A central mission of writing centers is to help writers in all disciplines, at all levels of proficiency, learn how to improve their writing skills. The primary tool for achieving this goal is the writing conference, in which a writer receives personal attention from a trained tutor who works with the writer on a specific piece of writing. Conferences, as Kenneth Bruffee suggested in his semina...

Acknowledgements This evaluation was supported by a grant from the Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut. Judith Meyers provided considerable intellectual support for this evaluation and its dissemination. Crista Marchesseault coordinated the data collection and assisted with describing the ECCP service model. Liz Bicio and Sam Moy, both of Advanced Behavioral Health, were inval...

along history, women were under hard afflicting oppressions and injustices. the rights women benefit today, is the result of the struggle of great people who did hard attempts for women’s rights. on this way, not only were women after social equality, but also some men worked following the same goal. so, the present paper considers the feministic opinions of john stein beck, the male worldwide ...

social capital is a systematic set of organized links between the members of a group or a society which is based on specific norms and rules and results into obtaining individual and collective purposes. the category of social capital is different with from current concept of capital in sociology, law and economy. features like cooperation, knowledge, participating in public affairs, tolerating...

In this paper we present the state of the art in writer identification and verification of handwritten text. In addition, a special and extensive survey of writer identification and verification of Arabic handwritten text is also included. Different feature extraction techniques are addressed showing the different research groups’ efforts as well as individual efforts. The different classificat...

Writer identification is an authorship authentication process based differences and similarities in handwriting. The main issue in writer identification is how to get the features that invariant to the writer. This study proposes Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (BPSO) based off-line text-dependent to investigate the effectiveness of feature weight in writer identification. BPSO has ability t...

Writer identification is one of the areas in pattern recognition that attract many researchers to work in, particularly in forensic and biometric application, where the writing style can be used as biometric features for authenticating an identity. The challenging task in writer identification is the extraction of unique features, in which the individualistic of such handwriting styles can be a...

Automatic writer identification and writer verification has recently received significant attention in the field of historical analysis. In this work a short overview of current approaches for writer identification is given. Current state-of-the-art results on contemporary data are related to different approaches for writer verification on a small dataset of datum lines extracted from papal cha...

This Article considers a new development in medical practice-the use of medical decision-support tools-and positions it within one of the most enduring debates at the intersection of administrative law and tort law. The Article identifies key factors that policy-makers in medical, environmental, and other contexts use to decide between regulatory and tort approaches to public protection, and ar...