This paper studies the analysis of reductio ad absurdum by Ibn Sı̄nā (known to the Latin West as Avicenna), who was born in 980 in a village near the Bactrian town of Balkh on the Silk Road, and died in 1037 after a career spent moving around within the present boundaries of Iran. References to Ibn Sı̄nā’s writings are to his Arabic texts listed in the bibliography, and are given in the format pa...

Sheldon Cheskes, MD; Robert H. Schmicker, MS; Jim Christenson, MD; David D. Salcido, MPH; Tom Rea, MD; Judy Powell, RN; Dana P. Edelson, MD; Rebecca Sell, MD; Susanne May, PhD; James J. Menegazzi, PhD; Lois Van Ottingham, RN, BSN; Michele Olsufka, BSN; Sarah Pennington, RN; Jacob Simonini, ACP; Robert A. Berg, MD; Ian Stiell, MD, MSc; Ahamed Idris, MD; Blair Bigham, MSc; Laurie Morrison, MD, MS...

Having been asked by a few persons to provide a detailed explanation on why the Shia Imamis have a negative stance on 'Shaykhul Islam' Ibn Taimiyyah, we have provided the research carried out by Al-Ghadeer Center. This gives a brief a overview on why this man is viewed as an extremist and why his views were not only conflicting with Islam, but served to damage Islam through the adherence of a f...

A new species of Idris – semiflaviventris sp. n. - belonging to the tribe Baeini is described from Kodaikanal in Western Ghats, S. India. This unusual that it has a short interocellar space, subequal posterior margins T1 and T2, T2 longest widest tergite.

The increasingly close collaboration between ophthalmologists and rheumatologists is greatly aiding the early diagnosis and more effective interdisciplinary management of patients with inf lammatory eye involvement associated with many multisystem diseases [1–3]. For example, occurrence of acute anterior uveitis in patients with ankylosing spondylitis and related spondylo arthropathies is more ...

Measurement of serum or plasma and brain cholinesterase (ChE) activities in wild birds is used to diagnose and monitor their exposure to organophosphate and carbamate insecticides (Marden et al., 1994; Burn & Leighton, 1996; Iko et al., 2002; Osten et al., 2005). Reduced enzyme activity is an indicator of exposure and adverse effects of anti ChE insecticides even in the absence of overt signs o...