historically, there is a consensus that islamic medicine followed the persian, greek and egyptian medicine and that a large number of muslim scholars were non-arabs. it is also known that most famous islamic physicians who took their knowledge to arabic countries received their education in the famous and credible university of gondishapour in iran. therefore, in order to develop a more compreh...

Since antiquity, humankind has been concerned with disease and curing disease and with health and the conditions of health. Asclepius, the Greek hero who later became the Greek god of medicine and healing, used drugs to treat many diseases and taught others, including his children, about the healing arts. Two of Asclepius’s daughters, Panacea and Hygeia, represent the two health models still in...

humanitarian principles that Hippocrates introduced to medicine. In the present Note, we will attempt to interpret why reference to Hippocrates and his contribution to medicine is not a phenomenon particular to Greek physicians. Conversely, invoking Hippocrates is a recurring pattern among physicians, historians, and philosophers of all cultures and all times, and we would like to propose a pla...

In this paper, we discuss our endeavors for the Named Entities Workshop (NEWS) 2016 transliteration shared task, where we focus on English to Thai transliteration. The alignment between Thai orthography and phonology is not always monotonous, but few transliteration systems take this into account. In our proposed system, we exploit phonological knowledge to resolve problematic instances where t...

In this paper we present a systematic study of abductive consequence relations. We show that a monotone abductive consequence relation satisses the properties of a cumulative monotonic system as deened by Kraus, Lehmann and Magidor when the disjunction of all abductive explanations is the explanation used to justify the observations. We also show that, in general, for this class of abductive co...

commended for making available a treatise which can be read only in incunabula and early printed editions. But the actual latin text could have been subjected to a little more rigorous revision, so that some of the sentences might give better sense. The list of errata by no means covers all the misreadings, particularly in the first part of the book, a surprising fact considering the people who...