After the fall of the Roman Empire in AD 476, scientific progress in Europe had come to a standstill. This era between fall of Rome and the Renaissance is commonly known as the dark ages. However, from the 8th till 13th century, scientific and cultural knowledge had flourished in the Islamic world. This period, which began soon after the establishment of the Abbasid Khalifate in Baghdad in the ...

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Ali Ahmadvand1 and Mohammad Reza Daliri2* 1School of Computer Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran 2Biomedical Engineering Department, School of Electrical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Iran *Corresponding author: Mohammad Reza Daliri, Biomedical Engineering Department, School of Electrical Engineering, Iran University of S...

The Health Science Preparatory Program (HSPP) is a special program that aims to enhance the educational preparedness of students for participation in a health sciences career. Students spend their first university year in a combined extensive teaching program before they can be assigned to a particular health science specialty. It is thought that students enrolled in a highly competitive enviro...

Sufism greatly influenced the ethical beliefs and values of al-Ghazali. Had it not been for that influence, his works would have lacked their special spiritual value. In this paper, I will examine the role that Sufi philosophy played in giving spiritual depth to the ethics of al-Ghazali and how he was ultimately drawn to Sufism. Al-Ghazali moved away from his focus on the law and realized the v...

This paper designs an intra-body network (IBN) of nodes, consisting of small sensors and processing elements (SPEs) placed at different locations within the body and a Personal Digital Assistant placed externally but in close proximity to the body. The sensors measure specific physiological attributes such as electrophysiological and biochemical changes in the myocardium (action potentials of c...

"Ibn Sina (Arabic), also known as Avicenna (Latin) and Abu Ali Sina (Persian) was the most original and systematic Muslim philosopher. In this light he is mentioned by two celebrated historians of medieval western philosophy: A. Maurer states, "...his [ibn Sina's] philosophy is a highly personal achievement, ranking among the greatest in the history of philosophy;" and F. Copleston holds, "The ...

BACKGROUND The percentage of Saudi physicians practicing in the public health sector did not exceed 22.6% in 2009, and did not reach 20% in 2006. This is despite the fact that more than 80% of the Saudi population seeks health care in the public health sector. Such a low percentage of Saudi physicians is even significantly lower in the private health sector. With a fast growing population, and ...

Shamima Akhtar SHARMIN, Mohammad Jahangir ALAM, Md. Mominul Islam SHEIKH, Rashed ZAMAN, Muhammad KHALEKUZZAMAN, Sanjoy Chandra MONDAL, Mohammad Anwarul HAQUE, Mohammad Firoz ALAM, Iftekhar ALAM* Division of Applied Life Sciences (BK21 Program), College of Agriculture and Life Science, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Republic of Korea Department of Bioscience (Integrated Bioscience Sectio...