This article challenges the dominant Christian-centered approach to Black religious life by exploring contemporary Womanist Buddhist and practice, writing, thought alongside writings of early East Asian nuns, noting similarities, differences, intersections among between these written accounts. “Reading Between Times” signals ongoing nature this project, particular paper draws heavily upon Kathr...

Objectives: The present study aimed to determine the voice outcomes before and after the administration of voice therapy in patients who suffered an injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve after undergoing thyroidectomy. Methods: The sample consisted of 26 patients (2 males and 24 females) aged between 18 and 80 years (m=55±12) who experienced injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve fol...

A drama manager (DM) monitors an interactive experience, such as a computer game, and intervenes to shape the global experience so that it satisfies the author's expressive goals without decreasing a player's interactive agency. Most research work on drama management has proposed AI architectures and provided abstract evaluations of their effectiveness. A smaller body of work has evaluated the ...

This paper describes an approach for the elicitation and application of authorial goals for interactive narrative. A framework is presented for using author input to elaborate descriptions of planning problems and domains. The authors describe a mixed-initiative graphical user interface that exploits this framework to allow authors to express narrative goals and understand how these goals affec...

This article underlines the importance of approaching written sources for what they are: authorial constructs. is true also depictions mobility and migration. Byzantine authors instrumentalized these their own purposes beyond event at hand. Authorial focus, along with requirements chosen literary genre, reason different scales actors that appear in texts, whether large blurry masses nameless pe...

My research provides an interface for non-technical authors to collaborate with a planning system to create interactive narrative. I describe a domain metatheory to allow for qualitative elaborations of narrative domains. A graphical user interface that exploits this metatheory is used to specify authorial preferences. These preferences are employed to enhance the qualitative reasoning of the p...

My dissertation examines the concept of vernacular translation in the Middle Ages, particularly examining French and Middle English texts. It focuses on a specific genre of literature popular in the Middle Ages but relatively ignored in contemporary literary scholarship: the beast fable. My argument is that some of the principal writers of vernacular fables from the twelfth through the fifteent...