O N October 11, 1784 Smith, Moore & Co., "a store mixt, various , universal," advertised for sale, in the New York Packet, a general collection of materia medica and related items. The advertisement was separately issued as a broadside, reproduced here, and the Rutgers University Library has recently acquired the only known copy of it. The broadside has certain distinctive features. Although th...

Eighty-five young adults exposed to a cluster of peer suicides as adolescents completed measures of attitudes toward suicide, grief, and social support. Closeness to the peers lost to suicide was positively correlated with grief and the belief that suicide is not preventable, with grief further elevated in close individuals with high social support from friends. Overall, social support was rela...

This research addresses the role of the lyrics in the context of music emotion variation detection. To accomplish this task we create a system to detect the predominant emotion expressed by each sentence (verse) of the lyrics. The system employs Russell’s emotion model and contains 4 sets of emotions associated to each quadrant. To detect the predominant emotion in each verse, we propose a nove...

We present a finite state technology based system capable of performing metrical scansion of verse written in English. Scansion is the traditional task of analyzing the lines of a poem, marking the stressed and non-stressed elements, and dividing the line into metrical feet. The system’s workflow is composed of several subtasks designed around finite state machines that analyze verse by perform...

The key feature of online social networks is the ability of users to become active, make friends and interact with those around them. Such interaction is typically perceived as critical to these platforms; therefore, a significant share of research has investigated the characteristics of social links, friendship relations, community structure, searching for the role and importance of individual...

OBJECTIVES Despite increases in social support following widowhood, loneliness is among the most frequently reported challenges of bereavement. This analysis explores the dynamic relationship between social support and loneliness among recently bereaved older adults. METHODS Using longitudinal data from "Living After Loss" (n = 328), latent growth curve modeling was used to estimate changes i...

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...

This study mainly addresses two questions: (i) what is the verse grammar that governs the modern speaker’s scansion of classical Chinese verse lines? (ii) how can his apparently intuitive judgment of metrical harmony of verse lines be accounted for in a principled way? For the first question, we have argued that the modern verse grammar represents the coexistence of five minimally different sub...