Structured Abstract Purpose – The repertory grid technique was adapted to investigate fiction readers' attitudes and beliefs, with a specific focus on minority ethnic fiction. Design/methodology/approach – The study required participants (n=36) to rate on a 7-point Likert scale a series of 16 provided constructs, using 10 main elements, namely the reader of ten fiction genres. Statistical tests...

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Dimpi Patel, DO; Prasant Mohanty, MBBS, MPH; Luigi Di Biase, MD; Mazen Shaheen, MD; William R. Lewis, MD; Kara Quan, MD; Jennifer E. Cummings, MD; Paul Wang, MD; Amin Al-Ahmad, MD; Preeti Venkatraman, MD; Eyad Nashawati, MD; Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, MD; Robert Schweikert, MD; Rodney Horton, MD; Javier Sanchez, MD; Joseph Gallinghouse, MD; Steven Hao, MD; Salwa Beheiry, RN; Deb S. Cardinal, RN; Ja...

This article attempts to construct Woolf’s concept of “modern fiction” in modern context within the two dimensions: fiction’s category and historicity. Firstly, based on the essay “Modern Fiction”, the article aims to construct the connotation of “modern fiction”, which takes “historical consciousness”, “the duration of life”, “man’s subjectivity”, “the complexity of psychological structures” a...

D e p a r t m e n t o f A p p l i e d M a t h e m a t i c s , U n i v e r s i t y o f T w e n t e , E n s c h e d e , T h e N e t h e r l a n d s A successive censoring algorithm for a system of connected QBD-processes Niek Baer, Ahmad Al Hanbali, Richard J. Boucherie, Jan-Kees van Ommeren Stochastic Operations Research, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Twente, Drienerlolaan 5, ...

0017-9310/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2013.05.054 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 217 244 7648; fax: +1 217 244 0720. E-mail address: [email protected] (P.H. Geubelle). 1 Current address: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Ohio State University, Scott Laboratory, 201 West 19th Avenue, Columbus, O...

0950-7051/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2013.11.003 q This paper is part of the project sponsored by Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (Tübitak EEEAG 109E241). Tansel Ozyer would like to thank TUBITAK for their support. ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (R. Alhajj). Peter Peng , Omer ...

Cristi L. Galindo, PhD;* Ehab Kasasbeh, MD;* Abigail Murphy, BA; Sergey Ryzhov, MD, PhD; Sean Lenihan; Farhaan A. Ahmad, MD; Philip Williams, PhD; Amy Nunnally, BS; Jamie Adcock, BS; Yanna Song, PhD; Frank E. Harrell, PhD; Truc-Linh Tran, BS; Tom J. Parry, PhD; Jen Iaci, MS; Anindita Ganguly, PhD; Igor Feoktistov, MD, PhD; Matthew K. Stephenson, PhD; Anthony O. Caggiano, MD, PhD; Douglas B. Saw...

We propose a modified Entity Relationship (E-R) model, traditionally used for software engineering, to structure, store and share plot data. The flexibility of E-R modelling has been demonstrated by its decades of usage in a wide variety of situations. The success of the E-R model suggests that it could be useful for collaborating fiction authors, adding a certain degree of computational power ...

In recent years several fixed point theorems for hybrid pairs of mappings are proved and by now there exists considerable literature in this direction. To mention a few, one can cite Imdad and Ahmad [10], Pathak [19], Popa [20] and references cited therein. On the other hand Assad and Kirk [4] gave a sufficient condition enunciating fixed point of set-valued mappings enjoying specific boundary ...