19 CFR 10.68 - Procedure.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... CONDITIONALLY FREE, SUBJECT TO A REDUCED RATE, ETC. General Provisions Theatrical Effects, Motion-Picture Films... effects, motion-picture films (including motion-picture films taken aboard a vessel for exhibition only... scenery, properties, and effects and motion-picture films may be returned only with an informal entry...

19 CFR 10.68 - Procedure.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... CONDITIONALLY FREE, SUBJECT TO A REDUCED RATE, ETC. General Provisions Theatrical Effects, Motion-Picture Films... effects, motion-picture films (including motion-picture films taken aboard a vessel for exhibition only... scenery, properties, and effects and motion-picture films may be returned only with an informal entry...

32 CFR 705.9 - Availability of motion pictures to external audiences.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... UNITED STATES NAVY REGULATIONS AND OFFICIAL RECORDS PUBLIC AFFAIRS REGULATIONS § 705.9 Availability of motion pictures to external audiences. (a) Public access. Navy and Marine Corps general motion pictures and motion picture projects not previously cleared for public exhibition will require clearance by the...

50 CFR 27.71 - Motion or sound pictures.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... 50 Wildlife and Fisheries 6 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Motion or sound pictures. 27.71 Section 27... (CONTINUED) THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SYSTEM PROHIBITED ACTS Disturbing Violations: Light and Sound Equipment § 27.71 Motion or sound pictures. The taking or filming of any motion or sound pictures on a...

50 CFR 27.71 - Motion or sound pictures.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-10-01

... 50 Wildlife and Fisheries 9 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Motion or sound pictures. 27.71 Section 27... (CONTINUED) THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SYSTEM PROHIBITED ACTS Disturbing Violations: Light and Sound Equipment § 27.71 Motion or sound pictures. The taking or filming of any motion or sound pictures on a...

50 CFR 27.71 - Motion or sound pictures.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

... 50 Wildlife and Fisheries 8 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Motion or sound pictures. 27.71 Section 27... (CONTINUED) THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SYSTEM PROHIBITED ACTS Disturbing Violations: Light and Sound Equipment § 27.71 Motion or sound pictures. The taking or filming of any motion or sound pictures on a...

3D motion picture of transparent gas flow by parallel phase-shifting digital holography

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Awatsuji, Yasuhiro; Fukuda, Takahito; Wang, Yexin; Xia, Peng; Kakue, Takashi; Nishio, Kenzo; Matoba, Osamu

2018-03-01

Parallel phase-shifting digital holography is a technique capable of recording three-dimensional (3D) motion picture of dynamic object, quantitatively. This technique can record single hologram of an object with an image sensor having a phase-shift array device and reconstructs the instantaneous 3D image of the object with a computer. In this technique, a single hologram in which the multiple holograms required for phase-shifting digital holography are multiplexed by using space-division multiplexing technique pixel by pixel. We demonstrate 3D motion picture of dynamic and transparent gas flow recorded and reconstructed by the technique. A compressed air duster was used to generate the gas flow. A motion picture of the hologram of the gas flow was recorded at 180,000 frames/s by parallel phase-shifting digital holography. The phase motion picture of the gas flow was reconstructed from the motion picture of the hologram. The Abel inversion was applied to the phase motion picture and then the 3D motion picture of the gas flow was obtained.

78 FR 46810 - Safety Zone; Motion Picture Filming; Chicago River; Chicago, IL

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2013-08-02

...-AA00 Safety Zone; Motion Picture Filming; Chicago River; Chicago, IL AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. ACTION... portion of the Chicago River due to the filming of a motion picture. These temporary safety zones are..., rigging, and other hazards involved in the filming of a motion picture. DATES: This rule will be enforced...

36 CFR 1254.88 - What are the rules for the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Research Room at the National...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Research Room at the National Archives at College Park? 1254.88 Section... to Using Copying Equipment § 1254.88 What are the rules for the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video.... (c) We provide you with a copy of the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Research Room rules and a...

36 CFR 1254.88 - What are the rules for the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Research Room at the National...

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2010-07-01

... Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Research Room at the National Archives at College Park? 1254.88 Section... to Using Copying Equipment § 1254.88 What are the rules for the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video.... (c) We provide you with a copy of the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Research Room rules and a...

36 CFR 1254.88 - What are the rules for the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Research Room at the National...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Research Room at the National Archives at College Park? 1254.88 Section... to Using Copying Equipment § 1254.88 What are the rules for the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video.... (c) We provide you with a copy of the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Research Room rules and a...

36 CFR 1254.88 - What are the rules for the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Research Room at the National...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Research Room at the National Archives at College Park? 1254.88 Section... to Using Copying Equipment § 1254.88 What are the rules for the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video.... (c) We provide you with a copy of the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Research Room rules and a...

Picture This Character: Using Imagery To Teach a Japanese Syllabary.

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Thompson, Joyce D.; Wakefield, John F.

This study examined the effectiveness of imagery to teach native English speakers to associate hiragana characters (a Japanese script) with the spoken Japanese syllables that the characters represent. Twenty-one adults in a psychology of learning class for teachers were taught to picture a hiragana character in such a way as to establish an…

36 CFR § 1254.88 - What are the rules for the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Research Room at the National...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Research Room at the National Archives at College Park? § 1254.88... to Using Copying Equipment § 1254.88 What are the rules for the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video.... (c) We provide you with a copy of the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Research Room rules and a...

Study of journal bearing dynamics using 3-dimensional motion picture graphics

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Brewe, D. E.; Sosoka, D. J.

1985-01-01

Computer generated motion pictures of three dimensional graphics are being used to analyze journal bearings under dynamically loaded conditions. The motion pictures simultaneously present the motion of the journal and the pressures predicted within the fluid film of the bearing as they evolve in time. The correct prediction of these fluid film pressures can be complicated by the development of cavitation within the fluid. The numerical model that is used predicts the formation of the cavitation bubble and its growth, downstream movement, and subsequent collapse. A complete physical picture is created in the motion picture as the journal traverses through the entire dynamic cycle.

A Javascript library that uses Windows Script Host (WSH) to analyze prostate motion data fragmented across a multitude of Excel files by the Calypso 4D Localization System.

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Vali, Faisal S; Hsi, Alex; Cho, Paul; Parsai, Homayon; Garver, Elizabeth; Garza, Richard

2008-11-06

The Calypso 4D Localization System records prostate motion continuously during radiation treatment. It stores the data across thousands of Excel files. We developed Javascript (JScript) libraries for Windows Script Host (WSH) that use ActiveX Data Objects, OLE Automation and SQL to statistically analyze the data and display the results as a comprehensible Excel table. We then leveraged these libraries in other research to perform vector math on data spread across multiple access databases.

Departure scripts and life review of parents living with abusive adult children with mental disorder.

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Avieli, Hila; Smeloy, Yael; Band-Winterstein, Tova

2015-08-01

Increasing numbers of aging parents are finding themselves in the role of caregiver for their mentally ill adult child due to global deinstitutionalization policy. The aim of this article is to explore preparations for the end of life in light of the life review process among old parents of abusive children with mental disorder. Data collection was performed through in-depth semi-structured interviews with 20 parents, followed by phenomenological analysis. Five different types of departure scripts emerged: a pragmatic departure script, a burned-out departure script, a dead-end departure script, an optimistic departure script, and a violent departure script. The parents in this study tended to interpret events in their past to fit their perception of the current relationship with their child, thus connecting past, present, and future into one coherent picture. Years of extended care have led to a unique aging process which does not allow separation from the child or the development of a sense of closure that characterizes the aging process. This calls for better insights and deeper understanding in regard to intervention with such families. Copyright © 2015. Published by Elsevier Inc.

Suggestions for Early Motion Picture Research.

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Jowett, Garth S.

Only by examining the motion picture as a mass medium, shaped and defined within a specific socio-cultural period in history, can we increase our understanding of the function and contribution of this entertainment form. This paper offers several suggestions for further research into early motion picture history. One glaring deficiency among…

I Dream of J.J., or Affordances and Motion Pictures.

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Anderson, Joseph D.

1995-01-01

Categorizes attempts to account for how viewers garner meanings from motion pictures as either semiotic, realist, or conventionalist. Proposes an alternative explanation based on J. J. Gibson's ecological theory of perception. Offers his concept of "affordances" as the key to an explanation of how meanings in motion pictures are…

Audio Implementation of Still and Motion Pictures. Final Report.

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Allen, William H.; And Others

An experiment comparing the pedagogical effectiveness of five different modes of audio narration in motion and still pictures showed only small differences in sixth graders' learning. Ten experimental groups were formed in which the 351 subjects viewed motion pictures and still slides accompanied by supplementary, redundant, directive,…

Social Attitudes toward Cerebral Palsy and Potential Uses in Medical Education Based on the Analysis of Motion Pictures.

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Jóźwiak, Marek; Chen, Brian Po-Jung; Musielak, Bartosz; Fabiszak, Jacek; Grzegorzewski, Andrzej

2015-01-01

This study presents how motion pictures illustrate a person with cerebral palsy (CP), the social impact from the media, and the possibility of cerebral palsy education by using motion pictures. 937 motion pictures were reviewed in this study. With the criteria of nondocumentary movies, possibility of disability classification, and availability, the total number of motion pictures about CP was reduced to 34. The geographical distribution of movie number ever produced is as follows: North America 12, Europe 11, India 2, East Asia 6, and Australia 3. The CP incidences of different motor types in real world and in movies, respectively, are 78-86%, 65% (Spastic); 1.5-6%, 9% (Dyskinetic); 6.5-9%, 26% (Mixed); 3%, 0% (Ataxic); 3-4%, 0% (Hypotonic). The CP incidences of different Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) levels in real world and in movies, respectively, are 40-51%, 47% (Level I + II); 14-19%, 12% (Level III); 34-41%, 41% (Level IV + V). Comparisons of incidence between the real world and the movies are surprisingly matching. Motion pictures honestly reflect the general public's point of view to CP patients in our real world. With precise selection and medical professional explanations, motion pictures can play the suitable role making CP understood more clearly.

The Reactivation of Motion influences Size Categorization in a Visuo-Haptic Illusion.

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Rey, Amandine E; Dabic, Stephanie; Versace, Remy; Navarro, Jordan

2016-09-01

People simulate themselves moving when they view a picture, read a sentence, or simulate a situation that involves motion. The simulation of motion has often been studied in conceptual tasks such as language comprehension. However, most of these studies investigated the direct influence of motion simulation on tasks inducing motion. This article investigates whether a mo- tion induced by the reactivation of a dynamic picture can influence a task that did not require motion processing. In a first phase, a dynamic picture and a static picture were systematically presented with a vibrotactile stimulus (high or low frequency). The second phase of the experiment used a priming paradigm in which a vibrotactile stimulus was presented alone and followed by pictures of objects. Participants had to categorize objects as large or small relative to their typical size (simulated size). Results showed that when the target object was preceded by the vibrotactile stimulus previously associated with the dynamic picture, participants perceived all the objects as larger and categorized them more quickly when the objects were typically "large" and more slowly when the objects were typically "small." In light of embodied cognition theories, this bias in participants' perception is assumed to be caused by an induced forward motion. generated by the reactivated dynamic picture, which affects simulation of the size of the objects.

Scripting human animations in a virtual environment

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Goldsby, Michael E.; Pandya, Abhilash K.; Maida, James C.

1994-01-01

The current deficiencies of virtual environment (VE) are well known: annoying lag time in drawing the current view, drastically simplified environments to reduce that time lag, low resolution and narrow field of view. Animation scripting is an application of VE technology which can be carried out successfully despite these deficiencies. The final product is a smoothly moving high resolution animation displaying detailed models. In this system, the user is represented by a human computer model with the same body proportions. Using magnetic tracking, the motions of the model's upper torso, head and arms are controlled by the user's movements (18 degrees of freedom). The model's lower torso and global position and orientation are controlled by a spaceball and keypad (12 degrees of freedom). Using this system human motion scripts can be extracted from the user's movements while immersed in a simplified virtual environment. Recorded data is used to define key frames; motion is interpolated between them and post processing adds a more detailed environment. The result is a considerable savings in time and a much more natural-looking movement of a human figure in a smooth and seamless animation.

78 FR 57570 - Safety Zone; Motion Picture Production; Chicago, Illinois

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2013-09-19

...-AA00 Safety Zone; Motion Picture Production; Chicago, Illinois AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. ACTION: Notice... motion picture filming in Calumet Harbor, Chicago, IL from 9 p.m. until 6 a.m., from September 15 through September 29, 2013. This action is necessary and intended to ensure safety of life on navigable waters...

You Can See Film through Digital: A Report from Where the Archiving of Motion Picture Film Stands

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Tochigi, Akira

In recent years, digital technology has brought drastic change to the archiving of motion picture film. By collecting digital media as well as film, many conventional film archives have transformed themselves into moving image archives or audiovisual archives. As well, digital technology has expanded the possibility of the restoration of motion picture film in comparison with conventional photochemical (analog) restoration. This paper first redefines some fundamental terms regarding the archiving of motion picture film and discusses the conditions which need consideration for film archiving in Japan. With a few examples of the recent restoration projects conducted by National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, this paper then clarifies new challenges inherent in digital restoration and urges the importance of better appreciation of motion picture film.

Social Attitudes toward Cerebral Palsy and Potential Uses in Medical Education Based on the Analysis of Motion Pictures

PubMed Central

Jóźwiak, Marek; Chen, Brian Po-Jung; Musielak, Bartosz; Fabiszak, Jacek; Grzegorzewski, Andrzej

2015-01-01

This study presents how motion pictures illustrate a person with cerebral palsy (CP), the social impact from the media, and the possibility of cerebral palsy education by using motion pictures. 937 motion pictures were reviewed in this study. With the criteria of nondocumentary movies, possibility of disability classification, and availability, the total number of motion pictures about CP was reduced to 34. The geographical distribution of movie number ever produced is as follows: North America 12, Europe 11, India 2, East Asia 6, and Australia 3. The CP incidences of different motor types in real world and in movies, respectively, are 78–86%, 65% (Spastic); 1.5–6%, 9% (Dyskinetic); 6.5–9%, 26% (Mixed); 3%, 0% (Ataxic); 3-4%, 0% (Hypotonic). The CP incidences of different Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) levels in real world and in movies, respectively, are 40–51%, 47% (Level I + II); 14–19%, 12% (Level III); 34–41%, 41% (Level IV + V). Comparisons of incidence between the real world and the movies are surprisingly matching. Motion pictures honestly reflect the general public's point of view to CP patients in our real world. With precise selection and medical professional explanations, motion pictures can play the suitable role making CP understood more clearly. PMID:26257472

Using Motion Pictures to Teach Management: Refocusing the Camera Lens through the Infusion Approach to Diversity

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Bumpus, Minnette A.

2005-01-01

Motion pictures and television shows can provide mediums to facilitate the learning of management and organizational behavior theories and concepts. Although the motion pictures and television shows cited in the literature cover a broad range of cinematic categories, racial inclusion is limited. The objectives of this article are to document the…

The Motion Picture and the Teaching of English.

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Sheridan, Marion C.; And Others

Written to help a viewer watch a motion picture perceptively, this book explains the characteristics of the film as an art form and examines the role of motion pictures in the English curriculum. Specific topics covered include (1) the technical aspects of the production of films (the order of "shots," camera angle, and point of view), (2) the…

Encodings of implied motion for animate and inanimate object categories in the two visual pathways.

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Lu, Zhengang; Li, Xueting; Meng, Ming

2016-01-15

Previous research has proposed two separate pathways for visual processing: the dorsal pathway for "where" information vs. the ventral pathway for "what" information. Interestingly, the middle temporal cortex (MT) in the dorsal pathway is involved in representing implied motion from still pictures, suggesting an interaction between motion and object related processing. However, the relationship between how the brain encodes implied motion and how the brain encodes object/scene categories is unclear. To address this question, fMRI was used to measure activity along the two pathways corresponding to different animate and inanimate categories of still pictures with different levels of implied motion speed. In the visual areas of both pathways, activity induced by pictures of humans and animals was hardly modulated by the implied motion speed. By contrast, activity in these areas correlated with the implied motion speed for pictures of inanimate objects and scenes. The interaction between implied motion speed and stimuli category was significant, suggesting different encoding mechanisms of implied motion for animate-inanimate distinction. Further multivariate pattern analysis of activity in the dorsal pathway revealed significant effects of stimulus category that are comparable to the ventral pathway. Moreover, still pictures of inanimate objects/scenes with higher implied motion speed evoked activation patterns that were difficult to differentiate from those evoked by pictures of humans and animals, indicating a functional role of implied motion in the representation of object categories. These results provide novel evidence to support integrated encoding of motion and object categories, suggesting a rethink of the relationship between the two visual pathways. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Comparative Effects of Seven Verbal-Visual Presentation Modes Upon Learning Tasks.

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Russell, Josiah Johnson, IV

A study was made of the comparative media effects upon teaching the component learning tasks of concept learning: classification, generalization, and application. The seven selected methods of presenting stimuli to the learners were: motion pictures with spoken verbal; motion pictures, silent; still pictures with spoken verbal; still pictures,…

The 2-d CCD Data Reduction Cookbook

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Davenhall, A. C.; Privett, G. J.; Taylor, M. B.

This cookbook presents simple recipes and scripts for reducing direct images acquired with optical CCD detectors. Using these recipes and scripts you can correct un-processed images obtained from CCDs for various instrumental effects to retrieve an accurate picture of the field of sky observed. The recipes and scripts use standard software available at all Starlink sites. The topics covered include: creating and applying bias and flat-field corrections, registering frames and creating a stack or mosaic of registered frames. Related auxiliary tasks, such as converting between different data formats, displaying images and calculating image statistics are also presented. In addition to the recipes and scripts, sufficient background material is presented to explain the procedures and techniques used. The treatment is deliberately practical rather than theoretical, in keeping with the aim of providing advice on the actual reduction of observations. Additional material outlines some of the differences between using conventional optical CCDs and the similar arrays used to observe at infrared wavelengths.

29 CFR 541.709 - Motion picture producing industry.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... DEFINING AND DELIMITING THE EXEMPTIONS FOR EXECUTIVE, ADMINISTRATIVE, PROFESSIONAL, COMPUTER AND OUTSIDE SALES EMPLOYEES Definitions and Miscellaneous Provisions § 541.709 Motion picture producing industry...

29 CFR 541.709 - Motion picture producing industry.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... DEFINING AND DELIMITING THE EXEMPTIONS FOR EXECUTIVE, ADMINISTRATIVE, PROFESSIONAL, COMPUTER AND OUTSIDE SALES EMPLOYEES Definitions and Miscellaneous Provisions § 541.709 Motion picture producing industry...

29 CFR 541.709 - Motion picture producing industry.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... DEFINING AND DELIMITING THE EXEMPTIONS FOR EXECUTIVE, ADMINISTRATIVE, PROFESSIONAL, COMPUTER AND OUTSIDE SALES EMPLOYEES Definitions and Miscellaneous Provisions § 541.709 Motion picture producing industry...

29 CFR 541.709 - Motion picture producing industry.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... DEFINING AND DELIMITING THE EXEMPTIONS FOR EXECUTIVE, ADMINISTRATIVE, PROFESSIONAL, COMPUTER AND OUTSIDE SALES EMPLOYEES Definitions and Miscellaneous Provisions § 541.709 Motion picture producing industry...

29 CFR 541.709 - Motion picture producing industry.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... DEFINING AND DELIMITING THE EXEMPTIONS FOR EXECUTIVE, ADMINISTRATIVE, PROFESSIONAL, COMPUTER AND OUTSIDE SALES EMPLOYEES Definitions and Miscellaneous Provisions § 541.709 Motion picture producing industry...

Holographic motion picture camera with Doppler shift compensation

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Kurtz, R. L. (Inventor)

1976-01-01

A holographic motion picture camera is reported for producing three dimensional images by employing an elliptical optical system. There is provided in one of the beam paths (the object or reference beam path) a motion compensator which enables the camera to photograph faster moving objects.

The Syntax of Moving Images: Principles and Applications.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Metallinos, Nikos

This paper examines the various theories of motion relating to visual communication media, discusses the syntactic rules of moving images derived from those of still pictures, and underlines the motions employed in the construction of moving images, primarily television pictures. The following theories of motion and moving images are presented:…

Communication system analysis for manned space flight

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Schilling, D. L.

1977-01-01

One- and two-dimensional adaptive delta modulator (ADM) algorithms are discussed and compared. Results are shown for bit rates of two bits/pixel, one bit/pixel and 0.5 bits/pixel. Pictures showing the difference between the encoded-decoded pictures and the original pictures are presented. The effect of channel errors on the reconstructed picture is illustrated. A two-dimensional ADM using interframe encoding is also presented. This system operates at the rate of two bits/pixel and produces excellent quality pictures when there is little motion. The effect of large amounts of motion on the reconstructed picture is described.

The Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University

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Contact Us Research Digital Edition Microfilm Edition Book Edition Motion Picture Catalogs Document Microfilm Edition Book Edition Motion Picture Catalogs Document Sampler Thomas Edison's Life Biography

The nurse as a sex object in motion pictures, 1930 to 1980.

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Kalisch, B J; Kalisch, P A; McHugh, M L

1982-09-01

A content analysis of 191 motion pictures featuring 211 nurses as significant characters was conducted to determine the nature and extent of the motion picture industry's depiction of the nurse as a sex object and to identify changes in that portrayal from 1930 to 1980. Seventy-three percent of the nurse roles characterized nurses as sex objects. The frequency and intensity of stereotypes of nurses as sex objects rose significantly during the 1960s and 1970s (p less than .0001). Exploitation of the nurse as a sex object was more common in the larger nurse roles. However, in films with a strong emphasis on professional nursing in either the story or in character development, sexual stereotyping of nurses was uncommon. It was concluded that the image of the nurse as a professional care giver was incompatible with that of the nurse as sex object, and that the motion picture industry has opted primarily to present the latter image. The extremely negative sexual stereotype of nursing promulgated during the past 20 years is cause for concern. Actions that the nursing profession can employ to counter the unfavorable portrayal of nurses in 1980s motion pictures are suggested.

Aerial projection of three-dimensional motion pictures by electro-holography and parabolic mirrors.

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Kakue, Takashi; Nishitsuji, Takashi; Kawashima, Tetsuya; Suzuki, Keisuke; Shimobaba, Tomoyoshi; Ito, Tomoyoshi

2015-07-08

We demonstrate an aerial projection system for reconstructing 3D motion pictures based on holography. The system consists of an optical source, a spatial light modulator corresponding to a display and two parabolic mirrors. The spatial light modulator displays holograms calculated by computer and can reconstruct holographic motion pictures near the surface of the modulator. The two parabolic mirrors can project floating 3D images of the motion pictures formed by the spatial light modulator without mechanical scanning or rotating. In this demonstration, we used a phase-modulation-type spatial light modulator. The number of pixels and the pixel pitch of the modulator were 1,080 × 1,920 and 8.0 μm × 8.0 μm, respectively. The diameter, the height and the focal length of each parabolic mirror were 288 mm, 55 mm and 100 mm, respectively. We succeeded in aerially projecting 3D motion pictures of size ~2.5 mm(3) by this system constructed by the modulator and mirrors. In addition, by applying a fast computational algorithm for holograms, we achieved hologram calculations at ~12 ms per hologram with 4 CPU cores.

Aerial projection of three-dimensional motion pictures by electro-holography and parabolic mirrors

PubMed Central

Kakue, Takashi; Nishitsuji, Takashi; Kawashima, Tetsuya; Suzuki, Keisuke; Shimobaba, Tomoyoshi; Ito, Tomoyoshi

2015-01-01

We demonstrate an aerial projection system for reconstructing 3D motion pictures based on holography. The system consists of an optical source, a spatial light modulator corresponding to a display and two parabolic mirrors. The spatial light modulator displays holograms calculated by computer and can reconstruct holographic motion pictures near the surface of the modulator. The two parabolic mirrors can project floating 3D images of the motion pictures formed by the spatial light modulator without mechanical scanning or rotating. In this demonstration, we used a phase-modulation-type spatial light modulator. The number of pixels and the pixel pitch of the modulator were 1,080 × 1,920 and 8.0 μm × 8.0 μm, respectively. The diameter, the height and the focal length of each parabolic mirror were 288 mm, 55 mm and 100 mm, respectively. We succeeded in aerially projecting 3D motion pictures of size ~2.5 mm3 by this system constructed by the modulator and mirrors. In addition, by applying a fast computational algorithm for holograms, we achieved hologram calculations at ~12 ms per hologram with 4 CPU cores. PMID:26152453

57. Historic American Buildings Survey From Motion Picture 'Ghost of ...

Library of Congress Historic Buildings Survey, Historic Engineering Record, Historic Landscapes Survey

57. Historic American Buildings Survey From Motion Picture 'Ghost of Romance' Date of Photo: August 4, 1920 CONVENTS - Mission San Carlos Borromeo, Rio Road & Lausen Drive, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Monterey County, CA

Visual-Verbal Redundancy Effects on Television News Learning.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Reese, Stephen D.

1984-01-01

Discusses methodology and results of a study focusing on improving television's informing process by examining effects of combining visual and captioned information with a reporter's script. Results indicate redundant pictures and words enhance learning, while adding redundant print information either had no effect or detracted from learning. (MBR)

Audio Design: Creating Multi-sensory Images for the Mind.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Ferrington, Gary

1994-01-01

Explores the concept of "theater of the mind" and discusses design factors in creating audio works that effectively stimulate mental pictures, including: narrative format in audio scripting; qualities of voice; use of concrete language; music; noise versus silence; and the creation of the illusion of space using monaural, stereophonic,…

We Have Met Our Past and Our Future: Thanks for the Walk down Memory Lane

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Wiseman, Robert C.

2006-01-01

In this article, the author takes the readers for a walk down memory lane on the use of teaching aids. He shares his experience of the good old days of Audio Visual--opaque projector, motion pictures/films, recorders, and overhead projector. Computers have arrived, and now people can make graphics, pictures, motion pictures, and many different…

JavaScript Access to DICOM Network and Objects in Web Browser.

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Drnasin, Ivan; Grgić, Mislav; Gogić, Goran

2017-10-01

Digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) 3.0 standard provides the baseline for the picture archiving and communication systems (PACS). The development of Internet and various communication media initiated demand for non-DICOM access to PACS systems. Ever-increasing utilization of the web browsers, laptops and handheld devices, as opposed to desktop applications and static organizational computers, lead to development of different web technologies. The DICOM standard officials accepted those subsequently as tools of alternative access. This paper provides an overview of the current state of development of the web access technology to the DICOM repositories. It presents a different approach of using HTML5 features of the web browsers through the JavaScript language and the WebSocket protocol by enabling real-time communication with DICOM repositories. JavaScript DICOM network library, DICOM to WebSocket proxy and a proof-of-concept web application that qualifies as a DICOM 3.0 device were developed.

7. MOTION PICTURE CAMERA STAND AT BUILDING 8768. Edwards ...

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7. MOTION PICTURE CAMERA STAND AT BUILDING 8768. - Edwards Air Force Base, Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory, Observation Bunkers for Test Stand 1-A, Test Area 1-120, north end of Jupiter Boulevard, Boron, Kern County, CA

Miscellaneous artifacts relating to experiments with talking motion pictures about ...

Library of Congress Historic Buildings Survey, Historic Engineering Record, Historic Landscapes Survey

Miscellaneous artifacts relating to experiments with talking motion pictures about 1912 and to loudspeaking phonographs in the 1920s, third floor. - Thomas A. Edison Laboratories, Building No. 5, Main Street & Lakeside Avenue, West Orange, Essex County, NJ

The influence of media type on attitude toward mobile advertisements over time.

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Sung, Jungyeon; Cho, Kwangsu

2012-01-01

This study explores the relationships between consumers and mobile advertisements on attitude change over time. Two experiments were used to investigate both immediate and delayed effects of different media types on attitudes toward mobile advertisements. Experiment 1 formulated three types of advertisements corresponding to three media types: text, still pictures, and motion pictures. The results indicate that motion pictures on mobile phones significantly influence consumers' initial attitudes toward advertisements. Experiment 2, focusing on delayed effects, was conducted 4 weeks after Experiment 1. Ninety-five of the 117 participants in Experiment 1 were contacted via cellular phone. The results of Experiment 2 showed a decrease in attitude in relation to motion pictures, whereas an increase in attitude in relation to text and still pictures was observed. The findings were interpreted from the perspectives of media characteristics, consumer behavior, and advertising research.

The Influence of Media Type on Attitude Toward Mobile Advertisements Over Time

PubMed Central

Sung, Jungyeon

2012-01-01

Abstract This study explores the relationships between consumers and mobile advertisements on attitude change over time. Two experiments were used to investigate both immediate and delayed effects of different media types on attitudes toward mobile advertisements. Experiment 1 formulated three types of advertisements corresponding to three media types: text, still pictures, and motion pictures. The results indicate that motion pictures on mobile phones significantly influence consumers' initial attitudes toward advertisements. Experiment 2, focusing on delayed effects, was conducted 4 weeks after Experiment 1. Ninety-five of the 117 participants in Experiment 1 were contacted via cellular phone. The results of Experiment 2 showed a decrease in attitude in relation to motion pictures, whereas an increase in attitude in relation to text and still pictures was observed. The findings were interpreted from the perspectives of media characteristics, consumer behavior, and advertising research. PMID:21988732

The application of holography as a real-time three-dimensional motion picture camera

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Kurtz, R. L.

1973-01-01

A historical introduction to holography is presented, as well as a basic description of sideband holography for stationary objects. A brief theoretical development of both time-dependent and time-independent holography is also provided, along with an analytical and intuitive discussion of a unique holographic arrangement which allows the resolution of front surface detail from an object moving at high speeds. As an application of such a system, a real-time three-dimensional motion picture camera system is discussed and the results of a recent demonstration of the world's first true three-dimensional motion picture are given.

Mimi's Moms

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Kilman, Carrie

2013-01-01

Before Michelle Hatchell and her partner, Liz, sent their child, Mimi, to school for the first time, the family sat down and created a script. "What can you say," Hatchell prompted, "if someone asks if you have two moms?" They sent Mimi's teacher picture books depicting families with two mothers. And they met with the principal, requesting Mimi be…

Reportable STDs in Young People 15-24 Years of Age, by State

MedlinePlus

... STD 101 in a Box Home Script for Sex in the City Video STD Clinical Slides STD Clinical Slides STD Picture ... include: line graphs by year; pie charts for sex; bar charts by state and country; bar charts for age, race/ethnicity, and transmission ... Quicktime file RealPlayer file Text file ...

Theory of Mind in Williams Syndrome Assessed Using a Nonverbal Task

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Porter, Melanie A.; Coltheart, Max; Langdon, Robyn

2008-01-01

This study examined Theory of Mind in Williams syndrome (WS) and in normal chronological age-matched and mental age-matched control groups, using a picture sequencing task. This task assesses understanding of pretence, intention and false belief, while controlling for social-script knowledge and physical cause-and-effect reasoning. The task was…

75 FR 26738 - Sunshine Act Meeting Notice

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2010-05-12

... Considered: Agenda: (1) Consideration of the trading of futures and binary options based on motion picture... revenues collared futures and binary option contracts, and the Cantor Exchange (``Cantor'') The Expendables... related to MDEX's Takers opening weekend motion picture revenues collared futures and binary option...

Exploring the Language of Films.

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Roller, George E.

A film study course written for the Dade County, Fla. public schools is described which covers techniques of motion pictures and their historical development. Techniques include the "language of pictures" (distance shots, angle shots, color, lighting, arrangement), the "language of motion" (camera movement, subject movement),…

Multiplication: the use of 8 mm. film in community development.

PubMed

Spurr, N

1966-01-01

Essentially, the motion picture is a means of communication. Over the last few years, there has been a great expansion in the use of audio-visual material in teaching and a growing market for audio-visual material. In the use of motion pictures the acceptance of 8 millimeter film as a valid communication medium has revolutionalized thinking regarding the motion picture film. No longer is sound film the only kind of respectable film. The single concept film -- or silent loop film -- has shown the value of the moving picture. There are many subjects which can appeal to a wide audience and so benefit from lowered costs resulting from mass multiplication. If this was not the case, the use of motion picture film in education could never have got off the ground. Preparation for use is the real key to the most successful use of film. Personal experience suggests that village audiences in developing countries may need to be shown a film more than once in order to enable them to derive full benefit from it. There must be time given to discuss its content and implications. If motion picture film is to be made the basis of discussion, there must be some limitation to the audience size. 8 millimeter film has this advantage in that there is a limit to the size of picture which can be usefully projected. Present day 8 millimeter equipment can record and play back magnetic sound. This is of great value to the community development worker. The community development worker is faced with problems not found within the framework of formal education, and making a film, a tape recording, or taking photographs of a community to show to itself may prove a powerful catalyst to community action.

Relationship between Main Civilian Occupation and Army General Classification Test Standard Score. Part 2

DTIC Science & Technology

1945-03-07

Picture (285) ....... •"■*’ Cameraman, Motion Picture (043) 115 Canvas Cover Renairuan (OhU) ■ * Car Carpenter, Railway (046) i<" Car Mechanic...Film Editor, Motion Picture (l3l) .,,,.,♦ * 15 Filter Operator, ^ tor Supply (O83). # 10 Fingerprinter (307) ’. . * 30 Fire Fighter (383) ,. 128...Mechanic (322) .... Registered Nurse (225) ....... Repairman, Camera (042) Repairman, Canvas Cover (044) . . . Repairman, Central. Of fice (095

Non-actual motion: phenomenological analysis and linguistic evidence.

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Blomberg, Johan; Zlatev, Jordan

2015-09-01

Sentences with motion verbs describing static situations have been seen as evidence that language and cognition are geared toward dynamism and change (Talmy in Toward a cognitive semantics, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2000; Langacker in Concept, image, and symbol: the cognitive basis of grammar, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, 1990). Different concepts have been used in the literature, e.g., fictive motion, subjective motion and abstract motion to denote this. Based on phenomenological analysis, we reinterpret such concepts as reflecting different motivations for the use of such constructions (Blomberg and Zlatev in Phenom Cogn Sci 13(3):395-418, 2014). To highlight the multifaceted character of the phenomenon, we propose the concept non-actual motion (NAM), which we argue is more compatible with the situated cognition approach than explanations such as "mental simulation" (e.g., Matlock in Studies in linguistic motivation, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 2004). We investigate the expression of NAM by means of a picture-based elicitation task with speakers of Swedish, French and Thai. Pictures represented figures that either afford human motion or not (±afford); crossed with this, the figure extended either across the picture from a third-person perspective (3 pp) or from a first-person perspective (1 pp). All picture types elicited NAM-sentences with the combination [+afford, 1 pp] producing most NAM-sentences in all three languages. NAM-descriptions also conformed to language-specific patterns for the expression of actual motion. We conclude that NAM shows interaction between pre-linguistic motivations and language-specific conventions.

Conveying Movement in Music and Prosody

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Hedger, Stephen C.; Nusbaum, Howard C.; Hoeckner, Berthold

2013-01-01

We investigated whether acoustic variation of musical properties can analogically convey descriptive information about an object. Specifically, we tested whether information from the temporal structure in music interacts with perception of a visual image to form an analog perceptual representation as a natural part of music perception. In Experiment 1, listeners heard music with an accelerating or decelerating temporal pattern, and then saw a picture of a still or moving object and decided whether it was animate or inanimate – a task unrelated to the patterning of the music. Object classification was faster when musical motion matched visually depicted motion. In Experiment 2, participants heard spoken sentences that were accompanied by accelerating or decelerating music, and then were presented with a picture of a still or moving object. When motion information in the music matched motion information in the picture, participants were similarly faster to respond. Fast and slow temporal patterns without acceleration and deceleration, however, did not make participants faster when they saw a picture depicting congruent motion information (Experiment 3), suggesting that understanding temporal structure information in music may depend on specific metaphors about motion in music. Taken together, these results suggest that visuo-spatial referential information can be analogically conveyed and represented by music and can be integrated with speech or influence the understanding of speech. PMID:24146920

Motion Pictures: The Child and Adolescent as Moviegoer.

