A Telephone Newspaper

Discharge Against Medical Advice in Teaching Hospitals: A Telephone Survey

Background: Discharge with personal consent is considered as one of the main problems in hospitalization condition since many patients leave the hospital prematurely against the doctor’s advice. Thus, the aim of this study was to identify the factors affecting the discharge with personal satisfaction in selected teaching hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Methods: The pr...

HyperNews: a commercial electronic newspaper

MEDIA1 is a platform that allows the commercialization and dissemination of electronic documents under similar conditions as printed documents using an agent-based, distributed and secure platform. Documents in the MEDIA system are encapsulated within agents which the reader must execute in order to access their contents. The developed pilot application of MEDIA is HyperNews, a commercial elect...

Interpersonal Metadiscourse in Newspaper Editorials

The power of media lies in its persuasive function, which gives media a potential to maneuver on the mind of audience (van Dijk 1996). This potential is realized via different linguistic resources, one important group of which is metadiscoursal resources. The major aim of this study was to explore how and in what distribution these resources are employed by writers with different cultural backg...

Etel: A Newspaper-Based Distributed Information System

SCMP.com: strategic repositioning of a newspaper

In 1996, the South China Morning Post (SCMP), a Hong Kong-based English-language news daily, established PostNet (an electronic publishing division) to experiment with the on-line medium. In mid-1999, SCMP’s Board of Directors observed the Internet’s meteoric rise and considered PostNet’s e-commerce opportunity. In order to leverage e-commerce’s growth, they resolved to reposition the SCMP from...