This paper argues that Ron Rash’s 2020 return to his 2009 bestseller, Serena, and its eponymous character’s destructive frenzy operates as a pretext for him deal, in own poetic way, with the devastating consequences of such ruthless exploitative behaviors their lethal contribution sixth extinction. shows “In Valley” partakes genre poetry Focusing on diverse ways which valley’s inexorable emptyi...

Cocker’s Arithmetick was the most popular English-language arithmetic textbook from late seventeenth to mid-eighteenth century. Though well known historians of mathematics, reasons for its remarkable success remain largely unexplored. To explain why Cocker became a bestseller, this article identifies economic, sociocultural, and intellectual conditions which spurred demand arithmetical books, b...

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, crime fiction is a topranking literary genre, and has become part of mainstream culture. The crime novel’s position of pre-eminence derives from its broad fan base and its readership, with publishing houses devoting whole series and large print runs to the genre. Evidence of the prevalence of a popular obsession with crime stories is also to be foun...

We previously reported a novelty P3 reduction in depressed patients compared to healthy controls (n=20 per group) in a novelty oddball task using a 31-channel montage. In an independent replication and extension using a 67-channel montage (n=49 per group), reference-free current source density (CSD) waveforms were simplified and quantified by a temporal, covariance-based principal components an...

Cassie Wagner is Web Development Librarian in the Morris Library at Southern Illinois University Carbondale; e-mail: [email protected]. ©Cassie Wagner This study examines the extent to which ARL academic libraries collect graphic novels. Using a core list of 176 titles developed from winners of major comics industry awards and a library-focused “best of” list, the holdings of 111 ARL academic...

This paper presents an analysis of different types of pragmatic failure in the interactional behaviour of the ‘autistic’ protagonists of three recent novels. Three main types of pragmatic failure occur across all three novels: problems with informativeness and relevance in conversational contributions; problems with face management resulting in unintentional impolite behaviours; and problems wi...

We present a method for extracting social networks from literature, namely, nineteenth-century British novels and serials. We derive the networks from dialogue interactions, and thus our method depends on the ability to determine when two characters are in conversation. Our approach involves character name chunking, quoted speech attribution and conversation detection given the set of quotes. W...

Automatically understanding the plot of novels is important both for informing literary scholarship and applications such as summarization or recommendation. Various models have addressed this task, but their evaluation has remained largely intrinsic and qualitative. Here, we propose a principled and scalable framework leveraging expert-provided semantic tags (e.g., mystery, pirates) to evaluat...

Can supraspinal/central fatigue explain the lesser muscle endurance of men compared with women? Several studies have shown that women can present with greater muscle endurance (less fatigability) compared with men (3, 5, 10, 12), although this is not always the case (4, 8). Most of these studies have focused on peripheral physiological mechanisms, mostly those within the muscle, to explain this...