BACKGROUND The present study evaluated the efficacy of a combination of ibandronate and cholecalciferol on the restoration of the levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) and various bone markers in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. METHODS This was a randomized, double-blind, active-controlled, prospective 16-week clinical trial conducted in 20 different hospitals. A total of 201 postme...

bark". Dietrich provides eleven notes to Ibn al-Baitar's commentary and, as he does in all entries, attempts to identify the plant in modern nomenclature. In this instance, however, Dietrich says, "The plant's identification is very doubtful, perhaps impossible to know". And, he references his discussion of the plant in his Dioscurides triumphans. The reverse happens as well. As an illustration...

We introduce and study the partial singular braid monoid PSBn, a monoid that contains both the inverse braid monoid IBn and the singular braid monoid SBn. Our main results include a characterization of Green’s relations, a presentation in terms of generators and relations, and a proof that PSBn embeds in the semigroup algebra C[IBn].

This section 9.3 of Ibn Sı̄nā’s Qiyās is a commentary on sections 25 and 26 of Aristotle’s Prior Analytics i, pages 41b36–43a19. NB the parallel passage in Ibn Sı̄nā’s Burhān iii.2, p. 136ff (Badawi). The paper below is what Wikipedia would call a stub. I will add and correct as time allows. I make the paper available now because it contains a complete translation of Qiyās section 9.3, which is a...

In the last half century Ibrahim Madkour revolutionised the study of Arabic logic by making available a modern edition of the text of the Logic section of Ibn Sı̄nā’s Šifā’. Ibn Sı̄nā’s account of logic in the Šifā’ is much fuller than any of his other surviving accounts; it runs to some two thousand pages. It is also — in my view — more radical and more independent of Aristotle than his other ac...

Service de Médecine et Réanimation Néonatale, PV, HER, Chis Ibn Sina, Commission de Formation Médicale Continue Université Mohammed V, Faculté de Médecine et Pharmacie, Équipe de Recherche en Santé et Nutrition du Couple Mère Enfant, Unité Mixte de Recherche en Nutrition et Alimentation URAC 39, Université Ibn Tofail-CNESTEN, RDC-Nutrition AFRA/AIEA, Morrocco, Service des Urgences Chirurgicales...

BACKGROUND Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī, known as Rhazes in the Western world (854-925 CE), was an Iranian polymath, physician and one of the most prominent sages in the medieval period. He wrote several medical books and treaties such as "Continents", a comprehensive medical encyclopedia, treaties in smallpox and measles, "Al-Mansuri" and many other important manuscripts in the medi...

impact on Ibn Tufayl's forerunners, especially Avicenna, whom Ibn Tufayl quotes expressly. Salim Kemal's 'Justifications of poetic validity' gives a very condensed summary of his monograph The poetics ofAlfarabi and Avicenna (Leiden, 1991). But I doubt whether Ibn Tufayl's novel kind of thought experiment can be grasped in terms of Avicenna's poetology. The medieval Latin translators did not co...

Laboratoire de Biologie et Santé, Unité de recherche Associée au CNRST-URAC 34, Faculté des Sciences Ben M'Sik, Université Hassan II Mohammedia, Casablanca, Maroc, Laboratoire d'Immunologie Clinique, Inflammation et Allergie, Faculté de Médecine et Pharmacie, Université Hassan II, Casablanca, Maroc, Département de Pédiatrie 1, Hôpital d'Enfants de Rabat, CHU Ibn Sina, Rabat, Maroc, Département ...

This is a study and translation of the section on pericarditis in Al Taisir book written by the Muslim physician Ibn Zuhr Avenzoar who lived and practiced in Eshbeelia nowadays Seville, Andalusia, Spain between 1091-1162 AD. Ibn Zuhr described the serous type of pericarditis as well as the pathological findings in fibrinous pericarditis. His description of the latter may also fit with the pictu...