this study was performed to investigate the effects of refining on the mechanical and optical properties of waste newspaper. waste newspapers were prepared from gorgan ettelaat newspaper agency and were cut to 5 centimeter pieces, and then were soaked with sufficient distillated water. after 1 day fibers were separated by disintegrator and freeness values for each pulp before and after refining...

abstract using rhetorical figures in specialized languages like the language of newspaper headlines is common. the present study attempted to conduct a contrastive analysis of the english and persian sport newspaper headlines related to the 2014 fifa world cup. toward this end, a corpus consisting of 400 english and 400 persian headlines published during 12th of june to 13th of july, 2014 was c...

Historical ecology research relies on historical accounts of human-animal interactions to study this interaction through space and time. Newspaper archives are a rich source of information, but require careful querying and filtering to collect the relevant information. Traditionally, this is a laborious manual task. In this position paper, we describe our ongoing work on semantically enriching ...

Until recently, most research in computational linguistics has been done on newspaper texts. Nowadays, the focus has been extended to other types of language data. This means that many linguistic descriptions and automatic tools need to be adapted or extended to non-newspaper language. The non-standard varieties corpus of German (NoSta-D) will provide a first gold standard for evaluation and tr...

Laboratory and pilot-plant composting of garbage mixtures of newspaper and vegetable waste has demonstrated that garbage can be converted to a medium that produces mushrooms (Agaricus campestris) in good yield. Sewage sludge was less satisfactory than newspaper, gumwood sawdust, or vegetable waste as a compost material for growing mushrooms. A sample of commercially produced compost was found t...

This two-part study integrates a quantitative review of one year of US newspaper coverage of climate science with a qualitative, comparative analysis of media-created themes and frames using a social constructivist approach. In addition to an examination of newspaper articles, this paper includes a reflexive comparison with attendant wire stories and scientific texts. Special attention is given...