A commercial medium often assumed to exist solely for a juvenile and "lowbrow" audience, comic books have been largely ignored by academic scholarship. There are some exceptions within the fields of American studies-for instance, the work of Thomas Inge-popular culture studies, where writers gather in a Comic Arts subdivision of the Popular Culture Association, and cultural studies, with work b...

• Evidence of effectiveness: This intervention has been evaluated in six well-conducted randomized controlled trials, and found to produce a sizable increase in the quit rate: 13.9% of women assigned to the intervention quit smoking in the last 4-5 months of their pregnancy, compared with 8.3% of the women assigned to the control group. In almost all cases, these effects were statistically-sign...

Literate executables redefine the relationship between compiled binaries and source code to be that of chicken egg, so it's easy derive either from other. This episode Drill Bits provides a general-purpose literacy tool showcases advantages by retrofitting it onto everyone's favorite command-line utility.

OBJECTIVE This study explores violence against women in a low-income setting in relation to residency and literacy. SETTING The study was conducted within the Butajira Rural Health Programme (a Health and Demographic Surveillance Site), which includes rural and semi-urban settings in south-central Ethiopia. DESIGN This is a community-based cross-sectional study and is part of the WHO Women'...

It is suggested that a LTEX document could be used as the Literate Programming source of an OpenMath content dictionary. Several approaches to literate programming are reviewed and a possible implementation is sketched.

Abstract This article describes a seventeenth-century English woman writer’s interests in medical care and the reasons that led her to publish texts on this topic. Hannah Woolley offered guidance wide variety of topics domestic sphere, including recipes for health beauty. Here we investigate principles governed preparation these recipes, Woolley’s intentions writing topic, way which academic me...

At OM2013, the author suggested and sketched a system that would use LTEX documents as Literate Programming sources for content dictionaries. This paper reports on the progress that has since been made with this system. One important milestone that has been reached is that valid .ocd files with CDDefinitions, FMPs, CMPs, and Examples are being generated.