspiration, expiration and postexpiration (i.e. the null respiratory flow period between expiration and the next inspirat...