In the book The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations [4] Polti explores the assertion made by Gozzi (author of Turandot) saying that there can only be thirty-six tragic situations. At the end of the book, he begins his conclusions by saying that, to obtain the nuances of the situations, the first thing he did was to “enumerate the ties of friendship or kinship between the characters”. A century befor...

It remains controversial and hotly debated whether foveal information is double-projected to both hemispheres or split at the midline between the two hemispheres. We investigated this issue in a unique patient with lesions in the splenium of the corpus callosum and the left medial occipitotemporal region, through a series of neuropsychological tests and multimodal MRI scans. Behavioral experime...

Deliberate differences in how authors represent characters has been a core area of literary investigation since the dawn of literary theory. Here, we focus on epistolary literature, where authors consciously attempt to create different character styles through series of documents like letters. Previous studies suggest that the linguistic gestalt of an author’s style – the author’s writeprint – ...

Chinese characters developed for the writing of and have adapted a number Asian languages. Basically, simplified forms are used in mainland China, Singapore, Malaysia. The corresponding traditional Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau. They also remain key component Japanese known as kanji. In this study, we arrange information about development evolution typical typefaces Japanese. To explore relationship...

Sam Shepard is one of the foremost living American Playwrights. He has always been concerned with the problem of identity, specifically the fragmented identity of man living in the postmodern era. Such characterization is evident in his plays: True West, Fool for Love, and A Lie of the Mind. Thus, the present article is to demonstrate the fragmented identity of Lee and Austin, Eddie and May, an...

OF THESIS THE IMPACT OF FOOD RECALL ON THIRD PARTY CERTIFICATION ADOPTION Food safety problems have gained national attention, and food recall is one of the most important indications of this concern. Third-party certifications have become a popular way to improve the safety and quality of products for consumers. Publications related to third-party certification usually focus on the motives and...

in present paper, we try to analyze one of maxim gorky’s specific types of characters which almost all assess his works with. studying some works of his fictions and considering the biography of author, it can be claimed that gorky had been the one who knew these types of people very well, lived with them, experienced their plains  and sufferings profoundly and made them to be entered through h...

BACKGROUND Examining professional assessments of a blood product recall/withdrawal and its implications for risk and public health, the paper introduces ideas about perceptions of minimal risk and its management. It also describes the context of publicly funded blood transfusion in Canada and the withdrawal event that is the basis of this study. METHODS Interviews with 45 experts from adminis...

We provide a theoretical framework showing how CSR activities can insure a firm against lost reputation in the face of adverse events. We offer evidence for this linkage through a case study and a multi-year analysis of stock price responses for S&P 500 companies following product recalls. We find that firms with better CSR ratings fare better than those that do not. Furthermore, a firm that is...