Films Research Articles

An Automatic Bump Detecting System for LCD COG Module Using Fuzzy Reasoning

The Chip-on-Glass (COG) package, which assemblies the driver IC onto a glass substrate with Anisotropic Conductive Film (ACF), is mainly used in the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) module. With the higher demand of display capacity, the stability of COG interconnection under fine pitch package becomes more important and difficult. Interconnection test and bump microscopic inspection are commonly used to confirm the viability of the interconnections, and are accomplished manually by engineers, which are repetitious and can merely give out the conductive particle numbers in rough. According to the existent ACF-COG interconnection resistance models, the conductivity of bump and pad can be quantitatively analyzed with the conductive particle contact area. In order to implement an automatic system for the bump microscopic inspection to count the particle number and achieve the distribution of contact areas, it is necessity to realize the bump detecting and extracting automatically. In this paper, an automatic bump detecting system using fuzzy reasoning is proposed, and can perform the bump image extraction with a high accuracy. With this system, the particle contact areas and conductive particle number can be analyzed automatically.

Empire and film

Empire and film

Cinema's alchemist: the films of Peter Forgacs

Cinema's alchemist: the films of Peter Forgacs

Diagnosis of osteoporotic fracture

The concept and terminology for bone fractures is now in some confusion between two academic fields, one of osteoporosis and the other of orthopedic fracture treatment, concerning the treatment of osteoporosis and the prevention of fragility fractures. In the former field, the terms of "incident or prevalent" fracture are commonly used ; by contrast, bone fracture simply means "fresh" fracture in the latter. Used to be based of X-ray films, diagnosis of osteoporotic fracture are now changing to depend on MRI, because its sensitivity and specificity of detecting fresh fracture of vertebral body is far better than other methods.

Sun Come Up2011 by JenniferRedfearn and TimMetzger, Directors, New Day Films; 38 minutes

Sun Come Up2011 by JenniferRedfearn and TimMetzger, Directors, New Day Films; 38 minutes

71.4: A Simulation Method of Time‐Sequential Stereoscopic Effect with Various LC Response Speed on Motion Pictures

AbstractA method to evaluate the visual effect of time‐sequential 3D is established. The characteristic of the simulation is to apply different cross‐talk values on each grey level according to LC response speed. Moreover, we made an experiment to compare the stereoscopic effect and annoyance of motion pictures with several settings of LC speed. The experiment result shows that the condition of LC response time with 10% to 90% Ton 8ms and 90% to 10% Toff 5ms has similar performance to that of the extremely‐fast LC, and is acceptable to 90% of the 27 assessors.

Quantized Point‐Based Global Illumination

AbstractPoint‐based global illumination (PBGI) uses a dense point sampling of the scene's surfaces to approximate indirect light transport and is intensively used in 3D motion pictures and special effects. Each point caches the reflected light using a spherical function and is typically used in a subsequent rasterization process to compute color bleeding and ambient occlusion in an economic, noise‐free fashion. The entire point set is organized in a spatial tree structure which models the light transport hierarchically, enabling fast adaptive shading on receivers (e.g., unprojected pixels). One of the major limitations of PBGI is related to the size of this tree, which can quickly become too large to fit in memory for complex scenes. However, we observe that, just as with natural images, this point data set is extremely redundant. In this paper, we present a new method exploiting this redundancy by factorizing PBGI data over the tree nodes. In particular, we show that a k‐means clustering in the parameter space of the spherical functions allows to define a small number of representative nodes against which any new one can be classified. These representative functions, gathered in a pre‐process over a subset of the actual points, form a look‐up table which allows to substitute node's data by quantized integers in a streaming process, avoiding building the full tree before compressing it. Depending on the nodes' spherical function variance in the scene and the desired accuracy, our indexed PBGI representation achieves between one and two orders of magnitude compression of the nodes spherical functions, with negligible numerical and perceptual error in the final image. In the case of a binary tree with one surfel per leaf and no spherical functions in the leaves, this leads to compression rates ranging from 3× to 5× for the whole tree.

Driven to Darkness: Jewish Émigré Directors and the Rise of Film Noir (review)

