Whodunit novels always used to be about crime, usually murder. One of their appeals was that after all the clues and " red herrings " the author could use some device or other at the end of the book–usually a confession–to reveal who really was the culprit. By comparison, a whodunit revolving around mistaken or confused paternity suffers because there can never be a convincing revelation at the...

Correspondence to Dr Wolfgang Wagner; [email protected] The incidence of cancer is rising worldwide. In 2008 it happened to be some 12.7 million new cases (7.6 million cancer-related deaths), in 2030 it could be 20.3 million cases. Only the means of medicine could alter this trend with a concordantly increasing number of victims. A classical ‘conditio sine qua non’: There are also writers ...

by Sidney Dekker : Safety Differently: Human Factors for a New Era, Second Edition ISBN : #1482241994 | Date : 2014-06-23 Description : PDF-b8eae | The second edition of a bestseller, Safety Differently: Human Factors for a New Era is a complete update of Ten Questions About Human Error: A New View of Human Factors and System Safety. Today, the unrelenting pace of technology change and growth o...

Many critics believe that because men and women have different life experiences, the writing of male and female authors will differ, as well. Some believe that male authors are not able to write accurately from the female perspective or present feminist ideals because they have not experienced life as women. The majority of the time, life from the female point of view is portrayed in literature...

This study documents a teacher-researcher’s presentations of 24 literary works to a class of 28 Taiwanese EFL senior high school students during a fourteen-week experiment, and reports on those students’ perceptions of the texts introduced and their attitudes towards literature in general. In preparing literary texts, the teacher explored the notion of computer assisted literature teaching (CAL...

The first objective of this paper is carry out three experiments intended to evaluate authorship attribution methods based on three test-collections available in three different languages (English, French, and German). In the first we represent and categorize 52 text excerpts written by nine authors and taken from 19th century English novels. In the second we work with 44 segments from French n...

Given the rise of a new approach to MT, Neural MT (NMT), and its promising performance on different text types, we assess the translation quality it can attain on what is perceived to be the greatest challenge for MT: literary text. Specifically, we target novels, arguably the most popular type of literary text. We build a literary-adapted NMT system for the English-to-Catalan translation direc...

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a famous dystopia, frequently called upon in public discussions about new biotechnology. It is less well known that 30 years later Huxley also wrote a utopian novel, called Island. This paper will discuss both novels focussing especially on the role of psychopharmacological substances. If we see fiction as a way of imagining what the world could look like, the...

To cite: Iqbal K. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2014;40:300–302. INTRODUCTION Romance novels are defined broadly as fiction focused on a central love story, which is concluded in an emotionally satisfying and optimistic manner. Romance is one of the most popular genres, accounting for the largest market share in fiction. In 2009, romantic fiction generated approximately $1.4 billion in the USA...