popular culture of the 1990s came, of course, from television: Jerry Seinfeld’s apartment door bursting open, with Kramer grasping the doorknob and sliding into the room as if the door were dragging him by its own sheer will. A manic force was thrust, as if from some other cosmic sphere, into the relatively calm, if absurd, world of Jerry Seinfeld. This is a comic rhythm we know well from more ...

Web 2.0 technologies and innovation of social and interactive authoring tools have garnered rapid transformation towards the practice of blended-learning approach. With learner-generated content projects, broad set of knowledge, media literacies, and soft skills are cultivated when learners actively produce their own educational materials; moving beyond traditional content consumers. Although t...

How do people learn intuitive models of the world from experience? We describe a simulation that uses analogical generalization to learn naïve models of pushing and blocking from experience. Experiences are represented by a type of comic strip, consisting of sequences of sketches and simplified English that are automatically encoded by the simulation. We show that the models it learns are compa...

The subject of the analysis in this article is play “The Lark” by French playwright Jean Anouilh. This one most striking attempts writer to draw ideal a person. object study originality presentation image Joan Arc. Techniques and ways creating positive character dramatic work are being clarified. author shows transformation main world literature. analyzes artistic solutions role tradition struc...

Recently, comic is read not only through paper media, but also digital devices i.e. personal computer, cell phone, epaper reader and etc. Thus, the display environment is quite different at each device. Comic consists of many frames that have text, character and illustrations. Moreover, the reading order of comic is defined by frames. Therefore, in order to provide user centric presentation fun...

Allergy is one of the oldest maladies of mankind. Allergy which manifested itself in the form of asthma was known in ancient times. For a long time allergy could not be differentiated from other ailments with which it resembled in many respects. In this paper we study of allergenic significance of certain air borne fungi of the Lucknow atmosphere. Keyword: Allergenic significance, fungal spores...