© 2017 Saudi Journal of Anesthesia | Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Recently in anesthesia and pain medicine, there is a growing interest in translating and validating English questionnaires into Arabic language. The reason is to make those questionnaires available and readable to Arabic‐speaking patients and utilizing them for assessment of the quality of recovery (QoR) and pain relief po...

Although Arabic numerals (like '2016' and '3.14') are ubiquitous, we show that in interactive computer applications they are often misleading and surprisingly unreliable. We introduce interactive numerals as a new concept and show, like Roman numerals and Arabic numerals, interactive numerals introduce another way of using and thinking about numbers. Properly understanding interactive numerals ...

Ibn Sina, the most eminent Muslim physician, illuminative philosopher, great thinker and a versatile genius is regarded as the "Father of Early Modern Medicine" and as the "Father of Clinical Pharmacology". The "Kitab al-Qanun fi-al-Tibb", commonly known as the "Canon Medicinae" is the most important of his medical works and, at the same time, the most carefully preserved treasury both in origi...

of Shatzmiller's evidence points in that direction also. One might also add that the claims made at the end of the century for a new Greek-based medicine would have helped to speed up this process, for few Jews had the opportunity to learn Greek, and their preference for practical medicine in the Arabic tradition was easily dismissed as.old-fashioned. In short, this is a fascinating little book...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this paper is to describe the needs and the process of establishing an online Arabic health encyclopedia to empower patients and health professionals with trustworthy information. METHODS A study was conducted by King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences in collaboration with Health on the Net (HON) Foundation to review the quality of Arabic health inform...

This paper offers some observations on the history and development of Siddha medicine in Tamilnadu from the point of view of a scholar of Indian medicine, whose special focus has been the Sanskrit medical tradition. Contrary to popular belief, this paper offers that opinion that the basic principles and many of the practices now employed in Siddha medicine result from a combination of indigenou...

Most text mining techniques have been proposed only for English text, and even here, most research has been conducted on specific texts related to special contexts within the English language, such as politics, medicine and crime. In contrast, although Arabic is a widely spoken language, few mining tools have been developed to process Arabic text, and some Arabic domains have not been studied a...