We present an eye tracking study to measure if and how including pictures – relevant or irrelevant to the text – affects online reading. In a betweensubjects design, 82 subjects read a story on a computer screen. The text was accompanied by either: (a) pictures related to the text, (b) pictures unrelated to the text (advertisements), or (c) no pictures. Reading statistics such as reading speed ...

If I take it correctly that the duty imposed upon me today is to give a public lecture on my writings, then I believe that this task, the importance of which I am well aware through the gratitude felt towards the noble-minded founder of our Foundation, cannot be more suitably fulfilled than by my trying to give you the story of the origin of the quantum theory in broad outlines and to couple wi...

the present article is an attempt to review the syrian short storyfrom the period between 1931 to 1947 and its development. syrian short stories in this period are affected by cultural, political and historical events.

1. INTRODUCTION Vacuum selection is one of the most important issues in string/M theory. The standard cartoon of string vacua (see figure 1.1) showing all the ten dimensional perturbative string asymptopia together with the eleven-dimensional limit, refers to solutions with a large number of supersymmetries, and flat directions (moduli) in the effective action. 11d I IIB heterotic IIA Figure 1....

We report here on our experiences with designing computer-based creativity-support systems over several years. In particular, we present the design of three different systems incorporating different mechanisms of creativity. One of them uses an idea proposed by Rodari to stimulate imagination of the children in writing a picture-based story. The second one is aimed to model creativity in legal ...

Surface realizers are used at the final phase of natural language text generation to convert abstract or symbolic representations of information to linguistic forms in a particular human language. Rules of grammar for the target language are applied to produce text that is syntactically, morphologically and orthographically correct. In this paper, we present the development of FilSuRe, a simple...

Velde. Neville Spearman. 10s. 6d. Life in a home for old people is vividly portrayed in this fine novel translated from the Dutch by Ellen and Roy Hulbert. The author, who knows her scene and subject well enough to be the daughter of her own story, presents a very convincing picture of the gradual decline of a group of elderly women in a large institution. There could be no more compelling stat...

Most of you will know someone with mental illness. How long did it take for them to receive help? How does it affect their lives and those around them? How do you personally feel about mental health? This chapter endeavours to paint a picture of mental health around the globe: the burden, the challenges and the opportunities. But, as we meander through the worlds of policy, epidemiology and sti...

We propose a refinement of the physical picture describing different vacua in bosonic string theory. The vacua with closed strings and open strings are connected by the string field theory version of the Higgs mechanism, generalizing the Higgs mechanism of an abelian gauge field interacting with a complex scalar. In accordance with Sen’s conjecture, the condensation of the tachyon is an essenti...