“Voyage to Tomorrow”: Modern Arabic Science Fiction

Evolutionary Voyage of Modern Birth Control Methods

HKJGOM 2005; 5 (1) 40 Introduction In modern days, birth control in our community has been achieved with modest success via the practice of various contraceptive methods. According to statistics from The Family Planning Association of Hong Kong (FPAHK), the contraceptive practice rate in Hong Kong has been maintained at above 80% since 19871. This is higher than the world average of 60%2. Famil...

Fiction informed by science.

Historicity of Categories of Fiction: Virginia Woolf’s Concept “Modern Fiction”

This article attempts to construct Woolf’s concept of “modern fiction” in modern context within the two dimensions: fiction’s category and historicity. Firstly, based on the essay “Modern Fiction”, the article aims to construct the connotation of “modern fiction”, which takes “historical consciousness”, “the duration of life”, “man’s subjectivity”, “the complexity of psychological structures” a...

a method to convert sana’ani accent to modern standard arabic

this paper presents an efficient mechanism to convert sana’ani dialect to modern standard arabic. the mechanism is based on morphological rules related to sana’ani dialect as well as modern standard arabic. such rules facilitate the dialect conversion to its corresponding msa. the mechanism tokenizes the input dialect text and divides each token into stem and its affixes; such affixes can be ca...

Science Fiction and Macdonald's Polynomials

This work studies the remarkable relationships that hold among certain m-tuples of the Garsia-Haiman modules M and corresponding elements of the Macdonald basis. We recall that in 10], M is deened for a partition`n, as the linear span of derivatives of a certain bihomogeneouspolynomial (x; y) in the variables x 1 ; x 2 conjecturedin 6], 10] that M has n! dimensionsand that its bigraded Frobeniu...