INTRODUCTION "We of the craft (poets) are all crazy," remarked the 18th century British romanticist Lord Byron (George Gordon) about himself and his fellow poets. Implied in this statement is the notion that there exists a special kind of relationship between poets and being "crazy". A relationship between psychopathology and the artistic temperament is one of the oldest and most persistent of ...

We collect 14 representative corpora for major periods in Chinese history in this study. These corpora include poetic works produced in several dynasties, novels of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and essays and news reports written in modern Chinese. The time span of these corpora ranges between 1046 BCE and 2007 CE. We analyze their character and word distributions from the viewpoint of the Zipf...

Introduction Prismatic Balint groups are a further development of classical Balint groups in form of a mood oriented sensory-metaphorical process. The group method enables resolving of chaotic, panic, psychotic and traumatic experiences, which as a source of team conflicts have blocked communications between doctors, nursing staff and patients. A prismatic mood oriented Balint-group remains ful...

The beauty of Tang poetry is expressed in the combination of content and form. If the form is not well reproduced in the process of translation, the integrity of Tang poetry would be impaired to a great extent. By looking at different translations of Tang poetry, it is found that formal reproduction happens where there already exist the similar poetic forms in the target language; such forms as...

Translating across cultures stands for a complicated and demanding process. In his well-known article “Chinese Poetry and the English Reader,” David Hawkes discussed the challenges of translating classical Chinese poetry into English, but he failed to examine a most distinctive feature of Chinese poetry, yi jing 意境. Commonly translated as “poetic world,” yi jing is as much a cultural and philos...

Previous metaphor studies have paid much attention to nominal metaphors and predicative metaphors, but little attention has been given to adjective metaphors. Although some studies have focused on adjective metaphors, they only examined differences in the acceptability of various types of adjective metaphors. This paper explores the cognitive effects evoked by adjective metaphors. Three psychol...

An evolutionary learning method for modeling and prediction of complex systems is described and applied to an environmental system. The method is based on tree-structured neural networks whose node type, weight, size and topology are dynamically adapted by genetic algorithms. Since the genetic algorithm used for training does not require error derivatives, a wide range of neural models can be i...

Download pose: To evaluate performances of published gene signatures for the assessment of urothelial oma. erimental Design: We evaluated 28 published gene signatures designed for diagnostic and progpurposes of urothelial cancer. The investigated signatures include eight signatures for stage, five for four for progression, and six for survival. We used two algorithms for classification, nearest...

  Poetry translation involves cognition, discourse, and action by and between human s and textual a c- tors in physical and social settings. The aim of this study was to find out to what extent the non - native translator of Nizami Ganjavi’s “Leili and Majnun” could preserve the poetic imagery in its English translation. To this end, an innovative taxonomic model, which could investiga...