Most scientific models are not physical objects, and this raises important questions. What sort of entity are models, what is truth in a model, and how do we learn about models? In this paper I argue that models share important aspects in common with literary fiction, and that therefore theories of fiction can be brought to bear on these questions. In particular, I argue that the pretence theor...

classicism is the first literary school that emerged in europe after the great scientific movement in the 16th century a.d. and tried to revive the old literature of greece and latin considering the technical and humanistic themes in that era. literary societies like divan and apolo in the east and the society of writers and andolosian group in the west in opposition to the classicism of barood...

fable literature is one of the bases in which sexual stereotypes are reproduced. like all other scientific fields, it continuously delineates a repetitive image of women. therefore, this article aims to study how literary texts reflect sexual discrimination in a specific culture and how they deal with reproduction of sexual division; specially how these injustices are drawn in mr. dolatabadi&ap...

Since 1964, as an adjunct to its automated technical information processing services to ERDA and other federal agencies, a generalized language translation system has been used by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to translate Russian scientific text to English. The translation system, first implemented at Georgetown University around 1960, has been rewritten and improved through the yea...

Most known by his literary ability, the words of the neurologist Oliver Sacks (1933-2015) also had an impact on scientific community about the role of levodopa on parkinsonisms. Different from the most authors and based on his experience described on the book "Awakenings", he had a pessimistic opinion about levodopa, which was related on many articles written by himself and colleagues in early ...

The students in the preparatory class have a fixed mentality. Academic failure among sixth-grade students. significance of statistical difference between mindset terms gender (male-female) and specialization (scientific-literary). (males-females) (scientific-literary) differences academic failure. correlation extent to which contributes fixated

A scientific study of consciousness should take into consideration both objective and subjective measures of conscious experiences. To this date, very few studies have tried to integrate third-person data, or data about the neurophysiological correlates of conscious states, with first-person data, or data about subjective experience. Inspired by Morel's invention (Casares, 1940), a literary mac...