Effects of sex-role standards on the expression of aggression were examined in a task requiring 40 boys and girls aged nine to 10 to take the role of boys or girls portrayed in a set of cartoon figures. Subjects were asked to respond to aggressive statements attributed to cartoon figures varying in sex. The expectation that subjects taking the role of male figures would display more antisocial ...

the power of media lies in its persuasive function, which gives media a potential to maneuver on the mind of audience (van dijk 1996). this potential is realized via different linguistic resources, one important group of which is metadiscoursal resources. the major aim of this study was to explore how and in what distribution these resources are employed by writers with different cultural backg...

this paper investigates the use of ‘lexical bundles’ in two broad corpora of journalistic writing. the aim of this study is to compare the use of lexical bundles in the two domains, one consisted of newspaper articles written in english and published in england and the other one comprised of newspaper articles written in persian from iranian publications. for this purpose, the frequency of occu...

Abstract Using rhetorical figures in specialized languages like the language of newspaper headlines is common. The present study attempted to conduct a contrastive analysis of the English and Persian sport newspaper headlines related to the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Toward this end, a corpus consisting of 400 English and 400 Persian headlines published during 12th of June to 13th of July, 2014 was c...

Abstract To understand the deep learning model, author proposed research of interactive texture replacement cartoon characters. For image segmentation, if you want to fill a without any in detail, or replace unsatisfied area, first, we need separate filled replaced area from cartoon. this reason, traditional segmentation algorithm has been carefully studied and analyzed, chooses Graphcut synthe...

This paper develops a structural model of newspaper markets to analyze the effects of ownership consolidation, taking into account not only firms’ price adjustments but also the adjustments in newspaper characteristics. A new data set on newspaper prices and characteristics is used to estimate the model. The paper then simulates the effect of a merger in the Minneapolis newspaper market and stu...

The increasing number of protein 3D structure information available makes the high-quality visualisation of this information play a more and more important role. Beside element-based representations the secondary-structurebased representation – also called cartoon representation – refers to a higher level of abstraction, representing the protein structure as tubes and ribbons. We present a meth...

The power of media lies in its persuasive function, which gives media a potential to maneuver on the mind of audience (van Dijk 1996). This potential is realized via different linguistic resources, one important group of which is metadiscoursal resources. The major aim of this study was to explore how and in what distribution these resources are employed by writers with different cultural backg...