Provençal Landscapes in Aldous Huxley’s Fiction and Non-Fiction

Transplant: a non-fiction narrative.

This narrative is taken from a memoir about my son, Jesse, who died at age 19 in 1995 after a liver transplant. It covers two periods-from May 5, his admission date at the hospital to wait for a transplant, until May 9, when a perforation, caused by cutting through intestinal adhesions during transplant surgery, was discovered, and from May 20 to May 22, when his condition became extremely crit...

Fiction indexing and the development of fiction thesauri

Linear non-threshold: separating facts from fiction.

The Linear Non-Threshold (LNT) process is used by virtually all governmental agencies to compute incidence of cancer as a consequence of exposure to a carcinogen. This comment applies the concept of Best Available Science (BAS) Metrics for Evaluation of Scientific Claims (MESC) derived from BAS to issues related to reliability of LNT hypothesis. This paper identifies the level of maturity of th...

Cross-Document Non-Fiction Narrative Alignment

This paper describes a new method for narrative frame alignment that extends and supplements models reliant on graph theory from the domain of fiction to the domain of nonfiction news articles. Preliminary tests of this method against a corpus of 24 articles related to private security firms operating in Iraq and the Blackwater shooting of 2007 show that prior methods utilizing a graph similari...

Fiction and Moral Education: A Study in Elementary Course Curriculum

This paper aimed to clarify the role of moral concepts in elementary course curriculum. By qualitative content analysis, firstly, the moral concepts in textbooks are inductively determined and then sorted into more general categories. Then, according to fluency and integration in any class and also evolutionary arranging in the whole course, the vertical and horizontal organizations of these co...