No one can deny the vital role that fairy tales played in forming personalities of successive generations across various regions worldwide. All adults should have pleasant memories with these books during their early childhood. These make enjoyable for children and adults, as all consider reading a part nostalgia past peaceful cheerful days. On other hand, many studies proved passive hazardous ...

After 15 years, environmental researcher Kenneth Reckhow can still feel the sting of rejection. As a young scientist appearing before an Environmental Protection Agency review panel, Reckhow was eager to discuss his idea for using an unorthodox statistical approach in a water-quality study. But before he could say a word, an influential member of the panel unleashed a rhetorical attack that sto...

Radiologist Saurabh “Harry” Jha still recalls the first time he was on call for radiology in the United States. He received simultaneous emergency requests for a head computed tomography (CT) and chest CT, both in the same patient, to rule out stroke and pulmonary embolism. The indication for the examinations was the same: syncopal episode. Jha was flabbergasted. “I thought to myself, there is ...

After 15 years, environmental researcher Kenneth Reckhow can still feel the sting of rejection. As a young scientist appearing before an Environmental Protection Agency review panel, Reckhow was eager to discuss his idea for using an unorthodox statistical approach in a water-quality study. But before he could say a word, an influential member of the panel unleashed a rhetorical attack that sto...

In this paper we tackle the problem of character conversion from simplified Chinese to traditional Chinese. Of those simplified characters that need conversion, about 9.5% of them have more than 2 counterparts in the traditional scripts. We improve upon the previous log-linear approach first used in (Chen et al 2011) by utilizing more data sets and better translation models. We also show that a...

The author recalls the outstanding Russian sinologist Vadim L’vovich Sichev (1940–2019): He narrates scientist’s biography and names his main academic works. L. was born in family of famous soviet artist Lev P. Sichev. After graduation from Institute Asian African Countries at Lomonosov Moscow State University, he worked Museum Oriental Art for a long time. areas scientific research were study ...

This paper describes an interdisciplinary experiment in controlling semi-autonomous animated human forms with natural language input. These computer-generated characters resemble traditional stage actors, in that they are more autonomous than traditional hand-guided animated characters, and less autonomous than fully improvisational agents. We introduce the desktop tkeatev metaphor, reserving f...

This article analyzes the story known Iranian writer Firuz Zanuzi Jalali. "Cursed Watch" compared with the works of F.M. Dostoevsky, are analogous to the events of the novel "Crime and Punishment". There are Parallels between street accidents, there are similarities in the descriptions seen by the characters, marked similarities in the descriptions of the paintings, whi...

Chinese has been recognized as one of most major languages in the world, and many people are learning Chinese; thus a method for learning Chinese characters is a significant issue. Many studies have developed various approaches to learning Chinese characters to demonstrate to learners how to read Chinese characters. In Chinese, the character components can offer learners with phonological and m...

To enforce laws and treaties that protect endangered tree species, federal agents first have to recognize those species when they come across wood suspect came from illegal logging operations. A US Fish Wildlife Service lab has spent a decade developing mass spectrometry approach rapidly identify by species. Now the scientists are taking it on road. Some years ago, David Gehl made an unusual tr...