It is a known that all societies have had relationship with dance throughout history. In Turkish society, the origin of dates back to Shamans, independent gender. Ottoman era, non-religious dancers were called çengi, köçek, tavşan/tavşanoğlanı, kasebâz, curcunabâz, cin askeri, beççegân, çeganebâz and çârpârezen. Among these nomenclatures, most common literary terms çengi (dancer/musician) köçek...

This article examines the coverage of defamation disputes and lawsuits in Holmes tabloid late 1920s. In 1928, famous poet Xu Zhimo took to court for alleging that his wife, Lu Xiaoman, was having an affair. The strategically used trial validate market newsworthy events. I argue publicity surrounding lawsuit embedded multifaceted meanings into a legal discourse both facilitated knowledge circula...

English talk shows have attracted a large group of audience with their humorous and relaxing features these programmes are not only entertaining but also information-oriented, so the smooth progression host-guest interaction is very important for producers, interactants, audience. However, fact that show interactants do always construct turns collaborative efforts presence dispreferred response...

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In this study the effect of the Edmodo social learning environment on mobile assisted language learning (MALL) was examined by seeking the opinions of students. Using a quantitative experimental approach, this study was conducted by conducting a questionnaire before and after using the social learning network Edmodo. Students attended lessons with their mobile devices. The course materials were...

We describe a crowd-sourcing based solution for handling large quantities of data that are created by e.g., emerging digital imaging and sensing devices, including next generation lab-on-a-chip platforms. We show that in cases where the diagnosis is a binary decision (e.g., positive vs. negative, or infected vs. uninfected), it is possible to make accurate diagnosis by crowd-sourcing the raw da...

Adult learning theory suggests that meaningful engagement impacts learning. To evaluate the impact of resident-led interactive conferences on satisfaction, engagement and knowledge acquisition. A prospective study at a paediatric academic institution compared educational conferences in two formats. Control conferences were PowerPoint(®) lectures and intervention conferences included multimedia,...

In this paper we describe our efforts to increase the entertainment value of the stories generated by our story generation system, the Virtual Storyteller, at the levels of plot creation, discourse generation and spoken language presentation. We also discuss the construction of a story database that will enable our system to learn from previous stories and user feedback, to create better and mo...