This study examines the issue of norm construction in al-Ghazālī’s thought focusing on grounds advanced to support his radical infallibilist position. To fulfill such end, al-Ghazālī, I explain, relies two types arguments, first one relates presumptive nature legal texts order highlight their fundamental indeterminacy and second links interpreter show impossibility fall into error. buttress the...

The presentation concerns a method for tracking cycle lengths in voiced speech and breaking up vocal cycle length fluctuations in cycle length jitter and cycle length tremor. The tracking of the cycle lengths is based on a dynamic programming algorithm, which does not request that the signal is locally periodic and that the average period length is known a priori. The cycle length time series a...

Seven methods for endoscopic motion compensation for laryngeal high-speed videoendoscopy (HSV) are compared. Two of them are based on tracking the maximum of the crosscorrelation function of two images; two are based, respectively, on the minimization of the L2–norm and the magnitude difference distance between two images; and the other three utilize properties of the FFT-based cross-power spec...

BACKGROUND Adolescents' alcohol consumption is a public health concern in Sweden as well as in many other countries. Underage drinking is associated with increased risks of alcohol-related injuries, risky sexual behaviours and dependence later in life. Different strategies have been used in the effort to prevent this behaviour, and to postpone the onset of alcohol. The Strengthening Families Pr...

Background: Vocal abuse and misuse would result in vocal fold polyp. Certain features define the extent of vocal folds polyp effects on voice acoustic parameters. The present study aimed to define the effects of polyp size on acoustic voice parameters, and compare these parameters in hemorrhagic and non-hemorrhagic polyps.Methods: In the present retrospective study, 28 individuals with hemorrha...

We report the results of a large-scale (N=1571) experiment to investigate whether spoken words can emerge from the process of repeated imitation. Participants played a version of the children’s game “Telephone”. The first generation was asked to imitate recognizable environmental sounds (e.g., glass breaking, water splashing); subsequent generations imitated the imitators for a total of 8 gener...

bilateral vocal cord paralysis is a rare and preventable complication of anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. herein, we report a fatal case of bilateral vocal cord paralysis after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (acd/f). a 65-year-old man with cervical spine trauma and anterior cord syndrome, following car overturn presented to our emergency department. the patient had c6-t10 prola...

(HSV) are compared. Two of them are based on tracking the maximum of the cross-correlation function of two images; two are based on minimization of the L 2 –norm and L 2-like distance between two images ; and the other two make use of the peak present in the cross-power FFT-based spectrum of two images. All six methods are applied to compensate the motion, at the sub-pixel level, of the endosco...