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Iosifian, S. A.; Petrovskii, V. A.

1995-01-01

Attempts a sociopolitical portrait of Russia's young people through an examination of their motion picture viewing habits combined with other survey responses. Discovers that most Russian youth are disinterested in politics, prefer violent Western movies, and remain concerned about crime although they are personally optimistic. Recommends…

"The Social Network" and the Legal Environment of Business: An Opportunity for Student-Centered Learning

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McGill, Shelley

2013-01-01

Aaron Sorkin has a passion for words--his signature movie and television scripts are fast talking, jargon laced, word pictures that are instantly recognizable. "The Social Network," Sorkin's 2011 Academy Award Winning movie about the founding of Facebook, Inc., offers more than just witty banter; it provides an ideal teaching platform for…

Motion Pictures: An Update Survey of Reference Sources, 1982-1988.

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Block, Eleanor S.

1989-01-01

Surveys motion picture reference materials published since 1982. Materials are presented in the following categories: encyclopedic works about films, filmmakers and the industry; film criticism; people on the screen and behind it; horror, science fiction and Westerns; literature on film; catalogs and filmographies; and special collections. (70…

Expermental Investigation of Supercavitating Motion of Bodies

DTIC Science & Technology

2001-02-01

information is ensured by studying of the model motion kinematics and photo- cinematography of its flow pictures. 4-9 Synchronization of work of the...on the depth 0.5 m along the flume axis. Photo- cinematography of the flow pictures was realized through the glass windows in walls of the flume and

Camera Operator and Videographer

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Moore, Pam

2007-01-01

Television, video, and motion picture camera operators produce images that tell a story, inform or entertain an audience, or record an event. They use various cameras to shoot a wide range of material, including television series, news and sporting events, music videos, motion pictures, documentaries, and training sessions. Those who film or…

32 CFR 705.8 - Motion pictures.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... OFFICIAL RECORDS PUBLIC AFFAIRS REGULATIONS § 705.8 Motion pictures. (a) The rules and procedures given in... Defense (Public Affairs) for clearance for public release. They will be accompained by five copies of the... Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs). [41 FR 29101, July 15, 1976, as amended at 44 FR 6390, Feb...

Motion Picture and Television Research Libraries in the Los Angeles Area.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Dumaux, Sally

1979-01-01

Discusses the changes in the major motion picture research collections during the past 15 years and describes the contents of the five largest remaining ones: Twentieth Century-Fox Research Library, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Research Library, Burbank Public Library--Warner Research Collection, Universal City Studios Research Library, Walt Disney…

34 CFR 3.4 - Use of the seal.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... plaques; (4) For electronic media, motion picture film, video tape and other audiovisual media prepared by...) On electronic media, motion picture film, video tape, and other audiovisual media prepared by or for... seal, replica, reproduction or embossing seal is punishable under 18 U.S.C. 506. (g) Any person using...

26 CFR 1.181-3 - Qualified film or television production.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... any motion picture film or video tape (including digital video) production the production costs of... person acquires a completed motion picture film or video tape (including digital video) that the seller... include property for which records are required to be maintained under 18 U.S.C. 2257. (c) Compensation...

34 CFR 3.4 - Use of the seal.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... plaques; (4) For electronic media, motion picture film, video tape and other audiovisual media prepared by...) On electronic media, motion picture film, video tape, and other audiovisual media prepared by or for... seal, replica, reproduction or embossing seal is punishable under 18 U.S.C. 506. (g) Any person using...

34 CFR 3.4 - Use of the seal.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... plaques; (4) For electronic media, motion picture film, video tape and other audiovisual media prepared by...) On electronic media, motion picture film, video tape, and other audiovisual media prepared by or for... seal, replica, reproduction or embossing seal is punishable under 18 U.S.C. 506. (g) Any person using...

34 CFR 3.4 - Use of the seal.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... plaques; (4) For electronic media, motion picture film, video tape and other audiovisual media prepared by...) On electronic media, motion picture film, video tape, and other audiovisual media prepared by or for... seal, replica, reproduction or embossing seal is punishable under 18 U.S.C. 506. (g) Any person using...

26 CFR 1.181-3 - Qualified film or television production.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... any motion picture film or video tape (including digital video) production the production costs of... person acquires a completed motion picture film or video tape (including digital video) that the seller... include property for which records are required to be maintained under 18 U.S.C. 2257. (c) Compensation...

26 CFR 1.181-3 - Qualified film or television production.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... any motion picture film or video tape (including digital video) production the production costs of... person acquires a completed motion picture film or video tape (including digital video) that the seller... include property for which records are required to be maintained under 18 U.S.C. 2257. (c) Compensation...

34 CFR 3.4 - Use of the seal.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... plaques; (4) For electronic media, motion picture film, video tape and other audiovisual media prepared by...) On electronic media, motion picture film, video tape, and other audiovisual media prepared by or for... seal, replica, reproduction or embossing seal is punishable under 18 U.S.C. 506. (g) Any person using...

Effective self-regulated science learning through multimedia-enriched skeleton concept maps

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Marée, Ton J.; van Bruggen, Jan M.; Jochems, Wim M. G.

2013-04-01

Background: This study combines work on concept mapping with scripted collaborative learning. Purpose: The objective was to examine the effects of self-regulated science learning through scripting students' argumentative interactions during collaborative 'multimedia-enriched skeleton concept mapping' on meaningful science learning and retention. Programme description: Each concept in the enriched skeleton concept map (ESCoM) contained annotated multimedia-rich content (pictures, text, animations or video clips) that elaborated the concept, and an embedded collaboration script to guide students' interactions. Sample: The study was performed in a Biomolecules course on the Bachelor of Applied Science program in the Netherlands. All first-year students (N=93, 31 women, 62 men, aged 17-33 years) took part in this study. Design and methods: The design used a control group who received the regular course and an experimental group working together in dyads on an ESCoM under the guidance of collaboration scripts. In order to investigate meaningful understanding and retention, a retention test was administered a month after the final exam. Results: Analysis of covariance demonstrated a significant experimental effect on the Biomolecules exam scores between the experimental group and the control, and the difference between the groups on the retention test also reached statistical significance. Conclusions: Scripted collaborative multimedia ESCoM mapping resulted in meaningful understanding and retention of the conceptual structure of the domain, the concepts, and their relations. Not only was scripted collaborative multimedia ESCoM mapping more effective than the traditional teaching approach, it was also more efficient in requiring far less teacher guidance.

IMAX camera (12-IML-1)

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

1992-01-01

The IMAX camera system is used to record on-orbit activities of interest to the public. Because of the extremely high resolution of the IMAX camera, projector, and audio systems, the audience is afforded a motion picture experience unlike any other. IMAX and OMNIMAX motion picture systems were designed to create motion picture images of superior quality and audience impact. The IMAX camera is a 65 mm, single lens, reflex viewing design with a 15 perforation per frame horizontal pull across. The frame size is 2.06 x 2.77 inches. Film travels through the camera at a rate of 336 feet per minute when the camera is running at the standard 24 frames/sec.

Automated Selection Of Pictures In Sequences

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Rorvig, Mark E.; Shelton, Robert O.

1995-01-01

Method of automated selection of film or video motion-picture frames for storage or examination developed. Beneficial in situations in which quantity of visual information available exceeds amount stored or examined by humans in reasonable amount of time, and/or necessary to reduce large number of motion-picture frames to few conveying significantly different information in manner intermediate between movie and comic book or storyboard. For example, computerized vision system monitoring industrial process programmed to sound alarm when changes in scene exceed normal limits.

36 CFR 1005.5 - Commercial photography.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 36 Parks, Forests, and Public Property 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Commercial photography. 1005.5 Section 1005.5 Parks, Forests, and Public Property PRESIDIO TRUST COMMERCIAL AND PRIVATE OPERATIONS § 1005.5 Commercial photography. (a) Motion pictures, television. Before any motion picture may be filmed or any television production or sound...

36 CFR 5.5 - Commercial photography.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 36 Parks, Forests, and Public Property 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Commercial photography. 5.5 Section 5.5 Parks, Forests, and Public Property NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR COMMERCIAL AND PRIVATE OPERATIONS § 5.5 Commercial photography. (a) Motion pictures, television. Before any motion picture may be filmed or any...

MUSIC IN MOTION PICTURES--REVIEW OF LITERATURE WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR INSTRUCTIONAL FILMS.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

ZUCKERMAN, JOHN V.

THE POSSIBLE IMFORMATIONAL, EMOTIONAL, AND CONCEPTUAL AND INTEGRATIVE FUNCTIONS OF FILM MUSIC WERE PRESENTED. A LIST OF TECHNIQUES FOR ACHIEVING THOSE FUNCTIONS AND CRITIQUES OF THOSE TECHNIQUES AS USED IN MOTION PICTURES WERE INCLUDED. TYPES OF INFORMATIONAL FUNCTIONS OF MUSIC EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED WERE--DELINEATION OF PERSONALITY OR…

Motion Pictures and Video Cassettes 1971. AV-USA Supplement 2.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Hope, Thomas W.

The financial status of the motion picture and of the video cassette industry in 1970 are reviewed. Based on production rates and income of these industries, trends are discovered. Figures on local origination of television programing and commercials are also included. The section on video cassettes includes the following information: the current…

32 CFR 705.2 - Chief of Information and the Office of Information (CHINFO).

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... agencies. (v) Maintain a library of Navy motion picture films for use by local television stations... motion picture and network television offices in the Hollywood area. Naval activities will channel all... reaction teams/resource personnel responsive to the requirements of the CNO and CHINFO, and when feasible...

32 CFR 705.2 - Chief of Information and the Office of Information (CHINFO).

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... agencies. (v) Maintain a library of Navy motion picture films for use by local television stations... motion picture and network television offices in the Hollywood area. Naval activities will channel all... reaction teams/resource personnel responsive to the requirements of the CNO and CHINFO, and when feasible...

A Survey of Motion Picture, Still Photography, and Graphic Arts Instruction.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Horrell, C. William

Over 2,500 U.S. and 60 Canadian schools provided data for this report on post secondary institutions offering programs in motion picture, still photography, and graphic arts instruction. Included are tables summarizing program-related data such as enrollment, institutions offering programs, and degrees offered. Also included is a directory of…

A View From the Sidewalk: "Flowers for Algernon,""Requiem for a Heavyweight,- "Hurricane's Corner."

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Hochberg, Frances

1968-01-01

Those high school students who are unmotivated slow-learners living in a "sense-oriented" world respond to instructional units centered around a sense-oriented medium--the motion picture. A unit incorporating "Requiem for a Heavyweight" (a motion picture), "Hurricane's Corner" (an editorial about a fighter), and…

Stimulus Shift: A Demonstration Motion Picture. Final Report.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

McLean, James E.

The purposes of the project described were to demonstrate the use of innovative stimulus shift techniques in articulation and language training, and to experiment with use of motion picture photography in the education and instruction of clinicians and therapists working with speech handicapped children. A 37-minute sound color film was produced…

38 CFR 1.9 - Description, use, and display of VA seal and flag.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

...) Official awards, certificates, medals, and plaques. (E) Motion picture film, video tape, and other... governments. (F) Official awards, certificates, and medals. (G) Motion picture film, video tape, and other... with this section shall be subject to the penalty provisions of 18 U.S.C. 506, 701, or 1017, providing...

38 CFR 1.9 - Description, use, and display of VA seal and flag.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

...) Official awards, certificates, medals, and plaques. (E) Motion picture film, video tape, and other... governments. (F) Official awards, certificates, and medals. (G) Motion picture film, video tape, and other... with this section shall be subject to the penalty provisions of 18 U.S.C. 506, 701, or 1017, providing...

38 CFR 1.9 - Description, use, and display of VA seal and flag.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

...) Official awards, certificates, medals, and plaques. (E) Motion picture film, video tape, and other... governments. (F) Official awards, certificates, and medals. (G) Motion picture film, video tape, and other... with this section shall be subject to the penalty provisions of 18 U.S.C. 506, 701, or 1017, providing...

10 CFR 1002.12 - Use of replicas, reproductions, and embossing seals.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

..., certificates, medals, and plaques. (5) Motion picture film, video tape and other audiovisual media prepared by...) Motion picture film, video tape, and other audiovisual media prepared by or for DOE and attributed... with this part shall be subject to the provisions of 18 U.S.C. 1017, providing penalties for the...

10 CFR 1002.12 - Use of replicas, reproductions, and embossing seals.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

..., certificates, medals, and plaques. (5) Motion picture film, video tape and other audiovisual media prepared by...) Motion picture film, video tape, and other audiovisual media prepared by or for DOE and attributed... with this part shall be subject to the provisions of 18 U.S.C. 1017, providing penalties for the...

10 CFR 1002.12 - Use of replicas, reproductions, and embossing seals.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

..., certificates, medals, and plaques. (5) Motion picture film, video tape and other audiovisual media prepared by...) Motion picture film, video tape, and other audiovisual media prepared by or for DOE and attributed... with this part shall be subject to the provisions of 18 U.S.C. 1017, providing penalties for the...

38 CFR 1.9 - Description, use, and display of VA seal and flag.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

...) Official awards, certificates, medals, and plaques. (E) Motion picture film, video tape, and other... governments. (F) Official awards, certificates, and medals. (G) Motion picture film, video tape, and other... with this section shall be subject to the penalty provisions of 18 U.S.C. 506, 701, or 1017, providing...

10 CFR 1002.12 - Use of replicas, reproductions, and embossing seals.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

..., certificates, medals, and plaques. (5) Motion picture film, video tape and other audiovisual media prepared by...) Motion picture film, video tape, and other audiovisual media prepared by or for DOE and attributed... with this part shall be subject to the provisions of 18 U.S.C. 1017, providing penalties for the...

10 CFR 1002.12 - Use of replicas, reproductions, and embossing seals.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

..., certificates, medals, and plaques. (5) Motion picture film, video tape and other audiovisual media prepared by...) Motion picture film, video tape, and other audiovisual media prepared by or for DOE and attributed... with this part shall be subject to the provisions of 18 U.S.C. 1017, providing penalties for the...

38 CFR 1.9 - Description, use, and display of VA seal and flag.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

...) Official awards, certificates, medals, and plaques. (E) Motion picture film, video tape, and other... governments. (F) Official awards, certificates, and medals. (G) Motion picture film, video tape, and other... with this section shall be subject to the penalty provisions of 18 U.S.C. 506, 701, or 1017, providing...

37 CFR 202.20 - Deposit of copies and phonorecords for copyright registration.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... motion pictures made from pre-existing black and white motion pictures, in addition to the deposit of one... work consists of a repeated pictorial or graphic design, the complete design and at least part of one.... (xviii) Architectural works. (A) For designs of unconstructed buildings, the deposit must consist of one...

Firearms in major motion pictures, 1995-2004.

PubMed

Binswanger, Ingrid A; Cowan, John A

2009-03-01

Firearms are a major cause of injury and death. We sought to determine (1) the prevalence of movie scenes that depicted firearms and verbal firearm safety messages; (2) the context and health outcomes in firearm scenes; and (3) the association between the Motion Picture Association of America ratings and firearm scene characteristics. Ten top revenue-grossing motion pictures were selected for each year from 1995 to 2004 in descending order of gross revenues. Data on firearm scenes were collected by movie coders using dual-monitor computer workstations and real-time collection tools. Seventy of the 100 movies had scenes with firearms and the majority of movies with firearms were rated PG-13. Firearm scenes (N = 624) accounted for 17% of screen time in movies with firearms. Among firearm scenes, crime or illegal activity was involved in 45%, deaths occurred in 19%, and injuries occurred in 12%. A verbal reference to safety was made in 0.8%. Depictions of firearms in top revenue-grossing movies were common, but safety messages were exceedingly rare. Major motion pictures present an under-used opportunity for education about firearm safety.

Naked Bodies and Nasty Pictures: Decoding Sex Scripts in Preadolescence, Re-Examining Normative Nudity through Art Education

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Bey, Sharif

2011-01-01

Through an analysis of his lived narratives, the author discusses the formative experiences some preadolescent boys have with nudity/nakedness as well as the initial experiences young male art students and teachers have with the nude in academia. This article examines how heteronormative ideas about sex--gender and professionalism--limit the…

Dissipation and entropy production in open quantum systems

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Majima, H.; Suzuki, A.

2010-11-01

A microscopic description of an open system is generally expressed by the Hamiltonian of the form: Htot = Hsys + Henviron + Hsys-environ. We developed a microscopic theory of entropy and derived a general formula, so-called "entropy-Hamiltonian relation" (EHR), that connects the entropy of the system to the interaction Hamiltonian represented by Hsys-environ for a nonequilibrium open quantum system. To derive the EHR formula, we mapped the open quantum system to the representation space of the Liouville-space formulation or thermo field dynamics (TFD), and thus worked on the representation space Script L := Script H otimes , where Script H denotes the ordinary Hilbert space while the tilde Hilbert space conjugates to Script H. We show that the natural transformation (mapping) of nonequilibrium open quantum systems is accomplished within the theoretical structure of TFD. By using the obtained EHR formula, we also derived the equation of motion for the distribution function of the system. We demonstrated that by knowing the microscopic description of the interaction, namely, the specific form of Hsys-environ on the representation space Script L, the EHR formulas enable us to evaluate the entropy of the system and to gain some information about entropy for nonequilibrium open quantum systems.

Time-Lapse Motion Picture Technique Applied to the Study of Geological Processes.

PubMed

Miller, R D; Crandell, D R

1959-09-25

Light-weight, battery-operated timers were built and coupled to 16-mm motion-picture cameras having apertures controlled by photoelectric cells. The cameras were placed adjacent to Emmons Glacier on Mount Rainier. The film obtained confirms the view that exterior time-lapse photography can be applied to the study of slow-acting geologic processes.

The Motion Picture Audience: A Neglected Aspect of Film Research.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Austin, Bruce A.

There has been little valid and reliable research of the motion picture audience. Specific reasons for the movie industry's own inattention to audience research include the early popularity of films and the fact that since the industry does not sell advertising it does not need to account for its audience size and preferences. Some researchers…

The Development of a Computer Controlled Super 8 Motion Picture Projector.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Reynolds, Eldon J.

Instructors in Child Development at the University of Texas at Austin selected sound motion pictures as the most effective medium to simulate the observation of children in nursery laboratories. A computer controlled projector was designed for this purpose. An interface and control unit controls the Super 8 projector from a time-sharing computer…

Motion Pictures and Real-Life Violence; What the Research Says.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Schramm, Wilbur

There is evidence that violence in motion pictures viewed by children on screen or television can contribute to violence in real life, although the movies can rarely be blamed as the sole cause of anti-social conduct. Clinical reports cite instances of the effect on "susceptible" youngsters; e.g., emotionally disturbed individuals. Long-term…

37 CFR 202.20 - Deposit of copies and phonorecords for copyright registration.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... motion pictures made from pre-existing black and white motion pictures, in addition to the deposit of one... work consists of a repeated pictorial or graphic design, the complete design and at least part of one... one complete copy of the best edition of each issue included in the group registration, or a digital...

Observations of the freeze/thaw performance of lithium fluoride by motion picture photography

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Jaworske, D. A.; Perry, W. D.

1991-01-01

To gain direct observation of the molten salt phase change, a novel containerless technique was developed where the high surface tension of lithium fluoride was used to suspend a bead of the molten salt inside a specially designed wire cage. By varying the current passing through the wire, the cage also served as a variable heat source. In this way, the freeze/thaw performance of the lithium fluoride could be photographed by motion picture photography without the influence of container walls. The motion picture photography of the lithium fluoride sample revealed several zones during the phase change, a solid zone and a liquid zone, as expected, and a slush zone that was predicted by thermal analysis modeling.

Integration of a clinical trial database with a PACS

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

van Herk, M.

2014-03-01

Many clinical trials use Electronic Case Report Forms (ECRF), e.g., from OpenClinica. Trial data is augmented if DICOM scans, dose cubes, etc. from the Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) are included for data mining. Unfortunately, there is as yet no structured way to collect DICOM objects in trial databases. In this paper, we obtain a tight integration of ECRF and PACS using open source software. Methods: DICOM identifiers for selected images/series/studies are stored in associated ECRF events (e.g., baseline) as follows: 1) JavaScript added to OpenClinica communicates using HTML with a gateway server inside the hospitals firewall; 2) On this gateway, an open source DICOM server runs scripts to query and select the data, returning anonymized identifiers; 3) The scripts then collects, anonymizes, zips and transmits selected data to a central trial server; 4) Here data is stored in a DICOM archive which allows authorized ECRF users to view and download the anonymous images associated with each event. Results: All integration scripts are open source. The PACS administrator configures the anonymization script and decides to use the gateway in passive (receiving) mode or in an active mode going out to the PACS to gather data. Our ECRF centric approach supports automatic data mining by iterating over the cases in the ECRF database, providing the identifiers to load images and the clinical data to correlate with image analysis results. Conclusions: Using open source software and web technology, a tight integration has been achieved between PACS and ECRF.

Motor mapping of implied actions during perception of emotional body language.

PubMed

Borgomaneri, Sara; Gazzola, Valeria; Avenanti, Alessio

2012-04-01

Perceiving and understanding emotional cues is critical for survival. Using the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) previous TMS studies have found that watching humans in emotional pictures increases motor excitability relative to seeing landscapes or household objects, suggesting that emotional cues may prime the body for action. Here we tested whether motor facilitation to emotional pictures may reflect the simulation of the human motor behavior implied in the pictures occurring independently of its emotional valence. Motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) to single-pulse TMS of the left motor cortex were recorded from hand muscles during observation and categorization of emotional and neutral pictures. In experiment 1 participants watched neutral, positive and negative IAPS stimuli, while in experiment 2, they watched pictures depicting human emotional (joyful, fearful), neutral body movements and neutral static postures. Experiment 1 confirms the increase in excitability for emotional IAPS stimuli found in previous research and shows, however, that more implied motion is perceived in emotional relative to neutral scenes. Experiment 2 shows that motor excitability and implied motion scores for emotional and neutral body actions were comparable and greater than for static body postures. In keeping with embodied simulation theories, motor response to emotional pictures may reflect the simulation of the action implied in the emotional scenes. Action simulation may occur independently of whether the observed implied action carries emotional or neutral meanings. Our study suggests the need of controlling implied motion when exploring motor response to emotional pictures of humans. Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

David Douglas Duncan's Changing Views on War: An Audio-Visual Presentation.

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Politowski, Richard

This paper is the script for a slide presentation about photographer David Douglas Duncan and his view of war. It is intended to be used with slides made from pictures Duncan took during World War II, the Korean War, and the war in Viet Nam and published in various books and periodicals. It discusses a shift in emphasis to be seen both in the…

The Texas Production Manual: A Source Book for the Motion Picture and Video Industry. Fourth Edition.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Kuttruff, Alma J., Ed.

This manual is a cross-referenced directory to film industry personnel and services available in the State of Texas. The Who's Who section contains an alphabetical listing of companies and individuals in the state engaged in some aspect of motion picture or video production. These listings include brief summaries of each company and individuals'…

Stereotypes of the Latin Image in American Films: Silent Period to 1945.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Svenningsen, Karen

This paper presents a history of motion pictures that focuses on how motion pictures, from 1894 to the present, have portrayed Latins. The role that Hollywood has played in the perpetuation of stereotypes is illustrated. There is an explanation of how film has illuminated a world beyond everyday experiences and has introduced the movie-goer to new…

Operation Ivy. Report to the Scientific Director. Documentary photography

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Gaylord, J.L.

1985-09-01

The objective of Task Unit 9 was to record on film, both still and motion picture, the activities connected with certain events and programs of Operation Ivy. Task Unit 9 accomplished all the necessary field photography and was still in the process of editing this footage to form a completed motion-picture record at the time this report was written.

Motion Pictures for the Study of India: A Guide to Classroom Films.

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Vestal, Theodore M.

After a three year review of films on India available in the United States, the Resource Center offered this guide to those motion pictures adjudged best for use in American classrooms. There are twelve documentary films and four commercial feature films included for use at any level of school, college, or university study: Child of the Streets; A…

Indexical Relations and Sound Motion Pictures in L2 Curricula: The Dynamic Role of the Teacher

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Chen, Liang; Oller, John W., Jr.

2005-01-01

Well-chosen sound motion pictures (SMPs) can be excellent language teaching tools for presenting facts and providing comprehensible input in the target language. They give access to content and authentic surface forms in the target language as well as to the associations between them. SMPs also allow repeated exposures, but they are rarely…

37 CFR 202.20 - Deposit of copies and phonorecords for copyright registration.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... motion pictures made from pre-existing black and white motion pictures, in addition to the deposit of one... design and at least part of one repetition must be shown. If the sheetlike material in or on which a... consist of one complete copy of the best edition of each issue included in the group registration. In...

37 CFR 202.20 - Deposit of copies and phonorecords for copyright registration.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... motion pictures made from pre-existing black and white motion pictures, in addition to the deposit of one... design and at least part of one repetition must be shown. If the sheetlike material in or on which a... must consist of one complete copy of the best edition of each issue included in the group registration...

Methodology for stereoscopic motion-picture quality assessment

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Voronov, Alexander; Vatolin, Dmitriy; Sumin, Denis; Napadovsky, Vyacheslav; Borisov, Alexey

2013-03-01

Creating and processing stereoscopic video imposes additional quality requirements related to view synchronization. In this work we propose a set of algorithms for detecting typical stereoscopic-video problems, which appear owing to imprecise setup of capture equipment or incorrect postprocessing. We developed a methodology for analyzing the quality of S3D motion pictures and for revealing their most problematic scenes. We then processed 10 modern stereo films, including Avatar, Resident Evil: Afterlife and Hugo, and analyzed changes in S3D-film quality over the years. This work presents real examples of common artifacts (color and sharpness mismatch, vertical disparity and excessive horizontal disparity) in the motion pictures we processed, as well as possible solutions for each problem. Our results enable improved quality assessment during the filming and postproduction stages.

Effects of grade and conditions of motion on children's interpretation of implied motion in pictures.

PubMed

Downs, E; Jenkins, S J

1996-12-01

Interpretation of motion under three levels of motion cues for 36 kindergarten and 36 third-grade children was examined. Analysis indicated that third-grade children were more skillful at identifying motion than kindergartners and postural cues were more effective than flow lines.

A motion picture presentation of magnetic pulsations

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Suzuki, A.; Kim, J. S.; Sugura, M.; Nagano, H.

1981-01-01

Using the data obtained from the IMS North American magnetometer network stations at high latitudes, a motion picture was made by a computer technique, describing time changes of Pc5 and Pi3 magnetic pulsation vectors. Examples of pulsation characteristics derived from this presentation are regional polarization changes including shifts of polarization demarcation lines, changes in the extent of an active region and its movement with time.

Holographic cinematography of time-varying reflecting and time-varying phase objects using a Nd:YAG laser.

PubMed

Decker, A J

1982-03-01

The use of a Nd:YAG laser to record holographic motion pictures of time-varying reflecting objects and time-varying phase objects is discussed. Sample frames from both types of holographic motion pictures are presented. The holographic system discussed is intended for three-dimensional flow visualization of the time-varying flows that occur in jet-engine components.

Status of Optical Disk Standards and Copy Protection Technology

DTIC Science & Technology

2000-01-01

Technology (IT), the Consumer Electronics (CE) and the Content Providers such as the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and Secure Digital Music ...and Access Control. On audio recording, Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) is leading the effort. 10 Besides these organizations, a world wide...coordinating orgainzation which ia working with the Information Technology Inductry Association (ITI), the Content Providers such as the Motion Picture

Holographic cinematography of time-varying reflecting and time-varying phase objects using a Nd:YAG laser

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Decker, A. J.

1982-01-01

The use of a Nd:YAG laser to record holographic motion pictures of time-varying reflecting objects and time-varying phase objects is discussed. Sample frames from both types of holographic motion pictures are presented. The holographic system discussed is intended for three-dimensional flow visualization of the time-varying flows that occur in jet-engine components.

Films for Learning: Some Observations on the Present, Past, and Future Role of the Educational Motion Picture.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Flory, John

Although there have been great developments in motion picture technology, such as super 8mm film, magnetic sound, low cost color film, simpler projectors and movie cameras, and cartridge-loading projectors, there is still only limited use of audiovisual materials in the classroom today. This paper suggests some of the possible reasons for the lack…

ADA and C++ Business Case Analysis

DTIC Science & Technology

1991-07-01

executable mini-specs, to support import of existing code. Automated database population/change propagation. 9. Documentation generation: via FrameMaker ...Backplane. ii. 4GLS H-20 I I IDE/Software through Pictures (StP) 12 June 1991 iii. Interleaf and FrameMaker publishing. 13. Output formats: PostScript... FrameMaker , WordPerfect. 12. User interface: Menu and mouse, windowing, color, on-line help, undo. Database browser via forms/tables component later

A simple microviscometric approach based on Brownian motion tracking.

PubMed

Hnyluchová, Zuzana; Bjalončíková, Petra; Karas, Pavel; Mravec, Filip; Halasová, Tereza; Pekař, Miloslav; Kubala, Lukáš; Víteček, Jan

2015-02-01

Viscosity-an integral property of a liquid-is traditionally determined by mechanical instruments. The most pronounced disadvantage of such an approach is the requirement of a large sample volume, which poses a serious obstacle, particularly in biology and biophysics when working with limited samples. Scaling down the required volume by means of microviscometry based on tracking the Brownian motion of particles can provide a reasonable alternative. In this paper, we report a simple microviscometric approach which can be conducted with common laboratory equipment. The core of this approach consists in a freely available standalone script to process particle trajectory data based on a Newtonian model. In our study, this setup allowed the sample to be scaled down to 10 μl. The utility of the approach was demonstrated using model solutions of glycerine, hyaluronate, and mouse blood plasma. Therefore, this microviscometric approach based on a newly developed freely available script can be suggested for determination of the viscosity of small biological samples (e.g., body fluids).

Video streaming with SHVC to HEVC transcoding

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Gudumasu, Srinivas; He, Yuwen; Ye, Yan; Xiu, Xiaoyu

2015-09-01

This paper proposes an efficient Scalable High efficiency Video Coding (SHVC) to High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) transcoder, which can reduce the transcoding complexity significantly, and provide a desired trade-off between the transcoding complexity and the transcoded video quality. To reduce the transcoding complexity, some of coding information, such as coding unit (CU) depth, prediction mode, merge mode, motion vector information, intra direction information and transform unit (TU) depth information, in the SHVC bitstream are mapped and transcoded to single layer HEVC bitstream. One major difficulty in transcoding arises when trying to reuse the motion information from SHVC bitstream since motion vectors referring to inter-layer reference (ILR) pictures cannot be reused directly in transcoding. Reusing motion information obtained from ILR pictures for those prediction units (PUs) will reduce the complexity of the SHVC transcoder greatly but a significant reduction in the quality of the picture is observed. Pictures corresponding to the intra refresh pictures in the base layer (BL) will be coded as P pictures in enhancement layer (EL) in the SHVC bitstream; and directly reusing the intra information from the BL for transcoding will not get a good coding efficiency. To solve these problems, various transcoding technologies are proposed. The proposed technologies offer different trade-offs between transcoding speed and transcoding quality. They are implemented on the basis of reference software SHM-6.0 and HM-14.0 for the two layer spatial scalability configuration. Simulations show that the proposed SHVC software transcoder reduces the transcoding complexity by up to 98-99% using low complexity transcoding mode when compared with cascaded re-encoding method. The transcoder performance at various bitrates with different transcoding modes are compared in terms of transcoding speed and transcoded video quality.

Japanese Science Films; a Descriptive and Evaluative Catalog of: 16mm Motion Pictures, 8mm Cartridges, and Video Tapes.

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Newren, Edward F., Ed.

One hundred and eighty Japanese 16mm motion pictures, 8mm cartridges, and video tapes produced and judged appropriate for a variety of audience levels are listed in alphabetical order by title with descriptive and evaluative information. A subject heading list and a subject index to the film titles are included, as well as a sample of the…

The Effect of Motion Pictures Portraying Black Models on the Self-Concept of Black Elementary Students.

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Dimas, Chris

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of motion pictures utilizing black models on the self-concept of black fourth and sixth grade students; that perhaps, mediated black models may be effective in bringing about a more positive self-concept among black students. The design of this study was of the post-test form only. This was…

Religion and motion pictures' effects on reversing suicidal intentions: two case studies.

PubMed

Khouzam, Hani Raoul; Williams, Leonard; Manzano, Nestor

2003-02-01

Case studies of two veterans contemplating suicide are described. Their suicidal intentions subsided as a result of a rekindling of their Christian faith. Although their Christian beliefs were awakened following their attendance at a motion picture, they both attributed the remission of their suicidal intentions to the practices of their Christian faith in their lives. Despite the favorable outcome, these findings are not generalizable to other cases.

Teacher-in-Space Trainees - Arriflex Motion Picture Camera

NASA Image and Video Library

1985-09-20

S85-40668 (18 Sept. 1985) --- The two teachers, Sharon Christa McAuliffe (left) and Barbara R. Morgan have hands-on experience with an Arriflex motion picture camera following a briefing on space photography. The two began training Sept. 10, 1985 with the STS-51L crew and learning basic procedures for space travelers. The second week of training included camera training, aircraft familiarization and other activities. Photo credit: NASA

Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children: A Twenty-One Month Follow-Up Review of Industry Practices in the Motion Picture, Music Recording and Electronic Game Industries. A Report to Congress.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC.

In a report issued in September 2000, the Federal Trade Commission contended that the motion picture, music recording, and electronic game industries had engaged in widespread marketing of violent movies, music, and games to children inconsistent with their own parental advisories and undermining parents attempts to make informed decisions about…

Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children: A One-Year Follow-Up Review of Industry Practices in the Motion Picture, Music Recording and Electronic Game Industries. A Report to Congress.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC.

In a report issued in September 2000, the Federal Trade Commission reported that the motion picture, music recording, and electronic game segments of the entertainment industry intentionally promoted products to children that warranted parent cautions. This report responds to the request of the Senate Commerce Committee by focusing on advertising…

Objectifying the Subjective: toward the Development of a Computerized Database of the Treatment of Ethnicity and Foreignness in American Motion Pictures.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Thompson, Thomas C.; Cortes, Carlos E.

This paper reports on a project to construct a computerized database of the treatment of ethnic groups and foreign nations in American motion pictures. The project is being conducted in response to a need for a scholarly examination of how film depicts these groups and nations. Since these media presentations are important influences on public…

Psychomotor Performance Effects Upon Elementary School Children by Sex and Perceptual Speed Ability of Three Compressions of an Instructional Sound Motion Picture.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Masterson, James; And Others

Forty-eight sixth-grade students were studied to determine their response to selected compressions of the narration of an instructional sound motion picture. A 4:10 color film with a 158 wpm recorded narration was shown at 25, 33-1/3 and 50 percent compression rates; performance time and quality were measured immediately and after 12-day…

The Effect of Auditory and Visual Motion Picture Descriptive Modalities in Teaching Perceptual-Motor Skills Used in the Grading of Cereal Grains.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Hannemann, James William

This study was designed to discover whether a student learns to imitate the skills demonstrated in a motion picture more accurately when the supportive descriptive terminology is presented in an auditory (spoken) form or in a visual (captions) form. A six-minute color 16mm film was produced--"Determining the Test Weight per Bushel of Yellow Corn".…

Astronaut Walz on flight deck with IMAX camera

NASA Image and Video Library

1996-11-04

STS079-362-023 (16-26 Sept. 1996) --- Astronaut Carl E. Walz, mission specialist, positions the IMAX camera for a shoot on the flight deck of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. The IMAX project is a collaboration among NASA, the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, IMAX Systems Corporation and the Lockheed Corporation to document in motion picture format significant space activities and promote NASA's educational goals using the IMAX film medium. This system, developed by IMAX of Toronto, uses specially designed 65mm cameras and projectors to record and display very high definition color motion pictures which, accompanied by six-channel high fidelity sound, are displayed on screens in IMAX and OMNIMAX theaters that are up to ten times larger than a conventional screen, producing a feeling of "being there." The 65mm photography is transferred to 70mm motion picture films for showing in IMAX theaters. IMAX cameras have been flown on 14 previous missions.

