Throughout this congress we have heard many moving testimonies. On Thursday the stories highlighted the presence of Jesus among the peoples of Asia, especially among the poor and marginalised. On Friday stories witnessed to Jesus amidst the great religions of Asia. Today testimonies have focused upon the cultures of Asia. In day-to-day life we do not neatly separate these three aspects. As the ...

Mining textual documents and time series concurrently, such as predicting the movements of stock prices based on the contents of the news stories, is an emerging topic in data mining community. Previous researches have shown that there is a strong relationship between the time when the news stories are released and the time when the stock prices fluctuate. In this paper, we propose a systematic...

Mining textual documents and time series concurrently, such as predicting the movements of stock prices based on the contents of the news stories, is an emerging topic in data mining community. Previous researches have shown that there is a strong relationship between the time when the news stories are released and the time when the stock prices fluctuate. In this paper, we propose a systematic...

We present methods for finding same or almost same news stories in the hourly radio news broadcasts. Our procedures are able to detect reoccuring news stories of subsequent news broadcasts spoken by the same or different announcers only from the speech signal. They allow to establish a large database of repeated and professionally read speech at low costs that is especially interesting for pros...

If a person's internalized and evolving life story (narrative identity) is to be considered an integral feature of personality itself, then aspects of that story should manifest some continuity over time while also providing evidence regarding important personality change. Accordingly, college freshmen and seniors provided detailed written accounts of 10 key scenes in their life stories, and th...

Sam is a life-sized on-screen character who shares a physical castle and a plastic figurine with children, and takes turns with children to tell stories using the figurine. In this thesis, the original Sam system is improved. Now Sam shares two figurines with the user, and tells fantasy stories from the narrator's perspective. When Sam takes turn to tell story, Sam identifies the toys in the vi...

Because o f the recent development in pastoral care, a hermeneutic model is proposed. Metaphors in pastoral care and counselling are embedded in the life stories o f parishioners. As an interpreter o f Stories/stories, it is the diagnostic task o f the pastor to make a pastoral assessment o f the meaning and significance o f these stories in terms o f God images. In order to do that, the pastor...

BACKGROUND How people integrate the experience of involuntary hospital admission and treatment into their life narrative has not been explored systematically. Aims To establish a typology of coercion perspectives and styles of integration into life stories. METHOD Transcripts of recorded interviews with 15 persons who had previously been involuntarily admitted to hospital were coded and analy...