(Fam Med 2006;38(3):162-3.) If you majored in the humanities in college, or took a literature survey course, or just like to read classic stories, you’ll recognize that my column title is a repetition of the first two phrases of Charles Dickens’ novel, A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens’ subject in that stirring book is the French Revolution, with all its attendant promise and its very real dangers....

T he pervasive use of media-capturing devices and the increasing adoption of online social networking platforms have led to the proliferation of digital content that documents the real world—everything from landmarks and points of interest to live concerts and demonstrations. Such content holds great potential for creating richer representations of real-world entities and helping tell engaging ...

Topic Detection classifies stories into different topics, but HTD requires more than that. Is there any other entities between a story and a topic? [10] views a topic as a structure of inter-related events, which gives us a good hint for this new task. Experiments in [10] show that time locality is a very useful attribute in event organization, and it can also help to solve the complexity probl...

This paper explores the impact of COVID-19 on a planned physical exhibition – Prize Books and Politics: Rethinking Working-Class Life in Edwardian Britain experience transforming it into digital through platform Instagram. Using feedback from visitors form likes, comments surveys, I reflect terms its scope, content, visitor overall success. also outline various potentials, constraints opportuni...

We investigate a suite of recommendation algorithms for audio news listening applications. This domain presents several challenges that distinguish it from more commonly studied applications such as movie recommendations: (1) we do not receive explicit rating feedback, instead only observing when a user skips a story; (2) new stories arrive continuously, increasing the importance of making reco...

How do people make decisions about their preferences? We examine how others’ opinions affect one’s decisions. In Experiment 1, we found that popular online news stories were not inherently interesting, suggesting that something other than the content of the stories was driving people’s liking of the stories. In Experiments 2 and 3, we manipulated information about how previous readers rated the...

In this article, to study the effect of pulse-type near-fault earthquakes on the seismic demands of steel moment frames, 15-story 2D-frame was analyzed under the influence of 20 near-fields with forward directivity effect and 2 far-field records. The relationship between Effective Cyclic Energy, ECE and displacement demands, velocity and hysteretic curve of SDOF systems in two near- and far-fau...

The 2016 US Presidential Election brought considerable attention to the phenomenon of “fake news”: entirely fabricated and often partisan content that is presented as is from a legitimate source. In this talk, I will explore two outstanding questions about fake news: Who falls for it, and what can be done to fight it? It is typically assumed that people believe fake news stories that are consis...

as a literary work, a novel is imitation of actual life, it is as important as the conversation in the actual life, but for bakhtin, the issue is beyond the conversations in the stories. he takes every literary work in two levels to be studied. on one hand, every literary work is a response to its previous works, it also expects the future works, on the other hand, a novel is the field where th...