Video noise reduction

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Drewery, J. O.; Storey, R.; Tanton, N. E.

1984-07-01

A video noise and film grain reducer is described which is based on a first-order recursive temporal filter. Filtering of moving detail is avoided by inhibiting recursion in response to the amount of motion in a picture. Motion detection is based on the point-by-point power of the picture difference signal coupled with a knowledge of the noise statistics. A control system measures the noise power and adjusts the working point of the motion detector accordingly. A field trial of a manual version of the equipment at Television Center indicated that a worthwhile improvement in the quality of noisy or grainy pictures received by the viewer could be obtained. Subsequent trials of the automated version confirmed that the improvement could be maintained. Commercial equipment based on the design is being manufactured and marketed by Pye T.V.T. under license. It is in regular use on both the BBC1 and BBC2 networks.

A High-Speed Motion-Picture Study of Normal Combustion, Knock and Preignition in a Spark-Ignition Engines

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Rothrock, A M; Spencer, R C; Miller, Cearcy D

1941-01-01

Combustion in a spark-ignition engine was investigated by means of the NACA high-speed motion-picture cameras. This camera is operated at a speed of 40,000 photographs a second and therefore makes possible the study of changes that take place in the intervals as short as 0.000025 second. When the motion pictures are projected at the normal speed of 16 frames a second, any rate of movement shown is slowed down 2500 times. Photographs are presented of normal combustion, of combustion from preignitions, and of knock both with and without preignition. The photographs of combustion show that knock may be preceded by a period of exothermic reaction in the end zone that persists for a time interval of as much as 0.0006 second. The knock takes place in 0.00005 second or less.

Constraints on Access: Costs and Benefits (Spontaneous Memory for Relevant Experiences)

DTIC Science & Technology

1989-05-01

F. I. M. Craik (Eds.), Levels of processing and human memory. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Dewey, J. (1963). How we think. Portions published in R. M...transfer. Pictures (vs. words) and levels of processing and elaborative encoding manipulations are shown to affect directed access but are found to have...includes most 5 6 list-learning experiments, research on schema/script abstraction, and studies of remembering which might manipulate levels of processing

Leg Injuries and Disorders - Multiple Languages

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... sharing features on this page, please enable JavaScript. Arabic (العربية) Chinese, Simplified (Mandarin dialect) (简体中文) Chinese, Traditional ( ... HealthReach resources will open in a new window. Arabic (العربية) Expand Section Active Leg Range of Motion - ...

On the road to somewhere: Brain potentials reflect language effects on motion event perception.

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Flecken, Monique; Athanasopoulos, Panos; Kuipers, Jan Rouke; Thierry, Guillaume

2015-08-01

Recent studies have identified neural correlates of language effects on perception in static domains of experience such as colour and objects. The generalization of such effects to dynamic domains like motion events remains elusive. Here, we focus on grammatical differences between languages relevant for the description of motion events and their impact on visual scene perception. Two groups of native speakers of German or English were presented with animated videos featuring a dot travelling along a trajectory towards a geometrical shape (endpoint). English is a language with grammatical aspect in which attention is drawn to trajectory and endpoint of motion events equally. German, in contrast, is a non-aspect language which highlights endpoints. We tested the comparative perceptual saliency of trajectory and endpoint of motion events by presenting motion event animations (primes) followed by a picture symbolising the event (target): In 75% of trials, the animation was followed by a mismatching picture (both trajectory and endpoint were different); in 10% of trials, only the trajectory depicted in the picture matched the prime; in 10% of trials, only the endpoint matched the prime; and in 5% of trials both trajectory and endpoint were matching, which was the condition requiring a response from the participant. In Experiment 1 we recorded event-related brain potentials elicited by the picture in native speakers of German and native speakers of English. German participants exhibited a larger P3 wave in the endpoint match than the trajectory match condition, whereas English speakers showed no P3 amplitude difference between conditions. In Experiment 2 participants performed a behavioural motion matching task using the same stimuli as those used in Experiment 1. German and English participants did not differ in response times showing that motion event verbalisation cannot readily account for the difference in P3 amplitude found in the first experiment. We argue that, even in a non-verbal context, the grammatical properties of the native language and associated sentence-level patterns of event encoding influence motion event perception, such that attention is automatically drawn towards aspects highlighted by the grammar. Copyright © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Chain of evidence generation for contrast enhancement in digital image forensics

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Battiato, Sebastiano; Messina, Giuseppe; Strano, Daniela

2010-01-01

The quality of the images obtained by digital cameras has improved a lot since digital cameras early days. Unfortunately, it is not unusual in image forensics to find wrongly exposed pictures. This is mainly due to obsolete techniques or old technologies, but also due to backlight conditions. To extrapolate some invisible details a stretching of the image contrast is obviously required. The forensics rules to produce evidences require a complete documentation of the processing steps, enabling the replication of the entire process. The automation of enhancement techniques is thus quite difficult and needs to be carefully documented. This work presents an automatic procedure to find contrast enhancement settings, allowing both image correction and automatic scripting generation. The technique is based on a preprocessing step which extracts the features of the image and selects correction parameters. The parameters are thus saved through a JavaScript code that is used in the second step of the approach to correct the image. The generated script is Adobe Photoshop compliant (which is largely used in image forensics analysis) thus permitting the replication of the enhancement steps. Experiments on a dataset of images are also reported showing the effectiveness of the proposed methodology.

Design and Development of a Virtual Facility Tour Using iPIX(TM) Technology

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Farley, Douglas L.

2002-01-01

The capabilities of the iPIX virtual tour software, in conjunction with a web-based interface create a unique and valuable system that provides users with an efficient virtual capability to tour facilities while being able to acquire the necessary technical content is demonstrated. A users guide to the Mechanics and Durability Branch's virtual tour is presented. The guide provides the user with instruction on operating both scripted and unscripted tours as well as a discussion of the tours for Buildings 1148, 1205 and 1256 and NASA Langley Research Center. Furthermore, an indepth discussion has been presented on how to develop a virtual tour using the iPIX software interface with conventional html and JavaScript. The main aspects for discussion are on network and computing issues associated with using this capability. A discussion of how to take the iPIX pictures, manipulate them and bond them together to form hemispherical images is also presented. Linking of images with additional multimedia content is discussed. Finally, a method to integrate the iPIX software with conventional HTML and JavaScript to facilitate linking with multi-media is presented.

Holographic Investigation of Solid Propellant Particulates.

DTIC Science & Technology

1981-12-01

4~ .A*4 ~.Zwe SOUMVV Ch.&4 0IVC&TIN 0 e*9 066so. 4 evt’ o R..e High speed, high resolution motion pictures were taken to compare the cinematic data...propellant. High speed, high resolution motion pictures were taken to compare the cinematic data with that available from the holograms. TABLE OF...of the motor ignition system, the repeatability of the pressure-time trace, and the timing of the cinematic /holographic obser- vation. The current

BACTERIAL GROWTH AND MULTIPLICATION AS DISCLOSED BY MICRO MOTION PICTURES

PubMed Central

Wyckoff, Ralph W. G.

1934-01-01

Using a micro motion picture technique for making records, studies covering several thousand hours of observation have been made of the growth of a number of bacteria. On the basis of these experiments a discussion is offered of bacterial division and its influence on gross colony appearance, of different kinds of pleomorphism that have been observed, and of the nature of the internal structure that is seen in some bacteria. Several of the microorganisms chosen for examination are ones that have been thought to give evidence of life cycle phenomena. The present pictures, however, contain no evidence of a bacterial cycle in the commonly accepted meaning of the term. PMID:19870252

Venus: Atmospheric motion and structure from Mariner 10 pictures

USGS Publications Warehouse

Murray, B.C.; Belton, M.J.S.; Danielson, G. Edward; Davies, M.E.; Gault, D.; Hapke, B.; O'Leary, B.; Strom, R.G.; Suomi, V.; Trask, N.

1974-01-01

The Mariner 10 television cameras imaged the planet Venus in the visible and near ultraviolet for a period of 8 days at resolutions ranging from 100 meters to 130 kilometers. The general pattern of the atmospheric circulation in the upper tropospheric/lower stratospheric region is displayed in the pictures. Atmospheric flow is symmetrical between north and south hemispheres. The equatorial motions are zonal (east-west) at approximately 100 meters per second, consistent with the previously inferred 4-day retrograde rotation. Angular velocity increases with latitude. The subsolar region, and the region downwind from it, show evidence of large-scale convection that persists in spite of the main zonal motion. Dynamical interaction between the zonal motion and the relatively stationary region of convection is evidenced by bowlike waves.

NASA Photographer Prepares to Film a Mercury Capsule

NASA Image and Video Library

1959-06-21

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) photographer Arthur Laufman sets up a camera to film a Mercury capsule that was constructed by the Lewis Research Center staff. Lewis engineers and mechanics built two of the capsules for the upcoming Big Joe launches in September 1959. Big Joe was an attempt early in Project Mercury to use a full-scale Atlas booster to simulate the reentry of a mock-up Mercury capsule without actually placing it in orbit. The Photographic Branch, referred to as the Photo Lab, was part of the center’s Technical Reports Division. Originally the group performed normal and high-speed still image and motion picture photography. The photographers documented construction, performed publicity work, created images for reports, photographed data on manometer boards, and recorded test footage. Laufman joined the Photo Lab staff in 1948 and began producing full-length technical films as a tool to educate those outside of the agency on the research being conducted at Lewis. He worked with engineers to determine proper subjects for these films and develop a script. Laufman not only filmed tests, but also supporting footage of facilities, models, and staff members. He then edited the footage and added audio, visuals, and narration. The film masters were assigned standard identification numbers and add to the Photo Lab’s catalogue.

"Teacher in Space" Trainees - Arriflex Motion Picture Camera

NASA Image and Video Library

1985-09-20

S85-40670 (18 Sept. 1985) --- The two teachers, Sharon Christa McAuliffe and Barbara R. Morgan (out of frame) have hands-on experience with an Arriflex motion picture camera following a briefing on space photography. The two began training Sept. 10, 1985 with the STS-51L crew and learning basic procedures for space travelers. The second week of training included camera training, aircraft familiarization and other activities. McAuliffe zeroes in on a test subject during a practice session with the Arriflex. Photo credit: NASA

Teacher-in-Space Trainees - Arriflex Motion Picture Camera

NASA Image and Video Library

1985-09-20

S85-40669 (18 Sept. 1985) --- The two teachers, Sharon Christa McAuliffe (left) and Barbara R. Morgan have hands-on experience with an Arriflex motion picture camera following a briefing on space photography. The two began training Sept. 10, 1985 with the STS-51L crew and learning basic procedure for space travelers. The second week of training included camera training, aircraft familiarization and other activities. Morgan adjusts a lens as a studious McAuliffe looks on. Photo credit: NASA

"Teacher in Space" Trainees - Arriflex Motion Picture Camera

NASA Image and Video Library

1985-09-20

S85-40671 (18 Sept. 1985) --- The two teachers, Barbara R. Morgan and Sharon Christa McAuliffe (out of frame) have hands-on experience with an Arriflex motion picture camera following a briefing on space photography. The two began training Sept. 10, 1985 with the STS-51L crew and learning basic procedures for space travelers. The second week of training included camera training, aircraft familiarization and other activities. Morgan zeroes in on a test subject during a practice session with the Arriflex. Photo credit: NASA

The pointing errors of geosynchronous satellites

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Sikdar, D. N.; Das, A.

1971-01-01

A study of the correlation between cloud motion and wind field was initiated. Cloud heights and displacements were being obtained from a ceilometer and movie pictures, while winds were measured from pilot balloon observations on a near-simultaneous basis. Cloud motion vectors were obtained from time-lapse cloud pictures, using the WINDCO program, for 27, 28 July, 1969, in the Atlantic. The relationship between observed features of cloud clusters and the ambient wind field derived from cloud trajectories on a wide range of space and time scales is discussed.

A Strategy To Increase United States Air Force Fighter Pilot Retention And Morale: Legendary Ace Robin Olds On The Silver Screen

DTIC Science & Technology

2016-02-16

Force should consider approaching the motion picture industry to produce a film about the life of Legendary Ace Robin Olds. This approach could capture...option must be investigated. Teaming with film producers is a valid way to promote the history of the Air Force, shaping a positive public image, and...morale. As a solution to increase Air Force warrior morale, the Air Force should consider approaching the motion picture industry to produce a film

Duration of stimulus presentation and screening for perceptual disabilities.

PubMed

Rohr, M E; Ayers, J B

1975-02-01

This study examined the effects of increasing the stimulus-presentation time of a motion picture test for identifying perceptual disabilities in the performance of Ss in regular first and fourth grade classrooms and on a sample of Ss in special education classes who had been identified as having varying degrees of perceptual deficiencies. The length of stimulus presentation increased the total performance of Ss on the motion picture test but did not add to the value of the instrument as a screening device.

Being "(T)Here": Mobilisin "Mediaspaces" of Learning

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Enriquez, Judith

2013-01-01

The mobile learning literature, particularly studies that focus on interaction or context, has the tendency to be top-down and highly scripted. Mobility is designed into learning scenarios and spaces. In this article, I proposed a practice perspective for research as an alternative starting point to "set in motion" all modes of learning…

SU-E-T-406: Use of TrueBeam Developer Mode and API to Increase the Efficiency and Accuracy of Commissioning Measurements for the Varian EDGE Stereotactic Linac

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Gardner, S; Gulam, M; Song, K

2014-06-01

Purpose: The Varian EDGE machine is a new stereotactic platform, combining Calypso and VisionRT localization systems with a stereotactic linac. The system includes TrueBeam DeveloperMode, making possible the use of XML-scripting for automation of linac-related tasks. This study details the use of DeveloperMode to automate commissioning tasks for Varian EDGE, thereby improving efficiency and measurement consistency. Methods: XML-scripting was used for various commissioning tasks,including couch model verification,beam-scanning,and isocenter verification. For couch measurements, point measurements were acquired for several field sizes (2×2,4×4,10×10cm{sup 2}) at 42 gantry angles for two couch-models. Measurements were acquired with variations in couch position(rails in/out,couch shifted inmore » each of motion axes) compared to treatment planning system(TPS)-calculated values,which were logged automatically through advanced planning interface(API) scripting functionality. For beam scanning, XML-scripts were used to create custom MLC-apertures. For isocenter verification, XML-scripts were used to automate various Winston-Lutz-type tests. Results: For couch measurements, the time required for each set of angles was approximately 9 minutes. Without scripting, each set required approximately 12 minutes. Automated measurements required only one physicist, while manual measurements required at least two physicists to handle linac positions/beams and data recording. MLC apertures were generated outside of the TPS,and with the .xml file format, double-checking without use of TPS/operator console was possible. Similar time efficiency gains were found for isocenter verification measurements Conclusion: The use of XML scripting in TrueBeam DeveloperMode allows for efficient and accurate data acquisition during commissioning. The efficiency improvement is most pronounced for iterative measurements, exemplified by the time savings for couch modeling measurements(approximately 10 hours). The scripting also allowed for creation of the files in advance without requiring access to TPS. The API scripting functionality enabled efficient creation/mining of TPS data. Finally, automation reduces the potential for human error in entering linac values at the machine console,and the script provides a log of measurements acquired for each session. This research was supported in part by a grant from Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, CA.« less

Action and object word writing in a case of bilingual aphasia.

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Kambanaros, Maria; Messinis, Lambros; Anyfantis, Emmanouil

2012-01-01

We report the spoken and written naming of a bilingual speaker with aphasia in two languages that differ in morphological complexity, orthographic transparency and script Greek and English. AA presented with difficulties in spoken picture naming together with preserved written picture naming for action words in Greek. In English, AA showed similar performance across both tasks for action and object words, i.e. difficulties retrieving action and object names for both spoken and written naming. Our findings support the hypothesis that cognitive processes used for spoken and written naming are independent components of the language system and can be selectively impaired after brain injury. In the case of bilingual speakers, such processes impact on both languages. We conclude grammatical category is an organizing principle in bilingual dysgraphia.

Laser Based Color Film Recorder System With GaAs Microlaser

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Difrancesco, David J.

1989-07-01

In 1984 Pixar's research and development group built and applied to the motion-picture arts at Lucasfilm's ILM facility a three color laser based film scanner/recorder system. The digital film printer is capable of reading and writing 35mm film formats on a variety of film stocks. The system has been used in award-winning special-effects work, and has been operated in a normal production environment since that time. The primary objective was to develop a full color high resolution system, free from scan artifacts, enabling traditionally photographed motion-picture film to be inter-cut with digital raster image photography. Its use is applied to the art of blue-screen traveling-matte cinematography for motion pic-ture special effects. The system was designed using the Pixar Image Computer and conventional gas laser technology as the illumination source. This paper will discuss recent experimental work in the application of GaAs microlaser technology to a digital film printing system of the future.

A Specially Constructed Metallograph for Use at Elevated Temperatures

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Jenkins, Joe E; Buchele, Donald R; Long, Roger A

1951-01-01

A Metallographic microscope was developed with provision for heating a specimen to 1800 F in protective atmospheres, that is, vacuum or gas. A special objective was constructed of reflecting elements with an unusually long working distance (7/16 in.) and a high numerical aperture (0.5). Changes in specimen microstructure were observed and recorded on 35-millimeter motion-picture film. The resulting pictures were projected as motion pictures and individual frames were cut and enlargements made for close observation. Structural changes upon heating a 0.35-percent annealed carbon steel and a 5-percent tin phosphor bronze specimen were observed and recorded. Newly formed microstructure were revealed by selective vacuum etching and specimen relief resulting from recrystallization and varying grain orientation.

The portrayal of coma in contemporary motion pictures.

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Wijdicks, Eelco F M; Wijdicks, Coen A

2006-05-09

Coma has been a theme of screenplays in motion pictures, but there is no information about its accuracy. The authors reviewed 30 movies from 1970 to 2004 with actors depicting prolonged coma. Accurate depiction of comatose patients was defined by appearance, the complexity of care, accurate cause of coma and probability of awakening, and appropriate compassionate discussion between the physician and family members. Twenty-two key scenes from 17 movies were rated for accuracy by a panel of neurointensivists and neuroscience nurses and then were shown to 72 nonmedical viewers. Accuracy of the scenes was assessed using a Likert Scale. Coma was most often caused by motor vehicle accidents or violence (63%). The time in a comatose state varied from days to 10 years. Awakening occurred in 18 of 30 motion pictures (60%). Awakening was sudden with cognition intact, even after prolonged time in a coma. Actors personified "Sleeping Beauty" (eyes closed, beautifully groomed). Physicians appeared as caricatures. Only two movies had a reasonable accurate representation (Dream Life of Angels and Reversal of Fortune). The majority of the surveyed viewers identified inaccuracy of representation of coma, awakenings, and conversations on the experience of being in a coma, except in 8 of the 22 scenes (36%). Twenty-eight of the 72 viewers (39%) could potentially allow these scenes to influence decisions in real life. Misrepresentation of coma and awakening was common in motion pictures and impacted on the public perception of coma. Neurologic advice regarding prolonged coma is needed.

Selective activation around the left occipito-temporal sulcus for words relative to pictures: individual variability or false positives?

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Wright, Nicholas D; Mechelli, Andrea; Noppeney, Uta; Veltman, Dick J; Rombouts, Serge A R B; Glensman, Janice; Haynes, John-Dylan; Price, Cathy J

2008-08-01

We used high-resolution fMRI to investigate claims that learning to read results in greater left occipito-temporal (OT) activation for written words relative to pictures of objects. In the first experiment, 9/16 subjects performing a one-back task showed activation in > or =1 left OT voxel for words relative to pictures (P < 0.05 uncorrected). In a second experiment, another 9/15 subjects performing a semantic decision task activated > or =1 left OT voxel for words relative to pictures. However, at this low statistical threshold false positives need to be excluded. The semantic decision paradigm was therefore repeated, within subject, in two different scanners (1.5 and 3 T). Both scanners consistently localised left OT activation for words relative to fixation and pictures relative to words, but there were no consistent effects for words relative to pictures. Finally, in a third experiment, we minimised the voxel size (1.5 x 1.5 x 1.5 mm(3)) and demonstrated a striking concordance between the voxels activated for words and pictures, irrespective of task (naming vs. one-back) or script (English vs. Hebrew). In summary, although we detected differential activation for words relative to pictures, these effects: (i) do not withstand statistical rigour; (ii) do not replicate within or between subjects; and (iii) are observed in voxels that also respond to pictures of objects. Our findings have implications for the role of left OT activation during reading. More generally, they show that studies using low statistical thresholds in single subject analyses should correct the statistical threshold for the number of comparisons made or replicate effects within subject. (c) 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

Selective Activation Around the Left Occipito-Temporal Sulcus for Words Relative to Pictures: Individual Variability or False Positives?

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Wright, Nicholas D; Mechelli, Andrea; Noppeney, Uta; Veltman, Dick J; Rombouts, Serge ARB; Glensman, Janice; Haynes, John-Dylan; Price, Cathy J

2008-01-01

We used high-resolution fMRI to investigate claims that learning to read results in greater left occipito-temporal (OT) activation for written words relative to pictures of objects. In the first experiment, 9/16 subjects performing a one-back task showed activation in ≥1 left OT voxel for words relative to pictures (P < 0.05 uncorrected). In a second experiment, another 9/15 subjects performing a semantic decision task activated ≥1 left OT voxel for words relative to pictures. However, at this low statistical threshold false positives need to be excluded. The semantic decision paradigm was therefore repeated, within subject, in two different scanners (1.5 and 3 T). Both scanners consistently localised left OT activation for words relative to fixation and pictures relative to words, but there were no consistent effects for words relative to pictures. Finally, in a third experiment, we minimised the voxel size (1.5 × 1.5 × 1.5 mm3) and demonstrated a striking concordance between the voxels activated for words and pictures, irrespective of task (naming vs. one-back) or script (English vs. Hebrew). In summary, although we detected differential activation for words relative to pictures, these effects: (i) do not withstand statistical rigour; (ii) do not replicate within or between subjects; and (iii) are observed in voxels that also respond to pictures of objects. Our findings have implications for the role of left OT activation during reading. More generally, they show that studies using low statistical thresholds in single subject analyses should correct the statistical threshold for the number of comparisons made or replicate effects within subject. Hum Brain Mapp 2008. © 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc. PMID:17712786

Does excessive play of violent first-person-shooter-video-games dampen brain activity in response to emotional stimuli?

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Montag, Christian; Weber, Bernd; Trautner, Peter; Newport, Beate; Markett, Sebastian; Walter, Nora T; Felten, Andrea; Reuter, Martin

2012-01-01

The present case-control study investigated the processing of emotional pictures in excessive first-person-shooter-video-players and control persons. All participants of the fMRI experiment were confronted with pictures from four categories including pleasant, unpleasant, neutral content and pictures from the first-person-shooter-video-game 'Counterstrike'. Compared to controls, gamers showed a significantly lower activation of the left lateral medial frontal lobe while processing negative emotions. Another interesting finding of the study represents the higher activation of frontal and temporal brain areas in gamers when processing screen-shots from the first-person-shooter-video-game 'Counterstrike'. Higher brain activity in the lateral prefrontal cortex could represent a protection mechanism against experiencing negative emotions by down-regulating limbic brain activity. Due to a frequent confrontation with violent scenes, the first-person-shooter-video-gamers might have habituated to the effects of unpleasant stimuli resulting in lower brain activation. Individual differences in brain activations of the contrast Counterstrike>neutral pictures potentially resemble the activation of action-scripts related to the video-game. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Design and development of physics simulations in the field of oscillations and waves suitable for k-12 and undergraduate instruction using video game technology

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Tomesh, Trevor; Price, Colin

2011-03-01

Using the scripting language for the Unreal Tournament 2004 Engine, Unreal Script, demonstrations in the field of oscillations and waves were designed and developed. Variations on Euler's method and the Runge-Kutta method were used to numerically solve the equations of motion for seven different physical systems which were visually represented in the immersive environment of Unreal Tournament 2004. Data from each system was written to an output file, plotted and analyzed. The over-arching goal of this research is to successfully design and develop useful teaching tools for the k-12 and undergraduate classroom which, presented in the form of a video game, is immersive, engaging and educational.

Image and Video Quality Assessment Using LCD: Comparisons with CRT Conditions

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Tourancheau, Sylvain; Callet, Patrick Le; Barba, Dominique

In this paper, the impact of display on quality assessment is addressed. Subjective quality assessment experiments have been performed on both LCD and CRT displays. Two sets of still images and two sets of moving pictures have been assessed using either an ACR or a SAMVIQ protocol. Altogether, eight experiments have been led. Results are presented and discussed, some differences are pointed out. Concerning moving pictures, these differences seem to be mainly due to LCD moving artefacts such as motion blur. LCD motion blur has been measured objectively and with psycho-physics experiments. A motion-blur metric based on the temporal characteristics of LCD can be defined. A prediction model have been then designed which predict the differences of perceived quality between CRT and LCD. This motion-blur-based model enables the estimation of perceived quality on LCD with respect to the perceived quality on CRT. Technical solutions to LCD motion blur can thus be evaluated on natural contents by this mean.

75 FR 26798 - Distribution of the 2000-2003 Cable Royalty Funds

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... communications law restrictions. Pursuant to its statutory authority and in reaction to the FCC's action, the... for U.S. Commercial Television Broadcaster Claimants, Music Claimants, the Motion Picture Association... 37 CFR 353.4, motions for rehearing were due to be filed no later than March 18, 2010. No motions...

Visual memory for moving scenes.

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DeLucia, Patricia R; Maldia, Maria M

2006-02-01

In the present study, memory for picture boundaries was measured with scenes that simulated self-motion along the depth axis. The results indicated that boundary extension (a distortion in memory for picture boundaries) occurred with moving scenes in the same manner as that reported previously for static scenes. Furthermore, motion affected memory for the boundaries but this effect of motion was not consistent with representational momentum of the self (memory being further forward in a motion trajectory than actually shown). We also found that memory for the final position of the depicted self in a moving scene was influenced by properties of the optical expansion pattern. The results are consistent with a conceptual framework in which the mechanisms that underlie boundary extension and representational momentum (a) process different information and (b) both contribute to the integration of successive views of a scene while the scene is changing.

Three-dimensional motion-picture imaging of dynamic object by parallel-phase-shifting digital holographic microscopy using an inverted magnification optical system

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Fukuda, Takahito; Shinomura, Masato; Xia, Peng; Awatsuji, Yasuhiro; Nishio, Kenzo; Matoba, Osamu

2017-04-01

We constructed a parallel-phase-shifting digital holographic microscopy (PPSDHM) system using an inverted magnification optical system, and succeeded in three-dimensional (3D) motion-picture imaging for 3D displacement of a microscopic object. In the PPSDHM system, the inverted and afocal magnification optical system consisted of a microscope objective (16.56 mm focal length and 0.25 numerical aperture) and a convex lens (300 mm focal length and 82 mm aperture diameter). A polarization-imaging camera was used to record multiple phase-shifted holograms with a single-shot exposure. We recorded an alum crystal, sinking down in aqueous solution of alum, by the constructed PPSDHM system at 60 frames/s for about 20 s and reconstructed high-quality 3D motion-picture image of the crystal. Then, we calculated amounts of displacement of the crystal from the amounts in the focus plane and the magnifications of the magnification optical system, and obtained the 3D trajectory of the crystal by that amounts.

Real-time film recording from stroke-written CRT's

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Hunt, R.; Grunwald, A. J.

1980-01-01

Real-time simulation studies often require motion-picture recording of events directly from stroke written cathode-ray tubes (CRT's). Difficulty presented is prevention of "flicker," which results from lack of synchronization between display sequence on CRT and shutter motion of camera. Programmable method has been devised for phasing display sequence to shutter motion, ensuring flicker-free recordings.

Cross-Linguistic Similarity and Task Demands in Japanese-English Bilingual Processing

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Allen, David B.; Conklin, Kathy

2013-01-01

Even in languages that do not share script, bilinguals process cognates faster than matched noncognates in a range of tasks. The current research more fully explores what underpins the cognate ‘advantage’ in different script bilinguals (Japanese-English). To do this, instead of the more traditional binary cognate/noncognate distinction, the current study uses continuous measures of phonological and semantic overlap, L2 (second language) proficiency and lexical variables (e.g., frequency). An L2 picture naming (Experiment 1) revealed a significant interaction between phonological and semantic similarity and demonstrates that degree of overlap modulates naming times. In lexical decision (Experiment 2), increased phonological similarity (e.g., bus/basu/vs. radio/rajio/) lead to faster response times. Interestingly, increased semantic similarity slowed response times in lexical decision. The studies also indicate how L2 proficiency and lexical variables modulate L2 word processing. These findings are explained in terms of current models of bilingual lexical processing. PMID:24015266

Signs of essential blepharospasm: a motion-picture analysis.

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Coles, W H

1977-06-01

Motion pictures of 15 patients with essential blepharospasm were studied. Previously unrecognized signs indicated multiple cranial nerve involvement. These signs include impersistence of gaze, lid retraction, tongue thrust, head tilts, head jerks, vertical gaze spasms, and asymmetry. The sugns were also observed in a patient with bilateral blepharospasm who had a history of Bell's palsy suggesting facial nerve injury as a possible factor in blepharospasm. The presence of these signs can be explained by known neural pathways, but the site, or sites, of the lesion remains obscure. These signs may be important in assessing severity and in treatment evaluation.

26 CFR 1.1348-3 - Definitions.

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2014-04-01

... contract. (ii) In the case of a nonresident alien individual, earned income includes only earned income... feature length motion picture which is distributed to exhibitors by Corporation N pursuant to a... net profits derived by N from the exhibition and exploitation of the picture. A was employed by M as...

26 CFR 1.1348-3 - Definitions.

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2013-04-01

... contract. (ii) In the case of a nonresident alien individual, earned income includes only earned income... feature length motion picture which is distributed to exhibitors by Corporation N pursuant to a... net profits derived by N from the exhibition and exploitation of the picture. A was employed by M as...

26 CFR 1.1348-3 - Definitions.

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2011-04-01

... contract. (ii) In the case of a nonresident alien individual, earned income includes only earned income... feature length motion picture which is distributed to exhibitors by Corporation N pursuant to a... net profits derived by N from the exhibition and exploitation of the picture. A was employed by M as...

26 CFR 1.1348-3 - Definitions.

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2012-04-01

... contract. (ii) In the case of a nonresident alien individual, earned income includes only earned income... feature length motion picture which is distributed to exhibitors by Corporation N pursuant to a... net profits derived by N from the exhibition and exploitation of the picture. A was employed by M as...

It's Only a Movie.

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McKowen, Clark; Sparke, William

A montage of thought and comment on motion pictures is presented, from short articles to cartoons, quotes, poems, drawings and pictures. Included are descriptions of how movies are possible, techniques of filming and editing, criticisms, history, the effects of films on the people who watch them, and personalities of the people involved in films.…

ASTRONAUT LOVELL, JAMES A., JR. - APOLLO VIII (GUIDANCE & NAVIGATION [G&N])

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1969-05-25

S69-35099 (21-27 Dec. 1968) --- Astronaut James A. Lovell Jr., Apollo 8 command module pilot, is seen at the Apollo 8 Spacecraft Command Module's Guidance and Navigation station during the Apollo 8 lunar orbit mission. This picture was taken from 16mm motion picture film.

[Comprehension of emotions accompanied by everyday actions: comparison of biological-motion pictures with real-person pictures].

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Higashiyama, Atsuki; Imoto, Hisato; Tsuinashi, Seiichi

2005-12-01

Forty participants viewed and interpreted videotapes that were composed of displays representing different human actions (e.g., running and washing hands) and emotions (pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant). Half the videotapes were usual movies of real persons and the other videotapes were biological motions as produced by 22 light points on a human body in otherwise total darkness. In each display, an expert or a novice played a series of large or small body actions under each emotion. We found that (1) pleasant-unpleasant feeling was well discriminated in the real-person displays and in the biological motion display of large body actions, but it was less discriminated in the biological-motion displays of small body actions, (2) actions by experts were rated to be pleasant, and (3) actions were successfully identified for the real displays of large actions by experts, but they were poorly identified for the biological-motion displays of small body actions by novices. These results suggested that the observers correctly judged the emotion of players that was represented through suitable actions.

Seatbelt and helmet depiction on the big screen blockbuster injury prevention messages?

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Cowan, John A; Dubosh, Nicole; Hadley, Craig

2009-03-01

Injuries from vehicle crashes are a major cause of death among American youth. Many of these injuries are worsened because of noncompliant safety practices. Messages delivered by mass media are omnipresent in young peoples' lives and influence their behavior patterns. In this investigation, we analyzed seat belt and helmet messages from a sample of top-grossing motion pictures with emphasis on scene context and character demographics. Content analysis of 50 top-grossing motion pictures for years 2000 to 2004, with coding for seat belt and helmet usage by trained media coders. In 48 of 50 movies (53% PG-13; 33% R; 10% PG; 4% G) with vehicle scenes, 518 scenes (82% car/truck; 7% taxi/limo; 7% motorcycle; 4% bicycle/skateboard) were coded. Overall, seat belt and helmet usage rates were 15.4% and 33.3%, respectively, with verbal indications for seat belt or helmet use found in 1.0% of scenes. Safety compliance rates varied by character race (18.3% white; 6.5% black; p = 0.036). No differences in compliance rates were noted for high-speed or unsafe vehicle operation. The injury rate for noncompliant characters involved in crashes was 10.7%. A regression model demonstrated black character race and escape scenes most predictive of noncompliant safety behavior. Safety compliance messages and images are starkly absent in top-grossing motion pictures resulting in, at worst, a deleterious effect on vulnerable populations and public health initiatives, and, at minimum, a lost opportunity to prevent injury and death. Healthcare providers should call on the motion picture industry to improve safety compliance messages and images in their products delivered for mass consumption.

The role of beliefs in lexical alignment: evidence from dialogs with humans and computers.

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Branigan, Holly P; Pickering, Martin J; Pearson, Jamie; McLean, Janet F; Brown, Ash

2011-10-01

Five experiments examined the extent to which speakers' alignment (i.e., convergence) on words in dialog is mediated by beliefs about their interlocutor. To do this, we told participants that they were interacting with another person or a computer in a task in which they alternated between selecting pictures that matched their 'partner's' descriptions and naming pictures themselves (though in reality all responses were scripted). In both text- and speech-based dialog, participants tended to repeat their partner's choice of referring expression. However, they showed a stronger tendency to align with 'computer' than with 'human' partners, and with computers that were presented as less capable than with computers that were presented as more capable. The tendency to align therefore appears to be mediated by beliefs, with the relevant beliefs relating to an interlocutor's perceived communicative capacity. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Lab Aliens, Legendary Fossils, and Deadly Science Potions: Views of Science and Scientists from Fifth Graders in a Free-Choice Creative Writing Program

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Hellman, Leslie G.

This qualitative study uses children's writing to explore the divide between a conception of Science as a humanistic discipline reliant on creativity, ingenuity and out of the box thinking and a persistent public perception of science and scientists as rigid and methodical. Artifacts reviewed were 506 scripts written during 2014 and 2016 by 5th graders participating in an out-of classroom, mentor supported, free-choice 10-week arts and literacy initiative. 47% (237) of these scripts were found to contain content relating to Science, Scientists, Science Education and the Nature of Science. These 237 scripts were coded for themes; characteristics of named scientist characters were tracked and analyzed. Findings included NOS understandings being expressed by representation of Science and Engineering Practices; Ingenuity being primarily linked to Engineering tasks; common portrayals of science as magical or scientists as villains; and a persistence in negative stereotypes of scientists, including a lack of gender equity amongst the named scientist characters. Findings suggest that representations of scientists in popular culture highly influence the portrayals of scientists constructed by the students. Recommendations to teachers include encouraging explicit consideration of big-picture NOS concepts such as ethics during elementary school and encouraging the replacement of documentary or educational shows with more engaging fictional media.

Mesoscale wake clouds in Skylab pictures.

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Fujita, T. T.; Tecson, J. J.