Driven to Darkness: Jewish Emigre Directors and the Rise of Film Noir, by Vincent Brook. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009. 285 pp. $26.95. Toward the end of World War Two and shortly after it, film critics in the United States and France respectively discerned darker visual styles and themes in recent American motion pictures than were typical for Hollywood productions. French critics dubbed this trend film noir. It denoted a cycle of movies beginning in the late 1930s and eventually extending into the 1950s. This series of moving pictures was characterized by amoral or deranged male leads, diabolical femme fatales, menacing urban exterior shots, oblique and vertical lines segmenting visual planes, a shrouding of images in nighttime shadows, and intricate schemes of betrayal, fraud, or murder. The characters populating such movies were dominated by their psychological impulses and corrupted by the crime-ridden metropolitan environments in which they resided. Scholars have identified a number of factors to account for the qualities film noir exhibited. Most concur that its style and subject matter drew on both the German Expressionist films of the 1920s and the French poetic realist ones of the 1930s. Others trace its low-key lighting to the wartime policies of blackouts and rationing. The hard-boiled interwar American novels revolving around the exploits of amoral tough guys, usually adventurers or detectives, inspired cinematic adaptations or served as templates for many film noir characters. Some scholars perceive the cynicism, paranoia, ruthlessness, and violence such anti-heroes manifest as expressions of the discomforting zeitgeist engendered sequentially by the economic despair of the Depression, the rise of fascism, the unprecedented destructiveness of World War Two, the post war congressional investigations of communist infiltration in the film industry, the ominous potential for nuclear annihilation during the Cold War, and the vacuous veneer of conformity and prosperity in peacetime American society. Finally, the disproportionate contribution of German expatriate directors to the corpus of film noir has been cited to explain its heightened sense of vulnerability, pervasive pessimism, and use of European cinematic styles. Vincent Brook delves deeper into the emigre nexus by focusing on German Jewish emigre directors who fled to the United States to escape persecution in the 1930s. These include Fritz Lang, Robert Siodmak, Billy Wilder, Willy Wilder (who arrived in America in the 1920s but did not make films until the 1940s), Otto Preminger, Edgar Ulmer, Curtis Bernhardt, Max Ophuls, John Brahm, Anatole Litvak (a Ukrainian Jew who honed his filmmaking skills in Weimar Germany before resettling in the United States on the eve of Hitler's accession to power), and Fred Zinnemann. Brook persuasively demonstrates that this wave of Jewish emigre directors exerted a profound quantitative and qualitative impact on American film noir. He contends that the deep cultural and psychological wounds inflicted on this cohort of directors when their homelands disenfranchised and persecuted Jews rendered them more receptive to film noir's gloomy sensibilities. A majority of them had been involved in the production of German Expressionist films, and some, like Bernhardt and Siodmak, transmitted a similar aesthetic into the films they made in France before coming to the United States. Moreover, they were acutely aware of the plight of their friends and relatives who remained in Europe. Finding sanctuary in the United States did not necessarily diminish the insecurities these directors' projected in their films. American antisemitism and nativism intensified during the Depression. The ambivalence Jewish emigre directors felt towards their Hollywood haven also emerged from the humiliating role reversal they experienced in the film industry. …

The ‘hit’ phenomenon: a mathematical model of human dynamics interactions as a stochastic process

A mathematical model for the ‘hit’ phenomenon in entertainment within a society is presented as a stochastic process of human dynamics interactions. The model uses only the advertisement budget time distribution as an input, and word-of-mouth (WOM), represented by posts on social network systems, is used as data to make a comparison with the calculated results. The unit of time is days. The WOM distribution in time is found to be very close to the revenue distribution in time. Calculations for the Japanese motion picture market based on the mathematical model agree well with the actual revenue distribution in time.

Walt Disney and the creation of emotional environments: interpreting Walt Disney's oeuvre from the Disney studios to Disneyland, CalArts, and the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT)

Walt Disney is arguably the most influential figure in the twentieth-century affair with animation. Although he is known for his innovations in personality animation and the full-length animation film, he is no less famous as the creator of the first theme park, Disneyland. Less well-known are his forays into the creation of educational institutions and urban landscapes. This paper argues that the notion of ‘emotional environments’, culled from contemporary research in the growing field of the history of emotions, might prove the most effective tool for interpreting the overall character of Disney's work or oeuvre. The paper argues that thanks to the influence on him of the Hollywood studio environment that had come into operation in California in the 1920s, Disney's animation experiments were intimately linked with his increasing efforts to fashion an emotional environment that would transfer the emotions associated with animation and motion pictures to three-dimensional realities, providing both children and adults with important confirmations of psychological reassurance associated with such critical states of self-fulfillment as happiness. To support this reading, the paper introduces the relevance of an influential body of organization and firm analysis that has developed the related concepts of experience economy, immersive environment, and art firm.

