TT'RANCIS B A C O N denied the circulation of the blood, didn't understand the work of Galileo, rejected Gilbert on magnetism and Copernicus on the sun. He was not a scientist, but a lawyer, a practical politician, and a man of letters; he created no new science, but preached a new philosophy—though by William Harvey it was disparaged as the work of one "who writes philosophy like a Lord Chance...

OBJECTIVE In this study, we developed an a priori system to stratify surgical intervention of perisylvian arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) in 20 patients. We stratified the patients into three categories based on preoperative functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) language activation pattern and relative location of the AVM. METHODS In Group I (minimal risk), the AVM was at least one ...

OBJECTIVES Posterior fossa brain arteriovenous malformations (PFbAVMs) are rare lesions. Management is complicated by eloquence of adjacent neurological structures, multimodality treatment is often necessary, and obliteration is not always possible. We describe a 15-year experience in the management of posterior fossa brain AVMs with a focus on clinical outcome. METHODS From 1989 to 2004, pro...

Address correspondence to: Caleb Feliciano, MD, University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, PO Box 365067, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-5067. Tel: (787) 754-0101 xt. 4195 • Fax: (787) 294-3627 • Email: [email protected] Background: traditionally, decisions regarding treatment and outcomes for patients with cerebral arteriovenous malformations (aVM) have made use of the spetzlerMart...

Praise is to God, Lord of the Worlds, and may prayers peace be upon Messenger as a mercy worlds. Then: It worth saying that Arabic rhetoric closely related miracleles in Holly Quran, due nature investigations they dealt with topics with, because systems Great Qur’an were among most fluent eloquent systems; Scholars masters rushed search for requirements this system, investigate its important ch...

mystical texts are the most important texts have been set to convey epistemic teachings and to influence the audiences concerned with awareness and esoteric training.  therefore it seems that specific techniques have been used in rhetoric to fulfill this objective. according to the style of speech in mystical texts, they can be considered as rhetoricals. reviewing the concept of rhetoric and it...

â  â  avicenna’s role in arabic literature â  â  nasrollah shameli * â  hamid ahmadian ** â  â  abstract â  â  the master and doyen, avicenna, is one of the prominent savants of the fourth century a.h. besides medicine and philosophy, he was a master in sciences of his time, and was proficient in arabic literature. he has peerless anthologies in poetry and prose, in both arabic and persian li...