1974-01-01

The recognition of cloud patterns formed in the wake of orographic obstacles was investigated using pictures from Skylab, for the purpose of estimating atmospheric motions. The existence of ship-wake-type wave clouds in contrast to vortex sheets were revealed during examination of the pictures, and an attempt was made to characterize the pattern of waves as well as the transition between waves and vortices. Examples of mesoscale cloud patterns which were analyzed photogrammetrically and meteorologically are presented.

Infinite-mode squeezed coherent states and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics (phase-space-picture approach)

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Yeh, Leehwa

1993-01-01

The phase-space-picture approach to quantum non-equilibrium statistical mechanics via the characteristic function of infinite-mode squeezed coherent states is introduced. We use quantum Brownian motion as an example to show how this approach provides an interesting geometrical interpretation of quantum non-equilibrium phenomena.

Real time moving scene holographic camera system

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Kurtz, R. L. (Inventor)

1973-01-01

A holographic motion picture camera system producing resolution of front surface detail is described. The system utilizes a beam of coherent light and means for dividing the beam into a reference beam for direct transmission to a conventional movie camera and two reflection signal beams for transmission to the movie camera by reflection from the front side of a moving scene. The system is arranged so that critical parts of the system are positioned on the foci of a pair of interrelated, mathematically derived ellipses. The camera has the theoretical capability of producing motion picture holograms of projectiles moving at speeds as high as 900,000 cm/sec (about 21,450 mph).

Analysis of Spark-Ignition Engine Knock as Seen in Photographs Taken at 200,000 Frames Per Second

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Miller, Cearcy D; Olsen, H Lowell; Logan, Walter O , Jr; Osterstrom, Gordon E

1946-01-01

A motion picture of the development of knock in a spark-ignition engine is presented, which consists of 20 photographs taken at intervals of 5 microseconds, or at a rate of 200,000 photographs per second, with an equivalent wide-open exposure time of 6.4 microseconds for each photograph. A motion picture of a complete combustion process, including the development of knock, taken at the rate of 40,000 photographs per second is also presented to assist the reader in orienting the photographs of the knock development taken at 200,000 frames per second.

Multi-Head Very High Power Strobe System For Motion Picture Special Effects

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Lovoi, P. A.; Fink, Michael L.

1983-10-01

A very large camera synchronizable strobe system has been developed for motion picture special effects. This system, the largest ever built, was delivered to MGM/UA to be used in the movie "War Games". The system consists of 12 individual strobe heads and a power supply distribution system. Each strobe head operates independently and may be flashed up to 24 times per second under computer control. An energy of 480 Joules per flash is used in six strobe heads and 240 Joules per flash in the remaining six strobe heads. The beam pattern is rectangular with a FWHM of 60° x 48°.

Challenges of implementing digital technology in motion picture distribution and exhibition: testing and evaluation methodology

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Swartz, Charles S.

2003-05-01

The process of distributing and exhibiting a motion picture has changed little since the Lumière brothers presented the first motion picture to an audience in 1895. While this analog photochemical process is capable of producing screen images of great beauty and expressive power, more often the consumer experience is diminished by third generation prints and by the wear and tear of the mechanical process. Furthermore, the film industry globally spends approximately $1B annually manufacturing and shipping prints. Alternatively, distributing digital files would theoretically yield great benefits in terms of image clarity and quality, lower cost, greater security, and more flexibility in the cinema (e.g., multiple language versions). In order to understand the components of the digital cinema chain and evaluate the proposed technical solutions, the Entertainment Technology Center at USC in 2000 established the Digital Cinema Laboratory as a critical viewing environment, with the highest quality film and digital projection equipment. The presentation describes the infrastructure of the Lab, test materials, and testing methodologies developed for compression evaluation, and lessons learned up to the present. In addition to compression, the Digital Cinema Laboratory plans to evaluate other components of the digital cinema process as well.

Sex and the media: three decades of best-selling books and major motion pictures.

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Abramson, P R; Mechanic, M B

1983-06-01

The expression of sexuality in best-selling novels and major motion pictures was examined. There are two reasons that such stimuli merit systematic analysis. First and foremost is the finding that best-selling novels and major motion pictures exist as a primary source of sexual information. Of equal importance, however, is the need to examine such stimuli for myths and fallacies. The novels and films analyzed in the present study were selected from the last years of three consecutive decades: 1959, 1969, and 1979. Inclusion in this study was based on ranking in either a best-seller list (i.e., books) or a rental-receipts list (i.e., movies). The use of such criteria serves the dual purpose of allowing for the examination of stimuli that are accessible to large masses of people and at the same time allowing for the examination of sexually relevant stimuli. The results are discussed in terms of historical changes (over the three decades) and manifest themes (i.e., general characteristics or consistent themes). An additional section was included to address the broader implications of the present findings and to suggest alternatives.

Smart security system for Indian rail wagons using IOT

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Bhanuteja, S.; Shilpi, S.; Pragna, K.; Arun, M.

2017-11-01

The objective of this project is to create a Security System for the goods that are carried in open top freight trains. The most efficient way to secure anything from thieves is to have a continuous observation. So for continuous observation of the open top freight train, Camera module2 has been used. Passive Infrared Sensor (PIR) 1 has been used to detect the motion or to sense movement of people, animals, or any object. So whenever a motion is detected by the PIR sensor, the Camera takes a picture of that particular instance. That picture will be send to the Raspberry PI which does Skin Detection Algorithm and specifies whether that motion was created by a human or not. If a human makes it, then that picture will send to the drop box. Any Official can have a look at the same. The existing system has a CCTV installed at various critical locations like bridges, railway stations etc. but they does not provide a continuous observation. This paper describes about the Security System that provides continuous observation for open top freight trains so that goods can be carried safely to its destination.

Real-time colour hologram generation based on ray-sampling plane with multi-GPU acceleration.

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Sato, Hirochika; Kakue, Takashi; Ichihashi, Yasuyuki; Endo, Yutaka; Wakunami, Koki; Oi, Ryutaro; Yamamoto, Kenji; Nakayama, Hirotaka; Shimobaba, Tomoyoshi; Ito, Tomoyoshi

2018-01-24

Although electro-holography can reconstruct three-dimensional (3D) motion pictures, its computational cost is too heavy to allow for real-time reconstruction of 3D motion pictures. This study explores accelerating colour hologram generation using light-ray information on a ray-sampling (RS) plane with a graphics processing unit (GPU) to realise a real-time holographic display system. We refer to an image corresponding to light-ray information as an RS image. Colour holograms were generated from three RS images with resolutions of 2,048 × 2,048; 3,072 × 3,072 and 4,096 × 4,096 pixels. The computational results indicate that the generation of the colour holograms using multiple GPUs (NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1080) was approximately 300-500 times faster than those generated using a central processing unit. In addition, the results demonstrate that 3D motion pictures were successfully reconstructed from RS images of 3,072 × 3,072 pixels at approximately 15 frames per second using an electro-holographic reconstruction system in which colour holograms were generated from RS images in real time.

Creative Film-Making.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Smallman, Kirk

The fundamentals of motion picture photography are introduced with a physiological explanation for the illusion of motion in a film. Film stock formats and emulsions, camera features, and lights are listed and described. Various techniques of exposure control are illustrated in terms of their effects. Photographing action with a stationary or a…

Advanced Concepts in Quantum Mechanics

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Esposito, Giampiero; Marmo, Giuseppe; Miele, Gennaro; Sudarshan, George

2014-11-01

Preface; 1. Introduction: the need for a quantum theory; 2. Experimental foundations of quantum theory; 3. Waves and particles; 4. Schrödinger picture, Heisenberg picture and probabilistic aspects; 5. Integrating the equations of motion; 6. Elementary applications: 1-dimensional problems; 7. Elementary applications: multidimensional problems; 8. Coherent states and related formalism; 9. Introduction to spin; 10. Symmetries in quantum mechanics; 11. Approximation methods; 12. Modern pictures of quantum mechanics; 13. Formulations of quantum mechanics and their physical implications; 14. Exam problems; Glossary of geometric concepts; References; Index.

Chimera Grid Tools

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Chan, William M.; Rogers, Stuart E.; Nash, Steven M.; Buning, Pieter G.; Meakin, Robert

2005-01-01

Chimera Grid Tools (CGT) is a software package for performing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis utilizing the Chimera-overset-grid method. For modeling flows with viscosity about geometrically complex bodies in relative motion, the Chimera-overset-grid method is among the most computationally cost-effective methods for obtaining accurate aerodynamic results. CGT contains a large collection of tools for generating overset grids, preparing inputs for computer programs that solve equations of flow on the grids, and post-processing of flow-solution data. The tools in CGT include grid editing tools, surface-grid-generation tools, volume-grid-generation tools, utility scripts, configuration scripts, and tools for post-processing (including generation of animated images of flows and calculating forces and moments exerted on affected bodies). One of the tools, denoted OVERGRID, is a graphical user interface (GUI) that serves to visualize the grids and flow solutions and provides central access to many other tools. The GUI facilitates the generation of grids for a new flow-field configuration. Scripts that follow the grid generation process can then be constructed to mostly automate grid generation for similar configurations. CGT is designed for use in conjunction with a computer-aided-design program that provides the geometry description of the bodies, and a flow-solver program.

A Fourier approach to cloud motion estimation

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Arking, A.; Lo, R. C.; Rosenfield, A.

1977-01-01

A Fourier technique is described for estimating cloud motion from pairs of pictures using the phase of the cross spectral density. The method allows motion estimates to be made for individual spatial frequencies, which are related to cloud pattern dimensions. Results obtained are presented and compared with the results of a Fourier domain cross correlation scheme. Using both artificial and real cloud data show that the technique is relatively sensitive to the presence of mixtures of motions, changes in cloud shape, and edge effects.

Motion Verbs with Goal PPs in the L2 Acquisition of English and Japanese.

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Inagaki, Shunji

2001-01-01

Suggests that Japanese learners will learn manner-of-motion verbs with goal prepositional phrases in English from positive feedback. Immediate Japanese learners of English and advanced learners of Japanese were tested using a grammaticality judgment task with pictures. Results support the prediction. (Author/VWL)

High-speed cinematography of muscle contraction.

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HAUPT, R E; WALL, D M

1962-07-13

Motion pictures of the "twitch" of an excised frog gastrocnemius muscle taken at rates of 6000 frames per second provide a means of very accurately timing the phases. The extreme "slow motion" reveals surface phenomena not observable by other techniques. Evidence of "active relaxation" is suggested by results of frame-by-frame analysis.

36 CFR 1237.4 - What definitions apply to this part?

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2010-07-01

... definitions apply to this part? (a) See § 1220.18 of this subchapter for definitions of terms used throughout... prints from these negatives. Also included are infrared, ultraviolet, multispectral, video, and radar... still photographs and motion media (i.e., moving images whether on motion picture film or as video...

36 CFR 1237.4 - What definitions apply to this part?

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2014-07-01

... definitions apply to this part? (a) See § 1220.18 of this subchapter for definitions of terms used throughout... prints from these negatives. Also included are infrared, ultraviolet, multispectral, video, and radar... still photographs and motion media (i.e., moving images whether on motion picture film or as video...

36 CFR 1237.4 - What definitions apply to this part?

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2011-07-01

... definitions apply to this part? (a) See § 1220.18 of this subchapter for definitions of terms used throughout... prints from these negatives. Also included are infrared, ultraviolet, multispectral, video, and radar... still photographs and motion media (i.e., moving images whether on motion picture film or as video...

36 CFR 1237.4 - What definitions apply to this part?

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2012-07-01

... definitions apply to this part? (a) See § 1220.18 of this subchapter for definitions of terms used throughout... prints from these negatives. Also included are infrared, ultraviolet, multispectral, video, and radar... still photographs and motion media (i.e., moving images whether on motion picture film or as video...

Enhancing the Students' Positive Attitude in Learning Business English by Using Technology

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Agustina, Lia

2017-01-01

Many research findings have stated that the use of technology in EFL classroom results invaluable achievements and develops positive attitudes. Technology may integrate sounds, pictures, motions, and colors that fi ure out a natural picture of real life. The aim of the study was to enhance the students' attitude toward learning English by using…

Responses of chronic agoraphobics to subliminal and supraliminal phobic motion pictures.

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Lee, I; Tyrer, P

1980-01-01

Fifteen agoraphobics took part in a study to investigate their responses to repeated presentations of a phobic motion pciture. Five patients were shown the film supraliminally, five were shown it subliminally, and the remaining five formed a control group. Subjective feelings were assessed with visual analogue scales, and three physiological measures, heart rate, skin conductance, and respiratory rate, were recorded. An earlier report showed that both subliminal and supraliminal presentation produced significant improvements in phobic fear and avoidance, and the present results show that the subliminal group found the procedure much less stressful than the supraliminal group. The physiological changes during treatment showed no consistent pattern and appeared to be independent of clinical response. The results show that repeated exposure to subliminal phobic motion pictures is not anxiety provoking to agoraphobic patients and so may be appropriate therapy for those unable to tolerate other forms of treatment.

Global plastic surgeons images depicted in motion pictures.

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Hwang, Se Jin; Park, Sowhey; Hwang, Kun

2013-03-01

Motion pictures are made to entertain and enlighten people, but they are viewed differently by different people. What one considers to be a tearjerker may induce giggles in another. We have gained added interest in this because our professional pictures contain plastic surgery in their venue. We have recently reviewed 21 motion pictures that were made from 1928 to 2006 and that includes plastic surgical procedures in their content. As a habit, we tried to analyze them from a surgical point of view. About one third (35.7%) of the patients were criminals, whereas 14.3% of them were spies. One third of the procedures were done by illegitimate "surgeons," whereas a quarter of the procedures (25%) were performed by renowned surgeons. Surgeons who were in love with the patients did the rest (25%) of the operations. The complication rate was 14.3%; the surgery was successful in 85.7% of cases, but were the patients happy with the results? This was not the case in the movies. Only 7.7% were happy; 14.5 % of them were eminently unhappy. Why the discrepancy? It is difficult to analyze the minds of the people in the film, but considering that the majority of the characters in the films were rather unsavory, one may deduce that a crooked mind functions differently. Motion pictures have advanced greatly in the past several decades with the advent of improved mechanical and electronic devices, and plastic surgery as also advanced in tandem. This surgical field has become a common procedure in our daily life. It is readily available and mostly painless. However, the public sees it in only one way, that is, that the performing physicians are highly compensated. Very few consider the efforts and the suffering that accompanies each and every surgical procedure as it is performed. Perhaps, it is too much to hope for a day that will come when we will see a film that portrays the mental anguish that accompanies each and every procedure the plastic surgeon makes.

Clinical validation of different echocardiographic motion pictures expert group-4 algorythms and compression levels for telemedicine.

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Barbier, Paolo; Alimento, Marina; Berna, Giovanni; Cavoretto, Dario; Celeste, Fabrizio; Muratori, Manuela; Guazzi, Maurizio D

2004-01-01

Tele-echocardiography is not widely used because of lengthy transmission times when using standard Motion Pictures Expert Groups (MPEG)-2 lossy compression algorythms, unless expensive high bandwidth lines are used. We sought to validate the newer MPEG-4 algorythms to allow further reduction in echocardiographic motion video file size. Four cardiologists expert in echocardiography read blindly 165 randomized uncompressed and compressed 2D and color Doppler normal and pathologic motion images. One Digital Video and 3 MPEG-4 compression algorythms were tested, the latter at 3 decreasing compression quality levels (100%, 65% and 40%). Mean diagnostic and image quality scores were computed for each file and compared across the 3 compression levels using uncompressed files as controls. File dimensions decreased from a range of uncompressed 12-83 MB to MPEG-4 0.03-2.3 MB. All algorythms showed mean scores that were not significantly different from uncompressed source, except the MPEG-4 DivX algorythm at the highest selected compression (40%, p=.002). These data support the use of MPEG-4 compression to reduce echocardiographic motion image size for transmission purposes, allowing cost reduction through use of low bandwidth lines.

"Hidden Figures" Panel Discussion

NASA Image and Video Library

2016-12-12

In the Press Site auditorium at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Ted Melfi, writer and director of the upcoming motion picture “Hidden Figures,” speaks to members of the media during a news conference with other key individuals involved in the upcoming motion picture. The movie is based on the book of the same title, by Margot Lee Shetterly. It chronicles the lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, three African-American women who worked for NASA as human "computers.” Their mathematical calculations were crucial to the success of Project Mercury missions including John Glenn’s orbital flight aboard Friendship 7 in 1962. The film is due in theaters in January 2017.

Action-concept learning in retarded children using photographic slides, motion pictures, sequences, and live demonstrations.

PubMed

Stephens, W E; Ludy, I E

1975-11-01

The inadequate use of action concepts by mentally retarded children has been reported in several recent studies, but little is yet known concerning the level of performance that might be expected to result from direct instruction designed to remedy this deficit. In the present study, it was found that three different instructional approaches yielded higher adjusted posttest scores. The highest adjusted posttest score was yielded by an instructional program in which motion picture sequences were used. This program was significantly more effective than two paralled programs, one using photographic slides, and the other using live demonstration by a teacher. An explanation for these findings was suggested.

36 CFR § 1237.4 - What definitions apply to this part?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... definitions apply to this part? (a) See § 1220.18 of this subchapter for definitions of terms used throughout... prints from these negatives. Also included are infrared, ultraviolet, multispectral, video, and radar... still photographs and motion media (i.e., moving images whether on motion picture film or as video...

Comparison of diagnostic quality of motion picture experts group-2 digital video with super VHS videotape for echocardiographic imaging.

PubMed

Harris, Kevin M; Schum, Kevin R; Knickelbine, Thomas; Hurrell, David G; Koehler, Jodi L; Longe, Terrence F

2003-08-01

Motion Picture Experts Group-2 (MPEG2) is a broadcast industry standard that allows high-level compression of echocardiographic data. Validation of MPEG2 digital images compared with super VHS videotape has not been previously reported. Simultaneous super VHS videotape and MPEG2 digital images were acquired. In all, 4 experienced echocardiographers completed detailed reporting forms evaluating chamber size, ventricular function, regional wall-motion abnormalities, and measures of valvular regurgitation and stenosis in a blinded fashion. Comparisons between the 2 interpretations were then performed and intraobserver concordance was calculated for the various categories. A total of 80 paired comparisons were made. The overall concordance rate was 93.6% with most of the discrepancies being minor (4.1%). Concordance was 92.4% for left ventricle, 93.2% for right ventricle, 95.2% for regional wall-motion abnormalities, and 97.8% for valve stenosis. The mean grade of valvular regurgitation was similar for the 2 techniques. MPEG2 digital imaging offers excellent concordance compared with super VHS videotape.

A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE FILMSTRIP, SOUND FILMSTRIP, AND FILMOGRAPH FOR TEACHING FACTS AND CONCEPTS.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

FINN, JAMES D.; MCBEATH, RONALD J.

THIS STUDY COMPARED THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS IN FACTUAL LEARNING OF (1) A CAPTIONED FILMSTRIP, (2) A CAPTIONED FILMSTRIP WITH NARRATION, (3) A SOUND FILMSTRIP, AND (4) A FILMOGRAPH. (THE FILMOGRAPH WAS MADE BY PHOTOGRAPHING STILL PICTURES ON MOTION PICTURE FILM.) THE STUDY TESTED THE HYPOTHESIS THAT THE FILMOGRAPHY COULD TEACH MORE EFFECTIVELY.…

Threatening scenes but not threatening faces shorten time-to-contact estimates.

PubMed

DeLucia, Patricia R; Brendel, Esther; Hecht, Heiko; Stacy, Ryan L; Larsen, Jeff T

2014-08-01

We previously reported that time-to-contact (TTC) judgments of threatening scene pictures (e.g., frontal attacks) resulted in shortened estimations and were mediated by cognitive processes, and that judgments of threatening (e.g., angry) face pictures resulted in a smaller effect and did not seem cognitively mediated. In the present study, the effects of threatening scenes and faces were compared in two different tasks. An effect of threatening scene pictures occurred in a prediction-motion task, which putatively requires cognitive motion extrapolation, but not in a relative TTC judgment task, which was designed to be less reliant on cognitive processes. An effect of threatening face pictures did not occur in either task. We propose that an object's explicit potential of threat per se, and not only emotional valence, underlies the effect of threatening scenes on TTC judgments and that such an effect occurs only when the task allows sufficient cognitive processing. Results are consistent with distinctions between predator and social fear systems and different underlying physiological mechanisms. Not all threatening information elicits the same responses, and whether an effect occurs at all may depend on the task and the degree to which the task involves cognitive processes.

The adaptation of GDL motion recognition system to sport and rehabilitation techniques analysis.

PubMed

Hachaj, Tomasz; Ogiela, Marek R

2016-06-01

The main novelty of this paper is presenting the adaptation of Gesture Description Language (GDL) methodology to sport and rehabilitation data analysis and classification. In this paper we showed that Lua language can be successfully used for adaptation of the GDL classifier to those tasks. The newly applied scripting language allows easily extension and integration of classifier with other software technologies and applications. The obtained execution speed allows using the methodology in the real-time motion capture data processing where capturing frequency differs from 100 Hz to even 500 Hz depending on number of features or classes to be calculated and recognized. Due to this fact the proposed methodology can be used to the high-end motion capture system. We anticipate that using novel, efficient and effective method will highly help both sport trainers and physiotherapist in they practice. The proposed approach can be directly applied to motion capture data kinematics analysis (evaluation of motion without regard to the forces that cause that motion). The ability to apply pattern recognition methods for GDL description can be utilized in virtual reality environment and used for sport training or rehabilitation treatment.

Where do interjections come from? A psycholinguistic analysis of Shaw's Pygmalion.

PubMed

O'Connell, Daniel C; Kowal, Sabine

2005-09-01

Starting from our recent findings regarding emotional and initializing functions of interjections in TV and radio interviews (Kowal & O'Connell, 2004b; O'Connell & Kowal, in press; O'Connell, Kowal, & Ageneau, 2005), we used the book and script of Shaw (1916/1969) and the audiotape of the motion picture (Pascal, Asquith, & Howard, 1938) Pygmalion to investigate how actors use interjections to express emotions. The following hypotheses were tested: (1) The actors use the written cues selectively in their oral performance by substituting, adding, and deleting interjections; (2) primary interjections added by the actors are less conventional than those in the written text; (3) durations and number of syllables of Eliza Doolittle's spoken renditions of her signature interjection ah-ah-ah-ow-ow-ow-oo do not correlate with the length in letters and syllables of the written versions; and (4) there is no evidence for Ameka's (1992b, 1994) characterization of interjections as temporally isolated, i.e., preceded and followed by silent pauses, in consequence of their syntactic isolation. Our findings confirmed all the hypotheses except for one unexpectedly significant correlation between number of syllables in Eliza Doolittle's signature interjection in the written version and duration in seconds of the spoken version thereof. The common thread throughout these data is the actor's need to personalize emotions in a dramatic performance--by means of interjections other than those provided in the written text. In this process of personalization, the emotional and initializing functions of interjections are confirmed.

SU-F-P-36: Automation of Linear Accelerator Star Shot Measurement with Advanced XML Scripting and Electronic Portal Imaging Device

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Nguyen, N; Knutson, N; Schmidt, M

Purpose: To verify a method used to automatically acquire jaw, MLC, collimator and couch star shots for a Varian TrueBeam linear accelerator utilizing Developer Mode and an Electronic Portal Imaging Device (EPID). Methods: An XML script was written to automate motion of the jaws, MLC, collimator and couch in TrueBeam Developer Mode (TBDM) to acquire star shot measurements. The XML script also dictates MV imaging parameters to facilitate automatic acquisition and recording of integrated EPID images. Since couch star shot measurements cannot be acquired using a combination of EPID and jaw/MLC collimation alone due to a fixed imager geometry, amore » method utilizing a 5mm wide steel ruler placed on the table and centered within a 15×15cm2 open field to produce a surrogate of the narrow field aperture was investigated. Four individual star shot measurements (X jaw, Y jaw, MLC and couch) were obtained using our proposed as well as traditional film-based method. Integrated EPID images and scanned measurement films were analyzed and compared. Results: Star shot (X jaw, Y jaw, MLC and couch) measurements were obtained in a single 5 minute delivery using the TBDM XML script method compared to 60 minutes for equivalent traditional film measurements. Analysis of the images and films demonstrated comparable isocentricity results, agreeing within 0.3mm of each other. Conclusion: The presented automatic approach of acquiring star shot measurements using TBDM and EPID has proven to be more efficient than the traditional film approach with equivalent results.« less

The Human Voice and the Silent Cinema.

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Berg, Charles M.

This paper traces the history of motion pictures from Thomas Edison's vision in 1887 of an instrument that recorded body movements to the development of synchronized sound-motion films in the late 1920s. The first synchronized sound film was made and demonstrated by W. K. L. Dickson, an assistant to Edison, in 1889. The popular acceptance of…

The visual attention saliency map for movie retrospection

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Rogalska, Anna; Napieralski, Piotr

2018-04-01

The visual saliency map is becoming important and challenging for many scientific disciplines (robotic systems, psychophysics, cognitive neuroscience and computer science). Map created by the model indicates possible salient regions by taking into consideration face presence and motion which is essential in motion pictures. By combining we can obtain credible saliency map with a low computational cost.

A video-based system for hand-driven stop-motion animation.

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Han, Xiaoguang; Fu, Hongbo; Zheng, Hanlin; Liu, Ligang; Wang, Jue

2013-01-01

Stop-motion is a well-established animation technique but is often laborious and requires craft skills. A new video-based system can animate the vast majority of everyday objects in stop-motion style, more flexibly and intuitively. Animators can perform and capture motions continuously instead of breaking them into increments and shooting one still picture per increment. More important, the system permits direct hand manipulation without resorting to rigs, achieving more natural object control for beginners. The system's key component is two-phase keyframe-based capturing and processing, assisted by computer vision techniques. With this system, even amateurs can generate high-quality stop-motion animations.

Reference Readiness for AV Questions.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Drolet, Leon L., Jr.

1981-01-01

Reviews 50 reference tools which librarians can use to answer almost any audiovisual question including queries on trivia, equipment selection, biographical information, and motion picture ratings. (LLS)

Apollo 13 post-flight Service Module tests to determine reason for explosion

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

1970-01-01

Sequence photo from 16mm motion picture film of test at Langley Research Center which seeks to determine mechanism by which Apollo 13 panel was separated from Service Module. The test used a 1/2 scale model with a honeycomb sandwich panel and was conducted in a vacuum (41982); Second photograph in sequence of three of panel separation test at Langley Research Center (41983); Full-scale propogation test at the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center of fire inside the Apollo Service Module oxygen tank. The photograph from a motion picture sequence taken from outside the vessel shows failure of tank conduit with abrupt loss of oxygen pressure (41984); Third photograph in sequence of three showing panel separation test at Langley Research Center (41985).

The NACA High-Speed Motion-Picture Camera Optical Compensation at 40,000 Photographs Per Second

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Miller, Cearcy D

1946-01-01

The principle of operation of the NACA high-speed camera is completely explained. This camera, operating at the rate of 40,000 photographs per second, took the photographs presented in numerous NACA reports concerning combustion, preignition, and knock in the spark-ignition engine. Many design details are presented and discussed, details of an entirely conventional nature are omitted. The inherent aberrations of the camera are discussed and partly evaluated. The focal-plane-shutter effect of the camera is explained. Photographs of the camera are presented. Some high-speed motion pictures of familiar objects -- photoflash bulb, firecrackers, camera shutter -- are reproduced as an illustration of the quality of the photographs taken by the camera.

Developmental changes in the understanding of implied motion in two-dimensional pictures.

PubMed

Friedman, S L; Stevenson, M B

1975-09-01

The power of various pictorial movement cues in eliciting a reading of movement was studied to determine the relationship between the ease with which a picture is interpreted and the degree to which the picture retains the structure of reality. Movement was indicated in 2 ways: pictorial conventions indicated movement by lines, blurs, and vibration marks; and pictorial postures indicated movement by figures which were isomorphic with the postures involved in real movement. Preschoolers, first graders, sixth graders, and college students were asked to label and sort pictures of human figures as "moving" or "still". Members of the 2 young groups did not classify pictures with conventional cues as "moving" as often as they did pictures with postural cues. Members of the 2 older groups classified both types of pictures as "moving". Since postural cues for movement are recognized at an earlier age than conventional cues, those that are more similar to reality may be easier to understand.

76 FR 60931 - Records Schedules; Availability and Request for Comments

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2011-09-30

..., fact sheets, slogans, posters, publications, videos, and public service announcements. 2. Department of... publications, directives, technical advisories, photographs, posters, motion pictures, video, and sound...

[About healing with nature and about love for the patient].

PubMed

Schipperges, H

1994-03-29

In the light of a nature-centered philosophy and its image of man and universe, the medical science of Paracelsus appears 'enlightened by nature'. Based on this experience, the physician found his medical art on the 'four pillars' ('Philosophia', 'Astronomia', 'Alchimia', 'Physica'). Acting out of the healing power of nature would be incomplete, if 'Physica' would not be accompanied by 'Virtus', the ethical component of all medical actions. This is described by Paracelsus by the picture of mercy ('Barmherzigkeit'), in whose sentiment all medical acting finds its final motivation. Therefore, the script concentrates in particular on what Paracelsus describes as 'love for the patient'.

An Investigation of End-Wall Vortex Cavitation in a High Reynolds Number Axial-Flow Pump

DTIC Science & Technology

1989-08-01

groove treatment, and various winglet configurations. Notwithstanding the differences between compressor and turbine flow fields, the deep- groove...treatment and pressure-surface winglet reduced the leakage by about 15 percent as reported by Booth et al. [20]. Additional numerical and experimental...the blade appears stationary because the eye blends the individual pictures together similar to a motion picture projection. However, at lower

Review of Flight Training Technology

DTIC Science & Technology

1976-07-01

the cockpit. They might be used to train pilots in procedures to cope with NOE-altitude emergencies; howeve-r, a combination of cinematic simulation...airplanes. Although cockpit motion adds realism , thereby i-nproving pilot performanc, in the simulater Fedderqon, Vil; Guercio and Wall, i7?. Ince...operations. Light aircraft, part-task trainers, motion pictures and video tares, cinematic simulators, and digital teaching machines are among the

Development of reading ability is facilitated by intensive exposure to a digital children's picture book.

PubMed

Masataka, Nobuo

2014-01-01

Here the author presents preliminary evidence supporting the possibility that the reading ability of 4-year-old children can be improved as a consequence of intensive exposure to the narrative in a digital picture book over a consecutive 5-day period. When creating the digital version used here, two additional functions were provided with it. First, the entire story was voice-recorded by a professional narrator and programmed so that it was played as narration from the speaker of an iPad. Next, as the narration of each digitized page proceeded, the character exactly corresponding to that pronounced by the narrator at that moment became highlighted in red. When the subjects' literacy capability with respect to the syllabic script of the Japanese language (kana) was evaluated before and after the exposure, their performance score was found to increase after the exposure to the digital book, whereas such a change was not recorded in children who experienced exposure to the printed version of the same picture book read to them by their mother. These effects were confirmed when the children were retested 4 weeks later. Although preliminary, the current study represents the first experimental evidence for a positive effect of exposure to digital books upon any aspect of child development.

Development of reading ability is facilitated by intensive exposure to a digital children's picture book

PubMed Central

Masataka, Nobuo

2014-01-01

Here the author presents preliminary evidence supporting the possibility that the reading ability of 4-year-old children can be improved as a consequence of intensive exposure to the narrative in a digital picture book over a consecutive 5-day period. When creating the digital version used here, two additional functions were provided with it. First, the entire story was voice-recorded by a professional narrator and programmed so that it was played as narration from the speaker of an iPad. Next, as the narration of each digitized page proceeded, the character exactly corresponding to that pronounced by the narrator at that moment became highlighted in red. When the subjects' literacy capability with respect to the syllabic script of the Japanese language (kana) was evaluated before and after the exposure, their performance score was found to increase after the exposure to the digital book, whereas such a change was not recorded in children who experienced exposure to the printed version of the same picture book read to them by their mother. These effects were confirmed when the children were retested 4 weeks later. Although preliminary, the current study represents the first experimental evidence for a positive effect of exposure to digital books upon any aspect of child development. PMID:24822051

Representing motion in a static image: constraints and parallels in art, science, and popular culture.

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Cutting, James E

2002-01-01

Representing motion in a picture is a challenge to artists, scientists, and all other imagemakers. Moreover, it presents a problem that will not go away with electronic and digital media, because often the pedagogical purpose of the representation of motion is more important than the motion itself. All satisfactory solutions evoke motion-for example, dynamic balance (or broken symmetry), stroboscopic sequences, affine shear (or forward lean), and photographic blur-but they also typically sacrifice the accuracy of the motion represented, a solution often unsuitable for science. Vector representations superimposed on static images allow for accuracy, but are not applicable to all situations. Workable solutions are almost certainly case specific and subject to continual evolution through exploration by imagemakers.

37 CFR 351.10 - Evidence.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

...” include still photographs, video tapes, and motion pictures. (2) Separation of irrelevant portions... considered in the analysis, the techniques of data collection, the techniques of estimation and testing, and...

37 CFR 351.10 - Evidence.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

...” include still photographs, video tapes, and motion pictures. (2) Separation of irrelevant portions... considered in the analysis, the techniques of data collection, the techniques of estimation and testing, and...

37 CFR 351.10 - Evidence.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

...” include still photographs, video tapes, and motion pictures. (2) Separation of irrelevant portions... considered in the analysis, the techniques of data collection, the techniques of estimation and testing, and...

37 CFR 351.10 - Evidence.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

...” include still photographs, video tapes, and motion pictures. (2) Separation of irrelevant portions... considered in the analysis, the techniques of data collection, the techniques of estimation and testing, and...

Psyplot: Visualizing rectangular and triangular Climate Model Data with Python

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Sommer, Philipp

2016-04-01

The development and use of climate models often requires the visualization of geo-referenced data. Creating visualizations should be fast, attractive, flexible, easily applicable and easily reproducible. There is a wide range of software tools available for visualizing raster data, but they often are inaccessible to many users (e.g. because they are difficult to use in a script or have low flexibility). In order to facilitate easy visualization of geo-referenced data, we developed a new framework called "psyplot," which can aid earth system scientists with their daily work. It is purely written in the programming language Python and primarily built upon the python packages matplotlib, cartopy and xray. The package can visualize data stored on the hard disk (e.g. NetCDF, GeoTIFF, any other file format supported by the xray package), or directly from the memory or Climate Data Operators (CDOs). Furthermore, data can be visualized on a rectangular grid (following or not following the CF Conventions) and on a triangular grid (following the CF or UGRID Conventions). Psyplot visualizes 2D scalar and vector fields, enabling the user to easily manage and format multiple plots at the same time, and to export the plots into all common picture formats and movies covered by the matplotlib package. The package can currently be used in an interactive python session or in python scripts, and will soon be developed for use with a graphical user interface (GUI). Finally, the psyplot framework enables flexible configuration, allows easy integration into other scripts that uses matplotlib, and provides a flexible foundation for further development.

Data-driven approach to human motion modeling with Lua and gesture description language

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Hachaj, Tomasz; Koptyra, Katarzyna; Ogiela, Marek R.

2017-03-01

The aim of this paper is to present the novel proposition of the human motion modelling and recognition approach that enables real time MoCap signal evaluation. By motions (actions) recognition we mean classification. The role of this approach is to propose the syntactic description procedure that can be easily understood, learnt and used in various motion modelling and recognition tasks in all MoCap systems no matter if they are vision or wearable sensor based. To do so we have prepared extension of Gesture Description Language (GDL) methodology that enables movements description and real-time recognition so that it can use not only positional coordinates of body joints but virtually any type of discreetly measured output MoCap signals like accelerometer, magnetometer or gyroscope. We have also prepared and evaluated the cross-platform implementation of this approach using Lua scripting language and JAVA technology. This implementation is called Data Driven GDL (DD-GDL). In tested scenarios the average execution speed is above 100 frames per second which is an acquisition time of many popular MoCap solutions.

