The present study investigated the effect of practicing domestic vs. foreign newspaper on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners’ reading comprehension ability. The main question this study tried to answer was whether or not practicing domestic vs. foreign newspaper has any effect on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners’ reading comprehension ability. To answer this question, 45 Iranian lea...

abstraCt We have studied the pre-adoption phase of the e-newspaper, i.e. a newspaper published with e-paper technology. The research question of this article is: In what way can a user centered innovation process contribute to identifying key values in mobile innovations? The aim of this article is threefold: firstly, to identify key values for the e-newspaper, secondly, to examine the intentio...

In 2015, the Danish newspaper industry continued its decade-long decline of the printed newspaper circulation. The main cause of the decline is the change in preferences of readers, who prefer online news sources. This change in preferences and the resulting decline in circulation have created economic uncertainty for the legacy newspaper firms: while the business model of printed media provide...

BACKGROUND We investigated whether lack of perceived neighborhood safety due to crime, or living in high crime neighborhoods was associated with incident mobility disability in elderly populations. We hypothesized that low-income elders and elders at retirement age (65 - 74) would be at greatest risk of mobility disability onset in the face of perceived or measured crime-related safety hazards....

The epidemic of cholera that took place in the Neretva basin in 1886 was part of the fifth pandemic wave that was spreading throughout Europe. Based on the death records, vital statistics and the newspaper articles from that period, in this paper we present the emergence and the course this epidemic. In the context of analysis and experience of the epidemic of cholera in the lower Neretva basin...

Over the last two decades, the cultural and cognitive artifacts that information and communication technologies circulate have become entangled with human and technical actors to the point of inseparability. These entanglements are primarily driven by the proliferation and wide adoption of online and mobile technologies. As a result, we discern the migration of previously physical artifacts to ...

This work investigates summarizing the conversations that occur in the comments section of the UK newspaper the Guardian. In the comment summarization task comments are clustered and ranked within the cluster. The top comments from each cluster are used to give an overview of that cluster. It was found that topic model clustering gave the most agreement when evaluated against a human gold stand...

Abstract Rhetorical structure is helpful in improving how the writers maintain cohesion in their writings. This study examines how the Iraqi writers maintain cohesion in the text by analyzing the various rhetorical moves in Azzaman, an online Iraqi newspaper. To this purpose, twelve opinion articles from Azzaman Iraqi newspaper, published from January 2013 to June 2013 were analyzed. The findin...

Prof. Leslie asks how the variable for TV-newspaper crossownership applies to non-local newspapers. Owners of TV stations that do not own a local newspaper in the same market are not considered to be cross-owned in this analysis, even if they own a national newspaper or a newspaper local to another market. This definition is based on the legal definition of crossownership adopted by the FCC, an...

due to the problems of deposition of sodium silicate on the equipment and decrease of the service age of implements, deinking of old newspaper was accomplished using organic complex of sulvy-x in place of sodium silicate. sulvy-x was used at four levels of 0.3, 0.5, 0.7 and 1% on the basis of oven dry waste paper and chemical deinking was done. the effect of various charges of sulvy-x was inves...