Objective: Avicenna (Abu Ali al-Hossein ibn Abdullah ibn Sina) who had a special attention toward diseases treatments, gathered results of ages of herbal medicine experiments on humans and animals in his book “Al-Qānūn fī Ṭibb” or "The Canon of Medicine", which is a reliable book in Iranian traditional medicine. The aim of this research was to build a reliable list of plants effective against ...

In countries where textbooks are considered as the main source of teaching/learning process, textbook evaluation seems to be inevitable and necessary. The current study aimed at evaluating the new English textbook entitled “Vision 1”, developed for the Iranian first grade high school students. To achieve this goal, two groups of participants took part in the study. They consisted of 30 teachers...

Reclamation of Arid LandsIt is our pleasure to inform you that Springer International Publisher (2017) has published a book entitled "Reclamation of Arid Lands" in English.This book is the result of joint collaboration between the University of Tehran, University of Kashan and Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, whose authors are as follows:Mohammad Jafari: Professor, Faculty of Natur...

the first part of the paper describes the persian translation of naṣīr al-dīn al-ṭūsī’s taḥrīr kitāb uqlīdis by quṭb al-dīn al-shīrāzī, with a primary focus on his appendix to book i. part of a larger encyclopedic collection, al-shīrāzī’s translation continued to be read for centuries. as evidence of the work’s influence, al-shīrāzī’s appendix to book i was included in a nineteenth century prin...

ghāfiqī (6th/12th century) is an andalusian botanist whose al-jāmiʿ fī al-adwiya al-mufrada is one of the principal pillars of the science of botany in andalusia and one of the most important sources for knowing and reconstructing the past history of this science. this book ows much to earlier botanical works, especially al-nabāt of dīnawarī and al-qānūn of ibn sīnā. in this paper, first the mo...

A book Bp is a graph consisting of p triangles sharing a common edge. In this paper we prove that if p ≤ q/6 − o (q) and q is large then the Ramsey number r (Bp, Bq) is given by r (Bp, Bq) = 2q + 3 and the constant 1/6 is essentially best possible. Our proof is based on Szemerédi’s uniformity lemma and a stability result for books.

The original experimentation was conducted with monolingual children in three different countries: Japan, France, and England. To avoid confusion as to whether the pages should turn left-to-right as in all English and French children’s books, or right-to-left as in most (but not all) Japanese children’s books, the book was designed so that the binding was at the top and the pages could be flipp...

Since its inaugural issue in the spring of 1977, each issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine has contained a puzzle from Martin Gardner, dressed up as a brief science ction tale. This book collects the rst thirty-six. Most of them are mathematical, covering a variety of topics | numbers, geometry, games of strategy, combinatorics, simple logic | but a few involve word play and trivia ...