A 43-Million-Person Investigation into Weather and Expressed Sentiment in a Changing Climate

Weather impacts expressed sentiment

We conduct the largest ever investigation into the relationship between meteorological conditions and the sentiment of human expressions. To do this, we employ over three and a half billion social media posts from tens of millions of individuals from both Facebook and Twitter between 2009 and 2016. We find that cold temperatures, hot temperatures, precipitation, narrower daily temperature range...

an investigation into iranian teachers consistency and bias in evaluation of students writings

while performance-based language assessment has led to an increased authenticity and content validity in the practice of writing assessment, the reliability of ratings has become a major issue. research findings have shown different reactions by native english speaker (nes) and non-native english speaker (nns) teachers to students’ writings. the focus of this study is on investigating whether i...

Effects of Changing Climate on Weather and Human Activities Effects of Changing Climate on Weather and Human Activities

tragic contradictions: a comparative study of characterization in eugene o’neill’s long day’s journey into night and mahmud dowlatabadi’s tangna

در طی چند دهه ی اخیر، مفهوم «تراژدی» و «قهرمان تراژدی» توجهی روزافرون را تقریباً در تمام حوزه های نقد ادبی به خود معطوف کرده است. برخی نظیر ارسطو، نیچه، و آرتور میلر به بازخوانی آن پرداخته و برخی دیگر نظیر سارتر، استریندبرگ، یوجین اُنیل، برتولت برشت، و آنتونین آرتود به افزودن ابعاد نوینی به این مبحث همت گماشته اند. آنچه قهرمان تراژدی مدرن را از مفهوم کلاسیک آن متمایز می کند نه لغزش تراژیک متداول ...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...