abstract background: inadequate dialysis is one of the main causes of mortality of the patients undergoing hemodialysis. the methods that lead to improvement of dialysis adequacy in these patients are of great importance due to them causing an improvement of quality of life. as numerous factors can play a role in improvement of dialysis adequacy, the present study aimed to investigate the level...

What makes humour an honest and a direct communication tool for people? How do social networking digital media transmit user-generated political humorous content? Our research argues that the way in which is deployed through during protest action allows protestors to assert humanity sincerity against dehumanising manipulation frameworks. Humorous content, this extent, enables indicative of inde...

results out of 66 patients, 61 (19 in group a, 20 in group b, and 22 in group c) completed the study period, and before intervention, all groups were equal in terms of quality and quantity variables (p > 0.05). after intervention, there was a significant difference between the three groups with regard to the variables of dialysis adequacy based on kt/v and urr to independent-t test and repeated...

Art History Resources on the Web (Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe, Sweet Briar College). This award-winning site covers the gamut of art history topics from prehistoric to contemporary, plus museums, research resources, blogs, newsletters, course syllabi, and much more. Searchable database. Professor Witcombe also hosts a series of brief, humorous but informative art history videos at http://arthis...

The human reward system has been shown to be activated by a wide range of reinforcers, including food, money, sex, drugs, and beauty. Now, a recent fMRI study has found mesolimbic reward activation associated with humorous cartoons, providing a neurobiological link between theories of humour and hedonic processes in the brain.

Many of us in the field of highly parallel scientific computing recognize that it is often quite difficult to match the run time performance of the best conventional supercomputers. This humorous article outlines twelve ways commonly used in scientific papers and presentations to artificially boost performance rates and to present these results in the ``best possible light'' compared to other

With the development of pragmatics, there are more and researches on humor from perspective cooperative principle. Many researchers have made extensive research verbal various sitcoms violating principle, but is little work The Neighborhood. Humorous language soul sitcom. Therefore, it valuable to study in This uses qualitative method analyze American sitcom Neighborhood, explores process chara...

Humor is a defining characteristic of human beings. Our goal is to develop methods that automatically detect humorous statements and rank them on a continuous scale. In this paper we report on results using a Language Model approach, and outline our plans for using methods from Deep Learning.

Art History Resources on the Web (Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe, Sweet Briar College). This award-winning site covers the gamut of art history topics from prehistoric to contemporary, plus museums, research resources, blogs, newsletters, course syllabi, and much more. Searchable database. Professor Witcombe also hosts a series of brief, humorous but informative art history videos at http://arthis...

Computational humor is a challenge with implications for many classical fields in AI such as, for example, natural language processing, intelligent human-computer interaction, reasoning, not to mention cognitive science, linguistics and psychology. In this paper we summarize our experience in developing HAHAcronym, a system devoted to produce humorous acronyms, and we discuss some concrete pros...