background: finding scientific data from the holy qur'an is an old trend, which emerge newly with rise of modern science. in the literature, we have found that total number of medicinal plants cited in the holy qur'an varies author to author. objective: the aim of this study was to indentify the plants mentioned in the holy qur'an and to confirm the botanical name with other relevant informatio...

Traditional medicine scientists believed that sleeping under the stars and moonlight is not healthy because it brings about nose bleeds and respiratory problems. In Avicenna's view, the spirit and its tendency to the light are introduced as main etiology, which cannot explain star light as a proper etiology. In modern knowledge, it seems cosmic rays that reach our planet's atmosphere by electro...

The paper presents evaluation of correlations for calculation of concrete compression strength using nondestructive testing parameters for both impact and ultrasonic pulse methods, as listed in EN 13791:2007. This standard indicates procedures relating to compression strength determination in construction and building elements. These procedures relate to compression strength evaluation based ei...

The aim of this confidential postal questionnaire study was to determine why patients change their general practitioner. Among 1423 patients who changed their general practitioner without changing their address the reason most commonly given for leaving a general practitioner was distance (41%)--three quarters of these patients mentioned only distance. Just over one third of respondents (35%) m...