1. introduction composition and letter writing are some of the most important issues that have been addressed in the past. especially at the ninth and tenth centuries hegira (teimurian era), valuable works have been composed in this regard, as some have reviewed and attended to the structure, while others have collected the original and content of the letters by the past eminent scholars. these...

As authors, many of us have had less than satisfactory experiences in writing book chapters as part of a themed volume or textbook that, when published, are expensive, inaccessible, and cited and used infrequently through lack of availability [1]. It could even be argued we write them from some sense of obligation and need, but do not put our best science and efforts into them because we know t...

The clinical case report is a popular genre in medical writing. While authors and editors have debated the justification for the clinical case report, few have attempted to examine the long history of this genre in medical literature. By reviewing selected literature and presenting and discussing excerpts of clinical case reports from Egyptian antiquity to the 20th century, we illustrate the pr...

BACKGROUND With the 11th revision of the International Classification of Disease (ICD) being officially launched by the World Health Organization (WHO), the significance of a formal representation for ICD coding rules has emerged as a pragmatic concern. OBJECTIVES To explore the role of Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) on examining ICD10 coding rules and to develop FCA-based auditing approaches ...

John Vince explains a wide range of mathematical techniques and problem-solving strategies associated with computer games, animation, virtual reality, CAD other areas graphics in this updated expanded fourth edition. The first four chapters revise number sets, algebra, trigonometry coordinate systems, which are employed the following on vectors, transforms, interpolation, 3D curves patches, ana...