Slow Motion Picture of Protein Inactivation During Single-Droplet Drying: A Study of Inactivation Kinetics of l-Glutamate Dehydrogenase Dried in an Acoustic Levitator

A novel technique is presented to allow measurement of the kinetics of protein inactivation during drying of an acoustically levitated single droplet. Droplets/particles are removed from the acoustic field after various times during drying, and the state of the protein within them is analyzed. The influence of drying air temperature, relative humidity, buffer concentration, and the presence of a substrate on the inactivation of glutamate dehydrogenase is described. The kinetics of inactivation showed three distinct phases. The first phase of constant drying rate demonstrated little protein inactivation in the solution droplet. After the critical point of drying, a second phase was distinguishable when the surface temperature has risen sharply, but there is still only little inactivation of the protein in the solid particle. An onset point of rapid inactivation of the protein marked the start of the third phase that proceeded with approximately first-order rate kinetics. In the case of L-glutamate dehydrogenase, the evidence suggests that the residual moisture content of the solid and not the temperature alone determines the point of onset of protein inactivation.

O impacto das novas mídias para os anunciantes brasileiros

The rise of digital technology enabled the development of unprecedented means of contact between companies and their customers, the so-called new media. In addition to their capacity to reconfigure sectors such as the phonographic and motion picture industries, these new media have also had a remarkable impact on the advertising industry. The style of cross-input among advertisers, mass media and consumers that was consolidated during the twentieth century is now threatened by the widespread use of devices such as digital video recorders (DVRs), tablets, game consoles and mobile phones, all of which empower consumers to adjust their exposure to advertising. In this new environment, the traditional media and the new media vie for consumer preference and for advertising budgets. Despite advertisers' need to track and ensure the profitability of their advertising campaigns, the study found that investments in traditional media vehicles have been rising, whereas the audience delivered is declining. Thus, in a world of change, this study seeks to identify what factors influence the media buying of Brazilian advertisers, analyzing their perceptions of traditional media and of emerging media, as well as the challenges and opportunities that they represent. To this end, exploratory research based on a qualitative approach was conducted. In June and July of 2009, in-depth interviews were held with the people in charge of the advertising campaigns of 15 large advertisers from several industries. The analysis of the field data in the light of the literature on the subject identified three factors that strongly influence the media mix of the interviewees: the use of metrics that are unsuitable for the new media, advertisers' dependence on their advertising agencies and the mass media vehicles, and advertisers' internal processes.

Temple Grandin e o autismo: uma análise do filme

o presente artigo trata de uma análise do filme Temple Grandin o qual apresenta um panorama do autismo a partir da experiência singular de vida da protagonista. É apresentada uma breve sinopse do filme que descreve a trajetória de uma pessoa com autismo no enfrentamento de barreiras cotidianas em uma época em que esta condição ainda era muito pouco conhecida. A análise retoma alguns recortes do filme e apóia-se em dados atuais da literatura para discutir pontos referentes ao autismo. Entre outras, discutem-se as especificidades e perspectivas futuras dos diagnósticos categóricos e dimensionais no autismo, bem como as persistentes confusões com nomenclaturas. É revista a noção historicamente construída da pessoa com autismo como extremamente inteligente, propondo desconstruir este estereótipo a partir do entendimento destas habilidades sob o escopo de teorias cognitivas que as definem como partes de um estilo cognitivo diferente. Também são abordadas brevemente as alterações sensoriais presentes no autismo, as quais impulsionam Temple a desenvolver a máquina do abraço para auxiliar pessoas como ela a lidar com dificuldades interpessoais, que muitas vezes são confundidas com inexpressão afetiva. Por fim, são retomadas as correlações outrora sugeridas entre a qualidade da parentalidade e o autismo, conforme ilustrada no filme. Não se pretende aqui esgotar o assunto em uma análise extensa e profunda, mas oferecer uma compreensão teórica sobre a obra.

A Novel Photoanode with Three‐Dimensionally, Hierarchically Ordered Nanobushes for Highly Efficient Photoelectrochemical Cells

In recent years, photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells have attracted worldwide attention as cheap alternatives to conventional devices for solar energy conversion. Crucial to the light harvesting and conversion effi ciency of a PEC cell is a nanostructured photoanode, in which the incident photons are captured, electron–hole pairs are generated, and the subsequent electron transfer takes place. [ 1 , 2 ] To realize highly effi cient PEC cells, a nanostructured photoanode should possess several favorable intrinsic characteristics, such as adequate specifi c surface area to permit high photosensitizer loading (in the case of TiO 2 ), direct electron transport pathways for long electron diffusion length, and strong light scattering to promote the light harvesting ability by confi ning the light within the cell. [ 3–6 ] It is thus highly desirable to develop a photoanode that meets all the above requirements. Towards this goal, immense efforts have been concentrated on tailoring the nanometer-scale features of photoanode materials. [ 7 ] Nanoparticle fi lms provide very high surface areas to increase the amount of sensitizer loading, but they lack direct electrical contacts and light-scattering ability. [ 8 , 9 ]

Comparison of 23G and 20G vitrectomy for treatment of proliferative diabetic retinopathy

