BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Local television news commonly reports on health. This study aimed to characterize local TV news stroke reporting in America. METHODS Content analysis of stroke stories reported on 122 US local television stations. All stroke stories were coded for main focus and discussion of risk factors, stroke signs and symptoms, recombinant tissue plasminogen activator, treatment w...

abd al - salam al-’ujayli is a syrian physician, literary man and novelist. by his specific style and personal method in expression and description, al-’ujayli is a link between leading authors of thirty and forty decades of twenty century on one hand, and innovators of fifty and sixty decades on the other hand. his literary works are a combination of abilities of these two generations. his sty...

case reports are considered as the lowest level of evidence while at the same time they are frontiers of evidence collection. case reports are professional stories about novel medical events and will worth publication only if they possess complexity, proper data collection, justified diagnosis, and legitimate intervention as well as appropriate language, punctuation, and syntax. a case report m...

compared to other persian didactic literary works like the works of sanaei and attar, stories in the mathnavi have a unique position. a great number of the stories of the mathnavi were not created by mo'lavi himself; they have been presented in previous sources, including attar's manteggotteyr (conference of birds). relation between the manteghotteyr and the stories of mathnavi is over-textual,...

In sports, there seems to be an eternal interest in discovering young talents and refining them into elite adult athletes. The dilemma of selecting talent, while at the same time ensuring every child ́s right to participate, needs to be addressed and have consequences in social practice. This dissertation elucidates the discourse of selection and the process of selecting young sporting talents d...

Because many world folk stories describe wife abuse with remarkable insight, these stories are useful in addressing the sensitive issues that arise when counseling battered women. Following the views of Milton Erickson and Joan Laird about the importance of stories as a therapeutic tool, techniques were developed in a regional Coalition for Battered Women in North Carolina to use folk stories a...

Case-based teaching systems, like good human teachers, tell stories in order to help students learn. A case-based teaching system engages a student in a challenging task and monitors his actions looking for opportunities to tell stories that will assist the learning process. In order to produce stories at the appropriate moment, a casebased teaching system must have a library of stories that ar...

People s knowledge about the world comes from many sources, including fictional ones such as movies and novels. In three experiments, we investigated how people learn and integrate information from fictional sources with their general world knowledge. Subjects read a series of short stories that contained information about the real world. After a short delay, all participants took a general kno...

Current building codes lack explicit recommendations on how to simulate the seismic performance of high-rise buildings with multiple underground stories. Designers are typically basing their analyses on subjective engineering judgment and experience. Recent researches shows that seismic response of buildings with basement walls is a complicated phenomenon. This paper studies the seismic behavio...

In this paper, we describe our findings from research designed to explore the effect of virtual human counselors' self-disclosure using intimate human back stories on real human clients' social responses in psychological counseling sessions. To investigate this subject, we designed an experiment involving two conditions of the counselors' self-disclosure: human back stories and computer back st...