Microblog streams often contain a considerable amount of information about local, regional, national, and global events. Most existing microblog search capabilities are focused on recent happenings and do not provide the ability to search and explore past events. This paper proposes the problem of structured retrieval of historical event information over microblog archives. Rather than retrievi...

garshasp has peregrinated an agelong path from avesta epoch to the time of preparation of old historical context and iran’s national epic. garshasp, who is the unique hero of iran’s old mythology, that his brave acts, such as killing the dragon and ogre lobbing are important parts of the heroic themes included in the avesta, through the advent of pahlavi literary context because of reasons such...

MIS researchers have developed a number of models for studying the software utilization choices of end users. In this paper, we focus on one of these, the Task-Technology fit model. We explore the addition of various personal characteristic constructs, especially Computer Self-Efficacy and Experience.

the alsace-lorraine region in france has been at the center of many fateful events, such as two world wars, due to its distinct geographical placement between two important european countries – that is, france and germany. the identity of the alsace-lorraine population has had many links with germany because of geographical, linguistic and historical features that the two share. moreover, throu...

Event data are one of the most widely used indicators in quantitative international relations research. To date, most of the models using event data have constructed numerical indicators based on the characteristics of the events measured in isolation and then aggregated. An alternative approach is to use quantitative pattern recognition techniques to compare an existing sequence of behaviors t...

This article examines historical transformations of Japanese collective memory of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by utilizing a theoretical framework that combines a model of reiterated problem solving and a theory of cultural trauma. I illustrate how the event of the nuclear fallout in March 1954 allowed actors to consolidate previously fragmented commemorative practices into a master frame t...

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