Objective To compare the outcomes of 23G and 20G vitrectomy in treatment of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR).Methods This was a prospective randomized study.One hundred twenty six patients (142 eyes) suffering from PDR with symptoms requiring vitrectomy were randomly divided into 20G vitrectomy group (66 patients,74 eyes) and 23G vitrectomy group (60 patients,68 eyes).Visual acuity,intraocular pressures,indirect ophthalmoscopy,B-scan ultrasound,tear film break up time (BUT),Schirmer I test (S I T),astigmatic power and the astigmatic axial at 6 mm area of anterior and posterior corneal surface were observed and measured before surgery.The follow-up period was 15.0 and 12.5 months separately in 20G and 23G groups.Intraoperative complications,operation time,postoperative visual acuity,intraocular pressure,postoperative complications,re-operation,and postoperative ocular conditions including changes of astigmatic power and the astigmatic axial measurements were analyzed.Results At last follow-up,there was 49 eyes (66.2％) and 47 eyes (69.1％) with visual acuity ≥0.05 in 20G and 23G groups.Comparing visual acuity ≥0.05,there was no statistical difference between the groups (x2=0.14,P＞0.05).The eyes suffering from iatrogenic injuries were 18 (24.3％) and seven (10.3％).There was obvious difference in iatrogenic injury between the two groups (x2=4.81,P＜0.05).The mean surgical times were (69.0±8.2) and (51.0±6.3) minutes in 20G and 23G group,which was significantly different (t=3.65,P＜0.05).The postoperative third day,hypotony was detected in three (4.1％) and 11 eyes (14.7％) in 20G and 23G group,which was a significantly different (x2=5.85,P＜0.05).Postoperatively high intraocular pressures were not significantly different between the two groups (x2=2.54,P＞0.05).There were 24 (32.4％) and 14 eyes (20.6％) in 20G and 23G group.There were significant differences in BUT,S I T,astigmatic power and the astigmatic axial measurements compared with those preoperatively at the first month after operation (t=3.35,4.12,-3.12,-3.22; P＜0.05),but no significant differences in them at the third and sixth month after operation (third month:t =0.45,0.98,-2.12,-1.02; P＞0.05,and the sixth month:t=0.95,1.48,-1.02,-2.11; P＞0.05).In 23G group,there were no significant differences in BUT,S I T,astigmatic power and the astigmatic axial measurements compared with those preoperatively at the first,third and sixth month after operation (first month:t=l.21,1.46,-2.32,-1.61; P＞0.05,third month:t=1.45,2.21,-2.19,-1.89; P＞0.05,and sixth month:t=1.92,1.25,-1.76,-2.35; P＞0.05).Conclusion 23G vitrectomy is a safe and effective treatment for PDR with shorter surgery time,fewer surgical complications and postoperative ocular surface changes. Key words: Diabetic retinopathy/surgery; Vitrectomy; Comparative study

The Traumatic Revision of Marvel’s Spider-Man : From 1960s Dime-Store Comic Book to Post-9/11 Moody Motion Picture Franchise

The Traumatic Revision of Marvel’s Spider-Man : From 1960s Dime-Store Comic Book to Post-9/11 Moody Motion Picture Franchise

Courses & resources.

Induction The RCN has released a web-based learning resource to help healthcare assistants (HCAs) and their employers to design induction programmes. The college has also issued a guidance document with accompanying fi lm, leafl ets and checklist for delegation. The material is intended to be used by all members of the nursing team to clarify the meaning of delegation-related terminology and how it should be used in practice. www.rcn.org.uk/development/health_care_support_workers.

Table of Contents

Abstract NEWS BCLC panelists: The nature of corporate philanthropy changing Research shows rise in CSR‐led consumer choices SCUTTLEBUTT SPOTLIGHT Entertainment industry Brunswick Corporation Regal Entertainment Group Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Caesars Entertainment Corp. Food and beverages industry Hormel Foods Corp. Kraft Foods Inc. H.J. Heinz Co. Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc. GRANT ALERTS Arts and Culture Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences grants French‐American film festival grants Native American master artist grants Community Development Home Depot Community Impact grants Disabilities Golf accessibility grants Environment New Jersey sustainability grants Human Services Pet care assistance grants Medical Research Scleroderma Foundation's New Investigator research grants Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation grants Philanthropy and Voluntarism Drucker Institute Award for Nonprofit Innovation Heckscher Foundation grants for board development

The Trickster in Contemporary Film

The Trickster in Contemporary Film, by Helena Bassil-Morozow, London and New York: Routledge, 2011, 190 pp., £21.99/U.S. $34.95 (Paperback), ISBN 978–0415574662 Helena Bassil-Morozow's latest contr...

The Relations between Poetry and Movies: Elizabeth Willis's Turneresque

The Relations between Poetry and Movies: Elizabeth Willis's Turneresque