The Yoruba News as a Political Tool and Avenue for Cultural Revival by Abidemi Bolarinwa

“…Content-wise, the paper exhaustively describes the subject matters of The Yorubà News ́ by dwelling critically on the issues raised, examining in details and critiquing its recurrent subject matters notably: the news stories, editorials, cover, advertorials, news and notes, etc. …”
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Modeling the impact of twitter on influenza epidemics by Kasia A. Pawelek, Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch, Libin Rong

“…In this paper, we develop a simplemathematical model including the dynamics of ``tweets'' --- short,140-character Twitter messages that may enhance the awareness ofdisease, change individual's behavior, and reduce the transmissionof disease among a population during an influenza season. …”
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An information behaviour exploration of personal and family information and curation of our life histories by Bhuva Narayan, Annemarie Zijlema, Vanessa Reyes, Mary Anne Kennan

“…Introduction. Family stories and life histories are often shared among household and family members via oral and written communication, family traditions, and many other information practices. …”
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Low-Rank Variational Quantum Algorithm for the Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems by Sara Santos, Xinyu Song, Vincenzo Savona

“…The algorithm encodes each pure state of the statistical mixture as a parametrized quantum circuit, and the associated probabilities as additional variational parameters stored classically, thereby requiring a significantly lower number of qubits than algorithms where the full density matrix is encoded in the quantum memory. …”
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Early Modern Exemplars: Reading Strategies and the Assertion of Readerly Identity and Authority in the Life-writing of Mary Ward, Dionys Fitzherbert and Elizabeth Isham by Martin Thompson

“…This article combines close readings with material analysis of three female-authored autobiographical manuscripts to suggest that, contrary to Western, Protestant and masculine assumptions, these pious seventeenth-century women perceived of themselves primarily not only as authors but readers of their own divinely-authored life stories. Focusing primarily on the paratexts attached to life narratives of Mary Ward (1585-1645), Dionys Fitzherbert (c.1580-c.1642) and Elizabeth Isham (1609-1654), it identifies – across the Reformation confessional divide – common semantic and grammatical patterns which demonstrate that these texts advocated and illustrated particular reading strategies that encouraged their audiences too to see their own lives as texts to be read. …”
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Factor Analysis of Utterances in Japanese Fiction-Writing Based on BCCWJ Speaker Information Corpus by Hajime Murai

“…Thus, results of this study would be utilisable in speaker identification tasks, automatic speech generation tasks, and scientific interpretation of stories and characters.…”
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Interactions langagières d’élèves de 11-12 ans lors de la rédaction d’un récit en dyade et leur influence sur le texte by Jessy Marin, Natalie Lavoie

“…The objectives of this research are: 1- to examine the quality of narratives produced in dyad by 11-12 year old pupils and to compare it with other stories produced individually by these students and 2- to describe the content of interactions students in the planning, translating and reviewing of the narrative in dyad. …”
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Can Humanity Thrive Beyond the Galaxy? by Sayaka WAKAYAMA, Teruhiko WAKAYAMA

“…In even more distant future, when humans have spread throughout the galaxy, all genetic resources on Earth, the planet where humans originated, must be permanently and safely stored— but is this even possible? Such issues with future space colonization may not be an urgent research priority, but research and technological development accompanying advancements in spaceflight will excite many people and contribute to technological improvements that can improve living standards in the present day (e.g., more effective treatments for infertility, etc.). …”
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Проекты Нового краеведения в неофициальной истории города: опыт Санкт-Петербурга by Anna Troitskaya

“…The selection of memorable places and stories shifts from recognizable city landmarks to other objects that reveal the history and image of particular St. …”
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Nosocomial infection in the intensive care unit. 1997-2002. by Marta Luján Hernández, Leticia Justafré Couto, Gudelia Cuellar Gutiérrez

