In academic writing, comparison and contrast is particularly valuable because it enables you to see familiar things in new ways. "Common sense" says that two things are the same, but a careful comparison and contrast demonstrates their important differences. That same common sense may say that two things are totally incompatible, but when you compare and contrast them systematically, you discov...

A new handwriting model is proposed for simulating complex handwriting variation in obedience to individual handwriting tendencies. Individual handwriting t,endency is represented as a set of deformation rules each of which deforms one structure of pen movements. Characters are represented as hierarchical descriptions of pen movements, so that deformation rules for various types of pen movement...

All writers produce text content and ideally connect it together according to discourse conventions. We investigate whether a particularly strong discourse convention, the need for causal coherence in narratives, can predict the kind of text writers will produce. Causality has been found to be a significant discourse factor in reading comprehension and hence can be expected to determine also wh...

[1] Since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, nearly every angle of these events has been explored in print, pertaining to everything from the individuals and nations involved to the political and historical precursors and ongoing social ramifications of the attacks. Yet few writers have seriously analyzed the actual arguments that Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda have...

Scenarios, which constrain the behavior of agents, can be the interface between computer experts (agent system developers) and application designers (scenario writers), as well as the interface between scenario writers and agents. It raises a number of challenging issues to execute multi-agent scenarios: 1) How can scenario writers generate customized scenarios easily? 2) How can scenario write...

stories, legends and myths in among various nations have similar factors which can be the subject of different researches and analysis. the search of perfection and model of ideal man is one of these factors. truly mantiq al-tair by attar-e-neishaburi is the most beautiful symbolic works of the east in this field (search of perfection) which has been imitated by many of writers and poets in all...

We read with interest the article by Anguita et al, providing a critical review of the 2010 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Clinical Practice Guidelines on Atrial Fibrillation. The writers take issue with various aspects of the 2010 ESC guidelines, and we offer the following comments. Contrary to their assumption, Anguita et al should be aware that the previous 2006 ACC/AHA/ESC guidelines ...