the present study depicts the analysis of quality of content of six bestselling novels from 1999- 2010. in this study, it has been tried to answer the questions how the power of women is shown (representation) by their female authors and also in these novels what kind of relations between a woman and family is clarified and how their experiences in the family are illustrated. the conceptual fra...

BACKGROUND Subjects with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are overdistractible by stimuli out of the intended focus of attention. This control deficit could be due to primarily reduced attentional capacities or, e. g., to overshooting orienting to unexpected events. Here, we aimed at identifying disease-related abnormalities of novelty processing and, therefore, studied event-rel...

The given article deals with a quantitative analysis of English compounds in six novels of the first half of the twentieth century. The objective of the article is twofold: a) we are intended to reveal the most frequent structural patterns of the English compounds statistically; b) it is necessary to determine and measure the cohesion for the English compounds. The material of the research is r...

Better representations of plot structure could greatly improve computational methods for summarizing and generating stories. Current representations lack abstraction, focusing too closely on events. We present a kernel for comparing novelistic plots at a higher level, in terms of the cast of characters they depict and the social relationships between them. Our kernel compares the characters of ...

Daphne Du Maurier’s international bestseller, Rebecca, has always puzzled readers, reviewers, and critics alike. Often hard put to define why the novel them in its thrall what genre or category it can be said fall under, they resort explanations which are both numerically impressive strikingly contradictory. To underline exceptional singularity of such a work, unique literary historical status ...

Ordered lists of objects are widely used as representational forms. Such ordered objects include Web search results or bestseller lists. In spite of their importance, methods of processing orders have received little attention. However, research concerning orders has recently become common; in particular, researchers have developed various methods for the task of Object Ranking to acquire funct...