What are fairy tales? Folk tales are stories orally passed down from generation to generation that are modified as they are told to remain current in their contextual frame. Folk tales are categorized as pour quoi tales, tall tales, or fairy tales. Pour quoi tales are stories that answer “why” or have a moral, such as fables. Tall tales are characterized by legends, and communicate historical f...

A broad class of soil fungi form the annular patterns known as 'fairy rings' and provide one of the only means to observe spatio-temporal dynamics of otherwise cryptic fungal growth processes in natural environments. We present observations of novel spiral and rotor patterns produced by fairy ring fungi and explain these behaviors mathematically by first showing that a well known model of fairy...

This paper presents a preliminary application of the ETS formalism to the structural representation of Russian fairy tales. We were led to this application through our interest in information retrieval. In addition to introducing a natural multi-level representational view of fairy tales, the ETS formalism suggests an explanation for the mechanism behind plot anticipation by an experienced read...

Ectomycorrhizal fungi – fairy rings and the wood-wide web Many of us will have seen fairy rings, the mysterious circles of fungal fruiting bodies that occur in open grassy places or in forests. The secrecy about these rings is expressed in their naming: in English folklore, the rings were said to be caused by fairies dancing in a circle (Fig. 1) whereas in German-speaking Europe they are known ...

The work presented in this paper is an endeavor to create a prototype of a computer game with spoken dialogue capabilities. Advanced spoken dialogue has the potential to considerably enrich computer games, where it for example would allow players to refer to past events and to objects currently not visible on the screen. It would also allaow users to interact socially and to negotiate solutions...

Citation: Mahr K, Evans C, Thonhauser KE, Griggio M and Hoi H (2016) Multiple Ornaments—Multiple Signaling Functions? The Importance of Song and UV Plumage Coloration in Female Superb Fairy-wrens (Malurus cyaneus). Front. Ecol. Evol. 4:43. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2016.00043 Multiple Ornaments—Multiple Signaling Functions? The Importance of Song and UV Plumage Coloration in Female Superb Fairy-wrens (...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To report on the stories of registered nurses and nurse administrators in a Thai hospital that recently constructed a healing haven environment called a 'Fairy Garden' to support the formal and informal activities of sick children. BACKGROUND While there has been some research into healing environments in health for adults, there has been no qualitative research into heali...