26 CFR 521.101 - Introductory.

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2012-04-01

... DENMARK General Income Tax Taxation of Nonresident Aliens Who Are Residents of Denmark and of Danish... property (including rentals and like payments in respect of motion picture films) derived from sources...

26 CFR 521.101 - Introductory.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... DENMARK General Income Tax Taxation of Nonresident Aliens Who Are Residents of Denmark and of Danish... property (including rentals and like payments in respect of motion picture films) derived from sources...

26 CFR 521.101 - Introductory.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... DENMARK General Income Tax Taxation of Nonresident Aliens Who Are Residents of Denmark and of Danish... property (including rentals and like payments in respect of motion picture films) derived from sources...

26 CFR 521.101 - Introductory.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... DENMARK General Income Tax Taxation of Nonresident Aliens Who Are Residents of Denmark and of Danish... property (including rentals and like payments in respect of motion picture films) derived from sources...

36 CFR 1256.94 - Definition.

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2010-07-01

... Information Agency Audiovisual Materials in the National Archives of the United States § 1256.94 Definition. For the purposes of this subpart, “Audiovisual records” mean motion picture films, videotapes, and...

The effect of motion content in action naming by Parkinson's disease patients.

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Herrera, Elena; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, Javier; Cuetos, Fernando

2012-07-01

The verb-specific impairment present in patients with motion-related neurological diseases has been argued to support the hypothesis that the processing of words referring to motion depends on neural activity in regions involved in motor planning and execution. We presented a group of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients with an action-naming task in order to test whether the prevalence of motion-related semantic content in different verbs influences their accuracy. Forty-nine PD patients and 19 healthy seniors participated in the study. All of PD participants underwent a neurological and neuropsychological assessment to rule out dementia. Subjective ratings of the motion content level of 100 verbs were obtained from 14 young voluntaries. Then, pictures corresponding to two subsets of 25 verbs with significantly different degrees of motor component were selected to be used in an action-naming task. Stimuli lists were matched on visual and psycholinguistic characteristics. ANOVA analysis reveals differences between groups. PD patients obtained poor results in response to pictures with high motor content compared to those with low motor association. Nevertheless, this effect did not appear on the control group. The general linear mixed model analytic approach was applied to explore the influence of the degree of motion-related semantic content of each verb in the accuracy scores of the participants. The performance of PD patients appeared to be negatively affected by the level of motion-related semantic content associated to each verb. Our results provide compelling evidence of the relevance of brain areas related to planning and execution of movements in the retrieval of motion-related semantic content. Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Srl. All rights reserved.

Screening selves: sciences of memory and identity on film, 1930-1960.

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Winter, Alison

2004-11-01

Chemicals that could be used scientifically to force an individual to tell the truth - dubbed truth sera - were first described in the early 1920s. Ever since, the notion of "truth drugs" has remained tenaciously within popular culture. One of the most important reasons for the survival of the notion of a pharmaceutical technology of authenticity was the role of the barbiturates sodium amytal and sodium pentothal in psychiatric research and treatment during the 1930s through the 1950s. This article traces that history, giving special emphasis to the role of motion pictures. The article argues that researchers were seeking to develop a technology of authenticity (rather than of the truth per se). It examines how they used motion pictures to help them develop and disseminate this technology.

Malaria films: Motion pictures as a public health tool.

PubMed

Fedunkiw, Marianne

2003-07-01

I offer a historical examination of a group of malaria motion pictures, a subset of a larger genre of public health films. The majority of these more than 100 films were produced or coproduced by American and British agencies or production companies since 1940. The material is divided into 5 chronological periods, which include World War II, the postcolonial or DDT era (1946-1961), and the past 2 decades. The films themselves, I argue, represent a unique record of preventive measures, clinical techniques, and sociocultural biases, all within the context of a history of one of the greatest continuing challenges in public health. The malaria films, as a group, represent a large body of work that has not yet been brought together or analyzed as historical sources.

Malaria Films: Motion Pictures as a Public Health Tool

PubMed Central

Fedunkiw, Marianne

2003-01-01

I offer a historical examination of a group of malaria motion pictures, a subset of a larger genre of public health films. The majority of these more than 100 films were produced or coproduced by American and British agencies or production companies since 1940. The material is divided into 5 chronological periods, which include World War II, the postcolonial or DDT era (1946–1961), and the past 2 decades. The films themselves, I argue, represent a unique record of preventive measures, clinical techniques, and sociocultural biases, all within the context of a history of one of the greatest continuing challenges in public health. The malaria films, as a group, represent a large body of work that has not yet been brought together or analyzed as historical sources. PMID:12835178

Motion video compression system with neural network having winner-take-all function

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Fang, Wai-Chi (Inventor); Sheu, Bing J. (Inventor)

1997-01-01

A motion video data system includes a compression system, including an image compressor, an image decompressor correlative to the image compressor having an input connected to an output of the image compressor, a feedback summing node having one input connected to an output of the image decompressor, a picture memory having an input connected to an output of the feedback summing node, apparatus for comparing an image stored in the picture memory with a received input image and deducing therefrom pixels having differences between the stored image and the received image and for retrieving from the picture memory a partial image including the pixels only and applying the partial image to another input of the feedback summing node, whereby to produce at the output of the feedback summing node an updated decompressed image, a subtraction node having one input connected to received the received image and another input connected to receive the partial image so as to generate a difference image, the image compressor having an input connected to receive the difference image whereby to produce a compressed difference image at the output of the image compressor.

Data Recipes: Easy-to-Follow Instructions for Using SAR Data

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Stoner, C.; Laurencelle, J. C.; Drew, L.; Myers, A.

2016-12-01

To make synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data more user friendly, the Alaska Satellite Facility DAAC has created a growing library of online data recipes. The ASF DAAC offers SAR data from more than a dozen datasets, increasingly used by researchers for applications as varied as mapping wetlands, analyzing volcanic eruptions, measuring subsidence, following sea-ice movements, and tracking the paths of oil spills into sensitive marshes. Yet because learning how to use SAR data can seem intimidating or difficult, many researchers in relevant Earth sciences never access ASF's 25 year, 2.5 petabyte archive of day/night all-weather earth images. The data recipes help address this issue. With varied combinations of written instructions, scripts, pictures, and videos, the recipes give users step-by-step instructions for accomplishing discrete tasks. Recipe difficulty is rated and labeled from "Easier" to "More Advanced" with ski-slope type symbols. Recipe examples include creating a regional inundation map; radiometrically terrain correcting Sentinel-1A data using either a GUI or a script; viewing RTC power images in a GIS environment; and radiometrically terrain correcting ERS-1, ERS-2, JERS-1, RADARSAT-1, and ALOS PALSAR images using ASF MapReady software.

Evolution in totally constrained models: Schrödinger vs. Heisenberg pictures

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Olmedo, Javier

2016-06-01

We study the relation between two evolution pictures that are currently considered for totally constrained theories. Both descriptions are based on Rovelli’s evolving constants approach, where one identifies a (possibly local) degree of freedom of the system as an internal time. This method is well understood classically in several situations. The purpose of this paper is to further analyze this approach at the quantum level. Concretely, we will compare the (Schrödinger-like) picture where the physical states evolve in time with the (Heisenberg-like) picture in which one defines parametrized observables (or evolving constants of the motion). We will show that in the particular situations considered in this paper (the parametrized relativistic particle and a spatially flat homogeneous and isotropic spacetime coupled to a massless scalar field) both descriptions are equivalent. We will finally comment on possible issues and on the genericness of the equivalence between both pictures.

Free Space Optical Communication in the Military Environment

DTIC Science & Technology

2014-09-01

Communications Commission FDA Food and Drug Administration FMV Full Motion Video FOB Forward Operating Base FOENEX Free-Space Optical Experimental Network...from radio and voice to chat message and email. Data-rich multimedia content, such as high-definition pictures, video chat, video files, and...introduction of full-motion video (FMV) via numerous different Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems, such as targeting pods on

Study to determine cloud motion from meteorological satellite data

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Clark, B. B.

1972-01-01

Processing techniques were tested for deducing cloud motion vectors from overlapped portions of pairs of pictures made from meteorological satellites. This was accomplished by programming and testing techniques for estimating pattern motion by means of cross correlation analysis with emphasis placed upon identifying and reducing errors resulting from various factors. Techniques were then selected and incorporated into a cloud motion determination program which included a routine which would select and prepare sample array pairs from the preprocessed test data. The program was then subjected to limited testing with data samples selected from the Nimbus 4 THIR data provided by the 11.5 micron channel.

Hi-Vision telecine system using pickup tube

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Iijima, Goro

1992-08-01

Hi-Vision broadcasting, offering far more lifelike pictures than those produced by existing television broadcasting systems, has enormous potential in both industrial and commercial fields. The dissemination of the Hi-Vision system will enable vivid, movie theater quality pictures to be readily enjoyed in homes in the near future. To convert motion film pictures into Hi-Vision signals, a telecine system is needed. The Hi-Vision telecine systems currently under development are the "laser telecine," "flying-spot telecine," and "Saticon telecine" systems. This paper provides an overview of the pickup tube type Hi-Vision telecine system (referred to herein as the Saticon telecine system) developed and marketed by Ikegami Tsushinki Co., Ltd.

Spiky strings and single trace operators in gauge theories

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Kruczenski, Martin

2005-08-01

We consider single trace operators of the form Script Ol1...ln = Tr D+l1F...D+lnF which are common to all gauge theories. We argue that, when all li are equal and large, they have a dual description as strings with cusps, or spikes, one for each field F. In the case of Script N = 4 SYM, we compute the energy as a function of angular momentum by finding the corresponding solutions in AdS5 and compare with a 1-loop calculation of the anomalous dimension. As in the case of two spikes (twist two operators), there is agreement in the functional form but not in the coupling constant dependence. After that, we analyze the system in more detail and find an effective classical mechanics describing the motion of the spikes. In the appropriate limit, it is the same (up to the coupling constant dependence) as the coherent state description of linear combinations of the operators Script Ol1...ln such that all li are equal on average. This agreement provides a map between the operators in the boundary and the position of the spikes in the bulk. We further suggest that moving the spikes in other directions should describe operators with derivatives other than D+ indicating that these ideas are quite generic and should help in unraveling the string description of the large-N limit of gauge theories.

29 CFR 779.338 - Effect of 1961 and 1966 amendments.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... were: Hotels, motels, restaurants, motion picture theaters, seasonally operated amusement or..., motels, and restaurants must meet the same tests as other retail or service establishments (see § 779.337...

Simulation and visualization of face seal motion stability by means of computer generated movies

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Etsion, I.; Auer, B. M.

1980-01-01

A computer aided design method for mechanical face seals is described. Based on computer simulation, the actual motion of the flexibly mounted element of the seal can be visualized. This is achieved by solving the equations of motion of this element, calculating the displacements in its various degrees of freedom vs. time, and displaying the transient behavior in the form of a motion picture. Incorporating such a method in the design phase allows one to detect instabilities and to correct undesirable behavior of the seal. A theoretical background is presented. Details of the motion display technique are described, and the usefulness of the method is demonstrated by an example of a noncontacting conical face seal.

Simulation and visualization of face seal motion stability by means of computer generated movies

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Etsion, I.; Auer, B. M.

1981-01-01

A computer aided design method for mechanical face seals is described. Based on computer simulation, the actual motion of the flexibly mounted element of the seal can be visualized. This is achieved by solving the equations of motion of this element, calculating the displacements in its various degrees of freedom vs. time, and displaying the transient behavior in the form of a motion picture. Incorporating such a method in the design phase allows one to detect instabilities and to correct undesirable behavior of the seal. A theoretical background is presented. Details of the motion display technique are described, and the usefulness of the method is demonstrated by an example of a noncontacting conical face seal.

Potential Utility of a 4K Consumer Camera for Surgical Education in Ophthalmology.

PubMed

Ichihashi, Tsunetomo; Hirabayashi, Yutaka; Nagahara, Miyuki

2017-01-01

Purpose. We evaluated the potential utility of a cost-effective 4K consumer video system for surgical education in ophthalmology. Setting. Tokai University Hachioji Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. Design. Experimental study. Methods. The eyes that underwent cataract surgery, glaucoma surgery, vitreoretinal surgery, or oculoplastic surgery between February 2016 and April 2016 were recorded with 17.2 million pixels using a high-definition digital video camera (LUMIX DMC-GH4, Panasonic, Japan) and with 0.41 million pixels using a conventional analog video camera (MKC-501, Ikegami, Japan). Motion pictures of two cases for each surgery type were evaluated and classified as having poor, normal, or excellent visibility. Results. The 4K video system was easily installed by reading the instructions without technical expertise. The details of the surgical picture in the 4K system were highly improved over those of the conventional pictures, and the visual effects for surgical education were significantly improved. Motion pictures were stored for approximately 11 h with 512 GB SD memory. The total price of this system was USD 8000, which is a very low price compared with a commercial system. Conclusion. This 4K consumer camera was able to record and play back with high-definition surgical field visibility on the 4K monitor and is a low-cost, high-performing alternative for surgical facilities.

Bringing Javanesse Traditional Dance into Basic Physics Class: Exemplifying Projectile Motion through Video Analysis

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Handayani, Langlang; Prasetya Aji, Mahardika; Susilo; Marwoto, Putut

2016-08-01

An alternative approach of an arts-based instruction for Basic Physics class has been developed through the implementation of video analysis of a Javanesse traditional dance: Bambangan Cakil. A particular movement of the dance -weapon throwing- was analyzed by employing the LoggerPro software package to exemplify projectile motion. The results of analysis indicated that the movement of the thrown weapon in Bambangan Cakil dance provides some helping explanations of several physics concepts of projectile motion: object's path, velocity, and acceleration, in a form of picture, graph and also table. Such kind of weapon path and velocity can be shown via a picture or graph, while such concepts of decreasing velocity in y direction (weapon moving downward and upward) due to acceleration g can be represented through the use of a table. It was concluded that in a Javanesse traditional dance there are many physics concepts which can be explored. The study recommends to bring the traditional dance into a science class which will enable students to get more understanding of both physics concepts and Indonesia cultural heritage.

32 CFR 705.16 - Navy produced public information material.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... are given in the Manual of Navy Photography (OPNAVINST 3150.6D). (2) Photographic coverage of command... negative of motion picture photography of feature value (photography which will not lose its timeliness...

32 CFR 705.16 - Navy produced public information material.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... are given in the Manual of Navy Photography (OPNAVINST 3150.6D). (2) Photographic coverage of command... negative of motion picture photography of feature value (photography which will not lose its timeliness...

32 CFR 705.16 - Navy produced public information material.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... are given in the Manual of Navy Photography (OPNAVINST 3150.6D). (2) Photographic coverage of command... negative of motion picture photography of feature value (photography which will not lose its timeliness...

32 CFR 705.16 - Navy produced public information material.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... are given in the Manual of Navy Photography (OPNAVINST 3150.6D). (2) Photographic coverage of command... negative of motion picture photography of feature value (photography which will not lose its timeliness...

SRO on the LCR Trip

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Trohanis, Pascal

1971-01-01

A look at multi-image instructional Films, including a film on production steps for a medium which blends the simultaneity of large three-screened still pictorials, motion picture film clips, and audio sounds." (Author/AK)

75 FR 63800 - Information Collection; Commercial Use of the Woodsy Owl Symbol

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2010-10-18

... of the icon in motion pictures, documentaries, television magazine stories, and books, magazines, and... request toward Office of Management and Budget approval. Dated: October 12, 2010. Robin L. Thompson...

Improved control of medical x-ray film exposure

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Berdahl, C. M.

1978-01-01

Exposure sensing system for light-intensified motion-picture X-ray system uses aperture or adjustable diaphragm to sample light from image region of interest. Approach, along with approximate optics, can optimize exposure sensitivity.

The relationship between change detection and recognition of centrally attended objects in motion pictures.

PubMed

Angelone, Bonnie L; Levin, Daniel T; Simons, Daniel J

2003-01-01

Observers typically detect changes to central objects more readily than changes to marginal objects, but they sometimes miss changes to central, attended objects as well. However, even if observers do not report such changes, they may be able to recognize the changed object. In three experiments we explored change detection and recognition memory for several types of changes to central objects in motion pictures. Observers who failed to detect a change still performed at above chance levels on a recognition task in almost all conditions. In addition, observers who detected the change were no more accurate in their recognition than those who did not detect the change. Despite large differences in the detectability of changes across conditions, those observers who missed the change did not vary in their ability to recognize the changing object.

Automated Production of Movies on a Cluster of Computers

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Nail, Jasper; Le, Duong; Nail, William L.; Nail, William

2008-01-01

A method of accelerating and facilitating production of video and film motion-picture products, and software and generic designs of computer hardware to implement the method, are undergoing development. The method provides for automation of most of the tedious and repetitive tasks involved in editing and otherwise processing raw digitized imagery into final motion-picture products. The method was conceived to satisfy requirements, in industrial and scientific testing, for rapid processing of multiple streams of simultaneously captured raw video imagery into documentation in the form of edited video imagery and video derived data products for technical review and analysis. In the production of such video technical documentation, unlike in production of motion-picture products for entertainment, (1) it is often necessary to produce multiple video derived data products, (2) there are usually no second chances to repeat acquisition of raw imagery, (3) it is often desired to produce final products within minutes rather than hours, days, or months, and (4) consistency and quality, rather than aesthetics, are the primary criteria for judging the products. In the present method, the workflow has both serial and parallel aspects: processing can begin before all the raw imagery has been acquired, each video stream can be subjected to different stages of processing simultaneously on different computers that may be grouped into one or more cluster(s), and the final product may consist of multiple video streams. Results of processing on different computers are shared, so that workers can collaborate effectively.

Coding tools investigation for next generation video coding based on HEVC

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Chen, Jianle; Chen, Ying; Karczewicz, Marta; Li, Xiang; Liu, Hongbin; Zhang, Li; Zhao, Xin

2015-09-01

The new state-of-the-art video coding standard, H.265/HEVC, has been finalized in 2013 and it achieves roughly 50% bit rate saving compared to its predecessor, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. This paper provides the evidence that there is still potential for further coding efficiency improvements. A brief overview of HEVC is firstly given in the paper. Then, our improvements on each main module of HEVC are presented. For instance, the recursive quadtree block structure is extended to support larger coding unit and transform unit. The motion information prediction scheme is improved by advanced temporal motion vector prediction, which inherits the motion information of each small block within a large block from a temporal reference picture. Cross component prediction with linear prediction model improves intra prediction and overlapped block motion compensation improves the efficiency of inter prediction. Furthermore, coding of both intra and inter prediction residual is improved by adaptive multiple transform technique. Finally, in addition to deblocking filter and SAO, adaptive loop filter is applied to further enhance the reconstructed picture quality. This paper describes above-mentioned techniques in detail and evaluates their coding performance benefits based on the common test condition during HEVC development. The simulation results show that significant performance improvement over HEVC standard can be achieved, especially for the high resolution video materials.

Effects of Implied Motion and Facing Direction on Positional Preferences in Single-Object Pictures.

PubMed

Palmer, Stephen E; Langlois, Thomas A

2017-07-01

Palmer, Gardner, and Wickens studied aesthetic preferences for pictures of single objects and found a strong inward bias: Right-facing objects were preferred left-of-center and left-facing objects right-of-center. They found no effect of object motion (people and cars showed the same inward bias as chairs and teapots), but the objects were not depicted as moving. Here we measured analogous inward biases with objects depicted as moving with an implied direction and speed by having participants drag-and-drop target objects into the most aesthetically pleasing position. In Experiment 1, human figures were shown diving or falling while moving forward or backward. Aesthetic biases were evident for both inward-facing and inward-moving figures, but the motion-based bias dominated so strongly that backward divers or fallers were preferred moving inward but facing outward. Experiment 2 investigated implied speed effects using images of humans, horses, and cars moving at different speeds (e.g., standing, walking, trotting, and galloping horses). Inward motion or facing biases were again present, and differences in their magnitude due to speed were evident. Unexpectedly, faster moving objects were generally preferred closer to frame center than slower moving objects. These results are discussed in terms of the combined effects of prospective, future-oriented biases, and retrospective, past-oriented biases.

Politics and the Movie

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Funderburk, Charles

1978-01-01

Explains how the use of feature-length motion pictures, combined with interesting readings, can generate enthusiasm, discussion, and analysis of basic political ideas, concepts, and values. Reviews costs and identifies specific movies and readings on various political topics. (AV)

19 CFR 10.31 - Entry; bond.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... 9813.00.20, HTSUS, motion-picture advertising films entered under subheading 9813.00.25, HTSUS, and... section 520(c)(1), Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and was brought to the attention of the Customs Service...

Quality control procedures for dynamic treatment delivery techniques involving couch motion.

PubMed

Yu, Victoria Y; Fahimian, Benjamin P; Xing, Lei; Hristov, Dimitre H

2014-08-01

In this study, the authors introduce and demonstrate quality control procedures for evaluating the geometric and dosimetric fidelity of dynamic treatment delivery techniques involving treatment couch motion synchronous with gantry and multileaf collimator (MLC). Tests were designed to evaluate positional accuracy, velocity constancy and accuracy for dynamic couch motion under a realistic weight load. A test evaluating the geometric accuracy of the system in delivering treatments over complex dynamic trajectories was also devised. Custom XML scripts that control the Varian TrueBeam™ STx (Serial #3) axes in Developer Mode were written to implement the delivery sequences for the tests. Delivered dose patterns were captured with radiographic film or the electronic portal imaging device. The couch translational accuracy in dynamic treatment mode was 0.01 cm. Rotational accuracy was within 0.3°, with 0.04 cm displacement of the rotational axis. Dose intensity profiles capturing the velocity constancy and accuracy for translations and rotation exhibited standard deviation and maximum deviations below 3%. For complex delivery involving MLC and couch motions, the overall translational accuracy for reproducing programmed patterns was within 0.06 cm. The authors conclude that in Developer Mode, TrueBeam™ is capable of delivering dynamic treatment delivery techniques involving couch motion with good geometric and dosimetric fidelity.

Statistical Approach to Background Subtraction for Production of High-Quality Silhouettes for Human Gait Recognition

DTIC Science & Technology

2006-09-01

person pictured was a friend, the individual could tell who was in the picture (Lie, 2005:767). Kale has found that people have the ability to...recognize an individual from an impoverished display of gait ( Kale , 2003: 1). Studies also showed that different types of motion, including jumping and...gait representation approach is used by Kale and others. In this approach the width of the outer contour of the silhouette is used as the feature

ARC-1979-A79-7094

NASA Image and Video Library

1979-07-09

Range : 1 million kilometers Voyager 2 completed a dramatic 10 hour time lapse photo sequence to monitor the active volcanos on Jupiter's moon Io following the spacecraft's closest approach to Jupiter. This picture is one of about 200 images that will be used to generate a time lapse motion picture to illustrate Io's volcanic activity. On the bright limb, two of the plumes (P-5 & P-6) discovered in March by Voyager 1 are again visible. The plumes are spewing materials to a height of about 100 kilometers.

Derivation of the threshold condition for the ion temperature gradient mode with an inverted density profile from a simple physics picture

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Jhang, Hogun

2018-05-01

We show that the threshold condition for the toroidal ion temperature gradient (ITG) mode with an inverted density profile can be derived from a simple physics argument. The key in this picture is that the density inversion reduces the ion compression due to the ITG mode and the electron drift motion mitigates the poloidal potential build-up. This condition reproduces the same result that has been reported from a linear gyrokinetic calculation [T. S. Hahm and W. M. Tang, Phys. Fluids B 1, 1185 (1989)]. The destabilizing role of trapped electrons in toroidal geometry is easily captured in this picture.

The mirror game as a paradigm for studying the dynamics of two people improvising motion together

PubMed Central

Noy, Lior; Dekel, Erez; Alon, Uri

2011-01-01

Joint improvisation is the creative action of two or more people without a script or designated leader. Examples include improvisational theater and music, and day-to-day activities such as conversations. In joint improvisation, novel action is created, emerging from the interaction between people. Although central to creative processes and social interaction, joint improvisation remains largely unexplored due to the lack of experimental paradigms. Here we introduce a paradigm based on a theater practice called the mirror game. We measured the hand motions of two people mirroring each other at high temporal and spatial resolution. We focused on expert actors and musicians skilled in joint improvisation. We found that players can jointly create novel complex motion without a designated leader, synchronized to less than 40 ms. In contrast, we found that designating one player as leader deteriorated performance: The follower showed 2–3 Hz oscillation around the leader's smooth trajectory, decreasing synchrony and reducing the range of velocities reached. A mathematical model suggests a mechanism for these observations based on mutual agreement on future motion in mirrored reactive–predictive controllers. This is a step toward understanding the human ability to create novelty by improvising together. PMID:22160696

The mirror game as a paradigm for studying the dynamics of two people improvising motion together.

PubMed

Noy, Lior; Dekel, Erez; Alon, Uri

2011-12-27

Joint improvisation is the creative action of two or more people without a script or designated leader. Examples include improvisational theater and music, and day-to-day activities such as conversations. In joint improvisation, novel action is created, emerging from the interaction between people. Although central to creative processes and social interaction, joint improvisation remains largely unexplored due to the lack of experimental paradigms. Here we introduce a paradigm based on a theater practice called the mirror game. We measured the hand motions of two people mirroring each other at high temporal and spatial resolution. We focused on expert actors and musicians skilled in joint improvisation. We found that players can jointly create novel complex motion without a designated leader, synchronized to less than 40 ms. In contrast, we found that designating one player as leader deteriorated performance: The follower showed 2-3 Hz oscillation around the leader's smooth trajectory, decreasing synchrony and reducing the range of velocities reached. A mathematical model suggests a mechanism for these observations based on mutual agreement on future motion in mirrored reactive-predictive controllers. This is a step toward understanding the human ability to create novelty by improvising together.

Fundamental Quantum Mechanics--A Graphic Presentation

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Wise, M. N.; Kelley, T. G.

1977-01-01

Describes a presentation of basic quantum mechanics for nonscience majors that relies on a computer-generated graphic display to circumvent the usual mathematical difficulties. It allows a detailed treatment of free-particle motion in a wave picture. (MLH)

Wernher von Braun

NASA Image and Video Library

1950-01-01

Dr. von Braun stands beside a model of the upper stage (Earth-returnable stage) of the three-stage launch vehicle built for the series of the motion picture productions of space flight produced by Walt Disney in the mid-1950's.

The Evolution of the Motion Picture Theater Business in the 1980s.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Guback, Thomas

1987-01-01

Assesses the status of the movie theater business during the past seven years, which has seen major changes in production, distribution, types of theaters, seating capacity, and the general media landscape. (NKA)

29 CFR 779.107 - Goods defined.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

...; advertising, motion pictures, newspaper and radio copy; art work and manuscripts for publication; sample books, letterheads, envelopes, shipping tags, labels, checkbooks, blankbooks, book covers, advertising circulars, and... written materials such as newspapers, magazines, brochures, pamphlets, bulletins, and announcements...

Forward and store telemedicine using Motion Pictures Expert Group: a novel approach to pediatric tele-echocardiography.

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Woodson, Kristina E; Sable, Craig A; Cross, Russell R; Pearson, Gail D; Martin, Gerard R

2004-11-01

Live transmission of echocardiograms over integrated services digital network lines is accurate and has led to improvements in the delivery of pediatric cardiology care. Permanent archiving of the live studies has not previously been reported. Specific obstacles to permanent storage of telemedicine files have included the ability to produce accurate images without a significant increase in storage requirements. We evaluated the accuracy of Motion Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) digitization of incoming video streams and assessed the storage requirements of these files for infants in a real-time pediatric tele-echocardiography program. All major cardiac diagnoses were correctly diagnosed by review of MPEG images. MPEG file size ranged from 11.1 to 182 MB (56.5 +/- 29.9 MB). MPEG digitization during live neonatal telemedicine is accurate and provides an efficient method for storage. This modality has acceptable storage requirements; file sizes are comparable to other digital modalities.

Representations of non-suicidal self-injury in motion pictures.

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Trewavas, Christopher; Hasking, Penelope; McAllister, Margaret

2010-01-01

The aim of this study was to investigate representations of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in popular media. Forty-one motion pictures were viewed, coded, and analyzed. NSSI was correlated with mental illness, child maltreatment, and substance abuse. NSSI was generally portrayed as severe, habitual and covert. Further, depictions of NSSI were often sensationalized and featured prominently. NSSI was less likely to be associated with completed suicide than other psychological factors, but more closely associated with suicide than NSSI is in the community. Although NSSI was associated with psychiatric illness, few characters were receiving psychiatric care at the time of NSSI. However a significant proportion received support after engaging in NSSI. The portrayal of NSSI is generally accurate regarding correlates and function, but is inaccurately associated with suicide. Implications of the relatively accurate portrayal of NSSI are discussed in light of the potential for imitation, and the possibility of using cinematherapy to promote effective problem resolution.

Sexual scripts and sexual risk behaviors among Black heterosexual men: development of the Sexual Scripts Scale.

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Bowleg, Lisa; Burkholder, Gary J; Noar, Seth M; Teti, Michelle; Malebranche, David J; Tschann, Jeanne M

2015-04-01

Sexual scripts are widely shared gender and culture-specific guides for sexual behavior with important implications for HIV prevention. Although several qualitative studies document how sexual scripts may influence sexual risk behaviors, quantitative investigations of sexual scripts in the context of sexual risk are rare. This mixed methods study involved the qualitative development and quantitative testing of the Sexual Scripts Scale (SSS). Study 1 included qualitative semi-structured interviews with 30 Black heterosexual men about sexual experiences with main and casual sex partners to develop the SSS. Study 2 included a quantitative test of the SSS with 526 predominantly low-income Black heterosexual men. A factor analysis of the SSS resulted in a 34-item, seven-factor solution that explained 68% of the variance. The subscales and coefficient alphas were: Romantic Intimacy Scripts (α = .86), Condom Scripts (α = .82), Alcohol Scripts (α = .83), Sexual Initiation Scripts (α = .79), Media Sexual Socialization Scripts (α = .84), Marijuana Scripts (α = .85), and Sexual Experimentation Scripts (α = .84). Among men who reported a main partner (n = 401), higher Alcohol Scripts, Media Sexual Socialization Scripts, and Marijuana Scripts scores, and lower Condom Scripts scores were related to more sexual risk behavior. Among men who reported at least one casual partner (n = 238), higher Romantic Intimacy Scripts, Sexual Initiation Scripts, and Media Sexual Socialization Scripts, and lower Condom Scripts scores were related to higher sexual risk. The SSS may have considerable utility for future research on Black heterosexual men's HIV risk.

Change in drawing placement: A measure of change in mood state reflective of hemispheric lateralization of emotion.

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Butler, Tracy R; O'Mara, Erin M; Wilson, Josephine F

2018-04-26

The Valence Hypothesis of cerebral lateralization of emotion suggests greater right hemisphere activation during negative mood and greater left hemisphere activation during positive mood. This can manifest as visual field attentional bias. Here, study participants completed an assessment of current mood state (PANAS) and made a drawing (Drawing 1). To induce positive or negative mood, participants played a game; then, the winner read a script depicting a positive interpersonal interaction and the loser read a script depicting a negative interpersonal interaction. Participants then drew a second picture (Drawing 2) and completed the PANAS. We hypothesized that the game outcome would change current mood state and hemispheric activation, which would be reflected in drawing placement. The placement of Drawing 2 moved right for winners and left for losers. Winners experienced a greater increase in positive affect from Time 1 to Time 2 than losers and had decreased negative affect from Time 1. Losers had decreased positive affect from Time 1 and had a greater increase in negative affect from Time 1 to Time 2 than winners. Our results suggest that change in current mood state may be objectively observed by evaluating hemispatial bias reflective of brain hemispheric activation with drawings. Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

An evaluation of the Motion Picture Association of America's treatment of violence in PG-, PG-13-, and R-rated films.

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Jenkins, Lucille; Webb, Theresa; Browne, Nick; Afifi, A A; Kraus, Jess

2005-05-01

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system distinguishes among the 3 primary rating categories (PG, PG-13, and R) with respect to violence based on a study of the 100 top-grossing films of 1994. The Motion Picture Association of America assigns age-based ratings for every film that is released in the United States accompanied by the reasons for the rating. A data abstraction instrument was designed to code each act of violence within the sample of 100 films. A series of Poisson regression models were used to examine the association among rating, seriousness of violence, and primary reason for the rating assignment. The total average number of violent acts within each film by rating category increased from PG (14) to PG-13 (20) to R (32). However, using results from the Poisson models, it is clear that the rating does not predict the frequency of violence in films. For all 3 rating categories, the predicted number of violent acts is almost identical for films with violence as a primary descriptor and films with the highest level of seriousness (R = 62.4 acts, PG-13 = 55.2 acts, and PG = 56.1 acts). The regression analysis shows that the rating does not predict the frequency of violence that occurs in films. Frequency of violence alone is not the most important criterion for the assignment of rating. The content descriptors and average seriousness of films are better measures of the violence than rating assignment.

Multiple brain networks for visual self-recognition with different sensitivity for motion and body part.

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Sugiura, Motoaki; Sassa, Yuko; Jeong, Hyeonjeong; Miura, Naoki; Akitsuki, Yuko; Horie, Kaoru; Sato, Shigeru; Kawashima, Ryuta

2006-10-01

Multiple brain networks may support visual self-recognition. It has been hypothesized that the left ventral occipito-temporal cortex processes one's own face as a symbol, and the right parieto-frontal network processes self-image in association with motion-action contingency. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we first tested these hypotheses based on the prediction that these networks preferentially respond to a static self-face and to moving one's whole body, respectively. Brain activation specifically related to self-image during familiarity judgment was compared across four stimulus conditions comprising a two factorial design: factor Motion contrasted picture (Picture) and movie (Movie), and factor Body part a face (Face) and whole body (Body). Second, we attempted to segregate self-specific networks using a principal component analysis (PCA), assuming an independent pattern of inter-subject variability in activation over the four stimulus conditions in each network. The bilateral ventral occipito-temporal and the right parietal and frontal cortices exhibited self-specific activation. The left ventral occipito-temporal cortex exhibited greater self-specific activation for Face than for Body, in Picture, consistent with the prediction for this region. The activation profiles of the right parietal and frontal cortices did not show preference for Movie Body predicted by the assumed roles of these regions. The PCA extracted two cortical networks, one with its peaks in the right posterior, and another in frontal cortices; their possible roles in visuo-spatial and conceptual self-representations, respectively, were suggested by previous findings. The results thus supported and provided evidence of multiple brain networks for visual self-recognition.

HUBBLE HUNTS DOWN BINARY OBJECTS AT FRINGE OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

2002-01-01

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped pictures of a double system of icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt. This composite picture shows the apparent orbit of one member of the pair. In reality, the objects, called 1998 WW31, revolve around a common center of gravity, like a pair of waltzing skaters. This picture shows the motion of one member of the duo [the six faint blobs] relative to the other [the large white blob]. The blue oval represents the orbital path. Astronomers assembled this picture from six separate exposures, taken from July to September 2001, December 2001, and January to February 2002. Astronomers used the Hubble telescope to study the orbit of this binary system. They then used that information to determine other characteristics of the duo, such as their total mass, and their orbital period (the time it takes them to orbit each other). Credit: NASA and C. Veillet (Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope)

Sexual Scripts and Sexual Risk Behaviors among Black Heterosexual Men: Development of the Sexual Scripts Scale

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Bowleg, Lisa; Burkholder, Gary J.; Noar, Seth M.; Teti, Michelle; Malebranche, David J.; Tschann, Jeanne M.

