Chick Lit: Themes and Studies

From high heels to weed attics: a syntactic investigation of chick lit and literature

Stylometric analysis of prose is typically limited to classification tasks such as authorship attribution. Since the models used are typically black boxes, they give little insight into the stylistic differences they detect. In this paper, we characterize two prose genres syntactically: chick lit (humorous novels on the challenges of being a modern-day urban female) and high literature. First, ...

Current themes in neuroimaging studies of reading

This editorial provides a summary of the highlights from 11 new papers that have been published in a special issue of Brain and Language on the neurobiology of reading. The topics investigate reading mechanisms in both adults and children. Several of the findings illustrate how responses in the left ventral occipito-temporal cortex, and other reading areas, change with learning, expertise and t...

postnatal studies of bats (pipistrellus kuhlii and miniopterus schreibersii) & histomorphology and histochemistry studies of organs and diseases of (neurergus microspilotus and n. kaiseri)

1. to determine whether difference in birth body mass influenced growth performance in pipistrellus kuhlii we studied a total of 12 captive-born neonates. bats were assigned to two body mass groups: light birth body mass (lbw: 0.89 ± 0.05, n=8) and heavy birth body mass (hbw: 1.35 ± 0.08, n=4). heavier body mass at birth was associated with rapid postnatal growth (body mass and forearm length) ...

Calcium and Phosphorus Studies in the Chick*

The majority of the published data dealing with blood calcium and phosphorus changes in rickets is based upon blood determinations made after the appearance of rickets. Values obtained after the symptoms of rickets are evident do not show when t,he reduction in the calcium and phosphorus first t.akes place. A true understanding of the relation of vitamin D t,o these blood changes can be obtaine...

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