CONTEXT Traditional Iranian medicine (TIM) is a rich and valuable school of thought that believes medications are not the only effective approach for the treatment of diseases but that nutrition is also important. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION Our study includes two parts; the first is a book review of the Canon of Medicine by Avicenna (10th and 11th centuries), in which we focus on finding and unders...

This article examines the tension between journalistic and entertainment values in live soccer TV commentary from perspective of German commentators. We situate within commentators’ wider understanding their roles as sports journalists commentators, looking at a specific type journalist who has different responsibilities general reporter. asked how commentators assess role work, what constraint...

Some of the problems connected with Gayadasa and his activity as a commentator are discussed, as well as the date to which he can be assigned.

Three systems which generate real-time natural language commentary on the RoboCup simulation league are presented, and their similarities, di erences and directions for the future discussed. Although they emphasize di erent aspects of the commentary problem, all three systems take simulator data as input, and generate appropriate, expressive, spoken commentary in real time.

Hemi-facial spasm, facial paralysis, and trigeminal neuralgia are prevailing signs and symptoms with which physicians have been coping for thousands of years. Ibn Sina (known as Avicenna in the West), who was among the leading figures during medieval ages and influenced the upcoming periods in the Eastern and Western hemispheres for long time, focused also on these crucial problems. In his prin...