Tim K. Lee,∗,†,‡,§ Sina Khakabi,‡ Paul Wighton,# Harvey Lui,∗,† David I. McLean† and M. Stella Atkins†,‡ ∗Departments of Cancer Control Research and Integrative Oncology, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada †Photomedicine Institute, Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada ‡School of Computing S...

The purpose of presenting review was to share the medicinal and surgical contribution of Greco-Arabic Muslim scientists in diagnosis, surgery and natural medicines for the management and treatment of urolithiasis. The contribution of Al-Antaki, Al-Baghdadi, Al-Baitar, Al-Bokhari, Al-Razi, Al-Zahrawi, Ibn Sina, Ibn Zuhr was highlighted. The data compilation was preliminary and much more efforts ...

Tuberculosis is at least as old as mankind and the history of tuberculosis is intertwined with that of civilization. Over the centuries its prevalence has waxed and waned but it remained a continuous threat. Its association with diabetes mellitus was reported by Avicenna (Ibn Sina 980-1037) an Arabian physician [1,2]. It was the leading cause of death in diabetic patients in the preantibiotic e...

A wide range of applications, from social media to scientific literature analysis, involve graphs in which documents are connected by links. We introduce a topic model for link prediction based on the intuition that linked documents will tend to have similar topic distributions, integrating a max-margin learning criterion and lexical term weights in the loss function. We validate our approach o...