Sadegh Hedayat is one of the most renowned contemporary writers whose various works are discussed by many literary critics. His short story "The Case of Chrystal (rock) Salt" is a humorous and satirical story is collected in Tittle-tattle alongside with five more short stories. The narrator of the story explains the history of human civilization and evolution based on his own perspective. “The ...

Story-telling is frequently a lost art in the engineering classroom. Often, engineering educators feel that telling stories is a distraction to communicating the necessary content of a course. In contrast, this paper describes story-telling as an improvement to traditional teaching techniques. Story-telling may be used as a method to illustrate important points, give coherent meaning to seeming...

Branching story games have gained popularity for creating unique playing experiences by adapting story content in response to user actions. Research in interactive narrative (IN) uses automated planning to generate story plans for a given story problem. However, a story planner can generate multiple story plan solutions, all of which equally-satisfy the story problem definition but contain diff...

PAM (Plan Appl ier Mechanism) is a program that understands s to r i es by analyzing the i n t e n t ions of the s t o r y ' s characters , and r e l a t i n g t h e i r i n ten t ions to the i r ac t ions . PAM reads in sentences in Eng l ish , produces Conceptual Dependency (CD) meaning representat ions fo r them, and connects together Lhese CD's to form a s tory represen ta t ion . The story...

A study was conducted to identify poor readers and to characterize weaknesses in their knowledge and use of story structure in comprehension and recall. Subjects were 80 year-3 children in Brisbane, Queensland Australia, 20 good readers and 60 poor readers. The poor readers were then divided into relatively homogeneous subgroups, using measures of language-reading comprehension, according to a ...

The front cover shows ABB serving the cement manufacturing industry, which it has done since 1961 with turnkey installations, electrical equipment and automation systems. In 1990, ABB recognised the MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) business area as a natural extension to its technology portfolio. Since then, ABB has provided added value solutions that are independent from the installed pro...

The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. New TEM grids coated with ultrathin amorphous Al 2 O 3 films have been developed using atomic layer deposition technique. The amorphous Al 2 O 3 films can withstand temperatures over 600 • C in air and 900 • C in vacuum when the thickness of the Al 2 O 3 film is 2 nm, and up to...

The problem of image identification is relevant today, as it will be useful for rethinking some the plot compositions on church jewelry. paper provides information iconography such images as: “Ascension”, “Transfiguration”, “New Testament Trinity” and “God Hosts.” A comparative analysis European masters was carried out, including cover Gospel Book Wroclaw master Tobias Shire, which exhibited in...

The mandrake, Mandragora officinarum, is a perennial plant found in the Middle East, southern Europe, and northern Africa, that has ovate leaves, white or purple flowers, and edible globose yellow fruits, historically thought to have aphrodisiac properties. The mandrake also has a large bifurcated root, which has been credited with human attributes and has been the subject of many myths and sup...

Online news media sites are emerging as the primary source of news for a large number of users. The selection of ‘frontpage’ stories on these media sites usually takes into consideration several crowdsourced popularity metrics, such as number of views or shares by the readers. In this work, we focus on automatically recommending front-page stories in such media websites. When recommending news ...