Interview with Juan José Delaney: Irish-Argentine Literature, A Personal Account as a Writer

Musical alexia with recovery: a personal account.

I describe the experience of an acute loss of ability to read music and play the piano accurately and expressively following an embolic infarct of the right angular and supramarginal gyri in a setting of chronic migraine. Other parietal deficits included a small visual field defect, visual hallucinations, prosopagnosia, topographical disorientation, disturbance of perception of velocity of movi...

Interview: Personal account of the discovery of a new disease using next-generation sequencing

ISSN 1462-2416 10.2217/PGS.11.117 © 2011 Future Medicine Ltd 1519 Pharmacogenomics (2011) 12(11), 1519–1523 „ „ Can„you„describe„your„ recent„work? This is a personal account of the recent discovery of a new disease that had not been previously described (at least to my knowledge) [1]. There were many colleagues involved in this work, so this is simply one version of the discovery, as seen thro...

Arabic Writer Identification: a Review of Literature

In this paper we present a survey of the literature on Arabic writer identification scheme and up-to date techniques employed in identification. The paper begins with an overview of the various writer identification schemes in Arabic and Persian languages. After that, an attempt is made to describe the complex character of Arabic strokes. Previous studies have used a number of Arabic datasets c...

Nurse as writer, writer as nurse.

A Conversation with José Almirall

J osé Almirall started his career 31 years ago in the forensic science laboratory of the Miami-Dade police department. Now a professor at Florida International University, he develops analytical tools for forensic investigators, including matching broken glass shards to their source using trace-element analysis and detecting crime-related volatiles, such as those found in drugs or gunshot resid...