2014-01-01

Sexual scripts are widely shared gender and culture-specific guides for sexual behavior with important implications for HIV prevention. Although several qualitative studies document how sexual scripts may influence sexual risk behaviors, quantitative investigations of sexual scripts in the context of sexual risk are rare. This mixed methods study involved the qualitative development and quantitative testing of the Sexual Scripts Scale (SSS). Study 1 included qualitative semi-structured interviews with 30 Black heterosexual men about sexual experiences with main and casual sex partners to develop the SSS. Study 2 included a quantitative test of the SSS with 526 predominantly low-income Black heterosexual men. A factor analysis of the SSS resulted in a 34-item, seven-factor solution that explained 68% of the variance. The subscales and coefficient alphas were: Romantic Intimacy Scripts (α = .86), Condom Scripts (α = .82), Alcohol Scripts (α = .83), Sexual Initiation Scripts (α = .79), Media Sexual Socialization Scripts (α = .84), Marijuana Scripts (α = .85), and Sexual Experimentation Scripts (α = .84). Among men who reported a main partner (n = 401), higher Alcohol Scripts, Media Sexual Socialization Scripts, and Marijuana Scripts scores, and lower Condom Scripts scores were related to more sexual risk behavior. Among men who reported at least one casual partner (n = 238), higher Romantic Intimacy Scripts, Sexual Initiation Scripts, and Media Sexual Socialization Scripts, and lower Condom Scripts scores were related to higher sexual risk. The SSS may have considerable utility for future research on Black heterosexual men’s HIV risk. PMID:24311105

Hand-held photomicroscopy system

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Zabower, H. R.

1972-01-01

Photomicroscopy system, with simple optics and any standard microscope objective, is used with any type of motion picture, still, or television camera system. Device performs well under difficult environmental conditions and applies to work in ecological studies, field hospitals, and geological surveys.

Cinerama sickness and postural instability.

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Bos, Jelte E; Ledegang, Wietse D; Lubeck, Astrid J A; Stins, John F

2013-01-01

Motion sickness symptoms and increased postural instability induced by motion pictures have been reported in a laboratory, but not in a real cinema. We, therefore, carried out an observational study recording sickness severity and postural instability in 19 subjects before, immediately and 45 min after watching a 1 h 3D aviation documentary in a cinema. Sickness was significantly larger right after the movie than before, and in a lesser extent still so after 45 min. The average standard deviation of the lateral centre of pressure excursions was significantly larger only right afterwards. When low-pass filtered at 0.1 Hz, lateral and for-aft excursions were both significantly larger right after the movie, while for-aft excursions then remained larger even after 45 min. Speculating on previous findings, we predict more sickness and postural instability in 3D than in 2D movies, also suggesting a possible, but yet unknown risk for work-related activities and vehicle operation. Watching motion pictures may be sickening and posturally destabilising, but effects in a cinema are unknown. We, therefore, carried out an observational study showing that sickness then is mainly an issue during the exposure while postural instability is an issue afterwards.

Flagellum synchronization inhibits large-scale hydrodynamic instabilities in sperm suspensions

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Schöller, Simon F.; Keaveny, Eric E.

2016-11-01

Sperm in suspension can exhibit large-scale collective motion and form coherent structures. Our picture of such coherent motion is largely based on reduced models that treat the swimmers as self-locomoting rigid bodies that interact via steady dipolar flow fields. Swimming sperm, however, have many more degrees of freedom due to elasticity, have a more exotic shape, and generate spatially-complex, time-dependent flow fields. While these complexities are known to lead to phenomena such as flagellum synchronization and attraction, how these effects impact the overall suspension behaviour and coherent structure formation is largely unknown. Using a computational model that captures both flagellum beating and elasticity, we simulate suspensions on the order of 103 individual swimming sperm cells whose motion is coupled through the surrounding Stokesian fluid. We find that the tendency for flagella to synchronize and sperm to aggregate inhibits the emergence of the large-scale hydrodynamic instabilities often associated with active suspensions. However, when synchronization is repressed by adding noise in the flagellum actuation mechanism, the picture changes and the structures that resemble large-scale vortices appear to re-emerge. Supported by an Imperial College PhD scholarship.

[Developmental changes of rapid automatized naming and Hiragana reading of Japanese in elementary-school children].

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Kobayashi, Tomoka; Inagaki, Masumi; Gunji, Atsuko; Yatabe, Kiyomi; Kita, Yosuke; Kaga, Makiko; Gotoh, Takaaki; Koike, Toshihide

2011-11-01

Two hundred and seven Japanese elementary school children aged from 6 (Grade 1) to 12 (Grade 6) years old were tested for their abilities to name numbers and pictured objects along with reading Hiragana characters and words. These children all showed typical development and their classroom teachers judged that they were not having any problems with reading or writing. The children were randomly divided into two groups, the first group was assigned to two naming tasks;the rapid automatized naming (RAN) of "numbers" and "pictured objects," the second group was assigned to two rapid alternative stimulus (RAS) naming tasks using numbers and pictured objects. All children were asked to perform two reading tasks that were written in Hiragana script: single mora reading task and four syllable word reading task. The total articulation time for naming and reading and performance in terms of accuracy were measured for each task. Developmental changes in these variables were evaluated. The articulation time was significantly longer for the first graders, and it gradually shortened as they moved through to the upper grades in all tasks. The articulation time reached a plateau in the 5th grade for the number naming, while gradual change continued after drastic change in the lower grades for the pictured object naming. The articulation times for the single mora reading and RAN of numbers correlated strongly. The articulation time for the RAS naming was significantly longer compared to that for the RAN, though there were very few errors. The RAS naming showed the highest correlation with the four syllable word reading. This study demonstrated that the performance in rapid automatized naming of numbers and pictures were closely related with performance on reading tasks. Thus Japanese children with reading disorders such as developmental dyslexia should also be evaluated for rapid automatized naming.

Adolescents' sexual scripts: schematic representations of consensual and nonconsensual heterosexual interactions.

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Krahé, Barbara; Bieneck, Steffen; Scheinberger-Olwig, Renate

2007-11-01

The characteristic features of adolescents' sexual scripts were explored in 400 tenth and eleventh graders from Berlin, Germany. Participants rated the prototypical elements of three scripts for heterosexual interactions: (1) the prototypical script for the first consensual sexual intercourse with a new partner as pertaining to adolescents in general (general script); (2) the prototypical script for the first consensual sexual intercourse with a new partner as pertaining to themselves personally (individual script); and (3) the script for a nonconsensual sexual intercourse (rape script). Compared with the general script for the age group as a whole, the individual script contained fewer risk elements related to sexual aggression and portrayed more positive consequences of the sexual interaction. Few gender differences were found, and coital experience did not affect sexual scripts. The rape script was found to be close to the "real rape stereotype." The findings are discussed with respect to the role of sexual scripts as guidelines for behavior, particularly in terms of their significance for the prediction of sexual aggression.

[Clinical pictures of the osteoarthritis in the knee joint (author's transl)].

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Iseki, F; Fujikawa, K

1980-06-01

A total of 3,176 osteoarthritic knees are studied for the clinical course, and some of them are analysed for biomechanical development of the gonarthritis. Varus deformity, obesity, female incidence, patellar and medial femoral joint changes, and loss of range of motion are dominant in the clinical pictures of the gonarthritis. Joint effusion and instability are not principal manifestation. Meniscus injury, ligamentous involvement, and hip fusion have much effect on the development of the gonarthritis. Synovial degeneration increases in number by aging but idiopathic haemorrhage is rarely observed.

Multispectral image dissector camera flight test

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Johnson, B. L.

1973-01-01

It was demonstrated that the multispectral image dissector camera is able to provide composite pictures of the earth surface from high altitude overflights. An electronic deflection feature was used to inject the gyro error signal into the camera for correction of aircraft motion.

Glossary of Motion Picture Terminology.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Jordan, Thurston C., Jr., Ed.

Over 500 terms used in the film industry are defined in non-technical language. The terms include both technical and common names for equipment, processes, occupations, and organizations. Some of the terms are illustrated with photographs. Cross Referencing is provided where appropriate. (JY)

Off With Their Heads! A Serio-Comic Tale of Hollywood.

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Marion, Frances

Frances Marion was one of Hollywood's leading screenplay writers from the silent era through the 1940's. This informal memoir concentrates on the personalities she knew, the development of major motion pictures, her friends, and her own career. (JK)

Media: A Pocket Guide.

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Arrasjid, Harun; Arrasjid, Dorine Audrey

An attempt has been made to provide a concise but comprehensive guide to instructional media for instructors, students, and teachers. Topics covered include audio learning systems, overhead projection, opaque projection, slide and filmstrip projection, projection surfaces, chalkboards and markboards, graphics, models, duplicating, motion pictures,…

Visible Korean human images on MIOS system

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Har, Donghwan; Son, Young-Ho; Lee, Sung-Won; Lee, Jung Beom

2004-05-01

Basically, photography has the attributes of reason, which encompasses the scientific knowledge of optics, physics and chemistry, and delicate sensibility of individuals. Ultimately, the photograph pursues "effective communication." Communication is "mental and psychosocial exchange mediated by material symbols, such as language, gesture and picture," and it has four compositions: "sender, receiver, message and channel." Recently, a change in the communication method is on the rise in the field of art and culture, including photography. Until now, communication was mainly achieved by the form of messages unilaterally transferred from senders to receivers. But, nowadays, an interactive method, in which the boundary of sender and receiver is obscure, is on the increase. Such new communication method may be said to have arrived from the desire of art and culture societies, pursuing something new and creative in the background of utilization of a variety of information media. The multi-view screen we developed is also a communication tool capable of effective interaction using photos or motion pictures. The viewer can see different images at different locations. It utilizes the basic lenticular characteristics, which have been used in printing. Each motion picture is displayed on the screen without crosstalk. The multi-view screen is different in many aspects from other display media, and is expected to be utilized in many fields, including advertisement, display and education.

36 CFR 251.51 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... of motion picture, videotaping, sound recording, or any other moving image or audio recording... category—A processing or monitoring category requiring more than 50 hours of agency time to process an application for a special use authorization (processing category 6 and, in certain situations, processing...

36 CFR 251.51 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... of motion picture, videotaping, sound recording, or any other moving image or audio recording.... Major category—A processing or monitoring category requiring more than 50 hours of agency time to process an application for a special use authorization (processing category 6 and, in certain situations...

36 CFR 251.51 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... of motion picture, videotaping, sound recording, or any other moving image or audio recording... category—A processing or monitoring category requiring more than 50 hours of agency time to process an application for a special use authorization (processing category 6 and, in certain situations, processing...

36 CFR 251.51 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... of motion picture, videotaping, sound recording, or any other moving image or audio recording... category—A processing or monitoring category requiring more than 50 hours of agency time to process an application for a special use authorization (processing category 6 and, in certain situations, processing...

Car-Crash Experiment for the Undergraduate Laboratory

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Ball, Penny L.; And Others

1974-01-01

Describes an interesting, inexpensive, and highly motivating experiment to study uniform and accelerated motion by measuring the position of a car as it crashes into a rigid wall. Data are obtained from a sequence of pictures made by a high speed camera. (Author/SLH)

A Look at the History of Blacks in American Movies: A Familiar Plot.

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Bogle, Donald

1983-01-01

Reviews the various roles that Black actors have played in American movies and in the development of the motion picture industry. Calls for more important roles for Blacks, both as performers and as writers, directors, and producers. (DA)

Computer Animation of a Chemical Reaction.

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Eaker, Charles W.; Jacobs, Edwin L.

1982-01-01

Taking a prototype chemical reaction (molecular hydrogen plus hydrogen atom), constructs an accurate semiempirical, generalized diatomics-in-molecules potential energy surface, calculates motions of these atoms on this surface using REACTS trajectory program, and presents results as moving picture on a microcomputer graphics system. Provides…

Audio-Tutorial Instruction in Medicine.

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Boyle, Gloria J.; Herrick, Merlyn C.

This progress report concerns an audio-tutorial approach used at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine. Instructional techniques such as slide-tape presentations, compressed speech audio tapes, computer-assisted instruction (CAI), motion pictures, television, microfiche, and graphic and printed materials have been implemented,…

Virtual Liability?

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Zirkel, Perry A.

2003-01-01

Analyzes federal district court case involving legal action against certain companies that produced violent video games, a violent motion picture, or maintained pornographic websites. Parents of three Kentucky high school students shot and killed by another student who regularly viewed the aforementioned material brought suit. The court dismissed…

Dr. von Braun With a Model of a Launch Vehicle

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

1950-01-01

Dr. von Braun stands beside a model of the upper stage (Earth-returnable stage) of the three-stage launch vehicle built for the series of the motion picture productions of space flight produced by Walt Disney in the mid-1950's.

"Vraisemblance" and the Western Setting in Contemporary Science Fiction Film.

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Roth, Lane

Analyzing the setting of six recent "blockbuster" films, this study outlines numerous instances of the Western's influence on several contemporary science fiction films, "Star Wars,""Battlestar Galactica,""Star Trek: The Motion Picture,""The Black Hole,""The Empire Strikes Back," and…

Hyperspherical nuclear motion of H3 + and D3 + in the electronic triplet state, a 3Sigmau +.

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Ferreira, Tiago Mendes; Alijah, Alexander; Varandas, António J C

2008-02-07

The potential energy surface of H(3) (+) in the lowest electronic triplet state, a (3)Sigma(u) (+), shows three equivalent minima at linear nuclear configurations. The vibrational levels of H(3) (+) and D(3) (+) on this surface can therefore be described as superimposed linear molecule states. Owing to such a superposition, each vibrational state characterized by quantum numbers of an isolated linear molecule obtains a one- and a two-dimensional component. The energy splittings between the two components have now been rationalized within a hyperspherical picture. It is shown that nuclear motion along the hyperangle phi mainly accounts for the splittings and provides upper bounds. This hyperspherical motion can be considered an extension of the antisymmetric stretching motion of the individual linear molecule.

Signed, sealed and delivered: "big tobacco" in Hollywood, 1927-1951.

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Lum, K L; Polansky, J R; Jackler, R K; Glantz, S A

2008-10-01

Smoking in movies is associated with adolescent and young adult smoking initiation. Public health efforts to eliminate smoking from films accessible to youth have been countered by defenders of the status quo, who associate tobacco imagery in "classic" movies with artistry and nostalgia. The present work explores the mutually beneficial commercial collaborations between the tobacco companies and major motion picture studios from the late 1920s through the 1940s. Cigarette endorsement contracts with Hollywood stars and movie studios were obtained from internal tobacco industry documents at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Legacy Tobacco Documents Library and the Jackler advertising collection at Stanford. Cigarette advertising campaigns that included Hollywood endorsements appeared from 1927 to 1951, with major activity in 1931-2 and 1937-8 for American Tobacco Company's Lucky Strike, and in the late 1940s for Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield. Endorsement contracts and communication between American Tobacco and movie stars and studios explicitly reveal the cross-promotional value of the campaigns. American Tobacco paid movie stars who endorsed Lucky Strike cigarettes US$218,750 in 1937-8 (equivalent to US$3.2 million in 2008) for their testimonials. Hollywood endorsements in cigarette advertising afforded motion picture studios nationwide publicity supported by the tobacco industry's multimillion US dollar advertising budgets. Cross-promotion was the incentive that led to a synergistic relationship between the US tobacco and motion picture industries, whose artefacts, including "classic" films with smoking and glamorous publicity images with cigarettes, continue to perpetuate public tolerance of onscreen smoking. Market-based disincentives within the film industry may be a solution to decouple the historical association between Hollywood films and cigarettes.

Signed, sealed and delivered: “big tobacco” in Hollywood, 1927–1951

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Lum, K L; Polansky, J R; Jackler, R K; Glantz, S A

2008-01-01

Objective: Smoking in movies is associated with adolescent and young adult smoking initiation. Public health efforts to eliminate smoking from films accessible to youth have been countered by defenders of the status quo, who associate tobacco imagery in “classic” movies with artistry and nostalgia. The present work explores the mutually beneficial commercial collaborations between the tobacco companies and major motion picture studios from the late 1920s through the 1940s. Methods: Cigarette endorsement contracts with Hollywood stars and movie studios were obtained from internal tobacco industry documents at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Legacy Tobacco Documents Library and the Jackler advertising collection at Stanford. Results: Cigarette advertising campaigns that included Hollywood endorsements appeared from 1927 to 1951, with major activity in 1931–2 and 1937–8 for American Tobacco Company’s Lucky Strike, and in the late 1940s for Liggett & Myers’ Chesterfield. Endorsement contracts and communication between American Tobacco and movie stars and studios explicitly reveal the cross-promotional value of the campaigns. American Tobacco paid movie stars who endorsed Lucky Strike cigarettes US$218 750 in 1937–8 (equivalent to US$3.2 million in 2008) for their testimonials. Conclusions: Hollywood endorsements in cigarette advertising afforded motion picture studios nationwide publicity supported by the tobacco industry’s multimillion US dollar advertising budgets. Cross-promotion was the incentive that led to a synergistic relationship between the US tobacco and motion picture industries, whose artefacts, including “classic” films with smoking and glamorous publicity images with cigarettes, continue to perpetuate public tolerance of onscreen smoking. Market-based disincentives within the film industry may be a solution to decouple the historical association between Hollywood films and cigarettes. PMID:18818225

Time-Domain Terahertz Computed Axial Tomography NDE System

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Zimdars, David

2012-01-01

NASA has identified the need for advanced non-destructive evaluation (NDE) methods to characterize aging and durability in aircraft materials to improve the safety of the nation's airline fleet. 3D THz tomography can play a major role in detection and characterization of flaws and degradation in aircraft materials, including Kevlar-based composites and Kevlar and Zylon fabric covers for soft-shell fan containment where aging and durability issues are critical. A prototype computed tomography (CT) time-domain (TD) THz imaging system has been used to generate 3D images of several test objects including a TUFI tile (a thermal protection system tile used on the Space Shuttle and possibly the Orion or similar capsules). This TUFI tile had simulated impact damage that was located and the depth of damage determined. The CT motion control gan try was designed and constructed, and then integrated with a T-Ray 4000 control unit and motion controller to create a complete CT TD-THz imaging system prototype. A data collection software script was developed that takes multiple z-axis slices in sequence and saves the data for batch processing. The data collection software was integrated with the ability to batch process the slice data with the CT TD-THz image reconstruction software. The time required to take a single CT slice was decreased from six minutes to approximately one minute by replacing the 320 ps, 100-Hz waveform acquisition system with an 80 ps, 1,000-Hz waveform acquisition system. The TD-THZ computed tomography system was built from pre-existing commercial off-the-shelf subsystems. A CT motion control gantry was constructed from COTS components that can handle larger samples. The motion control gantry allows inspection of sample sizes of up to approximately one cubic foot (.0.03 cubic meters). The system reduced to practice a CT-TDTHz system incorporating a COTS 80- ps/l-kHz waveform scanner. The incorporation of this scanner in the system allows acquisition of 3D slice data with better signal-to-noise using a COTS scanner rather than the gchirped h scanner. The system also reduced to practice a prototype for commercial CT systems for insulating materials where safety concerns cannot accommodate x-ray. A software script was written to automate the COTS software to collect and process TD-THz CT data.

Motion of Fullerenes around Topological Defects on Metals: Implications for the Progress of Molecular Scale Devices.

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Nirmalraj, Peter; Daly, Ronan; Martin, Nazario; Thompson, Damien

2017-03-08

Research on motion of molecules in the presence of thermal noise is central for progress in two-terminal molecular scale electronic devices. However, it is still unclear what influence imperfections in bottom metal electrode surface can have on molecular motion. Here, we report a two-layer crowding study, detailing the early stages of surface motion of fullerene molecules on Au(111) with nanoscale pores in a n-tetradecane chemical environment. The motion of the fullerenes is directed by crowding of the underlying n-tetradecane molecules around the pore fringes at the liquid-solid interface. We observe in real-space the growth of molecular populations around different pore geometries. Supported by atomic-scale modeling, our findings extend the established picture of molecular crowding by revealing that trapped solvent molecules serve as prime nucleation sites at nanopore fringes.

The Coming of Digital Desktop Media.

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Galbreath, Jeremy

1992-01-01

Discusses the movement toward digital-based platforms including full-motion video for multimedia products. Hardware- and software-based compression techniques for digital data storage are considered, and a chart summarizes features of Digital Video Interactive, Moving Pictures Experts Group, P x 64, Joint Photographic Experts Group, Apple…

One corner of the third floor has examples of Edison ...

Library of Congress Historic Buildings Survey, Historic Engineering Record, Historic Landscapes Survey

One corner of the third floor has examples of Edison motion picture projectors in rather poor condition. Better preserved examples are in storage in Vault #12. - Thomas A. Edison Laboratories, Building No. 5, Main Street & Lakeside Avenue, West Orange, Essex County, NJ

Mass Media and Communication. Second, Revised Edition.

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Steinberg, Charles S., Ed.

This revised and enlarged second edition contains sections focusing on a number of mass media: newspapers, the American magazine, motion pictures, broadcasting media, and book publishing. Other section topics include the structure and development of mass communication, public opinion, international communication, the motivation of assent, the…

The Audio-Visual Equipment Directory. Seventeenth Edition.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Herickes, Sally, Ed.

The following types of audiovisual equipment are catalogued: 8 mm. and 16 mm. motion picture projectors, filmstrip and sound filmstrip projectors, slide projectors, random access projection equipment, opaque, overhead, and micro-projectors, record players, special purpose projection equipment, audio tape recorders and players, audio tape…

37 CFR 201.31 - Procedures for copyright restoration in the United States for certain motion pictures and their...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... sounds, images, or both, that are being transmitted, is ‘fixed’ for purposes of this title if a fixation... processing of Statements of Intent. (f) Effective date of restoration of copyright protection. (1) Potential...

37 CFR 201.31 - Procedures for copyright restoration in the United States for certain motion pictures and their...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... communicated for a period of more than transitory duration. A work consisting of sounds, images, or both, that... not requiring a fee for the processing of Statements of Intent. (f) Effective date of restoration of...

37 CFR 201.31 - Procedures for copyright restoration in the United States for certain motion pictures and their...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... communicated for a period of more than transitory duration. A work consisting of sounds, images, or both, that... not requiring a fee for the processing of Statements of Intent. (f) Effective date of restoration of...

37 CFR 201.31 - Procedures for copyright restoration in the United States for certain motion pictures and their...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... communicated for a period of more than transitory duration. A work consisting of sounds, images, or both, that... not requiring a fee for the processing of Statements of Intent. (f) Effective date of restoration of...

37 CFR 201.31 - Procedures for copyright restoration in the United States for certain motion pictures and their...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... communicated for a period of more than transitory duration. A work consisting of sounds, images, or both, that... not requiring a fee for the processing of Statements of Intent. (f) Effective date of restoration of...

36 CFR 1260.46 - How will NARA implement automatic declassification?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... Systematic Review § 1260.46 How will NARA implement automatic declassification? (a) Textual records and..., audiotapes, videotapes, or comparable media that make a review for possible declassification exemptions more..., motion pictures, audiotapes, videotapes, or comparable media that make a review for possible...

36 CFR 1260.46 - How will NARA implement automatic declassification?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... Systematic Review § 1260.46 How will NARA implement automatic declassification? (a) Textual records and..., audiotapes, videotapes, or comparable media that make a review for possible declassification exemptions more..., motion pictures, audiotapes, videotapes, or comparable media that make a review for possible...

Reducing Heating In High-Speed Cinematography

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Slater, Howard A.

1989-01-01

Infrared-absorbing and infrared-reflecting glass filters simple and effective means for reducing rise in temperature during high-speed motion-picture photography. "Hot-mirror" and "cold-mirror" configurations, employed in projection of images, helps prevent excessive heating of scenes by powerful lamps used in high-speed photography.

How to Choose--and Use--Motion Picture Projectors

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Training, 1976

1976-01-01

Suggests techniques for selecting super 8 and 16mm movie projectors for various training and communication needs. Charts list various characteristics for 17 models of 8mm projectors with built-in screen, 7 models without screen, and 33 models of 16mm projectors. (WL)

Understanding and Developing Black Popular Music Collections.

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Murray, James Briggs

1983-01-01

Enumerates types of black popular music (work songs, spirituals, gospel music, blues, race records, rock and roll, soul, funk, disco, Caribbean, and African) and discusses collection development (current, retrospective, monographs, periodicals, sheet music, motion picture film, photographs, oral history), cataloging, and preservation. A 229-item…

76 FR 64115 - Privacy Act of 1974; Privacy Act System of Records

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2011-10-17

...-leaf binders or file folders, and in electronic media, including NASA's Ethics Program Tracking System... documents, electronic media, micrographic media, photographs, or motion pictures film, and various medical....; General Accounting Office's General Policies/Procedures and Communications Manual, Chapter 7; Treasury...

HSDPA (3.5G)-based ubiquitous integrated biotelemetry system for emergency care.

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Kang, Jaemin; Shin, Il Hyung; Koo, Yoonseo; Jung, Min Yang; Suh, Gil Joon; Kim, Hee Chan

2007-01-01

We have developed the second prototype system of Ubiquitous Integrated Biotelemetry System for Emergency Care(UIBSEC) using a HSDPA(High Speed Downlink Packet Access) modem to be used by emergency rescuers to get directions from medical doctors in providing emergency medical services for patients in ambulance. Five vital bio-signal instrumentation modules have been implemented, which include noninvasive arterial blood pressure (NIBP), arterial oxygen saturation (SaO2), 6-channel electro-cardiogram(ECG), blood glucose level, and body temperature and real-time motion picture of the patient and GPS information are also taken. Measured patient data, captured motion picture and GPS information are then transferred to a doctor's PC through the HSDPA and TCP/IP networks using stand-alone HSDPA modem. Most prominent feature of the developed system is that it is based on the HSDPA backbone networks available in Korea now, through which we will be able to establish a ubiquitous emergency healthcare service system.

Dynamics of a b-nut failure

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Zarubin, Peter V.

1999-06-01

In August of 1989, the Galileo spacecraft, consisting of an orbiter and probe, was mounted to an Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) rocket stage being readied for flight aboard NASA's Space Shuttle, 'STS-34,' 'Atlantis.' During routine age testing of an IUS igniter fire line circuit, a 'b-nut' failure occurred. On board the Galileo/IUS first stage rocket motor was a b-nut from this failed lot. There was concern that the mission could be jeopardized if the b-nut failed because of the close proximity of the IUS second stage rocket motor nozzle. A fix had to be made to insure mission success. Chemical Systems Division was called upon to provide high- speed motion picture photography at 3000 frames per second to analyze the dynamics of a b-nut failure, and verify that the fix would prevent damage to the second stage nozzle, should a b-nut failure occur. This report will show how displacement and velocity measurements can be made from 16 mm motion picture film.

Box Office Forecasting considering Competitive Environment and Word-of-Mouth in Social Networks: A Case Study of Korean Film Market.

PubMed

Kim, Taegu; Hong, Jungsik; Kang, Pilsung

2017-01-01

Accurate box office forecasting models are developed by considering competition and word-of-mouth (WOM) effects in addition to screening-related information. Nationality, genre, ratings, and distributors of motion pictures running concurrently with the target motion picture are used to describe the competition, whereas the numbers of informative, positive, and negative mentions posted on social network services (SNS) are used to gauge the atmosphere spread by WOM. Among these candidate variables, only significant variables are selected by genetic algorithm (GA), based on which machine learning algorithms are trained to build forecasting models. The forecasts are combined to improve forecasting performance. Experimental results on the Korean film market show that the forecasting accuracy in early screening periods can be significantly improved by considering competition. In addition, WOM has a stronger influence on total box office forecasting. Considering both competition and WOM improves forecasting performance to a larger extent than when only one of them is considered.

Box Office Forecasting considering Competitive Environment and Word-of-Mouth in Social Networks: A Case Study of Korean Film Market

PubMed Central

Kim, Taegu; Hong, Jungsik

2017-01-01

Accurate box office forecasting models are developed by considering competition and word-of-mouth (WOM) effects in addition to screening-related information. Nationality, genre, ratings, and distributors of motion pictures running concurrently with the target motion picture are used to describe the competition, whereas the numbers of informative, positive, and negative mentions posted on social network services (SNS) are used to gauge the atmosphere spread by WOM. Among these candidate variables, only significant variables are selected by genetic algorithm (GA), based on which machine learning algorithms are trained to build forecasting models. The forecasts are combined to improve forecasting performance. Experimental results on the Korean film market show that the forecasting accuracy in early screening periods can be significantly improved by considering competition. In addition, WOM has a stronger influence on total box office forecasting. Considering both competition and WOM improves forecasting performance to a larger extent than when only one of them is considered. PMID:28819355

Appreciation of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers: the originators of the Congress

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Lunn, George H.

1991-04-01

It seems that many people contributed to the invention of the motion picture systems. In USA, it seems that Thomas A Edison (1847-1931) or his company did much of the practical work, initially proposing the Film principle. The cine-camera was achieved in a number of ways, mainly because the exposure can be a small portion of the interval between frames, BUT in the projection period, the film must be halted to give a good screen image for a large portion of the total interval. This is the point which Charles Francis Jenkins (1867-1934) says he saw first and proposed a "beater" to drive the film forward which became through Thomas Armat (1866-1948) the Geneva Cross Drive. Thus the final step was the combination of all three inventors with Edison and George Eastman (1854-1932) providing the continuous film and the Camera and the Projector, first demonstrated by Jenkins (early 1895) improved by Armat and made by Edison as the Vitascope.

Fast 3D Net Expeditions: Tools for Effective Scientific Collaboration on the World Wide Web

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Watson, Val; Chancellor, Marisa K. (Technical Monitor)

1996-01-01

Two new technologies, the FASTexpedition and Remote FAST, have been developed that provide remote, 3D (three dimensional), high resolution, dynamic, interactive viewing of scientific data. The FASTexpedition permits one to access scientific data from the World Wide Web, take guided expeditions through the data, and continue with self controlled expeditions through the data. Remote FAST permits collaborators at remote sites to simultaneously view an analysis of scientific data being controlled by one of the collaborators. Control can be transferred between sites. These technologies are now being used for remote collaboration in joint university, industry, and NASA projects. Also, NASA Ames Research Center has initiated a project to make scientific data and guided expeditions through the data available as FASTexpeditions on the World Wide Web for educational purposes. Previously, remote visualization of dynamic data was done using video format (transmitting pixel information) such as video conferencing or MPEG (Motion Picture Expert Group) movies on the Internet. The concept for this new technology is to send the raw data (e.g., grids, vectors, and scalars) along with viewing scripts over the Internet and have the pixels generated by a visualization tool running on the viewers local workstation. The visualization tool that is currently used is FAST (Flow Analysis Software Toolkit). The advantages of this new technology over using video format are: (1) The visual is much higher in resolution (1280x1024 pixels with 24 bits of color) than typical video format transmitted over the network. (2) The form of the visualization can be controlled interactively (because the viewer is interactively controlling the visualization tool running on his workstation). (3) A rich variety of guided expeditions through the data can be included easily. (4) A capability is provided for other sites to see a visual analysis of one site as the analysis is interactively performed. Control of the analysis can be passed from site to site. (5) The scenes can be viewed in 3D using stereo vision. (6) The network bandwidth for the visualization using this new technology is much smaller than when using video format. (The measured peak bandwidth used was 1 Kbit/sec whereas the measured bandwidth for a small video picture was 500 Kbits/sec.) This talk will illustrate the use of these new technologies and present a proposal for using these technologies to improve science education.

Computational model for amoeboid motion: Coupling membrane and cytosol dynamics

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Moure, Adrian; Gomez, Hector

2016-10-01

A distinguishing feature of amoeboid motion is that the migrating cell undergoes large deformations, caused by the emergence and retraction of actin-rich protrusions, called pseudopods. Here, we propose a cell motility model that represents pseudopod dynamics, as well as its interaction with membrane signaling molecules. The model accounts for internal and external forces, such as protrusion, contraction, adhesion, surface tension, or those arising from cell-obstacle contacts. By coupling the membrane and cytosol interactions we are able to reproduce a realistic picture of amoeboid motion. The model results are in quantitative agreement with experiments and show how cells may take advantage of the geometry of their microenvironment to migrate more efficiently.

Gaze stability of observers watching Op Art pictures.

PubMed

Zanker, Johannes M; Doyle, Melanie; Robin, Walker

2003-01-01

It has been the matter of some debate why we can experience vivid dynamic illusions when looking at static pictures composed from simple black and white patterns. The impression of illusory motion is particularly strong when viewing some of the works of 'Op Artists, such as Bridget Riley's painting Fall. Explanations of the illusory motion have ranged from retinal to cortical mechanisms, and an important role has been attributed to eye movements. To assess the possible contribution of eye movements to the illusory-motion percept we studied the strength of the illusion under different viewing conditions, and analysed the gaze stability of observers viewing the Riley painting and control patterns that do not produce the illusion. Whereas the illusion was reduced, but not abolished, when watching the painting through a pinhole, which reduces the effects of accommodation, it was not perceived in flash afterimages, suggesting an important role for eye movements in generating the illusion for this image. Recordings of eye movements revealed an abundance of small involuntary saccades when looking at the Riley pattern, despite the fact that gaze was kept within the dedicated fixation region. The frequency and particular characteristics of these rapid eye movements can vary considerably between different observers, but, although there was a tendency for gaze stability to deteriorate while viewing a Riley painting, there was no significant difference in saccade frequency between the stimulus and control patterns. Theoretical considerations indicate that such small image displacements can generate patterns of motion signals in a motion-detector network, which may serve as a simple and sufficient, but not necessarily exclusive, explanation for the illusion. Why such image displacements lead to perceptual results with a group of Op Art and similar patterns, but remain invisible for other stimuli, is discussed.

Simplifying and enhancing the use of PyMOL with horizontal scripts

PubMed Central

2016-01-01

Abstract Scripts are used in PyMOL to exert precise control over the appearance of the output and to ease remaking similar images at a later time. We developed horizontal scripts to ease script development. A horizontal script makes a complete scene in PyMOL like a traditional vertical script. The commands in a horizontal script are separated by semicolons. These scripts are edited interactively on the command line with no need for an external text editor. This simpler workflow accelerates script development. In using PyMOL, the illustration of a molecular scene requires an 18‐element matrix of view port settings. The default format spans several lines and is laborious to manually reformat for one line. This default format prevents the fast assembly of horizontal scripts that can reproduce a molecular scene. We solved this problem by writing a function that displays the settings on one line in a compact format suitable for horizontal scripts. We also demonstrate the mapping of aliases to horizontal scripts. Many aliases can be defined in a single script file, which can be useful for applying costume molecular representations to any structure. We also redefined horizontal scripts as Python functions to enable the use of the help function to print documentation about an alias to the command history window. We discuss how these methods of using horizontal scripts both simplify and enhance the use of PyMOL in research and education. PMID:27488983

Photographer : JPL Range : 1 million kilometers Voyager 2 completed a dramatic 10 hour time lapse

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

1979-01-01

Photographer : JPL Range : 1 million kilometers Voyager 2 completed a dramatic 10 hour time lapse photo sequence to monitor the active volcanos on Jupiter's moon Io following the spacecraft's closest approach to Jupiter. This picture is one of about 200 images that will be used to generate a time lapse motion picture to illustrate Io's volcanic activity. On the bright limb, two of the plumes (P-5 & P-6) discovered in March by Voyager 1 are again visible. The plumes are spewing materials to a height of about 100 kilometers.

Automatic 3D relief acquisition and georeferencing of road sides by low-cost on-motion SfM

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Voumard, Jérémie; Bornemann, Perrick; Malet, Jean-Philippe; Derron, Marc-Henri; Jaboyedoff, Michel

2017-04-01

3D terrain relief acquisition is important for a large part of geosciences. Several methods have been developed to digitize terrains, such as total station, LiDAR, GNSS or photogrammetry. To digitize road (or rail tracks) sides on long sections, mobile spatial imaging system or UAV are commonly used. In this project, we compare a still fairly new method -the SfM on-motion technics- with some traditional technics of terrain digitizing (terrestrial laser scanning, traditional SfM, UAS imaging solutions, GNSS surveying systems and total stations). The SfM on-motion technics generates 3D spatial data by photogrammetric processing of images taken from a moving vehicle. Our mobile system consists of six action cameras placed on a vehicle. Four fisheye cameras mounted on a mast on the vehicle roof are placed at 3.2 meters above the ground. Three of them have a GNNS chip providing geotagged images. Two pictures were acquired every second by each camera. 4K resolution fisheye videos were also used to extract 8.3M not geotagged pictures. All these pictures are then processed with the Agisoft PhotoScan Professional software. Results from the SfM on-motion technics are compared with results from classical SfM photogrammetry on a 500 meters long alpine track. They were also compared with mobile laser scanning data on the same road section. First results seem to indicate that slope structures are well observable up to decimetric accuracy. For the georeferencing, the planimetric (XY) accuracy of few meters is much better than the altimetric (Z) accuracy. There is indeed a Z coordinate shift of few tens of meters between GoPro cameras and Garmin camera. This makes necessary to give a greater freedom to altimetric coordinates in the processing software. Benefits of this low-cost SfM on-motion method are: 1) a simple setup to use in the field (easy to switch between vehicle types as car, train, bike, etc.), 2) a low cost and 3) an automatic georeferencing of 3D points clouds. Main disadvantages are: 1) results are less accurate than those from LiDAR system, 2) a heavy images processing and 3) a short distance of acquisition.

