There is an increasing expectation that academic and clinical nurses will contribute to disciplinary and professional discourses through scholarly writing. However, the difficulties and challenges associated with writing for publication mean that many papers will never be written. This current paper describes an innovative approach developed to support skill development and outcomes in writing ...

In handwritten text there are usually several accepted styles for forming each character. We hypothesize that in the handwriting of individuals there is a correlation among the styles used for characters, and that these correlations may be used to anticipate which styles particular writers will use for symbols that have not yet been seen. This approach may prove useful in the setting of mathema...

Professor Borivoje Nikolic Second Reader Date 2 ABSTRACT Future lithography systems must produce microchips with smaller feature sizes, while maintaining throughputs comparable to those of today's optical lithography systems. This places stringent constraints on the effective input data rate of any maskless lithography system. In recent years, my research group has developed a datapath architec...

In this paper, we propose a method for handwritten text characterization based on a multiscale and multiresolution drawing analysis. The approach lies on the definition of four complementary handwritten text visual dimensions: the macro and micro orientation (obtained with a frequencies multiscale image analysis), the text linearity (defined by the merge of connected components), the curvature ...

Male students perform significantly lower than female students on tests that measure writing achievement. The purpose of this study was to explore the use of a visual graphic organizer application to engage elementary-aged male students who struggle with the writing process. The results suggest that teachers of male students should consider using a visual graphic organizer application for writi...

Perhaps it is just as well that most medical practitioners are neither famous nor of any real interest to general public. Professional writers, poor souls, ?re not spared the risks of fame. This book by Geoffrey Grigson spells out their problems. Fortunately none of us is likely to be the target (or S|Jbject) of such public critical appraisal. A tactfully Phrased obituary notice in the medical ...

subject. Dr. Hutchison has largely revised his article on diebetics, and includes the important experiments of Professor Chittenden on the excess consumption of proteids, which will probably considerably modify our views on the amount of proteid which the body requires daily, and cause us to revise the figures which for years past we have been content to use, following Voits' experiments. The a...

Sir, Michelangelo Merisi was born in September 1571 in Caravaggio, near Milan and was always known by the name of his hometown. Caravaggio moved to Rome in the early 1590s. His paintings were characterized by their extreme realism and dramatic contrasts of light and shade. Several works were realized as religious works commissioned by important exponents of clergy (BBC, 2017). In this group of ...