legal fiction as a legal mechanism in various legal systems especially in formalist and inflexible legal systems is original subject of this article. in this article be analysed the nature and elements of legal fiction and its historical role in ancient roman law system and common law with comparative study in iran legal system. legal fiction as a legal mechanism in various legal systems especi...

Abstract Social scientists have become increasingly interested in how narratives —the stories fiction, politics, and life—shape beliefs, behavior, government policies. This paper provides an unsupervised method to quantify latent narrative structures text documents. Our new software package relatio identifies coherent entity groups maps explicit relations between them the text. We provide appli...

This paper presents an in-depth analysis of the importance of innovative Science Fiction Prototyping systems in different sectors with focus on educational aspects and the support of virtual environments. Therefor we investigate the utility of Science Fiction Prototypes in different environments and introduce a design model to implement flexible setups in virtual world. We illustrate how config...

We quantify competition among traders by the Herfindahl Index. The index is widely used to assess market concentration and it is computed as the sum of the squared market shares. We study the market for liquidity provision. In an electronic limit order book, liquidity is provided by passive orders and a trader’s market share is the fraction of passive limit order volume that this trader provide...

Some scientists write literary fiction books in their spare time. If these books contain scientific knowledge, literary fiction becomes a mechanism of knowledge transfer. In this case, we could conceptualize literary fiction as non-formal knowledge transfer. We model knowledge transfer via literary fiction as a function of the type of scientist (academic or non-academic) and his/her scientific ...

We present a quantitative analysis of 442 pieces of fiction published between 5 October 1992 and 17 September 2001 in the New Yorker magazine. We address two independent questions using the same data set. First, we examine whether changes in the Executive Editor or Fiction Editor are associated with significant changes in the type of fiction published at the New Yorker. Second, we examine wheth...

This study investigated readers’ experiences of critical thinking and reading, comparing fiction nonfiction. As previous research has shown links between reading increased social cognitive capacities, such capacities are argued to be necessary for thinking, this sought explore a potentially unique relationship as distinct from In depth interviews were conducted with participants who self-identi...

Openings in fiction have received increasing attention lately from critics concerned both with narrative theory and the explication of specific texts. In his story, "A Poet's Continuing Silence," A. B. Yehoshua provides a series of opening signals that command special interest, since the text focuses directly on beginnings and attempted new beginnings in the lives of the protagonists. The vario...

One of the important problems of a modern society – communications. At all readiness of this question both humanitarian, and engineering science, process of transfer and information reception remains in the centre of attention of researchers. The dialogue phenomenon in a network becomes the significant factor of such attention. The possibility of the user choice, freedom of expression of feelin...