Background Go on, admit it. However much you may dismiss soap operas, at some point in your life you’ve been fascinated by them. Maybe as a teenager coming home early from school, as a medical student taking a break from exams, or as a young parent at home with the children, you too have been drawn into the world of ‘The Street’ or ‘The Square’ – or even ‘The Police Station’. You too have been ...

In this paper, we introduce an NLG application for the automatic creation of ready-to-publish texts from big data. The resulting fully automatic generated news stories have a high resemblance to the style in which the human writer would draw up such a story. Topics include soccer games, stock exchange market reports, and weather forecasts. Each generated text is unique. Readyto-publish stories ...

Lesbian mothers share mainstream existence with other mothers by virtue of their motherhood, but remain marginalised by their non-heterosexual identity. This paper will draw on the qualitative findings of a recent Australian study that examined the experiences of lesbian mothers. Using a story-sharing method, data were collected using three methods; a demographic data sheet, in-depth semi-struc...

This report presents the study on the performance and related propagation aspects of the DRM system in Simulcast configuration developed after an extensive measurement campaign in the coverage area of an experimental network installed in México City (México). The study analyzes the quality of analogue and digital services based on a set of static and mobile measurements done during the year 200...

Methods We identified 72 girls diagnosed with central precocious puberty, and they were treated with GnRH analogue (GnRHa) to suppress pubertal progression from 1 January 2011 to 31 January 2012. GnRH stimulation tests were done before and 4 weeks after the third dose of the GnRH analogue. Information on clinical manifestations and laboratory data were obtained by reviewing medical records. All...

In this survey we explain the main ingredients and results of the analogue of Fontaine-Theory in equal positive characteristic which was recently developed by Genestier-Lafforgue and the author. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 11S20, (11G09, 14L05)

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The study of narrative frequently draws on structuralist ideas that story structures are formulaic and comparable from culture to culture. There is a theory that these basic narrative structures are recognisable across cultures and similarly across generations. It should follow, therefore, that while children in the 21 Century classroom need knowledge and understanding of the classic examples o...

In this paper we sketch a multi-step scenario of a teacher and her classroom, who uses a few computer-based learning tools and their attached teaching analytics views. The tools that are described are extensions of the toolset of the authors (ComIn-M and SMALA) and others; the scenarios should thus serve as user-story in the design of future analytical softwares that support the teacher’s manag...