Mothers from two middle-class contexts from Berlin, Germany (n = 35), and Delhi, India (n = 28) told a baby story to their 3-year olds about an event that had happened during the children's first year of life. The contexts represented two cultural models: the model of psychological autonomy (Berlin) and the model of autonomy-relatedness (Delhi). We investigated the culture-specific functions of...

week about AI, or any other topic, requires more than searching for individual terms. Since it is time-consuming to find and post interesting stories manually, we have designed and written an AI program called NewsFinder1 that automatically collects English-language news stories from the web, categorizes them with trained models, filters out uninteresting and unrelated stories based on a set of...

The new social media sites — blogs, wikis, Flickr and Digg, among others — underscore the transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are actively creating, evaluating and distributing information. Digg is a social news aggregator which allows users to submit links to, vote on and discuss news stories. Each day Digg selects a handful of stories to feature on its front pag...

We have developed an approach to identification and tracking of currently unfolding news stories extracted from the news articles published on the Web. Our approach employs a set of agents to retrieve those articles from the Web that might refer to some developing news story. The set of agents is inspired by social insects, in particular by a bee colony. Bees identify popular terms, referred to...

Although in some sense narrative approaches in practical theology have been developed only recently, one could claim that there is a long and intrinsic history of their relationship. Religious practices that form the core material for theological reflection in practical theology are often directly related to narratives. In one way or another human stories are connected with stories of and about...

story has long been exploited to transfer human culture and concepts. it is the most consistent verbal form to the human mind. therefore, its audience spectrum is more widespread and its influence power is higher. though the qur'an's main language is the language of religion and spiritual guidance, it exploits the storytelling method in its complete form to disseminate its message.  u...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the quality of press releases issued by medical journals can influence the quality of associated newspaper stories. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study of medical journal press releases and associated news stories. SETTING We reviewed consecutive issues (going backwards from January 2009) of five major medical journals (Annals of Internal Medicine, BMJ, Journal ...

the aesthetics of the stories of holy quran means identification of beauty and art in its expression. the quran is not a book of fictions, but its real stories, with religious and educational purpose, have artistically been expressed, with a rhetorical style and dynamic images that one can realize its artistic aspects in content and structure. the geometric structure of its stories makes it pos...

stories and fictions are important cultural resources which in many cultures are narrated by women.these storiescan bea reflection of ideals and desires of women in different levels of a society. therefore, reviewing these stories and fictions would bebeneficial to better understand the various aspects of women’s life in a society.this research aims to study women’s positionin bakhtiary’s cultu...