Vampires in popular culture differ from vampires Serbian traditional not only that they feed on human blood, but also the implications of otherness represent. While vampire is an example ontological – a revenant, non-human as opposed to human, sociocultural otherness, being member same community those against whom its misdeeds are directed way derives otherness. Its nature clearly designated es...

BACKGROUND The medical treatment for hemorrhoids has undergone significant changes on introduction of new pharmaceutical agents in the last decade. Euphorbia Prostrata is a new molecule used for grade I and II hemorrhoids. Beneficial effects of the Euphorbia prostrata in hemorrhoids have multiple mechanisms that are due to its active constituents flavonoids, tannins and phenolic acid. This pilo...

It is substantiated that particular features of pragmatics are teachable, and instruction is both necessary and effective. Determining what kind of intervention is most effectual for facilitating learners’ pragmatic development has been a central issue for researchers. To respond to the inconclusive findings in intervention studies and to extend the instructional studies in L2 pragmatics to les...

Participation in social organizations such as team sports, volunteer and religious organizations has been diminishing over the past few decades (Putnam, 2001). One reason for this decline is television (Putnam, 1995). Instead of going to bars or bowling alleys after work – places where people can form new relationships and expand their social networks – people instead go home to watch the lates...

1430 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 44, NUMBER 11 The Football Player The air buzzed with anticipation as the football team crowded excitedly into the lecture hall. The country’s top halfback was about to defend his Ph.D. thesis in mathematics! It soon became apparent that the proceedings were a mere formality, as the candidate’s dissertation on summability methods for divergent Dirichlet series was...

This paper proposes using the theory of narratology to connect legal discourses and processes with the way the media translate the law into news. It identifies how narratology has been used by other disciplines, notably the law, to provide a framework for better understanding, and uses a range of theories and examples to propose a narratology for court reporting. The research identifies six key...

D. Bretherton and N. Balvin (eds.), Peace Psychology in Australia, Peace Psychology Book Series, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-1403-2_4, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 I was born in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne Australia – sometimes known as the green belt, other times the white belt. By the time I was old enough to develop some kind of memorable social understanding I recall hearing ...

Among barber shop and beauty salon philosophers and front stoop film critics, industry hyphenates Will Smith and Tyler Perry are topics of discussions ranging from the quality of their product to their rumored homosexuality. Smith, a rapper-actor-producer is now regarded as “the most powerful actor in Hollywood” with a “worldwide career box office of $4.4 billion” and salary of $25 million a pi...

Are You Hot?, Bachelorettes in Alaska, Celebrity Boot Camp, Dog Eat Dog, Love Cruise, Meet My Folks, My Life Is a Sitcom, Race to the Altar, Temptation Island, Trading Spaces —these are just a few of the more than 80 reality shows available to American television viewers today. At what point is enough enough? We have watched reality-based television in the form of game shows, talk shows, tabloi...

In recent years, there has been significant progress in developing Interactive Storytelling systems, in particular in terms of the underlying AI techniques. There has been an emerging consensus on the AI approach, in particular the use of planning systems. However, these have concentrated on the generation of a sequence of narrative actions, staged through the behaviour of virtual actors. In or...