“…<strong>Results</strong>: We check stabilization in the global rates, the cases you find inside the predicted parameters, the main localization was the breathing one with a percentage stocking of 42 in the seven investigated years, while the germ of more circulation was the Acynetobacter with an average of 27,1%. …”
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Dorothy Richardson’s Correspondence during the Second World War and the Development of Feminine Consciousness in Pilgrimage by Ivana TRAJANOSKA

“…As an unjustifiably marginalized forerunner of English modernism, Dorothy Richardson left behind her, apart from her 13-volume novel Pilgrimage, a few short stories and poems, a considerable amount of non-fictional writings including essays and over two thousand letters. …”
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“When the Cock crows, the Devil Falls” – a Review of Christian Thought Concerning Birds in Selected Folk Tales by Agnieszka Tańczuk

“…In this article, I present the essence of myths in folk stories, and its function on the example of birds which have lived in proverbs and sayings. …”
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The theme of the North in modern Russian folk-horror by Elena A. Safron

“…Examines the specifics of the implementation of the North theme in the subgenre of modern domestic folk horror using the example of novels and stories by D. Bobyleva, O. Kozhin, L. Lvova, A. Podolsky, M. …”
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Oke-Ibadan Festival and the Ethnography of Aboke people of Ibadan by Oludele Mayowa Solaja, Adesina Abass Olayiwola

“…Their cultural identity as attested to by the participants include; hosting of Oke-Ibadan festival, retaining tribal mark, production of traditional/black soap for the cure of measles, narrating folk stories to the young generation in order to encourage high fertility rate, unique dress code, and acceptable physical appearance. …”
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Faking the News: Intentional Guided Variation Reflects Cognitive Biases in Transmission Chains Without Recall by Stubbersfield Joseph, Tehrani Jamshid, Flynn Emma

“…Through this process of guided variation, original material which scored low for bias-exploiting content significantly increased in at least one known content bias, whereas original material which scored high for bias-exploiting content was not significantly altered in this respect.…”
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Comment on “Carbon in Trees in Tasmanian State Forest” by Christopher Dean

“…Moroni et al. (2010) reported extant, spatially representative carbon stocks for Tasmania's State forest. Their disputation of earlier work, contextual setting, redefinition of carbon carrying capacity (CCC), methods, adoption of ecological concepts and consequent conclusions on carbon flux were investigated. …”
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Réécrire l'Histoire pour les enfants du point de vue des Amérindiens : devoir de mémoire, devoir d'imagination (Brésil, États-Unis) by Pauline Franchini

“…In historical novels for children, History is often a pretext, an exotic background in front of which adventure stories unfold. This couldn't be the case in historical novels dealing with colonial and pre-colonial times, most of all those written by native american or afro-descendant writers affected by postcolonial issues: in these novels, the interpretation of historical events according to the point of view in which it is narrated – often that of the vainquished - is crucial. …”
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El Hierro (Canaries) : une île et le choix des transitions énergétique et écologique by Alain Gioda

“…Since June 2014, El Hierro is getting on its way toward the objective of being self-sustained with 100 % of renewable energy thanks to wind turbines mixed with a wind-powered pumped hydrostorage system using desalinated water that ensures two days of autonomy in the absence of wind or during storms. Energy independence is the result of a popular initiative supported by a technician and a political leader of the island, which was relayed by the authorities of the Canary Islands, Spain, Europe, and Unesco. …”
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Assessment of Waterlogging Risk in the Deep Foundation Pit Projects Based on Projection Pursuit Model by Han Wu, Junwu Wang

“…The results demonstrate that the frequency of storms, intensity of rainfall, preparation of emergency rescue plans, and proportion of older workers have the greatest impacts on waterlogging risk in deep foundation pits. …”
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The enlightenment of fiction: Literature to learn to philosophise by Edwige Chirouter

“…The challenge facing this alliance between philosophy (with children) and literature (for young people) is, therefore, profoundly political: to train enlightened citizens informed by fiction. Stories (picturebooks and novels) embody the potential for a multitude of exemplary and meaningful experiences of the truth(s) of the world, and as such constitute an autonomous space for thinking. …”
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