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Myronakis, M; Cai, W; Dhou, S

Purpose: To design a comprehensive open-source, publicly available, graphical user interface (GUI) to facilitate the configuration, generation, processing and use of the 4D Extended Cardiac-Torso (XCAT) phantom. Methods: The XCAT phantom includes over 9000 anatomical objects as well as respiratory, cardiac and tumor motion. It is widely used for research studies in medical imaging and radiotherapy. The phantom generation process involves the configuration of a text script to parameterize the geometry, motion, and composition of the whole body and objects within it, and to generate simulated PET or CT images. To avoid the need for manual editing or script writing,more » our MATLAB-based GUI uses slider controls, drop-down lists, buttons and graphical text input to parameterize and process the phantom. Results: Our GUI can be used to: a) generate parameter files; b) generate the voxelized phantom; c) combine the phantom with a lesion; d) display the phantom; e) produce average and maximum intensity images from the phantom output files; f) incorporate irregular patient breathing patterns; and f) generate DICOM files containing phantom images. The GUI provides local help information using tool-tip strings on the currently selected phantom, minimizing the need for external documentation. The DICOM generation feature is intended to simplify the process of importing the phantom images into radiotherapy treatment planning systems or other clinical software. Conclusion: The GUI simplifies and automates the use of the XCAT phantom for imaging-based research projects in medical imaging or radiotherapy. This has the potential to accelerate research conducted with the XCAT phantom, or to ease the learning curve for new users. This tool does not include the XCAT phantom software itself. We would like to acknowledge funding from MRA, Varian Medical Systems Inc.« less

29 CFR 14.4 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 29 Labor 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 true Definitions. 14.4 Section 14.4 Labor Office of the Secretary of Labor SECURITY REGULATIONS Introduction to Security Regulations § 14.4 Definitions. The following... printed films (either still or motion picture). (5) Reproductions of the foregoing, by whatever process...

78 FR 51212 - Records Schedules; Availability and Request for Comments

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2013-08-20

... motion pictures of mission activities, and education files. 11. Peace Corps, Office of Safety and... Records Management Services (ACNR) using one of the following means: Mail: NARA (ACNR), 8601 Adelphi Road... (ACNR), National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001...

36 CFR 5.5 - Commercial photography.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... 36 Parks, Forests, and Public Property 1 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Commercial photography. 5.5... COMMERCIAL AND PRIVATE OPERATIONS § 5.5 Commercial photography. (a) Motion pictures, television. Before any... Federal Regulations. (b) Still photography. The taking of photographs of any vehicle, or other articles of...

36 CFR 5.5 - Commercial photography.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... 36 Parks, Forests, and Public Property 1 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Commercial photography. 5.5... COMMERCIAL AND PRIVATE OPERATIONS § 5.5 Commercial photography. (a) Motion pictures, television. Before any... Federal Regulations. (b) Still photography. The taking of photographs of any vehicle, or other articles of...

36 CFR 5.5 - Commercial photography.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... 36 Parks, Forests, and Public Property 1 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Commercial photography. 5.5... COMMERCIAL AND PRIVATE OPERATIONS § 5.5 Commercial photography. (a) Motion pictures, television. Before any... Federal Regulations. (b) Still photography. The taking of photographs of any vehicle, or other articles of...

7 CFR 4290.720 - Enterprises that may be ineligible for Financing.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... wells, wind farms, or power facilities (including solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, or biomass power... the majority of the activities of the Enterprise. Examples include motion pictures. (e) Farm land... ineligible for Farm Credit System Assistance. If one or more Farm Credit System Institutions or their...

On the Contributions of Music to Media Productions.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Seidman, Steven A.

1981-01-01

Traces music's role in the development of motion pictures and discusses ways for instructional designers to increase the effectiveness of productions through using music. Studies showing that tempo, modality, rhythm, and harmony interact with audience characteristics to determine affective responses to media are reviewed. Extensive references are…

"Knowledge Universe" and Virtual Schools: Educational Breakthrough or Digital Raid on the Public Treasury? Report

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Bracey, Gerald W.

2004-01-01

Correspondence schools, motion pictures, radio, educational television, and computer-assisted instruction have all been hailed as technological innovations that would revolutionize education, reducing, if not eliminating entirely, education's dependence on traditional schools and their teachers. The latest innovation is "virtual…

Principles of Managing Audiovisual Materials and Equipment. Second Revised Edition.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

California Univ., Los Angeles. Biomedical Library.

This manual offers information on a wide variety of health-related audiovisual materials (AVs) in many formats: video, motion picture, slide, filmstrip, audiocassette, transparencies, microfilm, and computer assisted instruction. Intended for individuals who are just learning about audiovisual materials and equipment management, the manual covers…

Free Speech Yearbook 1979.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Kane, Peter E., Ed.

The seven articles in this collection deal with theoretical and practical freedom of speech issues. Topics covered are: the United States Supreme Court, motion picture censorship, and the color line; judicial decision making; the established scientific community's suppression of the ideas of Immanuel Velikovsky; the problems of avant-garde jazz,…

Film and Video Resources at the Library of Congress.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Taylor, Anita

While the primary emphasis of the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS) of the Library of Congress (LC) has been on collecting theatrical features, other materials are also collected, including theatrical shorts, newsreels, instructional films, television news, entertainment programs, and documentaries. Access to MBRS…

Film Study: A Resource Guide.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Manchel, Frank

This resource guide describes six popular approaches to the study of the cinema and provides a practical analysis of selected books, materials, and information about motion picture rentals. Highlighting this extensive survey of film studies are the annotated, critical bibliographies and filmographies of significant books, articles and films by and…

From G to X: Self-Regulation or Self-Protection?

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

De Grazia, Edward; Newman, Roger K.

1982-01-01

This discussion of movie censorship outlines federal court cases involving controversial films which led to the development of the Motion Picture Association of America Code and Rating System. The Age-Classification System and the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography established in 1968 are described. (EJS)

Crossing boundaries in interprofessional education: A call for instructional integration of two script concepts.

PubMed

Kiesewetter, Jan; Kollar, Ingo; Fernandez, Nicolas; Lubarsky, Stuart; Kiessling, Claudia; Fischer, Martin R; Charlin, Bernard

2016-09-01

Clinical work occurs in a context which is heavily influenced by social interactions. The absence of theoretical frameworks underpinning the design of collaborative learning has become a roadblock for interprofessional education (IPE). This article proposes a script-based framework for the design of IPE. This framework provides suggestions for designing learning environments intended to foster competences we feel are fundamental to successful interprofessional care. The current literature describes two script concepts: "illness scripts" and "internal/external collaboration scripts". Illness scripts are specific knowledge structures that link general disease categories and specific examples of diseases. "Internal collaboration scripts" refer to an individual's knowledge about how to interact with others in a social situation. "External collaboration scripts" are instructional scaffolds designed to help groups collaborate. Instructional research relating to illness scripts and internal collaboration scripts supports (a) putting learners in authentic situations in which they need to engage in clinical reasoning, and (b) scaffolding their interaction with others with "external collaboration scripts". Thus, well-established experiential instructional approaches should be combined with more fine-grained script-based scaffolding approaches. The resulting script-based framework offers instructional designers insights into how students can be supported to develop the necessary skills to master complex interprofessional clinical situations.

Sexual scripts among young heterosexually active men and women: continuity and change.

PubMed

Masters, N Tatiana; Casey, Erin; Wells, Elizabeth A; Morrison, Diane M

2013-01-01

Whereas gendered sexual scripts are hegemonic at the cultural level, research suggests they may be less so at dyadic and individual levels. Understanding "disjunctures" between sexual scripts at different levels holds promise for illuminating mechanisms through which sexual scripts can change. Through interviews with 44 heterosexually active men and women aged 18 to 25, the ways young people grappled with culture-level scripts for sexuality and relationships were delineated. Findings suggest that, although most participants' culture-level gender scripts for behavior in sexual relationships were congruent with descriptions of traditional masculine and feminine sexuality, there was heterogeneity in how or whether these scripts were incorporated into individual relationships. Specifically, three styles of working with sexual scripts were found: conforming, in which personal gender scripts for sexual behavior overlapped with traditional scripts; exception-finding, in which interviewees accepted culture-level gender scripts as a reality, but created exceptions to gender rules for themselves; and transforming, in which participants either attempted to remake culture-level gender scripts or interpreted their own nontraditional styles as equally normative. Changing sexual scripts can potentially contribute to decreased gender inequity in the sexual realm and to increased opportunities for sexual satisfaction, safety, and well-being, particularly for women, but for men as well.

A cinema for the unborn: moving pictures, mental pictures and Electra Sparks's New Thought film theory.

PubMed

Ellis, Patrick

2017-09-01

In the 1910s, New York suffragette Electra Sparks wrote a series of essays in the Moving Picture News that advocated for cine-therapy treatments for pregnant women. Film was, in her view, the great democratizer of beautiful images, providing high-cultural access to the city's poor. These positive 'mental pictures' were important for her because, she claimed, in order to produce an attractive, healthy child, the mother must be exposed to quality cultural material. Sparks's championing of cinema during its 'second birth' was founded upon the premise of New Thought. This metaphysical Christian doctrine existed alongside the self-help and esoteric publishing domains and testified, above all, to the possibility of the 'mind-cure' of the body through the positive application of 'mental pictures'. Physiologically, their method began best in the womb, where the thoughts of the mother were of utmost importance: the eventual difference between birthing an Elephant Man or an Adonis. This positive maternal impression was commonplace in New Thought literature; it was Sparks's innovation to apply it to cinema. Investigating Sparks's film theory, practice and programming reveals her to be a harbinger of the abiding analogy between mind and motion picture that occupies film theorists to this day.

Development of a Web-Based Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) Environment Using JavaScript

DTIC Science & Technology

2014-09-01

scripting that let users change or interact with web content depending on user input, which is in contrast with server-side scripts such as PHP, Java and...transfer, DIS usually broadcasts or multicasts its PDUs based on UDP socket. 3. JavaScript JavaScript is the scripting language of the web, and all...IDE) for developing desktop, mobile and web applications with JAVA , C++, HTML5, JavaScript and more. b. Framework The DIS implementation of

Assessing the Accuracy of a Wrist Motion Tracking Method for Counting Bites across Demographic and Food Variables

PubMed Central

Shen, Yiru; Salley, James; Muth, Eric; Hoover, Adam

2017-01-01

This paper describes a study to test the accuracy of a method that tracks wrist motion during eating to detect and count bites. The purpose was to assess its accuracy across demographic (age, gender, ethnicity) and bite (utensil, container, hand used, food type) variables. Data were collected in a cafeteria under normal eating conditions. A total of 271 participants ate a single meal while wearing a watch-like device to track their wrist motion. Video was simultaneously recorded of each participant and subsequently reviewed to determine the ground truth times of bites. Bite times were operationally defined as the moment when food or beverage was placed into the mouth. Food and beverage choices were not scripted or restricted. Participants were seated in groups of 2–4 and were encouraged to eat naturally. A total of 24,088 bites of 374 different food and beverage items were consumed. Overall the method for automatically detecting bites had a sensitivity of 75% with a positive predictive value of 89%. A range of 62–86% sensitivity was found across demographic variables, with slower eating rates trending towards higher sensitivity. Variations in sensitivity due to food type showed a modest correlation with the total wrist motion during the bite, possibly due to an increase in head-towards-plate motion and decrease in hand-towards-mouth motion for some food types. Overall, the findings provide the largest evidence to date that the method produces a reliable automated measure of intake during unrestricted eating. PMID:28113994

Sparks Will Fly: engineering creative script conflicts

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Veale, Tony; Valitutti, Alessandro

2017-10-01

Scripts are often dismissed as the stuff of good movies and bad politics. They codify cultural experience so rigidly that they remove our freedom of choice and become the very antithesis of creativity. Yet, mental scripts have an important role to play in our understanding of creative behaviour, since a deliberate departure from an established script can produce results that are simultaneously novel and familiar, especially when others stick to the conventional script. Indeed, creative opportunities often arise at the overlapping boundaries of two scripts that antagonistically compete to mentally organise the same situation. This work explores the computational integration of competing scripts to generate creative friction in short texts that are surprising but meaningful. Our exploration considers conventional macro-scripts - ordered sequences of actions - and the less obvious micro-scripts that operate at even the lowest levels of language. For the former, we generate plots that squeeze two scripts into a single mini-narrative; for the latter, we generate ironic descriptions that use conflicting scripts to highlight the speaker's pragmatic insincerity. We show experimentally that verbal irony requires both kinds of scripts - macro and micro - to work together to reliably generate creative sparks from a speaker's subversive intent.

Using script theory to cultivate illness script formation and clinical reasoning in health professions education.

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Lubarsky, Stuart; Dory, Valérie; Audétat, Marie-Claude; Custers, Eugène; Charlin, Bernard

2015-01-01

Script theory proposes an explanation for how information is stored in and retrieved from the human mind to influence individuals' interpretation of events in the world. Applied to medicine, script theory focuses on knowledge organization as the foundation of clinical reasoning during patient encounters. According to script theory, medical knowledge is bundled into networks called 'illness scripts' that allow physicians to integrate new incoming information with existing knowledge, recognize patterns and irregularities in symptom complexes, identify similarities and differences between disease states, and make predictions about how diseases are likely to unfold. These knowledge networks become updated and refined through experience and learning. The implications of script theory on medical education are profound. Since clinician-teachers cannot simply transfer their customized collections of illness scripts into the minds of learners, they must create opportunities to help learners develop and fine-tune their own sets of scripts. In this essay, we provide a basic sketch of script theory, outline the role that illness scripts play in guiding reasoning during clinical encounters, and propose strategies for aligning teaching practices in the classroom and the clinical setting with the basic principles of script theory.

ARC-1995-A91-2003

NASA Image and Video Library

1995-01-20

Range : 1.4 to 2 million miles This series of pictures shows four views of the planet Venus obtained by Galileo's Solid State Imaging System.The pictures in the top row were taken about 4 & 5 days after closest approach; those in the bottom row were taken about 6 days out, 2 hours apart. In these violet-light images, north is at the top and the evening terminator to the left. The cloud features high in the planet's atmosphere rotate from right to left, from the limb through the noon meridian toward the terminator, travelling all the way around the planet once every four days. The motion can be seen by comoparing the last two pictures, taken two hours apart. The other views show entirely different faces of Venus. These photos are part of the 'Venus global circulation' sequence planned by the imaging team.

Dementia in the movies: the clinical picture.

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Gerritsen, Debby L; Kuin, Yolande; Nijboer, Jessika

2014-01-01

Visual media influence the general public's perceptions and attitudes regarding people with mental conditions. This qualitative study investigates the depiction accuracy of dementia's clinical features in motion pictures. Using the search terms 'dementia', 'Alzheimer's disease' and 'senility' movies with release dates between January 2000 and March 2012 were sought on the Internet Movie Database. Based on four selection criteria 23 movies were included. Independently, three researchers watched all movies, scored symptoms, capacities, and behaviors. Scores were discussed and refined during consensus meetings, resulting in a taxonomy of clinical features. Various features are found, most often cognitive symptoms. Behavioral features are also shown - retiring behavior more than agitation - and various emotions, but physical symptoms are rarely depicted. Capacities are infrequently presented and are unrealistic in several of the movies. The clinical picture of dementia portrayed in fictional movies is mild and may be misleading.

How to reinforce perception of depth in single two-dimensional pictures

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Nagata, S.

1989-01-01

The physical conditions of the display of single 2-D pictures, which produce images realistically, were studied by using the characteristics of the intake of the information for visual depth perception. Depth sensitivity, which is defined as the ratio of viewing distance to depth discrimination threshold, was introduced in order to evaluate the availability of various cues for depth perception: binocular parallax, motion parallax, accommodation, convergence, size, texture, brightness, and air-perspective contrast. The effects of binocular parallax in different conditions, the depth sensitivity of which is greatest at a distance of up to about 10 m, were studied with the new versatile stereoscopic display. From these results, four conditions to reinforce the perception of depth in single pictures were proposed, and these conditions are met by the old viewing devices and the new high-definition and wide television displays.

SU-F-BRB-16: A Spreadsheet Based Automatic Trajectory GEnerator (SAGE): An Open Source Tool for Automatic Creation of TrueBeam Developer Mode Robotic Trajectories

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Etmektzoglou, A; Mishra, P; Svatos, M

Purpose: To automate creation and delivery of robotic linac trajectories with TrueBeam Developer Mode, an open source spreadsheet-based trajectory generation tool has been developed, tested and made freely available. The computing power inherent in a spreadsheet environment plus additional functions programmed into the tool insulate users from the underlying schema tedium and allow easy calculation, parameterization, graphical visualization, validation and finally automatic generation of Developer Mode XML scripts which are directly loadable on a TrueBeam linac. Methods: The robotic control system platform that allows total coordination of potentially all linac moving axes with beam (continuous, step-and-shoot, or combination thereof) becomesmore » available in TrueBeam Developer Mode. Many complex trajectories are either geometric or can be described in analytical form, making the computational power, graphing and programmability available in a spreadsheet environment an easy and ideal vehicle for automatic trajectory generation. The spreadsheet environment allows also for parameterization of trajectories thus enabling the creation of entire families of trajectories using only a few variables. Standard spreadsheet functionality has been extended for powerful movie-like dynamic graphic visualization of the gantry, table, MLC, room, lasers, 3D observer placement and beam centerline all as a function of MU or time, for analysis of the motions before requiring actual linac time. Results: We used the tool to generate and deliver extended SAD “virtual isocenter” trajectories of various shapes such as parameterized circles and ellipses. We also demonstrated use of the tool in generating linac couch motions that simulate respiratory motion using analytical parameterized functions. Conclusion: The SAGE tool is a valuable resource to experiment with families of complex geometric trajectories for a TrueBeam Linac. It makes Developer Mode more accessible as a vehicle to quickly translate research ideas into machine readable scripts without programming knowledge. As an open source initiative, it also enables researcher collaboration on future developments. I am a full time employee at Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, California.« less

26 CFR 521.103 - Scope of the convention.

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2011-04-01

... CONVENTIONS DENMARK General Income Tax Taxation of Nonresident Aliens Who Are Residents of Denmark and of... alien who is a resident of Denmark, or by a Danish corporation, from the operation of ships or aircraft registered in Denmark (Article V); (3) Interest and royalties (including motion picture film rentals) derived...

26 CFR 521.103 - Scope of the convention.

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2014-04-01

... CONVENTIONS DENMARK General Income Tax Taxation of Nonresident Aliens Who Are Residents of Denmark and of... alien who is a resident of Denmark, or by a Danish corporation, from the operation of ships or aircraft registered in Denmark (Article V); (3) Interest and royalties (including motion picture film rentals) derived...

26 CFR 509.103 - Scope of the convention.

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2011-04-01

...) Patent and copyright royalties, and other like amounts, including motion picture film rentals, derived by a nonresident alien who is a resident of Switzerland, or by a Swiss corporation or other entity, if such alien, corporation, or other entity has no permanent establishment in the United States (Article...

26 CFR 509.103 - Scope of the convention.

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2013-04-01

...) Patent and copyright royalties, and other like amounts, including motion picture film rentals, derived by a nonresident alien who is a resident of Switzerland, or by a Swiss corporation or other entity, if such alien, corporation, or other entity has no permanent establishment in the United States (Article...

26 CFR 509.103 - Scope of the convention.

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2014-04-01

...) Patent and copyright royalties, and other like amounts, including motion picture film rentals, derived by a nonresident alien who is a resident of Switzerland, or by a Swiss corporation or other entity, if such alien, corporation, or other entity has no permanent establishment in the United States (Article...

26 CFR 521.103 - Scope of the convention.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... CONVENTIONS DENMARK General Income Tax Taxation of Nonresident Aliens Who Are Residents of Denmark and of... alien who is a resident of Denmark, or by a Danish corporation, from the operation of ships or aircraft registered in Denmark (Article V); (3) Interest and royalties (including motion picture film rentals) derived...

26 CFR 521.103 - Scope of the convention.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... CONVENTIONS DENMARK General Income Tax Taxation of Nonresident Aliens Who Are Residents of Denmark and of... alien who is a resident of Denmark, or by a Danish corporation, from the operation of ships or aircraft registered in Denmark (Article V); (3) Interest and royalties (including motion picture film rentals) derived...

26 CFR 509.103 - Scope of the convention.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... (Article V); (3) Patent and copyright royalties, and other like amounts, including motion picture film rentals, derived by a nonresident alien who is a resident of Switzerland, or by a Swiss corporation or other entity, if such alien, corporation, or other entity has no permanent establishment in the United...

26 CFR 509.103 - Scope of the convention.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

...) Patent and copyright royalties, and other like amounts, including motion picture film rentals, derived by a nonresident alien who is a resident of Switzerland, or by a Swiss corporation or other entity, if such alien, corporation, or other entity has no permanent establishment in the United States (Article...

STS-41 crew is briefed on camera equipment during training session at JSC

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

1990-01-01

STS-41 crewmembers are briefed on camera equipment during training session at JSC. Trainer Judy M. Alexander explains the use 16mm motion picture equipment to (left to right) Pilot Robert D. Cabana, Mission Specialist (MS) Bruce E. Melnick, and MS Thomas D. Akers.

Weather in Motion.

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC.

The ATS-111 weather satellite, launched on November 18, 1967, in a synchronous earth orbit 22,000 miles above the equator, is described in this folder. The description is divided into these topics: the satellite, the camera, the display, the picture information, and the beneficial use of the satellite. Photographs from the satellite are included.…

Light and Shadows: A History of Motion Pictures.

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Bohn, Thomas W.; Stromgren, Richard L.

This book presents a history of the experiences (cultural, economic, and political) which influenced artistic expression in film and those which influenced the advancement of the film industry (technological, managerial, and distribution). The book is divided into three parts. Part one presents the beginnings of film and continues through the…

Central Florida Film Production Technology Training Program. Curriculum.

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Valencia Community Coll., Orlando, FL.

The Central Florida Film Production Technology Training program provided training to prepare 134 persons for employment in the motion picture industry. Students were trained in stagecraft, sound, set construction, camera/editing, and post production. The project also developed a curriculum model that could be used for establishing an Associate in…

Documentary in American Television: Form, Function, Method

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Bleum, A. William

The documentary movement in American television is explored. Analyzed are the forms and functions of television documentary and its heritage in other media (print, still photography, motion pictures, radio, theater). The major achievements in these media and in television, such as "See It Now,""Victory at Sea," and many news documentaries are…

Mass Media and the Popular Arts.

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Rissover, Fredric; Birch, David C.

This anthology consists of journalistic essays on each of these popular arts: advertising, journalism, cartoons, radio and television, photography and motion pictures, popular literature, popular music, and public education. Examples of most of the art forms are also included. The book is aimed at junior college students. Its purpose is to…

Kinetographic determination of airplane flight characteristics

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Raethjen, P; Knott, H

1927-01-01

The author's first experiments with a glider on flight characteristics demonstrated that an accurate flight-path measurement would enable determination of the polar diagram from a gliding flight. Since then he has endeavored to obtain accurate flight measurements by means of kinetograph (motion-picture camera). Different methods of accomplishing this are presented.

When All Else Fails--KICK! Trouble Shooting, Preventive Maintenance, and Auxiliary Equipment.

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Beasley, Augie E.; Palmer, Carolyn G.

The guidelines presented in this manual for the maintenance and repair of media equipment and materials provide information on optical systems, slide projectors, film projectors, overhead projectors, record players, cassette recorders, public address systems, opaque projectors, laminators, motion picture films, and cassette tapes. A list of…

The Movies As Medium.

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Jacobs, Lewis

This collection of essays by filmmakers, theorists, and scholars studies the fundamental resources and processes of film expression. Essays on the image deal with elements that make an image meaningful, as well as with the subjectivity of the motion picture camera. Other key resources of film that are discussed here include the movement of the…

The Zoom Lens: A Case Study in Geometrical Optics.

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Cheville, Alan; Scepanovic, Misa

2002-01-01

Introduces a case study on a motion picture company considering the purchase of a newly developed zoom lens in which students act as the engineers designing the zoom lens based on the criteria of company's specifications. Focuses on geometrical optics. Includes teaching notes and classroom management strategies. (YDS)

32 CFR 705.6 - Releasing public information material to the media.

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2014-07-01

... media. 705.6 Section 705.6 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY... information material to the media. (a) Methods of releasing information: (1) Release at the seat of government... information is released to media: (1) Navy oriented information material (written, taped, motion picture...

32 CFR 705.6 - Releasing public information material to the media.

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2013-07-01

... media. 705.6 Section 705.6 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY... information material to the media. (a) Methods of releasing information: (1) Release at the seat of government... information is released to media: (1) Navy oriented information material (written, taped, motion picture...

32 CFR 705.6 - Releasing public information material to the media.

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2012-07-01

... media. 705.6 Section 705.6 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY... information material to the media. (a) Methods of releasing information: (1) Release at the seat of government... information is released to media: (1) Navy oriented information material (written, taped, motion picture...

Consumer Online Search and New-Product Marketing

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Kim, Ho

2013-01-01

This dissertation contains three essays that study the implications of online search activity for new-product marketing. Using the U.S. motion picture industry as a test case, the first essay examines the dynamic causal relationship between traditional media, consumers' media generation activity, media consumption activity, and market demand…

Toward a Quantification of the Information/Communication Industries. Publication No. 74-2.

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Lavey, Warren G.

A national survey was made to collect data about the information/communication industries in the United States today. Eleven industries were studied: television, radio, telephone, telegraph, postal service, newspaper, periodical, book publishing and printing, motion pictures, computer software, and cable television. The data collection scheme used…

Motion Picture Production Handbook.

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Rynew, Arden

Designed to be distributed to each child in the filmmaking course for elementary school children outlined in "Filmmaking for Children" (EM 009 409), this handbook contains most of the information needed for them to start making films. Each of the ten chapters supplies specific working rules and information for a particular filmmaking specialty,…

Media Manual (How to Use Media Equipment).

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Jones, Nancy

Using a workbook format, this guide explains the use of seven types of audiovisual equipment: overhead projector, Bell and Howell 16mm motion picture projector, Dukane filmstrip projector, record player, Kodak slide projector, Wollensak 2552 tape recorder, and JVC videocassette color video system. An introductory section includes (1) a media…

Modeling Sound as a Non-Lethal Weapon in the COMBAT(XXI) Simulation Model

DTIC Science & Technology

2005-06-01

Kilgore in ‘ Apocalypse Now !’ [Ref 4] blasting Wagner from his Cavalry helicopters. Moving from film to recent history, consider how General Noriega...Military Operations Research Society, 71 4. Coppola, F. F. (Producer). (1979). Apocalypse now . [Motion Picture] Hollywood, California: United Artists

Cataloging, Processing, Administering AV Materials. A Model for Wisconsin Schools.

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Little, Robert D., Ed.

The objective of this cataloging manual is to recommend specific methods for cataloging audiovisual materials for use in individual school media centers. The following types of audiovisual aids are included: educational games, filmstrips, flat graphics, kits, models, motion pictures, realia, records, slides, sound filmstrips, tapes,…

Learning Visual Design through Hypermedia: Pathways to Visual Literacy.

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Lockee, Barbara; Hergert, Tom

The interactive multimedia application described here attempts to provide learners and teachers with a common frame of reference for communicating about visual media. The system is based on a list of concepts related to composition, and illustrates those concepts with photographs, paintings, graphic designs, and motion picture scenes. The ability…

"The Advance Guard of a New Motion Picture Art": Experimental Cinema, 1930-1933.

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Brandon, Thomas

1978-01-01

Ninety-eight articles from the five issues of "Experimental Cinema" are annotated. The magazine appeared from 1930 to 1933 and is credited with stimulating the emergence of world cinema culture in the United States, while demonstrating perceptions of working class interests and even revolutionary projections. (JMF)

INTEGRATION IS NOT THE ISSUE.

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JOHNSON, EDWINA C.

THE MEANING OF INTEGRATION AND SOME CHANGES WHICH SHOULD OCCUR IN AMERICAN LIFE ARE EXAMINED. THE DEFAMATION OF THE NEGRO IN THE PRINTED WORD, NOVELS, MOTION PICTURES, AND PARTICULARLY IN SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS IS ILLUSTRATED. MANY TEXTBOOKS OMIT NEGRO CONTRIBUTIONS TO AMERICAN LIFE AND NULLIFY CHILDREN'S ASPIRATIONS BY RELEGATING NEGROES TO A PASSIVE…

21 CFR 892.2040 - Medical image hardcopy device.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... 21 Food and Drugs 8 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Medical image hardcopy device. 892.2040 Section 892.2040 Food and Drugs FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES... Communications in Medicine (DICOM) Std., Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) Std., Society of Motion Picture...

East side elevation of Building 455, note the area of ...

Library of Congress Historic Buildings Survey, Historic Engineering Record, Historic Landscapes Survey

East side elevation of Building 455, note the area of raised monitor roof that corresponds to the former motion picture and lecture hall (present gymnasium), view facing west - U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, Gunnery School, Bingham Way between Minteer Street & Lawrence Road, Kaneohe, Honolulu County, HI

47 CFR 74.870 - Wireless video assist devices.

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2012-10-01

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47 CFR 74.870 - Wireless video assist devices.

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2011-10-01

... 47 Telecommunication 4 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Wireless video assist devices. 74.870 Section... Stations § 74.870 Wireless video assist devices. Television broadcast auxiliary licensees and motion picture and television producers, as defined in § 74.801 may operate wireless video assist devices on a...

47 CFR 74.870 - Wireless video assist devices.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-10-01

... 47 Telecommunication 4 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Wireless video assist devices. 74.870 Section... Stations § 74.870 Wireless video assist devices. Television broadcast auxiliary licensees and motion picture and television producers, as defined in § 74.801 may operate wireless video assist devices on a...

47 CFR 74.870 - Wireless video assist devices.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-10-01

... 47 Telecommunication 4 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Wireless video assist devices. 74.870 Section... Stations § 74.870 Wireless video assist devices. Television broadcast auxiliary licensees and motion picture and television producers, as defined in § 74.801 may operate wireless video assist devices on a...

29 CFR 18.1001 - Definitions.

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2012-07-01

... 29 Labor 1 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Definitions. 18.1001 Section 18.1001 Labor Office of the... ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES Rules of Evidence Contents of Writings, Recordings, and Photographs § 18.1001... films, video tapes, and motion pictures. (3) Original. An original of a writing or recording is the...

29 CFR 18.1001 - Definitions.

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2014-07-01

... 29 Labor 1 2014-07-01 2013-07-01 true Definitions. 18.1001 Section 18.1001 Labor Office of the... ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES Rules of Evidence Contents of Writings, Recordings, and Photographs § 18.1001... films, video tapes, and motion pictures. (3) Original. An original of a writing or recording is the...

29 CFR 18.1001 - Definitions.

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2011-07-01

... 29 Labor 1 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Definitions. 18.1001 Section 18.1001 Labor Office of the... ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES Rules of Evidence Contents of Writings, Recordings, and Photographs § 18.1001... films, video tapes, and motion pictures. (3) Original. An original of a writing or recording is the...

29 CFR 18.1001 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... 29 Labor 1 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Definitions. 18.1001 Section 18.1001 Labor Office of the... ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES Rules of Evidence Contents of Writings, Recordings, and Photographs § 18.1001... films, video tapes, and motion pictures. (3) Original. An original of a writing or recording is the...

29 CFR 18.1001 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 29 Labor 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 true Definitions. 18.1001 Section 18.1001 Labor Office of the... ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES Rules of Evidence Contents of Writings, Recordings, and Photographs § 18.1001... films, video tapes, and motion pictures. (3) Original. An original of a writing or recording is the...

Incorporating Film into the Research Paper

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Fontenot, Michael J.; Fontenot, Karen A.

2008-01-01

Teachers face two serious difficulties when assigning research papers: (1) motivation and mental disposition; and (2) plagiarism as a by-product of the Web. In this article, the authors describe how they have addressed both these problems by strategically using appropriate motion pictures as entrees into the subject matter and as points of…

Looking at the Male Librarian Stereotype.

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Dickinson, Thad E.

2002-01-01

Discussion of library profession stereotypes focuses on academic male librarians. Topics include the position of the early academic librarians and the environment in which they worked; the beginnings of reference service; women in academic libraries; men in a feminized profession; and current images of male librarians in motion pictures and…

Frogs Jump Forward: Semantic Knowledge Influences the Perception of Element Motion in the Ternus Display.

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Hsu, Patty; Taylor, J Eric T; Pratt, Jay

2015-01-01

The Ternus effect is a robust illusion of motion that produces element motion at short interstimulus intervals (ISIs; < 50 ms) and group motion at longer ISIs (> 50 ms). Previous research has shown that the nature of the stimuli (e.g., similarity, grouping), not just ISI, can influence the likelihood of perceiving element or group motion. We examined if semantic knowledge can also influence what type of illusory motion is perceived. In Experiment I, we used a modified Ternus display with pictures of frogs in a jump-ready pose facing forwards or backwards to the direction of illusory motion. Participants perceived more element motion with the forward-facing frogs and more group motion with the backward-facing frogs. Experiment 2 tested whether this effect would still occur with line drawings of frogs, or if a more life-like image was necessary. Experiment 3 tested whether this effect was due to visual asymmetries inherent in the jumping pose. Experiment 4 tested whether frogs in a "non-jumping," sedentary pose would replicate the original effect. These experiments elucidate the role of semantic knowledge in the Ternus effect. Prior knowledge of the movement of certain animate objects, in this case, frogs can also bias the perception of element or group motion.

The role of scripts in personal consistency and individual differences.

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Demorest, Amy; Popovska, Ana; Dabova, Milena

2012-02-01

This article examines the role of scripts in personal consistency and individual differences. Scripts are personally distinctive rules for understanding emotionally significant experiences. In 2 studies, scripts were identified from autobiographical memories of college students (Ns = 47 and 50) using standard categories of events and emotions to derive event-emotion compounds (e.g., Affiliation-Joy). In Study 1, scripts predicted responses to a reaction-time task 1 month later, such that participants responded more quickly to the event from their script when asked to indicate what emotion would be evoked by a series of events. In Study 2, individual differences in 5 common scripts were found to be systematically related to individual differences in traits of the Five-Factor Model. Distinct patterns of correlation revealed the importance of studying events and emotions in compound units, that is, in script form (e.g., Agreeableness was correlated with the script Affiliation-Joy but not with the scripts Fun-Joy or Affiliation-Love). © 2012 The Authors. Journal of Personality © 2012, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

[Effects of planning and executive functions on young children's script change strategy: A developmental perspective].

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Yanaoka, Kaichi

2016-02-01

This research examined the effects of planning and executive functions on young children's (ages 3-to 5-years) strategies in changing scripts. Young children (N = 77) performed a script task (doll task), three executive function tasks (DCCS, red/blue task, and nine box task), a planning task, and a receptive vocabulary task. In the doll task, young children first enacted a "changing clothes" script, and then faced a situation in which some elements of the script were inappropriate. They needed to enact a script by compensating inappropriate items for the other-script items or by changing to the other script in advance. The results showed that shifting, a factor of executive function, had a positive influence on whether young children could compensate inappropriate items. In addition, planning was also an important factor that helped children to change to the other script in advance. These findings suggest that shifting and planning play different roles in using the two strategies appropriately when young children enact scripts in unexpected situations.

