The semi-formal analysis of Russian folk tales carried out by Vladimir Propp has often been used as theoretical background for the automated generation of stories. Its rigour and its exhaustive description of the constituent elements of Russian folk tales, and the enumeration of the patterns they follow, have acted as inspiration for several story generation systems, both sequential and interac...

The presented work examines the thanatological motifs in of German writer E.M. Remarque. influence historical events is assumed not only on plot and ideological levels novel, but also figurative. hypothesis about tendency Remarque to widespread use images traditionally associated with death put forward proved. aim prove author's special understanding theme its realization novel by "Life loan or...

objective: the aim of this study was to compare the clinical temperaments and characters of iranian patients with major depressive disorder (mdd) with healthy controls method: the study participants included 47 outpatients with major depressive disorder (mdd) and 120 normal controls with no psychiatric disorders. sampling method was convenience. the mdd patients were diagnosed as mdd by a psych...

objective: the aim was to determine how personality of major depressive disorder (mdd) patients is different from that of bipolar ii disorder (biid) patients. methods: in this cross-sectional study, two groups of patients with mdd (47 patients) and biid (45 patients) between 18 and 55 years old were included and compared. the research instrument that subjects answered to was temperament and cha...

Clustering is an important data exploration task. A prominent clustering algorithm is agglomerative hierarchical clustering. Roughly, in each iteration, it merges the closest pair of clusters. It was rst proposed way back in 1951, and since then there have been numerous mod-iications. Some of its good features are: a natural, simple, and non-parametric grouping of similar objects which is capab...

As the second-generation protagonist of Wuthering Heights, Little Linton’s appearance rekindled conspiracy and love between two families. Under guidance his father, Heathcliff, he was forced to marry Cathy eventually died tragically in Heights. Looking at whole classic, Linton played a crucial role development plot. By using relevant theories including “Gothic” character characteristics, repeat...

factorial and split-plot designs are two statistical procedures used to conduct agricultural field experiments. both designs are used frequently to quantify the main and interaction effects of two or more factors. however, split-plot design is recommended for specific situations depending on major and minor goals of the study, characteristics of the factors, and precision of statistical testing...

Zipf's law on word frequency and Heaps' law on the growth of distinct words are observed in Indo-European language family, but it does not hold for languages like Chinese, Japanese and Korean. These languages consist of characters, and are of very limited dictionary sizes. Extensive experiments show that: (i) The character frequency distribution follows a power law with exponent close to one, a...