najib kilani is the first writer dealing with muslim problems in his stories beyond the boundaries of the arab world; in his avant-garde novels, such as turkestan nights, jakarta's virgin, and giants of the north, which take place in turkestan, indonesia, and nigeria respectively, he deals with these problems. in these novels, he has depicted the contemporary muslim nations' struggle ...

Requirements visualization can contribute to requirements comprehension through the creation of conceptual models. However, these models can become hard to read and current tool support is minimal. Applying the right visualization mechanisms can help construct models that are more readable. To such extent, we present the Interactive Narrator tool: a web application that helps practitioners anal...

The article analyzes the interaction of verbal and non-verbal elements in Grishkovets’ solo performances. material for analysis is official video recordings Performances by Grishkovets play texts he published afterwards are interconnected but different works — with differing content, motif systems, differently placed semantic accents. It (spatial movements, gestures, props decorations, etc.) th...

In his article "Indirect Discourse in German, Russian, and English" Henry Whittlesey Schroeder analyzes the different tenses of indirect discourse in these three languages. Indirect discourse in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century adopts a different time in English, German and Russian. English indirect discourse reports in the preterit; German indirect discourse hovers in the subjunctiv...

People tracking provides the basis for automatic monitoring. This service can help people with disabilities or the elderly live independently by providing day-to-day information to physicians and family. The Narrator system uses information generated by a tracker to generate concise, scalable summaries of daily movement activity. We demonstrate output from the Narrator as well as the workings o...

although critics and novelists have not paid enough attention to the second person point of view, it has a lot of potentials for picturing the deepest parts of human mind. most important types of this model are: 1. narratives in which the narrator, the protagonist and the addressee are the same; 2. narratives in which the narrator is separate from the protagonist/addressee. reviewing the comple...

In this paper, we describe the results of the evaluation of a Virtual Character, used as a human-like, automated narrator with focus on the signaling of suspenseful situations within stories to the Virtual Narrator’s audience. Signaling is done via facial expression and gestures, driven by an underlying story examination mechanism. This mechanism uses an automatic generated story to get points ...

one reading (qara'at) of asr sura, , which is inconsistent with other valid readings, has been attributed to ali (p.b.u.h). because this reading contains additions to the asr sura, its acceptation is not possible. a survey of two chains of traditions about this reading of the asr sura attributed to ali (p.b.u.h) shows that these traditions are of isolated type (khabar vahed). it also shows...