Indian Ocean literature has captured the porousness and fluidity that configure space through narrations in which history memory, both individual collective, blend to voice uninhabited silence forged by unsettled colonialism. M.G. Vassanji’s The Book of Secrets (1994) Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By Sea (2001) are perspicuous exponents undertows lurk behind troubled existence uprooted individuals for wh...

This article investigates the contexts, or "listening niches", in which people hear popular music. The study spanned a century of popular music, divided into 10 decades, with participants born between 1940 and 1999. It asks about whether they know and like the music in each decade, and their emotional reactions. It also asks whether the music is associated with personal memories and, if so, wit...

We attack the task of predicting which news-stories are more appealing to a given audience by comparing ‘most popular stories’, gathered from various online news outlets, over a period of seven months, with stories that did not become popular despite appearing on the same page at the same time. We cast this as a learning-to-rank task, and train two different learning algorithms to reproduce the...

[Context and motivation] User stories are an increasingly popular textual notation to capture requirements in agile software development. [Question/Problem] To date there is no scientific evidence on the effectiveness of user stories. The goal of this paper is to explore how practicioners perceive this artifact in the context of requirements engineering. [Principal ideas/results] We explore per...

This research aimed at exploring English teachers’ experience of virtual class in the time COVID-19 lockdown period Bhojpur, Nepal. Using narrative inquiry as methodological lens, I collected four secondary level language stories during first phase. In-depth interview was conducted to enable participants reveal their individual experiences teaching. The fi ndings revealed negative such technology...

BACKGROUND TO THE DEBATE In December 2004 three news stories in the popular press suggested that the side effects of single-dose nevirapine, which has been proven to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, had been covered up. Many HIV experts believed that the stories were unwarranted and that they would undermine use of the drug, leading to a rise in neonatal HIV infection. The controver...