Holistic processing and left-side bias are both behavioral markers of expert face recognition. In contrast, expertise in Chinese character recognition involves left-side bias but reduced holistic processing (Hsiao & Cottrell, 2009). Here we examine whether the reduction in holistic processing associated with expert Chinese character recognition can be better explained by writing rather than rea...

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...

200 What distinguishes Iowa City, IA, from all the other towns in North America? Iowa City is a UNESCO City of Literature, the third in the world and the only one in North America. The University of Iowa is largely responsible for UNESCO’s recognition of Iowa City. Our highly acclaimed Writers’ Workshop was the first creative writing degree program in the country and continues to be the model f...

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...

INTRODUCTION THIS PAPER is offered as a preliminary survey of mainstream writing about the pathology of fever in the sixteenth century. It is selective in the writers discussed, and confined to three topics: the definition of fever and febrile heat, the explanation of intermittent fevers, and the role of putrefaction.' The paper is partly concerned with the relation between tradition and innova...

abstract abu alaa ma’ari denuded the writers’ philosophical attitude and established a new foundation in the literature. taha hussein a writer philosopher founded new grounds in the field of literature on the sociology and psychology productions by fusing philosophy, literature, sociology and deepening the sense of the literature. most of the time and on several occasions taha hussein loved...