avicenna, being influenced by farabi’s specific terms about the dual concepts of existence and quiddity, believed in external occurrence of existence upon quiddity in the contingents and the accidental synthesis of things from them. but bahmanyar, the self-proclaimed commentator on avicenna, expressly states in al-tahsil that the existence of a thing is the objectivity of its external quiddity ...

heavy metals in high concentrations in soils are potential health risk for humans, animals, and plants. soil samples were collected in five replicates from 20 points with four land use including: roads, refineries, residential area (sadra town), and farmland. heavy metals were determined using flame atomic absorption (analyticjena), while dtpa was chosen as trace elements extractor. in this stu...

filtration (1, 2, 4, 5). However, some urinary biomarkers such as casts, filtered high molecular weight proteins, fractional excretion of sodium and tubular proteins or enzymes are not enough sensitive and specific for the early diagnosis of AKI (3). Biomarkers for early AKI diagnosis represent a unique opportunity for an intervention to save the kidney from additional insults and avoid tissue ...

in al-ta‘liqat–which is most likely a collection of avicenna’s lectures– it is intended to answer to a paradox concerning the knowledge of the substance. this paradox can be reconstructed this way: if, by knowing something, its quiddity comes to mind, then with knowing a substance its quiddity–which is a substance–comes to mind. conversely, according to peripatetic philosophy, knowledge is a qu...

rozbeh fallah1, sayed sadra ale saheb fosoul1*, hasan rezaei2 1-department of animal science, faculty of agriculture, lorestan university, khorramabad, iran 2- department of animal science, islamic azad university, ghaemshahr, iran     * corresponding author: [email protected]   received: 20 september 2013 accepted: 21 november 2013     abstract   the present experiment was conducted ...

this research aims to explain the key criteria of the process of place-identity formation in new urban development. based on the theories, views, and researches that are identified and cited in the framework of the mentioned purpose, eight key criteria are important and considered. these criteria are included “familiarity”, “environmental legibility and distinctiveness”, “satisfaction”, “enviro...

this paper addresses the differences between the two terms, “existence” and “existent”, in the framework of “indirect reference theory” and tries to answer whether or not the proposition “existence is existent” is an analytical one. the research shows that on the vocabulary level, none of the two has any additional presentation to the other. also, when by “existence” we mean “nominal existence”...