The polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, M protein, skin changes (POEMS) syndrome is a rare multisystem disorder of obscure pathogenesis associated with osteosclerotic myeloma. Circulating levels of proinflammatory cytokines (tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) interleukin-1 beta [IL-1 beta], IL-2, IL-6, and interferon-gamma [IFN-gamma]), anti-inflammatory cytokines (transforming g...

MASTER (Multi-Agent System for Text Emotion Representation) is an artificial society in which each member has a digital emotional state. Member agents attempt to influence each other’s emotions by reciting “poems” to each other which express their own emotional state. As agents do this, larger texts are developed in the society through social learning. The resulting texts are not meaningful in ...

The Boy in the Text: Mary Barber, Her Son, and Children’s Poetry Poems on Several Occasions This paper reconsiders work of Dublin poet whose collection poems appeared 1733/34. There she acknowledges assistance Jonathan Swift, frames her poetry as a pedagogical aid to children’s education—particularly that eldest son, Constantine. Barber’s relationship with Swift has received much critical atten...

Many noteworthy studies have been done to examine the discursive relationship between gender and metaphor in the context of politics, media and literature. In this research, however, I try to investigate the relationship between gender and metaphor specifically in poetical discourse. The main questions of this research are as follows: What is the role of gender in the production and selection o...

Using comprehensive digital sales data by time and vintage on the US, Canada, and 15 European countries, we infer the evolution of music vintage quality, finding that vintage service flow has increased since 2000. We explain the result with unpredictability of music quality at the time of investment along with growing releases. Evidence shows a) products with modest prospects at release from ar...

The Complete Tang Poems (CTP) is the most important collection for studying Tang poetry, which in turn is arguably a very influential part of the Chinese literature. Our analyzing the CTP from the perspectives of antithesis, collocation and distributional semantics offers some interesting overviews of the styles and imageries embedded in the works of some representative Tang poets. Our analyses...