During the last decade, the term '' Acute risk factors'' was used commonly to describe some activities and events which increase the risk of acute cardiac diseases (1) include: meteorological stress (2, 3), emotional stress (1, 3), overeat-ing (1, 3), nicotine abuse (2), different tensity of physical activity (3), especially heavy physical activity(1,3), sexual activity (1,3), during sleep (2),...

Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Persian famous and influential scholar of Islamic Golden Age lived between 981‐1037 A.D. He was a genius especially in medicine and philosophy. He wrote more than a hundred books and treatises dealing with philosophy, medicine, astronomy, geometry, philology, and art (1). His works are written mostly in Arabic, the lingua franca of the Islamic civilization. Although his med...

A problem with most text production and language generation systems is that they tend to become rather verbose. This may be due to negleetion of the pragmatic factors involved in communication. In this paper, a text production system, COMMENTATOR, is described and taken as a starting point for a more general discussion of some problems in Computational Pragmatics. A new line of research is sugg...

The main part of this article was extracted from lung and chest diseases section of canon of medicine of Avicenna and then was studied. Avicenna (980 – 1037 AD) the great Islamic and Iranian Physician, in his masterpiece has stated etiologies of all diseases completely and comprehensively (1). Now, we present the brief etiology of all diseases specially coughs from the point of view of Avicenna...

This study provides historical documents of peripheral facial palsy from Egypt, Greece and Rome, through the middle ages, and the renaissance, and into the last four centuries. We believe that the history of peripheral facial palsy parallels history of the human race itself. Emphasis is made on contributions by Avicenna and Nicolaus Friedreich. Controversies about the original clinical descript...