Artworks with sad and affectively negative content have repeatedly been reported to elicit positive aesthetic appreciation. This topic has received much attention both in the history of poetics and aesthetics as well as in recent studies on sad films and sad music. However, poetry and aesthetic evaluations of joyful and sad poetry have received only little attention in empirical studies to date...

POEMS syndrome is an acronym for polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy and skin changes, which is a rare paraneoplastic disease of monoclonal plasma cells. A mandatory criterion to diagnose POEMS syndrome is the presence of a monoclonal plasma cell dyscrasia in which plasma cell leukemia is the most aggressive form. Early identification of the features of the POEMS...

RATIONALE POEMS syndrome is a rare multi-system disorder, which sometimes involves the kidney. Immunotactoid glomerulopathy (ITG) is an uncommon glomerular disease resulted from deposits of immunoglobulins and its derivatives. ITG caused by POEMS syndrome is rarely reported. PATIENT CONCERNS A 63-year-old man was presented with acute kidney injury. In addition, it's found that he had abnormal...

Pemuisi is a poetry generation system that generates topical poems in Indonesian using a constraint satisfaction approach. It scans popular news websites for articles and extracts relevant keywords that are combined with various language resources such as templates and other slot fillers into lines of poetry. It then composes poems from these lines by satisfying a set of given constraints. A Tu...

Computer poetry generation is our first step towards computer writing. Writing must have a theme. The current approaches of using sequence-to-sequence models with attention often produce nonthematic poems. We present a conditional variational autoencoder with augmented word2vec architecture that explicitly represents the topic or theme information. This approach significantly improves the relev...

Waka is a form of traditional Japanese poetry with a 1300year history. In this paper we attempt to semi-automatically discover instances of poetic allusion, or more generally, to find similar poems in anthologies of waka poems. The key to success is how to define the similarity measure on poems. We first examine the existing similarity measures on strings, and then give a unifying framework tha...

A 58 year old man presented with a three year history of impotence, night sweats and ankle swelling. On examination, the patient fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for POEMS syndrome, but was unusual in that he also had underlying Waldenström's macroglobulinaemia with IgM kappa paraproteinaemia. The patient was treated with intermittent chlorambucil and made a good recovery. POEMS syndrome has b...

Dear Editor, POEMS syndrome is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome caused by a plasma cell disorder that is clinically characterized by polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal plasmaproliferative disorder, and skin changes.1 Ischemic diseases of the coronary and lower limb arteries have often been reported in patients with POEMS syndrome.2,3 However, acute ischemic stroke is uncommo...

A connection between noble prize winning Gitanjali, the celebrated English collection of Tagore's poems, and neu-roscience may at first seem far fetched. For " Gitanjali " literally means " song offerings , " and the poems are suggestive of harmony, beauty and relationality at the least. Tagore, employing 12,091 words and a lexicon with slightly fewer than 2,468 word types, 1 renders in Eng-lis...

A " questão agrária " e a saúde pública: considerações em torno de uma crítica ao neoliberalismo The agrarian issue and public health: remarks on a critique of neo-liberalism 1 " A única finalidade da ciência está em aliviar a canseira da existência humana ". Bertolt Brecht Contrário à indiferença dos cientistas face à ex-ploração do homem pelo homem, fascinados pelo amor ao saber pelo saber, o...