1. introduction in epic narratives, heroes have a specific and key role in the processing of epic development. some heroes’ roles are based on the situation in which they have been created. thus, the epic narrator states their life journey from the beginning to the end in a vicissitude process. however, some heroes do not have a specific position in epic stories as they appear as a thunder in s...

In this thesis we study the problem of computing a straight-line representation of a planarization with a fixed combinatorial structure. By the results of Mnëv [Mnë88] and Shor [Sho91] this problem is as hard as the Existential Theory of the Reals (∃R-Complete). We present a heuristic called Geometric Planarization Drawing to compute a straight-line representation of a planarization. We take an...

In this paper a simple model of a three story building with inclined first-story columns has presented. The stories are supposed to be rigid and are connected to axially rigid mass less columns by elasto-plastic rotational springs and linear rotational dampers. The considered model is subjected to horizontal component of fault normal pulse with different magnitudes and the governed nonlinear di...

An Interactive Scene Interpretation System (ISIS) is being developed by Stanford Research Institute's Artificial Intelligence Center as a tool for constructing and experimenting with man-• achine and automatic scene analysis methods tailored for particular image domains. A region analysis subsystem was developed recently based on the work of Brice and Fennema, and Yaklmovsky. Using this subsyst...

The transition from school to the institute of higher learning is a challenging phase that requires students adapt new environments and cultures. This study aimed explore adaptation experiences first-year at Institute Teacher Education by using storytelling through drawing. involved 18 pursuing Bachelor Preparatory Programme in Malaysia with low levels identified Student Adaptation College Ques...

While recent work examines parents and children reading together on tablet computers, the ways in which interactive elements within e-books affect parent-child interaction are not well understood. We examine haptic feedback as a new form of e-book interactivity and analyze how parents and children exploit this dimension when reading together. Results from a laboratory study with 18 parent-child...

1. Music is an art. Therefore the composer/artist can use its elements any way they like—for example, to confound music-IR systems, as the amusing essay “Composing to Subvert Content Retrieval Engines” points out (Collins 2006). Obviously, few if any composers/artists have that goal in mind, but a great many—at least in some cultures, including ours— try to use its elements in original and inte...

There is a class of joke which consists of an anecdote , which is sometimes quite long and often has no inherently humorous content, followed by a punchline which is a distorted form of some well-known phrase, proverb or quotation. Usually the punchline purports to summarise or draw a moral from the preceding story. This genre has some unusual aspects, from the viewpoint of conventional claims ...