This report investigates the hypothesis: patterns in multimedia discourses can be used to specify and extract machine-executable representations of media content that capture important elements of stories. Multimedia Information Systems are amongst the more pervasive of information systems. The physical and conceptual task of synthesising two or more modalities of communication-visual and lingu...

Implied author and implied reader are components of a narrative structure, playing a crucial role in illuminating hidden elements within a text. Therefore, studying these elements in literary works can expose the underlying layers of narration and open up new critical outlooks to the readers. Furthermore and in cases of cinematic adaptations, it explains whether this was the novel or the film t...

Adaptive hypermedia aims to create a tailored experience for users and with narrative generation this dynamic content can be in the form of engaging stories. Narrative generation systems range from the automatic generation of bespoke stories to the representation of existing information as narrative. However narrative generation systems often produce bland and unvaried stories. In this paper we...

This paper, while focused primarily on the narrative transformation of Sadeq Chubak’s Tangsir from novel to film adaptation, offers a general survey of adaptation history in Iran and also investigates the nature of Iranian adaptation from both foreign and domestic sources. Drawing on Gerard Genette’s theories of Narratology, especially his notion of hypertextuality, transpragma...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition among hospitalized patients increases length of stay (LOS) and carries extra hospitalization costs. OBJECTIVE To review the impact of malnutrition on hospital LOS and costs in Europe. METHODS PubMed and Google Scholar search. All articles from January 2004 until November 2014 were identified. Reference lists of relevant articles were also manually searched. RESULTS...

many of the great persian poems have powerful narrative structure and they transfer ideas and concepts from the language of different real or symbolic characters. one poem that is categorized in this field is  chahar chaman, a poem by shahdaie shirzi. this article aims at answering the question that what kind of belief and thought are each of the symbolic characters going to present? and how do...

Emerging from a legitimate contest regulated by a set of rules, professional wrestling is today a fictional product, where no actual competition takes place. Those same rules serve as a setting for a particular kind of narration: the kayfabe, the fictional framework for all professional wrestling’s narrative, a fictional world with the characteristic of having a 1:1 ratio between real time and ...

This article probes how childhood experiences are actively taken into adult lives and thus challenges the unwitting and unintentional reproduction of an adult-child binary in childhood studies. We do this by analyzing interviews with one adult daughter of immigrants from Mexico to the United States at four points in time (ages 19, 26, 27, and 33). Using narrative analysis to examine the mutabil...

Despite the implicit belief that IT innovations brings beneficial change, medical practitioners and healthcare professionals constantly struggle to realize the innovation potential of electronic medical records (EMR) system in revolutionizing clinical practices. To understand this conundrum, this paper uses an in-depth case study of an EMR implementation to develop a grounded theory of why, whe...

A series of seven computing and online games was reviewed following a criterion based selection process. The games were reviewed relative to their capacity to incorporate elements of gaming comparable to content or themes evident in children’s literature including, type of game, genre, elements of violence, disturbing scenes, gender of key protagonists or heroes, location and relative time fram...