week about AI, or any other topic, requires more than searching for individual terms. Since it is time-consuming to find and post interesting stories manually, we have designed and written an AI program called NewsFinder1 that automatically collects English-language news stories from the web, categorizes them with trained models, filters out uninteresting and unrelated stories based on a set of...

as bothepic and history express some stories of the past, their existing similaritiesand dissimilarities and their relation have attracted the attention of scholars.these two kinds of stories have been so similar that previous experts could notdistinguish the historical events from epics. in shāhnāme, as an excellent samplewhich iranians consider as their pre-islamic history until the last qaja...

Although in some sense narrative approaches in practical theology have been developed only recently, one could claim that there is a long and intrinsic history of their relationship. Religious practices that form the core material for theological reflection in practical theology are often directly related to narratives. In one way or another human stories are connected with stories of and about...

The new social media sites — blogs, wikis, Flickr and Digg, among others — underscore the transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are actively creating, evaluating and distributing information. Digg is a social news aggregator which allows users to submit links to, vote on and discuss news stories. Each day Digg selects a handful of stories to feature on its front pag...

We have developed an approach to identification and tracking of currently unfolding news stories extracted from the news articles published on the Web. Our approach employs a set of agents to retrieve those articles from the Web that might refer to some developing news story. The set of agents is inspired by social insects, in particular by a bee colony. Bees identify popular terms, referred to...

In most cases, structural engineers assume a concrete floor to be a rigid diaphragm. Although this simplification is in most cases acceptable, it should be noted that such an assumption may be distrusted due to certain problems. Concrete structures with staggered shear walls are among those whose analysis should be conducted with special concern for the behavior of their floor diaphragms. Howev...