due to its current and global context, poetry arises from the poets’ unconsciousness, the issue that nizami has implicitly and explicitly referred to in his poems. it has been tried, through this article to survey the inspirational or creative essence of poetry in nizami’s viewpoints. he believed that the process of artistic creativity - including poetry - would be performed in two modes, i.e. ...

In the nineteenth century, civil and structural engineers received much public acclaim for their built works (e.g. Brooklyn Bridge, Eiffel Tower). One hundred years later, engineer was perceived by many as “out” or not requiring skill. This paper examines how this erroneous perception of engineering can change presenting heroes. Using parallels to monomythical hero, examples engineers, authors ...

Quotes are used in news articles as evidence of a person’s opinion, and thus are a useful target for opinion mining. However, labelling each quote with a polarity score directed at a textually-anchored target can ignore the broader issue that the speaker is commenting on. We address this by instead labelling quotes as supporting or opposing a clear expression of a point of view on a topic, call...

We study trade-transparency in over-the-counter (OTC) equity derivatives markets, performing two related experiments. The first consists of a statistical study: we analyze a very large dataset of reported OTC transactions to the MarkitServ database and seek to correlate the trade prices with the prices of analogous derivatives listed in exchanges or with model prices derived from the latter (“f...