Exploring the Effects of a Social Robot's Speech Entrainment and Backstory on Young Children's Emotion, Rapport, Relationship, and Learning by Kory-Westlund, Jacqueline M., Breazeal, Cynthia

“…We recruited 86 children aged 3–8 years to interact with the robot in a 2 × 2 between-subjects experimental study testing the effects of robot entrainment Entrainment vs. No entrainment and backstory about abilities Backstory vs. No Backstory. …”
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‘Do you remember, Lord Gregory?’: The Agency of Memory in Scottish Ballads by Thomas A. McKean

“…The Child ballads begin famously and characteristically, in medias res, in the middle of the action, with a great deal of backstory unknown, or, perhaps, assumed. I have shown how, in some cases, the backstory is provided by communal cultural knowledge or by explicit narration before the song is sung and during its performance (McKean 2015), but through the device of recall, the backstory can sometimes make an appearance within the body of the song, forming a complex concatenated structure that unfolds in performance and upon apprehension by a listener into a multivalent constellation of action and meaning. …”
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How to expand the method details in your Cell Press paper with step-by-step STAR Protocols by Winston Lee, Nicola de Prisco, Vincenzo A. Gennarino, Shawnna Buttery

“…STAR Protocols can complement a research article and empower authors to share the expertise they contributed to the larger study. In this Backstory, we interview members of the Gennarino lab, who published a Cell paper and four protocols, covering bioinformatics, culturing of patient-derived cell lines, neuroimaging from mouse brain sections and primary neurons, and mouse seizure recordings.For more information on the protocols related to this backstory, please refer to (Gennarino et al., 2018).…”
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Neurotechnology: Bridging the dialogue between engineers, material scientists, clinicians, and ethicists by Flavia Vitale, Jennifer N. Gelinas, Laura Y. Cabrera

“…This backstory is a conversation highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration for developing the field of neurotechnology and for its safe clinical translation and assessment of its societal impacts.…”
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Tension fecopneumothorax by Linu Abdullatheef, Manes Anil, Arjun Athmaram, Vishnu R Krishnan, Stalin J Roy, Yoganathan M N Namboothiry

“…Here, we present an 86-year-old gentleman who presented with tension fecopneumothorax, with an interesting backstory as to the development of fecopneumothorax.…”
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Gospel, Good News by Craig Keener

“…This means that this good news must be understood in light of the backstory of God’s saving acts in history. It also means that it must be understood especially in light of the Old Testament prophetic promise of future restoration effected through Jesus the Messiah. …”
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Interdisciplinary research in cancer and immunity employing biophysical approaches by Fabrizio Mattei, Mohit Kumar Jolly

“…Three leading scientists Fabrizio Mattei, Kandice Tanner, and Mohit Kumar Jolly working in different continents and in different areas of cancer and immunology came together for an iScience Special Issue focused on the biophysical aspect of the tumor-immune dynamics. In this backstory, the iScience editor discusses with Mattei and Jolly their thoughts about this topic, the current state of the field, the collection of articles in this Special Issue, and the future of the research in this area in the coming years, and personal advice to aspiring young minds.…”
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«YAROSLAVL WAS NOT CHOSEN SPONTANEOUSLY...» by Natal’ya T. Eregina, Elena M. Smirnova

“…This event had a deep backstory; this article is devoted to its consideration. …”
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NO RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT : The Tragedy at Virginia Tech / by 608935 Roy, Lucinda

Foreword: What Behavioral Scientists Are Unwilling to Accept by Lewis Petrinovich by Aurelio José Figueredo

“…There are multiple levels of backstory to this paper. I was among the last few doctoral students trained by Professor Lewis (“Lew”) Franklin Petrinovich, and collaborated with him on various research projects for decades after I received my PhD in Comparative Psychology, so I witnessed the whole origin story for this paper unfold over the years. …”
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Publishing protocols as a new PI by Effie Bastounis, Shawnna Buttery

“…Effie also shared her thoughts on the usefulness of protocols journals and the importance of protocols to a new PI.For more information on the protocols related to this backstory, please refer to Muenkel et al.1 and Bastounis et al.2…”
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An interdisciplinary effort to understand chemical organizations at the origin of life by C. Jeancolas, A.Y. Singh, S. Jain, S. Krishna, P. Nghe

“…This backstory features the perspectives of three group leaders of a Franco-Indian collaboration on the origin of life, involving efforts to engineer evolvable chemical systems. …”
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Why STAR Protocols authors make excellent protocol reviewers by Guillaume Blot, Leila Shokri, Shawnna Buttery

“…They can use their technical expertise and sharpened writing skills to help improve the main aspects of published protocols, namely their clarity and reproducibility. This backstory chronicles the journey of Dr. Guillaume Blot, from a junior researcher and author to a protocol reviewer. …”
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The prata house : a play in three acts by Leong, Xin Yi

“…In Act two, we learn a little more about her backstory and by Act three, she finally reconciles with her past and is able to move on, as represented by her acceptance of Felicia’s relationship.…”
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Representing Bodies and Bathing Machines: Jane Austen’s <i>Sanditon</i> and Andrew Davies’s 2019 ITV Adaptation by Gill Ballinger

“…Furthermore, the inclusion of sex scenes, a character with a backstory of sexual abuse, a relationship featuring coercive control, and an ending denying the heroine her man reflects the zeitgeist. …”
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The Help of God and Fear of Man: Comparing Anxiety and Religiosity in Fury (2014) and Merah-Putih (2009) by Muhammad Faqih Sampurno

“…By comparing these characters, we may find the relation of religiosity towards anxiety, and we may also find other influences such as the character’s motivation and backstory. The five dimensions of religiosity, as explained by Glock Stark and Freud’s psychoanalytic theory on anxiety, determine religiosity and anxiety. …”
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Deciphering the Commercial Miracle: The Research on the Marketing and Distribution Process of Chinese Youth Films after 2010s by Pei Jinghan

“…Therefore, the research conducts an interview of industry insiders to visualize the backstory of distribution process. After demonstrating the interview and analyzing the existing statistical data, the research argues that three factors affecting success of youth films (and those new rising film genres in China) are: the time to release the film, the integration of marketing and distribution companies, and the use of IP (development of existing IP and marketizing IP through use of theme songs).…”
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MASHUP COMPILATION AND MASHUP OF SCREENING AS BRAINSTORM OF CLASSIC NOVELS / КОНЧИТА ВУРСТ, ИЛИ «ЗАКАТ ЕВРОПЫ» by POPOVA L.V. / ПОПОВА Л.В.

“…The article discusses not only the phenomenon of Conchita Wurst, but also the backstory of the demonic tendencies in modern culture, and there being traced a number of performances of «Eurovision» of the late 1990s and 2000s. …”
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Always Already Monsters—<i>BioShock</i>’s (2007) ‘Splicers’ as Computational Others by Jaroslav Švelch

“…I combine two methodological perspectives on the ‘manufacturing’ of splicers by analyzing [a] the title’s developer commentary and other official paratexts to trace the design of splicers, and [b] the game’s embedded narrative to reconstruct the diegetic backstory of splicers. I argue that video game enemies, including splicers, are ‘computational others’, who may appear human on the level of representation, but whose behavior is machinic, and driven by computational algorithms. …”
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Game Spaces Speak Volumes: Indexical Storytelling by Fernandez-Vara, Clara

“…This paper examines the different devices that videogames have used to incorporate stories through spatial design and what is known as environmental storytelling, focusing on the design elements that make the story directly relevant to gameplay beyond world-building and backstory exposition. These design-related elements are accounted for with the term indexical storytelling. …”
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