In nineteen years, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) begins its third century—that means that the master’s of library and information science (MLIS) graduate student who will be entering study in 2036 is three years old about now. What opportunities await our emerging librarian? What is the foundation of the NLM of 2036 that will ensure that it continues to serve medicine, health care, dis...

We define a model of discourse coherence based on Barzilay and Lapata’s entity grids as a stylometric feature for authorship attribution. Unlike standard lexical and character-level features, it operates at a discourse (cross-sentence) level. We test it against and in combination with standard features on nineteen booklength texts by nine nineteenth-century authors. We find that coherence alone...

Since the patristic period, the birkat haminim has attracted Christian attention. This twelfth benediction of the central, thrice-daily Jewish weekday prayer of eighteen benedictions (actually, for most of its history, nineteen), calls for the downfall of various categories of humans who harm the Jewish community. Instituted at Yavneh in the late first century according to talmudic tradition, i...

this study aimed to assess the quality of persian translation of orwell's (1949) nineteen eighty-four by balooch (2004) based on house's (1997) model of translation quality assessment. to do so, 23 pages (about 10 percent) of the source text were randomly selected. the profile of the source text register was produced and the genre was realized. the source text profile was compared to the transl...