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...

Parkinson's disease (PD) leads to impairment in multiple cognitive domains. Micrographia is a relatively early PD sign of visuomotor dysfunction, characterized by a global reduction in writing size and a decrement in size during writing. Here we aimed to investigate the effect of withdrawal of visual feedback on writing size in patients with PD. Twenty-five patients with non-tremor-dominant PD ...

Non-standard database applications like design environments or office automation require advanced transaction concepts. The inability of traditional transactions [2] to support such applications has already been observed by [6] and was the motivation for the development of a number of non-standard transaction models (for an overview, see [1] or [5]). Our work focuses on transaction management i...

The purpose of this study is to find a practical solution for improving writing skill among Iranian high school learners of EFL. The main question was whether pragmatics had any priority over traditional methods in improving writing or not.  Forty high school students were selected on the basis of their performance in PET (2009). In addition the following instruments were also used in this quas...

The study aimed to investigate students’ self-efficacy, self-esteem, and attitude as determinants of their writing performance. The participants for the study were 373 South Gonder Zone Preparatory School students who were chosen using multistage sampling technique. Questionnaire and writing test were employed to gather data. Pearson’s Correlation technique was used to analyze the associations ...

Editor—We read with great interest the recent article by Peyton and colleagues1Peyton J. Park R. Staffa S.J. et al.PeDI Collaborative InvestigatorsA comparison of videolaryngoscopy using standard blades or non-standard in children Paediatric Difficult Intubation Registry.Br J Anaesth. 2021; 126: 331-339Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (17) Google Scholar comparing performance videolaryngosc...