Types and Characteristics of Fish and Seafood Provisioning Scripts Used by Rural Midlife Adults.

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Bostic, Stephanie M; Sobal, Jeffery; Bisogni, Carole A; Monclova, Juliet M

To examine rural New York State consumers' cognitive scripts for fish and seafood provisioning. A cross-sectional design with in-depth, semistructured interviews. Three rural New York State counties. Adults (n = 31) with diverse fish-related experiences were purposefully recruited. Scripts describing fish and seafood acquisition, preparation, and eating out. Interview transcripts were coded for emergent themes using Atlas.ti. Diagrams of scripts for each participant were constructed. Five types of acquisition scripts included quality-oriented, price-oriented, routine, special occasion, and fresh catch. Frequently used preparation scripts included everyday cooking, fast meal, entertaining, and grilling. Scripts for eating out included fish as first choice, Friday outing, convenient meals, special event, and travel meals. Personal values and resources influenced script development. Individuals drew on a repertoire of scripts based on their goals and resources at that time and in that place. Script characteristics of scope, flexibility, and complexity varied widely. Scripts incorporated goals, values, and resources into routine food behaviors. Understanding the characteristics of scripts provided insights about fish provisioning and opportunities to reduce the gap between current intake and dietary guidelines in this rural setting. Copyright © 2017 Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Movie of the structural changes during a catalytic cycle of nucleoside monophosphate kinases.

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Vonrhein, C; Schlauderer, G J; Schulz, G E

1995-05-15

There are 17 crystal structures of nucleoside monophosphate kinases known. As expected for kinases, they show large conformational changes upon binding of substrates. These are concentrated in two chain segments, or domains, of 30 and 38 residues that are involved in binding of the substrates N1TP and N2MP (nucleoside tri- and monophosphates with bases N1 and N2), respectively. After aligning the 17 structures on the main parts of their polypeptide chains, two domains in various conformational states were revealed. These states were caused by bound substrate (or analogues) and by crystal-packing forces, and ranged between a 'closed' conformation and a less well defined 'open' conformation. The structures were visually sorted yielding an approximately evenly spaced series of domain states that outlines the closing motions when the substrates bind. The packing forces in the crystals are weak, leaving the natural domain trajectories essentially intact. Packing is necessary, however, to produce stable intermediates. The ordered experimental structures were then recorded as still pictures of a movie and animated to represent the motions of the molecule during a catalytic cycle. The motions were smoothed out by adding interpolated structures to the observed ones. The resulting movies are available through the World Wide Web (http:@bio5.chemie.uni-freiburg.de/ak movie.html). Given the proliferating number of homologous proteins known to exist in different conformational states, it is becoming possible to outline the motions of chain segments and combine them into a movie, which can then represent protein action much more effectively than static pictures alone are able to do.

The Mechanics of CSCL Macro Scripts

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Dillenbourg, Pierre; Hong, Fabrice

2008-01-01

Macro scripts structure collaborative learning and foster the emergence of knowledge-productive interactions such as argumentation, explanations and mutual regulation. We propose a pedagogical model for the designing of scripts and illustrate this model using three scripts. In brief, a script disturbs the natural convergence of a team and in doing…

Script Reforms--Are They Necessary?

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

James, Gregory

Script reform, the modification of an existing writing system, is often confused with script replacement of one writing system with another. Turkish underwent the replacement of Arabic script by an adaptation of Roman script under Kamel Ataturk, but a similar replacement in Persian was rejected because of the high rate of existing literacy in…

Gender differences in performance of script analysis by older adults.

PubMed

Helmes, E; Bush, J D; Pike, D L; Drake, D G

2006-12-01

Script analysis as a test of executive functions is presumed sensitive to cognitive changes seen with increasing age. Two studies evaluated if gender differences exist in performance on scripts for familiar and unfamiliar tasks in groups of cognitively intact older adults. In Study 1, 26 older adults completed male and female stereotypical scripts. Results were not significant but a tendency was present, with genders making fewer impossible errors on the gender-typical script. Such an interaction was also noted in Study 2, which contrasted 50 older with 50 younger adults on three scripts, including a script with neutral familiarity. The pattern of significant interactions for errors suggested the need to use scripts that are based upon tasks that are equally familiar to both genders.

The Departmental Script as an Ongoing Conversation into the Phronesis of Teaching Science as Inquiry

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Melville, Wayne; Campbell, Todd; Fazio, Xavier; Bartley, Anthony

2012-12-01

This article investigates the extent to which a science department script supports the teaching and learning of science as inquiry and how this script is translated into individual teachers' classrooms. This study was completed at one school in Canada which, since 2000, has developed a departmental script supportive of teaching and learning of science as inquiry. Through a mixed-method strategy, multiple data sources were drawn together to inform a cohesive narrative about scripts, science departments, and individual classrooms. Results of the study reveal three important findings: (1) the departmental script is not an artefact, but instead is an ongoing conversation into the episteme, techne and phronesis of science teaching; (2) the consistently reformed teaching practices that were observed lead us to believe that a departmental script has the capacity to enhance the teaching of science as inquiry; and, (3) the existence of a departmental script does not mean that teaching will be `standardized' in the bureaucratic sense of the word. Our findings indicate that a departmental script can be considered to concurrently operate as an epistemic script that is translated consistently across the classes, and a social script that was more open to interpretation within individual teachers' classrooms.

Page segmentation using script identification vectors: A first look

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Hochberg, J.; Cannon, M.; Kelly, P.

1997-07-01

Document images in which different scripts, such as Chinese and Roman, appear on a single page pose a problem for optical character recognition (OCR) systems. This paper explores the use of script identification vectors in the analysis of multilingual document images. A script identification vector is calculated for each connected component in a document. The vector expresses the closest distance between the component and templates developed for each of thirteen scripts, including Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, and Roman. The authors calculate the first three principal components within the resulting thirteen-dimensional space for each image. By mapping these components to red, green,more » and blue, they can visualize the information contained in the script identification vectors. The visualization of several multilingual images suggests that the script identification vectors can be used to segment images into script-specific regions as large as several paragraphs or as small as a few characters. The visualized vectors also reveal distinctions within scripts, such as font in Roman documents, and kanji vs. kana in Japanese. Results are best for documents containing highly dissimilar scripts such as Roman and Japanese. Documents containing similar scripts, such as Roman and Cyrillic will require further investigation.« less

Flow Observations with Tufts and Lampblack of the Stalling of Four Typical Airfoil Sections in the NACA Variable-density Tunnel

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Abbott, Ira H; Sherman, Albert

1938-01-01

A preliminary investigation of the stalling processes of four typical airfoil sections was made over the critical range of the Reynolds Number. Motion pictures were taken of the movements of small silk tufts on the airfoil surface as the angle of attack increased through a range of angles including the stall. The boundary-layer flow also at certain angles of attack was indicated by the patterns formed by a suspension of lampblack in oil brushed onto the airfoil surface. These observations were analyzed together with corresponding force-test measurements to derive a picture of the stalling processes of airfoils.

[Script crossing in scanning electron microscopy].

PubMed

Oehmichen, M; von Kortzfleisch, D; Hegner, B

1989-01-01

A case of mixed script in which ball point-pen ink was contaminated with typewriting prompted a survey of the literature and a systematic SEM study of mixed script with various writing instruments or inks. Mixed scripts produced with the following instruments or inks were investigated: pencil, ink/India ink, ball-pint pen, felt-tip pen, copied script and typewriter. This investigation showed SEM to be the method of choice for visualizing overlying scripts produced by different writing instruments or inks.

Formatting scripts with computers and Extended BASIC.

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Menning, C B

1984-02-01

A computer program, written in the language of Extended BASIC, is presented which enables scripts, for educational media, to be quickly written in a nearly unformatted style. From the resulting script file, stored on magnetic tape or disk, the computer program formats the script into either a storyboard , a presentation, or a narrator 's script. Script headings and page and paragraph numbers are automatic features in the word processing. Suggestions are given for making personal modifications to the computer program.

Conflicting motion perspective simulating sinultaneous clockwise and counterclockwise rotation in depth.

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Hershberger, W A; Stewart, M R; Laughlin, N K

1976-05-01

Motion projections (pictures) simulating a horizontal array of vertical lines rotating in depth about its central vertical line were observed by 24 college students who rotated a crank handle in the direction of apparent rotation. All displays incorporated contradictory motion perspective: Whereas the perspective transformation in the vertical (y) dimension stimulated one direction of rotation, the transformation in the horizontal (x) dimension simulated the opposite direction. The amount of perspective in each dimension was varied independently of the other by varying the projection ratio used for each dimension. We used the same five ratios for each dimension, combining them factorially to generate the 25 displays. Analysis of variance of the duration of crank turning which agreed with y-axis information yielded main effects of both x and y projection ratios but no interaction, revealing that x- and y-axis motion perspectives mediate kinetic depth effects which are functionally independent.

Spin, tumble, and twirl - beyond Jeffery orbits in the rotation of real-world particles

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Variano, E. A.; Pujara, N.

2016-12-01

The classical theory of particle rotation explained by Jeffery's 1922 paper has guided how people think about the motion of non-spherical particles. The resulting concept of Jeffery orbits has been useful in guiding intuition, but is limited by some restrictive assumptions. We present a picture of what happens when some of these restrictions are relaxed. First, we review recent results from a variety of researchers showing how inertia causes Jeffery orbits to collapse. Next, we present our results from numerical simulations of particle particle motion in turbulence to show how Jeffery orbits `survive' in unsteady flows. Finally, we combine the two and discuss the motion expected for inertial particles in turbulent flow. The presentation uses a number of videos to illustrate these motions, and indicates a youtube channel on which they can be accessed for teaching purposes.

Master equation with quantized atomic motion including dipole-dipole interactions

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Damanet, François; Braun, Daniel; Martin, John

2016-05-01

We derive a markovian master equation for the internal dynamics of an ensemble of two-level atoms including all effects related to the quantization of their motion. Our equation provides a unifying picture of the consequences of recoil and indistinguishability of atoms beyond the Lamb-Dicke regime on both their dissipative and conservative dynamics, and is relevant for experiments with ultracold trapped atoms. We give general expressions for the decay rates and the dipole-dipole shifts for any motional states, and we find analytical formulas for a number of relevant states (Gaussian states, Fock states and thermal states). In particular, we show that the dipole-dipole interactions and cooperative photon emission can be modulated through the external state of motion. The effects predicted should be experimentally observable with Rydberg atoms. FD would like to thank the F.R.S.-FNRS for financial support. FD is a FRIA Grant holder of the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique-FNRS.

Wind estimates from cloud motions: Preliminary results from phases 1, 2, and 3 of an in situ aircraft verification experiment

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Hasler, A. F.; Shenk, W. E.; Skillman, W. C.

1975-01-01

Low level aircraft equipped with Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) were used to define the vertical extent and horizontal motion of a cloud and to measure the ambient wind field. A high level aircraft, also equipped with an INS, took photographs to describe the horizontal extent of the cloud field and to measure cloud motion. The aerial photographs were also used to make a positive identification in a satellite picture of the cloud observed by the low level aircraft. The experiment was conducted over the tropical oceans in the vicinity of Florida, Puerto Rico, Panama and in the Western Gulf of Mexico. Results for tropical cumulus clouds indicate excellent agreement between the cloud motion and the wind at the cloud base. The magnitude of the vector difference between the cloud motion and the cloud base wind is less than 1.3 m/sec for 67% of the cases with track lengths of 1 hour or longer. The cirrus cloud motions agreed best with the mean wind in the cloud layer with a vector difference of about 1.6 m/sec.

[Preliminary application of scripting in RayStation TPS system].

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Zhang, Jianying; Sun, Jing; Wang, Yun

2013-07-01

Discussing the basic application of scripting in RayStation TPS system. On the RayStation 3.0 Platform, the programming methods and the points should be considered during basic scripting application were explored with the help of utility scripts. The typical planning problems in the field of beam arrangement and plan outputting were used as examples by ironprthon language. The necessary properties and the functions of patient object for script writing can be extracted from RayStation system. With the help of NET controls, planning functions such as the interactive parameter input, treatment planning control and the extract of the plan have been realized by scripts. With the help of demo scripts, scripts can be developed in RayStation, as well as the system performance can be upgraded.

Theory of mind in children with Neurofibromatosis Type 1.

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Payne, Jonathan M; Porter, Melanie; Pride, Natalie A; North, Kathryn N

2016-05-01

Neurofibromatosis Type I (NF1) is a single gene disorder associated with cognitive and behavioral deficits. While there is clear evidence for poorer social outcomes in NF1, the factors underlying reduced social function are not well understood. This study examined theory of mind (ToM) in children with NF1 and unaffected controls. ToM was assessed in children with NF1 (n = 26) and unaffected controls (n = 36) aged 4-12 years using a nonverbal picture sequencing task. The task assessed understanding of ToM (unrealized goals, false belief, pretence, intention), while controlling for social script knowledge and physical cause-and-effect reasoning. Children with NF1 made significantly more errors than unaffected controls on most ToM stories while demonstrating no difficulty sequencing physical cause-and-effect stories. Performance on the picture sequencing task was not related to lower intellectual function, symptoms of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), or parent ratings of executive function. Results suggest a generalized ToM deficit in children with NF1 that appears to be independent of general cognitive abilities and ADHD symptoms. The study refines understanding of the clinical presentation of NF1 and identifies psychological constructs that may contribute to the higher prevalence of social dysfunction in children with NF1. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved).

Illusory motion reversal is caused by rivalry, not by perceptual snapshots of the visual field.

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Kline, Keith; Holcombe, Alex O; Eagleman, David M

2004-10-01

In stroboscopic conditions--such as motion pictures--rotating objects may appear to rotate in the reverse direction due to under-sampling (aliasing). A seemingly similar phenomenon occurs in constant sunlight, which has been taken as evidence that the visual system processes discrete "snapshots" of the outside world. But if snapshots are indeed taken of the visual field, then when a rotating drum appears to transiently reverse direction, its mirror image should always appeared to reverse direction simultaneously. Contrary to this hypothesis, we found that when observers watched a rotating drum and its mirror image, almost all illusory motion reversals occurred for only one image at a time. This result indicates that the motion reversal illusion cannot be explained by snapshots of the visual field. The same result is found when the two images are presented within one visual hemifield, further ruling out the possibility that discrete sampling of the visual field occurs separately in each hemisphere. The frequency distribution of illusory reversal durations approximates a gamma distribution, suggesting perceptual rivalry as a better explanation for illusory motion reversal. After adaptation of motion detectors coding for the correct direction, the activity of motion-sensitive neurons coding for motion in the reverse direction may intermittently become dominant and drive the perception of motion.

CADDIS Volume 4. Data Analysis: PECBO Appendix - R Scripts for Non-Parametric Regressions

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Script for computing nonparametric regression analysis. Overview of using scripts to infer environmental conditions from biological observations, statistically estimating species-environment relationships, statistical scripts.

Theory of mind in Williams syndrome assessed using a nonverbal task.

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Porter, Melanie A; Coltheart, Max; Langdon, Robyn

2008-05-01

This study examined Theory of Mind in Williams syndrome (WS) and in normal chronological age-matched and mental age-matched control groups, using a picture sequencing task. This task assesses understanding of pretence, intention and false belief, while controlling for social-script knowledge and physical cause-and-effect reasoning. The task was selected because it is entirely non-verbal, so that the WS individuals could not rely on their good verbal skills when performing the task. Results indicated a specific deficit in understanding of false belief within the WS group. There was also evidence of heterogeneity in the WS group, with the false belief impairment restricted to only a particular subgroup of WS individuals identified originally by Porter, M., & Coltheart, M. (2005). Cognitive heterogeneity in Williams syndrome. Developmental Neuropsychology, 27(2), 275-306.

Democratic superstring field theory: gauge fixing

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Kroyter, Michael

2011-03-01

We show that a partial gauge fixing of the NS sector of the democratic-picture superstring field theory leads to the non-polynomial theory. Moreover, by partially gauge fixing the Ramond sector we obtain a non-polynomial fully RNS theory at pictures 0 and 1/2 . Within the democratic theory and in the partially gauge fixed theory the equations of motion of both sectors are derived from an action. We also discuss a representation of the non-polynomial theory analogous to a manifestly two-dimensional representation of WZW theory and the action of bosonic pure-gauge solutions. We further demonstrate that one can consistently gauge fix the NS sector of the democratic theory at picture number -1. The resulting theory is new. It is a {mathbb{Z}_2} dual of the modified cubic theory. We construct analytical solutions of this theory and show that they possess the desired properties.

The low-order wavefront control system for the PICTURE-C mission: high-speed image acquisition and processing

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Hewawasam, Kuravi; Mendillo, Christopher B.; Howe, Glenn A.; Martel, Jason; Finn, Susanna C.; Cook, Timothy A.; Chakrabarti, Supriya

2017-09-01

The Planetary Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Recoverable Experiment - Coronagraph (PICTURE-C) mission will directly image debris disks and exozodiacal dust around nearby stars from a high-altitude balloon using a vector vortex coronagraph. The PICTURE-C low-order wavefront control (LOWC) system will be used to correct time-varying low-order aberrations due to pointing jitter, gravity sag, thermal deformation, and the gondola pendulum motion. We present the hardware and software implementation of the low-order ShackHartmann and reflective Lyot stop sensors. Development of the high-speed image acquisition and processing system is discussed with the emphasis on the reduction of hardware and computational latencies through the use of a real-time operating system and optimized data handling. By characterizing all of the LOWC latencies, we describe techniques to achieve a framerate of 200 Hz with a mean latency of ˜378 μs

Space flight visual simulation.

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Xu, L

1985-01-01

In this paper, based on the scenes of stars seen by astronauts in their orbital flights, we have studied the mathematical model which must be constructed for CGI system to realize the space flight visual simulation. Considering such factors as the revolution and rotation of the Earth, exact date, time and site of orbital injection of the spacecraft, as well as its orbital flight and attitude motion, etc., we first defined all the instantaneous lines of sight and visual fields of astronauts in space. Then, through a series of coordinate transforms, the pictures of the scenes of stars changing with time-space were photographed one by one mathematically. In the procedure, we have designed a method of three-times "mathematical cutting." Finally, we obtained each instantaneous picture of the scenes of stars observed by astronauts through the window of the cockpit. Also, the dynamic conditions shaded by the Earth in the varying pictures of scenes of stars could be displayed.

Conveying the concept of movement in music: An event-related brain potential study.

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Zhou, Linshu; Jiang, Cunmei; Wu, Yingying; Yang, Yufang

2015-10-01

This study on event-related brain potential investigated whether music can convey the concept of movement. Using a semantic priming paradigm, natural musical excerpts were presented to non-musicians, followed by semantically congruent or incongruent pictures that depicted objects either in motion or at rest. The priming effects were tested in object decision and implicit recognition tasks to distinguish the effects of automatic conceptual activation from response competition. Results showed that in both tasks, pictures that were incongruent to preceding musical excerpts elicited larger N400 than congruent pictures, suggesting that music can prime the representations of movement concepts. Results of the multiple regression analysis showed that movement expression could be well predicted by specific acoustic and musical features, indicating the associations between music per se and the processing of iconic musical meaning. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Development of ultrasound/endoscopy PACS (picture archiving and communication system) and investigation of compression method for cine images

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Osada, Masakazu; Tsukui, Hideki

2002-09-01

ABSTRACT Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) is a system which connects imaging modalities, image archives, and image workstations to reduce film handling cost and improve hospital workflow. Handling diagnostic ultrasound and endoscopy images is challenging, because it produces large amount of data such as motion (cine) images of 30 frames per second, 640 x 480 in resolution, with 24-bit color. Also, it requires enough image quality for clinical review. We have developed PACS which is able to manage ultrasound and endoscopy cine images with above resolution and frame rate, and investigate suitable compression method and compression rate for clinical image review. Results show that clinicians require capability for frame-by-frame forward and backward review of cine images because they carefully look through motion images to find certain color patterns which may appear in one frame. In order to satisfy this quality, we have chosen motion JPEG, installed and confirmed that we could capture this specific pattern. As for acceptable image compression rate, we have performed subjective evaluation. No subjects could tell the difference between original non-compressed images and 1:10 lossy compressed JPEG images. One subject could tell the difference between original and 1:20 lossy compressed JPEG images although it is acceptable. Thus, ratios of 1:10 to 1:20 are acceptable to reduce data amount and cost while maintaining quality for clinical review.

Asymmetric bias in perception of facial affect among Roman and Arabic script readers.

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Heath, Robin L; Rouhana, Aida; Ghanem, Dana Abi

2005-01-01

The asymmetric chimeric faces test is used frequently as an indicator of right hemisphere involvement in the perception of facial affect, as the test is considered free of linguistic elements. Much of the original research with the asymmetric chimeric faces test was conducted with subjects reading left-to-right Roman script, i.e., English. As readers of right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic, demonstrated a mixed or weak rightward bias in judgements of facial affect, the influence of habitual scanning direction was thought to intersect with laterality. We administered the asymmetric chimeric faces test to 1239 adults who represented a range of script experience, i.e., Roman script readers (English and French), Arabic readers, bidirectional readers of Roman and Arabic scripts, and illiterates. Our findings supported the hypothesis that the bias in facial affect judgement is rooted in laterality, but can be influenced by script direction. Specifically, right-handed readers of Roman script demonstrated the greatest mean leftward score, and mixed-handed Arabic script readers demonstrated the greatest mean rightward score. Biliterates showed a gradual shift in asymmetric perception, as their scores fell between those of Roman and Arabic script readers, basically distributed in the order expected by their handedness and most often used script. Illiterates, whose only directional influence was laterality, showed a slight leftward bias.

A Tool for the Analysis of Motion Picture Film or Video Tape.

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Ekman, Paul; Friesen, Wallace V.

1969-01-01

A visual information display and retrieval system (VID-R) is described for application to visual records. VID-R searches and retrieves events by time address (location) or by previously stored ovservations or measurements. Fields are labeled by writing discriminable binary addresses on the horizontal lines outside the normal viewing area. The…

26 CFR 509.110 - Patent and copyright royalties and film rentals.

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2014-04-01

..., and other like property and rights, including rentals and like payments in respect to motion picture... within the United States by a nonresident alien individual who is a resident of Switzerland, or by a... VIII of the convention if such alien, corporation, or other entity at no time during the taxable year...

26 CFR 514.5 - Patent and copyright royalties and film rentals.

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2014-04-01

... motion picture films or for the use of industrial, commercial, or scientific equipment, which are derived from sources within the United States on or after January 1, 1945, by a nonresident alien individual... signed October 18, 1946, if such alien or corporation at no time during the taxable year in which such...

26 CFR 514.5 - Patent and copyright royalties and film rentals.

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2013-04-01

... motion picture films or for the use of industrial, commercial, or scientific equipment, which are derived from sources within the United States on or after January 1, 1945, by a nonresident alien individual... signed October 18, 1946, if such alien or corporation at no time during the taxable year in which such...

26 CFR 514.5 - Patent and copyright royalties and film rentals.

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2012-04-01

... motion picture films or for the use of industrial, commercial, or scientific equipment, which are derived from sources within the United States on or after January 1, 1945, by a nonresident alien individual... signed October 18, 1946, if such alien or corporation at no time during the taxable year in which such...

26 CFR 509.110 - Patent and copyright royalties and film rentals.

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2012-04-01

..., and other like property and rights, including rentals and like payments in respect to motion picture... within the United States by a nonresident alien individual who is a resident of Switzerland, or by a... VIII of the convention if such alien, corporation, or other entity at no time during the taxable year...

26 CFR 514.5 - Patent and copyright royalties and film rentals.

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2011-04-01

... motion picture films or for the use of industrial, commercial, or scientific equipment, which are derived from sources within the United States on or after January 1, 1945, by a nonresident alien individual... signed October 18, 1946, if such alien or corporation at no time during the taxable year in which such...

26 CFR 509.110 - Patent and copyright royalties and film rentals.

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2013-04-01

..., and other like property and rights, including rentals and like payments in respect to motion picture... within the United States by a nonresident alien individual who is a resident of Switzerland, or by a... VIII of the convention if such alien, corporation, or other entity at no time during the taxable year...

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..., and other like property and rights, including rentals and like payments in respect to motion picture... within the United States by a nonresident alien individual who is a resident of Switzerland, or by a... VIII of the convention if such alien, corporation, or other entity at no time during the taxable year...

Putting You in the Director's Chair or Move Aside, Cecil B. DeMille; A Guide to Guiding Student Production.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Heller, Dawn H.; Palermo, Lucas M.

The elements of planning, producing, and evaluating high school student media production are described. Thirteen different media formats, audiotape, posters, displays, transparencies, mobiles, models, games, slide/cassettes, motion pictures, multiimage, videotapes, kits, and miscellaneous, are discussed. For each medium, there is a statement of…

77 FR 58834 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request

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...-16 years, who watch movies, listen to music, and/or play game applications (``apps'') on smartphones... Motion Picture, Music Recording & Electronic Game Industries.\\1\\ The 2000 Report examined the structure... 2007.\\6\\ Those reports found less marketing of violent R-rated films \\7\\ and M-rated video games \\8\\ to...

Video Allows Young Scientists New Ways to Be Seen

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Park, John C.

2009-01-01

Science is frequently a visual endeavor, dependent on direct or indirect observations. Teachers have long employed motion pictures in the science classroom to allow students to make indirect observations, but the capabilities of digital video offer opportunities to engage students in active science learning. Not only can watching a digital video…

Partnership with Industry: Film Production Technology.

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Rietveld, Richard; And Others

The 1988 final report of a task force from the Florida Postsecondary Education Planning Commission stated that in order to ensure continued growth of the motion picture film industry in the state, the postsecondary community must provide a well-trained and competent work force adept in all aspects of the industry. The film industry is a growing…

Using Computerized Outlines in Teaching American Government.

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Janda, Kenneth

Because writing an outline on the chalk board wastes time and space, a computer program, a videoprojector, and a standard motion picture screen were used to outline a lecture to a large history class. PC-Outline is an outline program for IBM-compatible microcomputers which aids in processing outlines by inserting Roman numerals, letters, and…

66. Photographic copy of historic photo, April 18, 1929 (original ...

Library of Congress Historic Buildings Survey, Historic Engineering Record, Historic Landscapes Survey

66. Photographic copy of historic photo, April 18, 1929 (original print filed in Record Group 115, National Archives, Washington, D.C.). OWYHEE DAM GASOLINE INTER-URBAN CAR USED FOR CARRYING MAIL AND PASSENGERS ON OWYHEE RAILROAD. RIGHT: COMMUNITY HALL AND MOTION PICTURE THEATRE. - Owyhee Dam, Across Owyhee River, Nyssa, Malheur County, OR

Movies in America.

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Kuhns, William

Two main themes of motion picture development in America are presented in this comprehensive historical guide to movies. The sophistication and broadening of the movies as an art form and the complex relationships between a period and the movies of that period are fully explored. Particular emphasis has been placed on the role of the director.…

How To Read a Movie.

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Lambert, Robert G.

1966-01-01

By concentrating on critical analyses of motion pictures, English teachers at all levels can instruct their classes in the intelligent viewing of screen presentations. Teachers should emphasiz e that the film maker uses the powerful techniques of camera placement and the "rhythm of cutting" to determine the impact of the movie; that the image, not…

Coping with the DVD Dilemma: Region Codes and Copy Protection

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Ecke, Peter

2005-01-01

German teachers' use of DVDs, purchased abroad, has become increasingly difficult through restrictions imposed by the motion pictures industry on DVDs, DVD-playing equipment and software. In addition, the law, in particular through the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), has imposed restrictions that negatively affect the fair use of digital…

Developing Educational Computer Animation Based on Human Personality Types

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Musa, Sajid; Ziatdinov, Rushan; Sozcu, Omer Faruk; Griffiths, Carol

2015-01-01

Computer animation in the past decade has become one of the most noticeable features of technology-based learning environments. By its definition, it refers to simulated motion pictures showing movement of drawn objects, and is often defined as the art in movement. Its educational application known as educational computer animation is considered…

Gender Effects When Learning Manipulative Tasks from Instructional Animations and Static Presentations

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Wong, Mona; Castro-Alonso, Juan C.; Ayres, Paul; Paas, Fred

2015-01-01

Humans have an evolved embodied cognition that equips them to deal easily with the natural movements of object manipulations. Hence, learning a manipulative task is generally more effective when watching animations that show natural motions of the task, rather than equivalent static pictures. The present study was completed to explore this…

What Teachers Want from Sponsored Films.

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Modern Talking Picture Service, New Hyde Park, NY.

This collection of six pamphlets reports the results of a survey intended to supply information about what teachers in various fields desire in classroom films to sponsors and producers of 16mm motion pictures. A separate pamphlet is included for each of the following fields: (1) vocational agriculture, (2) physical education, (3) home economics,…

The Technique of Lighting for Television and Motion Pictures.

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Millerson, Gerald

The aim of this book is to enable everyone working with light in photography, cinematography, and television to build a methodical, rational foundation for techniques from which personal creativity can grow. Fundamentals about the nature of light are explored in a first chapter, and similarities and differences between the eye and the camera in…

Bibliographies of Northern and Central California Indians. Volume 1--Tribal Bibliographies A-N.

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Brandt, Randal S., Ed.; Davis-Kimball, Jeannine, Ed.

This document is the first of a three-volume set made up of bibliographic citations to published texts, unpublished manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings, motion pictures, and maps concerning Native American tribal groups that inhabit, or have traditionally inhabited, northern and central California. Introductory material in this volume…

26 CFR 514.5 - Patent and copyright royalties and film rentals.

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2010-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 19 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Patent and copyright royalties and film rentals...) REGULATIONS UNDER TAX CONVENTIONS FRANCE Withholding of Tax § 514.5 Patent and copyright royalties and film... motion picture films or for the use of industrial, commercial, or scientific equipment, which are derived...

75 FR 41760 - Safety Zone; Transformers 3 Movie Filming, Chicago River, Chicago, IL

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Motion picture history of the erection and operation of the Smith-Putnam wind generator

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Wilcox, C.

1973-01-01

A color movie presentation is discussed that presents the various stages in assemblying the major subsystems of a synchronous wind generator, such as installing the rotor blades and the rotating platform at the top of the tower. In addition scenes are shown of the wind generator in operation.

[The representation of the mental patient in motion pictures].

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Veyrat, J G

1994-11-01

By the examples of 80 movies from different countries, the study describes the representation of mental patients, in the films. They are shown as victims of family and society. And the psychiatric hospital is never shown as therapeutic, but only used for keeping away, and bringing back the stray sheep to the social fold.

"Chew on This": An Interview with Charles Wilson

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Curriculum Review, 2007

2007-01-01

When the award-winning journalist Eric Schlosser's groundbreaking book "Fast Food Nation" was published for adults, many called for his insights and research to be shared with young readers. And, when "Fast Food Nation" gained popularity as a fictional, yet factual motion picture, the buzz continued. Children, after all, are the fast-food…

Misconceptions of Selected Science Concepts Held by Elementary School Students

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Doran, Rodney L.

1972-01-01

Describes a test, administered as a motion picture, designed to measure misconceptions about the particle model of matter held by students in grades two through six. Reliability values for tests of eight misconceptions are given and the correlations of misconception scores with measures of IQ, reading, mathematics, and science ability reported.…

D. W. Griffith's Controversial Film, "The Birth of a Nation."

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Pitcher, Conrad

1999-01-01

Presents a lesson plan that enables students to investigate race relations during the Progressive Era by analyzing D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" and the controversy surrounding the release of the film. Explores the pros and cons of using motion pictures as teaching tool. Includes two student handouts. (CMK)

Proyecto Kuatiahe'e: Saving a Language for Children

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Aquino, Almidio; Kirylo, James

2005-01-01

Nearly 20 years ago, the powerful motion picture The Mission, starring Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons, was released, bringing worldwide exposure to the Guarani aboriginal people. Based on historical events from the 1700s and set in Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina, the film was simultaneously moving and inspiring, yet also a disturbing…

Wernher von Braun

NASA Image and Video Library

1954-07-01

Dr. Wernher von Braun (center), then Chief of the Guided Missile Development Division at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, discusses a "bottle suit" model with Dr. Heinz Haber (left), an expert on aviation medicine, and Willey Ley, a science writer on rocketry and space exploration. The three men were at the Disney studios appearing in the motion picture, entitled "Man in Space."

Focus on Film: Learning through the Movies

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Considine, David M.; Baker, Frank

2006-01-01

This article explores the use of movies as valuable instructional tools. When students are engaged with the content through a medium they love, they learn better and retain more. Incorporating motion pictures as part of classroom instruction has been spurred by the endorsement of both of the major reading and language arts organizations in the…

The Use of Digitized Images in Developing Software for Young Children.

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Wright, June L.

1992-01-01

Parents and children interacted with computer-based representations of a park, one with animated picture graphics and one with digitized full motion video. Children who interacted with the digitized representation replayed the program more and showed a stronger cognitive focus on the representation than did the other children. (LB)

36 CFR 1235.42 - What specifications and standards for transfer apply to audiovisual records, cartographic, and...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... exist. (2) Agency-acquired motion picture films: Two projection prints in good condition or one projection print and one videotape. (3) Unedited footage, outtakes, and trims (the discards of film...: (1) Existing finding aids such as data sheets, shot lists, continuities, review sheets, catalogs...

36 CFR 1235.42 - What specifications and standards for transfer apply to audiovisual records, cartographic, and...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... exist. (2) Agency-acquired motion picture films: Two projection prints in good condition or one projection print and one videotape. (3) Unedited footage, outtakes, and trims (the discards of film...: (1) Existing finding aids such as data sheets, shot lists, continuities, review sheets, catalogs...

36 CFR § 1235.42 - What specifications and standards for transfer apply to audiovisual records, cartographic, and...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... exist. (2) Agency-acquired motion picture films: Two projection prints in good condition or one projection print and one videotape. (3) Unedited footage, outtakes, and trims (the discards of film...: (1) Existing finding aids such as data sheets, shot lists, continuities, review sheets, catalogs...

36 CFR 1235.42 - What specifications and standards for transfer apply to audiovisual records, cartographic, and...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... exist. (2) Agency-acquired motion picture films: Two projection prints in good condition or one projection print and one videotape. (3) Unedited footage, outtakes, and trims (the discards of film...: (1) Existing finding aids such as data sheets, shot lists, continuities, review sheets, catalogs...

36 CFR 1235.42 - What specifications and standards for transfer apply to audiovisual records, cartographic, and...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... exist. (2) Agency-acquired motion picture films: Two projection prints in good condition or one projection print and one videotape. (3) Unedited footage, outtakes, and trims (the discards of film...: (1) Existing finding aids such as data sheets, shot lists, continuities, review sheets, catalogs...

Polysensory Learning through Multi-Media Instruction in Trade and Technical Education.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Allen, David; And Others

This report explains a teaching system designed to stimulate polysensory learning by use of multi-media instructional materials, which use as many of the physical senses as practical to augment traditional instruction. They include motion pictures, filmstrips, audio tapes, models, mock-ups, etc., according to school facilities and course needs.…

A perspective view of the plane mixing layer

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Jimenez, J.; Cogollos, M.; Bernal, L. P.

1984-01-01

A three-dimensional model of the plane mixing layer is constructed by applying digital image processing and computer graphic techniques to laser fluorescent motion pictures of its transversal sections. A system of streamwise vortex pairs is shown to exist on top of the classical spanwise eddies. Its influence on mixing is examined.

Cultural and Recreational Services. Industry Training Monograph No. 16.

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Dumbrell, Tom

Australia's cultural and recreational services industry encompasses radio and television broadcasting, motion pictures, theatre, music, other performing arts, and sports and services to sports. Only 2.5% of the nation's labor force is employed in the industry. The sector has a particularly high level of part-time employment (over 40%). Employment…

The Hollywood Curriculum: Who Is the "Good" Teacher?

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Dalton, Mary M.

1995-01-01

Study analyzed 60 years of motion pictures to construct a theory of curriculum in the movies. Hollywood's ideal teachers were those who shared character traits found consistently in the films, traits that cut across traditional film genres and persisted over time. Good teachers in the movies used a distinctive curricular approach. (SM)