Avicenna's Anatomical Legacy as Seen Through the Relevant Topics in Modern Anat-omy

avicenna's anatomical legacy as seen through the relevant topics in modern anat-omy

background: makhaarej al-horouf, the study of speech sounds by avicenna is a valuable piece of work in the study of speech sounds, which was written about ten centuries ago. it contains six chapters on sound, anatomy of vocal tract, and phonetics. it is amazing to find that avicenna’s explanations are congruent with the findings of modern scholarship in relevant topics. the study was intended t...

The legacy of Islamic world in modern medicine and science

The legacy of the Islamic world in medicine and natural science is the legacy of Greece, increased by many additions, mostly practical. Rhazes, the Iranian, was a talented clinical observer, but not a Harvey. Abd al-Latif, the Arab, was a diligent seeker in anatomy, but in no way to be compared to Vesalius. The Muslims possessed excellent translations of the works of the Hippocratic Corpus and ...

The legacy of Islamic world in modern medicine and science

The legacy of the Islamic world in medicine and natural science is the legacy of Greece, increased by many additions, mostly practical. Rhazes, the Iranian, was a talented clinical observer, but not a Harvey. Abd al-Latif, the Arab, was a diligent seeker in anatomy, but in no way to be compared to Vesalius. The Muslims possessed excellent translations of the works of the Hippocratic Corpus and ...

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

Torrent-Guasp's anatomical legacy.

Query Expansion Seen Through Return Order of Relevant Documents

Abstract There is a reservoir of knowledge in data from the TREC evaluations that analysis of precision and recall leaves untapped. This knowledge leads to better understanding of query expansion as this paper demonstrates. In many TREC tasks, the system response required is an ordered list of 1000 document identifiers. Instead of just using the identifiers to determine the positions of relevan...