in arabic, the letter “vav” (meaning and) is normally not used to indicate a causal function between a main clause and a subordinate clause of purpose beginning with “causal lam mansoub” and a present verb. for example, “(this is) a book which we have revealed to you that you may bring forth men, by their lord’s permission form utter darkness into light.” this structure is prescribed in standar...

We carried out a masked priming lexical decision experiment to study whether visual letter similarity plays a role during the initial phases of word processing in young readers of Arabic (fifth graders). Arabic is ideally suited to test these effects because most Arabic letters share their basic shape with at least one other letter and differ only in the number/position of diacritical points (e...

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the letter of credit as a method of smoothing international payment is a conditional security and obligation to pay the customer bank (issuing bank) to seller (applicant). for this purpose, the letters of credit may be considered as the most usual method of payment of goods price in international trade. the classic form of letters of credit is the commercial letters of credit whose financial ob...

Throughout the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, patients using oral anticoagulants for mechanical valve replacement and/or another clinical-pathological condition might have faced various clinical scenarios. Rectus sheath hematoma is one of acute abdominal pain syndromes. This study presented a patient with developed anticoagulation-induced rectus after mitral replacement.

Letter position dyslexia (LPD) is a peripheral dyslexia that causes errors of letter order within words. So far, only cases of acquired LPD have been reported. This study presents selective LPD in its developmental form, via the testing of II Hebrew-speaking individuals with developmental dyslexia. The study explores the types of errors and effects on reading in this dyslexia, using a variety o...

The article describes AE, a Hebrew-speaking individual with acquired dysgraphia, who makes mainly letter position errors in writing. His dysgraphia resulted from impairment in the graphemic buffer, but unlike previously studied patients, most of his errors related to the position of letters rather than to letter identity: 80% of his errors were letter position errors in writing, and only 7% of ...