This essay considers some problems in philosophical approaches to poetry. Philosophers’ accounts of what poetry is are often ill informed. They tend to select, as essential, features that can also characterize prose works: conspicuous metaphoricity, imagination, fictionality, and so on. This essay considers instead a humbler term: verse. It argues that the constraints on language implied by com...

WASP is a forward reasoning rule-based system that takes as input data a set of words and a set of verse patterns and returns a set of verses. Using a generate and test method, guided by a set of construction heuristics obtained from formal literature on Spanish poetry, the system can operate in two modes: either generating an unrestricted set of verses, or generating a poem according to one of...

Both parents and peers have been validated by previous research as being important contributors to the development of religious faith. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the contributions of the transmission (e.g., parent church attendance) and transactional (e.g., discussions about faith) models of socialization, as well as explore the possibility that a third model, the transformation...

First off, bottoms up to you for seeking out strategies to keep your drinking in check! To maintain your safety (and the safety of others), and to make sure you?re not ?that guy? or ?that gal? at a soirée with all your closest friends (you know, the one stuck in the bathroom sick all night), it?s helpful to know strategies for limiting or pacing your drinking. Depending on the type of social si...

Text similarity measures have been widely studied and used in machine learning and information retrieval for many years. However, few applications of text similarity have dealt with multi-lingual translations of a specific document. Additionally, the growing number of texts with more translations being generated increases the challenge of distinguishing or identifying the similarity and differe...

Introduction At higher static field strengths of 7T and above specific absorption rate (SAR) and acoustic sound pressure level (SPL) pose limitations on the pulse sequence design. To overcome SAR limitations, the VERSE principle can be used [1]. Here, the envelope of existing rf pulses are modified together with the shape of the slice-selection gradient to selectively reduce high B1 amplitudes ...

This paper presents a pilot study in the "epidemiological" program for cultural research put forward by Dan Sperber. Theory is offered to argue that verse form is so disabling that its worldwide distribution must be explained by functions other than the broad communicative, or ideological, power traditionally attributed to it. The theoretical case is confirmed by numerical data showing that in ...

The Variable-Rate Selective Excitation (VERSE) technique is shown to improve image quality by reducing fast spin echo spacing and improving slice profile. An algorithm was developed to use VERSE waveform reshaping to minimize echo spacing given specific prescription parameters and system constraints and was implemented for an SSFSE sequence to create shorter RF pulses with higher time•bandwidth...

Vietnamese American author Thanhha Lai captures the experience and emotions of immersion in another language culture her three books, Inside Out & Back Again (2011), Listen, Slowly (2015), Butterfly Yellow (2019). [...]someone had captured agony learning when living a new country. Through first-person poems, she describes puzzling parts language, challenges making friends with people who look a...