Emeritus Professor A. J. "Tony" McMichael (1942-2014) was an internationally renowned and pioneering Australian academic and advocate in epidemiology, who was passionate about understanding the influences of the environment on human health. In an illustrious career spanning more than four decades, he made significant contributions to the scientific community and policy discourse-including groun...

The title of this research is "conflict and political discourse in Kurdish novels as an example the (ashty   Kurdistan- Sagur - Kurdare)", purpose study to analyze most important conflicts discourses novel ( ashty Kurdistan  Sagur- kurdare) On other hand, trying distinguish between facing writer on one hand reader other, main task type discourses, content research.  It consi...

This paper deals with personal ontologies construction from texts using a linguistic point of view. It aims to emphasize differences between personal ontology and local ontology. The points examined are variations concerning ontology structure itself but mainly, characteristics concerning corpora used for ontologies construction. Three corpora (two handbooks and a corpus of interviews) are comp...

Much of the literature concerning participant relationships in academic writing has discussed features that project the stance, identity, or credibility of the writer, rather than examining how writers engage with readers. In contrast, this article focuses on strategies that presuppose the active role of addressees, examining six key ways that writers seek explicitly to establish the presence o...

This paper poses the question of how academic writers present themselves to the audience and focuses on the functions of forms of self-reference in Czech and Slovak scientific discourse. For scientific texts, the Latin rhetoric tradition recommended the so called pluralis modestiae or pluralis auctoris as an appropriate linguistic means of self-presentation of the writer, conveying his modest a...

Standard signature verification (SV) systems are writer-dependent (WD), where a specific classifier is designed for each individual. It is inconvenient to ask a user to provide enough number of signature samples to design his WD classifier. In practice, very few samples are collected and inaccurate classifiers maybe produced. To overcome this, writer-independent (WI) systems are introduced. A g...

This paper attempts to examine the allegorical narrative strategies and politics of identity—race, gender, using postcolonial racial frameworks. The novel, Blackass written by a Nigerian writer is 21st century fierce comic satirical adaptation Metamorphosis, novella Franz Kafka. intricacies culture within society ethnicity in nation such as patriarchy are explored through language, characters, ...

Writer-adaptation is the process of converting a writer-independent handwriting recognition system, which models the characteristics of a large group of writers, into a writer-dependent system, which is tuned for a particular writer. Adaptation has the potential of increasing recognition accuracies, provided adequate models can be constructed for a particular writer. The limited amount of data ...