During the Great Plague of London (1665), William Winstanley veered from his better known roles as arbiter of success and failure in his works of biography or as a comic author under the pseudonym Poor Robin, and instead engaged with his reading audience as a plague writer in the rare book The Christians Refuge: Or Heavenly Antidotes Against the Plague in this Time of Generall Contagion to Whic...

The article presents a survey of the metaphor- and simile-related researches in modern linguistics considers stylistic functions metaphors similes contemporary fiction. It is based on novel Goldfinch (2013) written by American writer D. Tartt, winner Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2014). proves that tropes question used book are unique striking. They perform figurative descriptive functions, contr...

This paper presents a survey of the literature on writer identification schemes and techniques up till date. The paper outlines an overview of the writer identification schemes mainly in Chinese, English, Arabic and Persian languages. Taxonomy of different features adopted for online and offline writer identification schemes is also drawn at. The feature extraction methods adopted for the schem...

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette Sir,?The importers of the French anti-malarial remedy Gametoxyl have lately issued an advertisement pamphlet giving a resume of a paper by Dr. E. Charron, Paris, on anti-malarial preparations. The author compares at the end of his paper Plasmochin Compound with Gametoxyl, referring particularly to the time of treatment and the amount of medicament requi...

a noteworthy fashion of objectification of the subject in modern societies_ in reference to michel foucault_ is dividing practices through which individuals are silenced and become marginalized. in terms of foucault's dividing practices, the present article delves into reasons why lord byron was stigmatized and divided from his contemporary poets. with this end in view, the paper sheds light on...

There are at least eleven ways to listen the customers: transactional surveys, mystery shopping, new declining and lost customer surveys, focus group interviews, customer advisory panels, service reviews, customer complaint, comment, inquiry capture, total market surveys, employee field reporting, employee surveys and service operating data capture (Parasuraman as cited in Cook, Heath, Thompson...

According to Paul Otlet, in order to face the worldwide interdependence which was evidenced in the First World War, we need an international center for the storage and dissemination of knowledge: The Mundaneum (1928). To study this utopian project is to study how positivism, centralism, and monumentalism have determined Otlet’s international perspective. His project of a colossal Bibliopolis co...

In the 19th century Alphonse the Lamartine (1790–1869), a French writer, said that “History Teaches Everything, Including the Future.” This is a very accurate statement; the definition of what makes whole nations, what characterizes patriotism, relates to the history of that particular place. This understanding about the importance of History has always been recognized by thinkers, philosophers...