With this study, we advance the understanding about the processes through which stories are retold. A collection of story retellings can be considered as a network of stories, in which links between stories represent pre-textual (or ancestral) relationships. This study provides a mechanistic understanding of the structure and evolution of such story networks: we construct a story network for a ...

Determining effective factors to evaluate the emergence rate of Quranic human values in housing architecture based on experts opinion (Case study: A comparative study apartment Tehran with at end traditional era Tehran)

In agile methods, the requirements are represented by user stories. However, this model does not allow a good visualization of context in which a story is inserted, reducing the understanding of the system as a whole. On the other hand, the i* model presents dependencies among organizational actors, and the understanding of the context in which a requirement is inserted. This paper presents an ...

BACKGROUND Video games provide extensive player involvement for large numbers of children and adults, and thereby provide a channel for delivering health behavior change experiences and messages in an engaging and entertaining format. METHOD Twenty-seven articles were identified on 25 video games that promoted health-related behavior change through December 2006. RESULTS Most of the article...

OBJECTIVE The present study examined mentalizing capacities as well as the relative implication of mentalizing in the comprehension of ironic and sincere assertions among 30 older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and 30 healthy control (HC) subjects. METHOD Subjects were administered a task evaluating mentalizing by means of short stories. A verbal irony comprehension task, in whic...

In this study, storytelling was surveyed with regard to the impact that it might haveon student-teacher interactional patterns. For this aim, the researchers utilized anintact class with ten young students in a language institute in a north eastern part ofthe country. Four sessions of the class were transcribed after a full observationalprotocol. Two groups of Interactional patterns on student-...

The role of algorithms in the detection, curation and broadcast of news is becoming increasingly prevalent. To better understand this role we developed CityBeat, a system that implements what we call “editorial algorithms” to find possible news events. This fully functional system collects real time geo-tagged information from social media, finds key stories, makes an editorial decision whether...

We describe the participation of the University of Amsterdam’s ILPS group in the blog track at TREC 2009. We focus on the top stories identification task, and take an approach that does not require the headlines of top stories to be known beforehand. We explore the feasibility of a so-called blogs to news approach: given a date and a set of blog posts, identify the main topics for that date. Th...