Book review:
 Jordan, Julia. Late Modernism and the Avant-Garde British Novel: Oblique Strategies. Oxford UP, 2020. 256 pages. ISBN 9780198857280. Hb. $80.00.

Under this somewhat ambiguous title appears an excellent presentation of the reception given by European scientists to the Experiments and Observations published at Plattsburg in 1833. The accord given the work offers a striking example, indeed, a rare one, of how meritorious work can compensate for lack of renown on the part of the author. For though notice had been taken of some of Beaumont's...

Under this somewhat ambiguous title appears an excellent presentation of the reception given by European scientists to the Experiments and Observations published at Plattsburg in 1833. The accord given the work offers a striking example, indeed, a rare one, of how meritorious work can compensate for lack of renown on the part of the author. For though notice had been taken of some of Beaumont's...

The false-fame effect is the phenomenon that familiar names are falsely judged famous more often than unfamiliar names. M.R. Banaji and A.G. Greenwald (1995) demonstrated a gender bias in the false-fame effect: In line with existing gender stereotypes, the false-fame effect was larger for male than for female names. A more general explanation for gender biasing in fame judgments is based on cog...

In this paper, we study news group modeling and forecasting methods using quantitative data generated by our largescale natural language processing (NLP) text analysis system. A news group is a set of news entities, like top U.S. cities, governors, senators, golfers, or movie actors. Our fame distribution analysis of news groups shows that lognormal and power-law distributions generally could d...

This article presents the development of an adaptive multimodal Digital Talking Book player using FAME. FAME is a conceptual framework for the development of adaptive multimodal applications. FAME's adaptation is based on context changes. The context is defined by three entities: User, Platform and Environment. The adaptation can impact multimodal operations, as well as interaction and presenta...

Certain strains of Staphylococcus aureus produce an enzyme capable of inactivating the bactericidal fatty acids produced in staphylococcal abscesses by esterification to various alcohols. The enzyme, called FAME (fatty acid modifying enzyme), has a pH optimum between 5.5 and 6.0 and a temperature optimum of about 40 degrees C. Enzyme activity is not affected by edetic acid or by the presence or...