BACKGROUND Compelling success stories, rich with details about real-life events and people, are a tool that health agencies can use to convey how their health promotion programs work, why they are successful, what lessons they have learned, and how others can launch similar programs. Success stories describe project accomplishments that are not easily captured by quantitative evaluation methods...

In a marked departure from traditional offline media, where all subscribers of a particular news media source (e.g., New York Times) used to get the same news stories through printed newspapers, online news media presents multiple options for the readers to consume news. For example, the subscribers of a media source can get news directly from the news website, or from what their peers share ov...

Stories are really an interesting one to read, especially kids love to listen to stories. It grabs the reader’s attention and gives them great pleasure or excitement or thrill or suspense while reading it. Readers go along with stories and may have the expectation and predict the flow of story based on the previous situations narrated by the authors. Predicting the flow of story requires reason...

The Family Stories Workshop (FSW) is a process through which family members and friends of persons with dementing disorders living in nursing homes develop stories of these residents' lives. The stories are meant to help staff members to develop a better, more deeply felt understanding of the lives of the residents, persons who can no longer tell their own stories. The workshop is product-orien...

Recent experiments have shown that people iconically modulate their prosody corresponding with the meaning of their utterance (e.g., Shintel et al., 2006). This article reports findings from a story reading task that expands the investigation of iconic prosody to abstract meanings in addition to concrete ones. Participants read stories that contrasted along concrete and abstract semantic dimens...

1. ABSTRACT We developed an approach to convert“adult stories” to“children stories.” Specifically, we obtained 30 stories, 15 of which were of each story type. Our Lexical Analyzer (LA) made use of OpenNLP’s part-of-speech tagging utility. With this, we developed a means to do clausal separation, allowing our story to be more direct and explicit by generating more simple sentences. We looked at...

In this paper, we introduce the concept of Visual Storytelling Warehouse, an interactive XML-based automatic cartoonstyle visual storytelling system to generate new stories based on written story structures and user’s requirements. The Warehouse will consist of the visual and no-visual elements including characters, events, background images, and story plots. Each of these elements will be asso...

Stories are really an interesting one to read, especially kids love to listen to stories. It grabs the reader‘s attention and gives them great pleasure or excitement or thrill or suspense while reading it. Readers go along with stories and may have the expectation and predict the flow of story based on the previous situations narrated by the authors. Predicting the flow of story requires reason...

CONTEXT In August 1998, the US Food and Drug Administration licensed the first vaccine against rotavirus, the most important cause of severe childhood diarrhea. Fourteen months later, amid intense media activity, the vaccine was withdrawn after an association was found with intussusception. OBJECTIVES To examine the character of news media stories about rotavirus vaccine before and after intu...