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What is the relation between graduation dress and Avicenna?

This design came from Avicenna's dress for respecting him all he did for people . He was Persian scientist
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I don't think this hat is Avicenna hat

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Islam's most renowned philosopher-scientist (980-1037), Ibn-Sina was a court physician in Persia, and wrote two of history's greatest works, The Book of Healing, a compendium of science and philosophy, and The Canon of Medicine, an encyclopedia based on the teachings of Greek physicians. The latter was widely used in the West, where Ibn-Sina, known as Avicenna, was called the "prince of physicians."

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Scientific output has grown 11 times faster in Iran than the world average, faster than any other country. A survey of the number of scientific publications listed in the Web of Science database shows that growth in the Middle East – mostly in Turkey and Iran – is nearly four times faster than the world average.



Science-Metrix, a data-analysis company in Montreal, Canada, has published a detailed report (PDF) on "geopolitical shifts in knowledge creation" since 1980. "Asia is catching up even more rapidly than previously thought, Europe is holding its position more than most would expect, and the Middle East is a region to watch," says the report's author, Eric Archambault.

World scientific output grew steadily, from 450,000 papers a year in 1980 to 1,500,000 in 2009. Asia as a whole surpassed North America last year.

Nuclear

Archambaut notes that Iran's publications have emphasised inorganic and nuclear chemistry, nuclear and particle physics and nuclear engineering. Publications in nuclear engineering grew 250 times faster than the world average – although medical and agricultural research also increased.

Science-Metrix also predicts that this year, China will publish as many peer-reviewed papers in natural sciences and engineering as the US. If current trends continue, by 2015 China will match the US across all disciplines – although the US may publish more in the life and social sciences until 2030.

China's prominence in world science is known to have been growing, but Science-Metrix has discovered that its output of peer-reviewed papers has been growing more than five times faster than that of the US.

Euro-puddings

Meanwhile, "European attitudes towards collaboration are bearing fruit", writes Archambaut. While Asia's growth in output was mirrored by North America's fall, Europe, which invests heavily in cross-border scientific collaboration, held its own, and now produces over a third of the world's science, the largest regional share. Asia produces 29 per cent and North America 28 per cent.

Scientific output fell in the former Soviet Union after its collapse in 1991 and only began to recover in 2006. Latin America and the Caribbean together grew fastest of any region, although its share of world science is still small. Growth in Oceania, Europe and Africa has stayed at about the same rate over the past 30 years. Only North American scientific output has grown "considerably slower" than the world as a whole.

"The number of papers is a first-order metric that doesn't capture quality," admits Archambaut. There are measures for quality, such as the number of times papers are cited, and "Asian science does tend to be less cited overall".

But dismissing the Asian surge on this basis is risky, he feels. "In the 1960s, when Japanese cars started entering the US market, US manufacturers dismissed their advance based on their quality" – but then lost a massive market share to Japan. The important message, he says, is that "Asia is becoming the world leader in science, with North America progressively left behind".

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Supreme Leader Visits Technology Exhibition




Ayatollah Khamenei the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution toured
an exhibition of strategic technologies this morning. The visit lasted more
than 5 hours.

The exhibition included inventions, products and scientific and
technological achievements by Iranian researchers and scientists in the area of
aerospace technology, micro electronic technology, new energy sources,
nanotechnology, interdisciplinary technologies, stem cells, information
technology, biotechnology, medicinal herbs and Iranian medicine.

The national project to design and develop a pilot nuclear power plant
based on magnetic confinement fusion was among the scientific achievements
displayed in the area of new sources of energy. Nuclear fusion is one of the
most advanced methods of producing electricity, which is predicted to replace
nuclear fission in a few years. The Islamic Republic of Iran is at the research
stage of this project, and it will start building a nuclear fusion power plant
in the near future.

Amirkabir Supercomputer is among the large-scale national projects
displayed at the exhibition. This domestically made supercomputer was designed
and manufactured in Amirkabir University of Technology. Iran is among the 10
countries which have achieved the technology required for manufacturing this
supercomputer. This supercomputer has the processing power of 89 billion
operations per second.

A satellite manufactured by the scientists and researchers of Amirkabir
University of Technology was also on show at the exhibition.

The linear accelerator which produces X-rays for treating cancerous
tumors, the machine for producing radioisotopes, the magnetic drilling machine
and the unmanned "Zohal" aircraft - which has been designed for the
purpose of surveillance and aerial photography - were among the scientific and
technological achievements displayed at the exhibition.

Moreover, two domestically made satellites called "Navid" and
"Zafar" were also on display. These two satellites are ready to be
put into orbit.

The plan for manufacturing a capsule which can be used for sending
living creatures into space was on display in the aerospace section. This
capsule will be used in the near future to send a living creature into space.

In another section of the exhibition, the achievements of Iranian stem
cell researchers were displaced. In this section researchers explained
different stages of cloning to the Supreme Leader.

Also on display in the medical section were a digital mammography
machine, a laser urology machine and an MRI machine among different other
things.

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But while
32 years have passed since the Islamic Revolution of Iran
In the 32 years
We eight years of self-defense At war with Saddam
& Boycott & Negative Media Ads & Subversion & soft war ....
By those will not We're independent

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