Suggested by Our Readers

Suggested by Our Readers

Identifying and Ranking the Important Textual and Paratextual Elements in Fiction Retrieval

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify the textual and paratextual elements in retrieving fiction from the readers’ perspective in order to provide the most appropriate access points for the readers and to improve access to fictions based on the readers’ needs. Method: The current research is an applied study in terms of purpose, applying a mixed method that was conducted using the ...

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Evidence of a Lunisolar Influence on Decadal and Bidecadal Oscillations in Globally Averaged Temperature Trends

Many WUWT readers will remember that last year we presented evidence of what we thought was a "solar imprint" in globally averaged temperature trends. Not surprisingly, given the strong interest and passion in the subject of climate change and global warming, our results were greeting with both praise and scorn. Some problems were pointed out in our original assessment, and other possible inter...

What Characters Know: Projected Knowledge and Projected Co-Presence

What inferences do readers make about “who knows what” in narrative worlds? We introduce the concepts of projected knowledge and projected co-presence to describe circumstances in which readers infer that characters possess information presented, for example, only in narration. Our experiments examine one type of evidence readers use to project knowledge. In Experiment 1, readers used character...