this paper aims to offer a critical reading of the contemporary english author ian mcewan’s fifth novel entitled black dogs (1992). i postulate that literary critics have frequently read his fiction for what it is not. as such, mcewan’s thought-provoking engagement with cultural questions has more often than not gone unexamined owing to a critical blueprint that, reducing his oeuvre to the topo...

This paper aims to combine film-editing principles with basic design principles to explore what graphic designers do in terms of storytelling. The sequential aspect of film is designed and examined through the art of editing. Examining the rules, principles and formulas of film editing can be a used as a method by graphic designers to further practice the art of storytelling. There are many pub...

In cancer survival studies, death certificate information can be missing, or incidental and fatal occurrences may be indistinguishable for some subjects, leading to missing censoring indicators (MCIs). For the framework of right censored data with MCIs, sub-density function kernel estimators play a significant role for estimating a survival function. Data-driven bandwidths for computing these k...

In today’s competitive, dynamic, and changing business environment, being able to collaborate globally within and beyond the enterprise borders is critical. Inter-Organizational Collaborations (IOCs) have been proposed as a response to the characteristics of highly competitive global business environments. So far, a number of reference models, frameworks, and ad hoc architectures related to som...

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Résumé : Cet article présente une adaptation du boosting à l’inférence grammaticale. Notre but est d’améliorer les performances d’un algorithme à base de fusion d’états, en présence de données bruitées. Notre algorithme de boosting utilise une nouvelle règle de mise à jour des poids qui tient compte d’une information supplémentaire fournie par un oracle. Cette information est une évaluation de ...

A school became safer after security measures were removed. Children can learn better in playful, rather than didactic, settings. At-risk students earned higher grades after writing about a personal value. A novel construct - mise en place--explains how small changes in context, such as these, can lead to large changes in behaviors by highlighting how the psychology of preparing to act within a...

the focus of this article is in the area of poetry and film, dealing specifically with the visual potentials of a monumental persian classic epic, that is, firdowsi's shahnameh. in this masterpiece, the visual world is formed out of images which could represent it in many different ways, at times extremely glorified at other times immensely emotional and psychological but always absolutely...