Films Research Articles

Research of clinical application of Sodium Fluoride(NaF)film in orthodontic treatment

Objective To evaluate the effect of sodium fluoride film in anticaries action and prevention for enamel decalcification in orthodontic treatment.Method 68 patients with labioversion were chosen to be coated with sodium fluoride film on the surface of enamel around the bracket when they took the treatment.Sodium fluoride was coated every three months in a year.Results The incidence of enamel decalcification was 25％ after sodium fluoride coating.Conclusion Coating with sodium fluoride film has significant effect on prevention enamel decalcification in orthodontic treatment. Key words: Sodium fluoride film; Orthodontic; Enamel decalcification

Elizabeth I in Film and Television: A Study of the Major Portrayals

Elizabeth I in Film and Television: A Study of the Major Portrayals

Cooke Optics receives Oscar for "defining the look of motion pictures over the last century"

Cooke Optics receives Oscar for "defining the look of motion pictures over the last century"

Czech Studies: Film Studies

Czech Studies: Film Studies

"Zamień moją żałobę w taniec". O narracji filmowej Wima Wendersa

Pina, a fi lm (2011) directed by Wim Wenders, falls outside any simple genre classifi cation. It may be treated as a documentary only, but it can also be regarded as an artistic fi lm because it talks about artists – dancers from the Tanztheater in Wuppertal (Germany) and their choreographies. Wenders uses artistic means of expression in the montage of scenes and particular takes. A three-dimensional technique allows him to enter the world of dance and show its beauty as well as the physicality of dancers. Wenders ncludes four Pina Bausch’s choreographies in the fi lm: Fruhlingsopfer, Cafe Muller, Kontakthof,and Vollmond. The main themes of the fi lm are death, loss and loneliness, which also appear in all Pina Bausch’s choreographies. Work on the fi lm was a kind of “going through mourning”, both for the director and the dancers.

Design and Implementation of Movie Reservation System Based EJB 3.0 Enterprise for Standardization

This paper aims to design and realize movie reservation system based EJB 3.0 enterprise for standardization. Non EJB and the EJB architecture to resolve the problem with benefits to support the new architecture is a lightweight container architecture. This architecture, such as the EJB, but not heavy, to provide all of the architecture is possible. The lightweight container architecture is most often used in business EJB 3.0 is well-known architecture. Therefore, this research has the Non EJB and the EJB to solve the advantages and disadvantages developed to support the latest EJB 3.0 architecture based on the design and implementation of a movie reservation system.

Auteurism and Taiwan New Cinema

The 1987 mission statement of Taiwan New Cinema declared that it supported ”auteurs with creative intention,” who were distinguished from commercial movie directors, especially those from Hong Kong and Hollywood. This indicates TNC directors' intention of allying with the French ”Nouvelle Vague”. The success story of TNC directors constantly winning prizes in international film festivals was the result of an orchestration of various forces working simultaneously: the spread of the auteur theory in local film journals; local critics' efforts in connecting with international critics, especially those of ”Cahiers du cinema”, the hotbed for auteurism; government sponsorship, and so on. But the mission statement also prefigured the end of TNC, since domestic audiences soon lost interest in its elitist approach. This paper, examining the French journal ”Cahiers du cinema”, points out that the pitfall of auteurism is ”an aesthetic cult of personality” and the myth of personal signature that leads to endless self-repetition. Taiwan New Cinema directors are all faithful practitioners of auteurism. For theorists of ”Cahiers du cinema”, on the other hand, the prevalence of auteurism in third world countries marks the superiority of the French film industry in the competetion with Hollywood.

Dangers in the Dark: Motion Picture Reform in Progressive-Era Milwaukee

The battle over motion picture reformduring the early years of film exhibition in Milwaukee took place during a transitional period in the city's politics, as socialists and non-partisan progressives chased scandaltainted machine politicians from office. Their varied approaches led to reforms of both the content of films and the physical environments in which they were seen. The drive for reform culminated in the creation of the Milwaukee Motion Picture Commission, which survived as a film censorship body until 1971.

Comparison of the effectiveness of different weed control methods in field cultivated pepper (Capsicum annum L.)Porównanie efektywności różnych metod ochrony przed chwastami papryki (Capsicum annum L.) w uprawie polowej

Summary The studies conducted in 2010–2011 at The Research Institute of Horticulture in Skierniewice were aimed at comparing the effectiveness of different weed management methods in outdoor grown pepper. The following methods were compared: application of herbicide, a combination of herbicide with mechanical treatment, mechanical treatments, the usage of mulches (polypropylene, woven and biodegradable films) and hand weeding. Weed control effect, the number and biomass of weeds, secondary weed infestation, plant height and the yield of pepper were determined during the experiments. The ecophysiological indexes such as relative variable chlorophyll fluorescence and chlorophyll content in the leaves were also calculated. The best results of weed controlling were achieved in pepper weeded by hand and grown in the soil mulched with polypropylene and woven films. The highest yield of fruits was obtained from pepper weeded by hand, treated with herbicide and mulched with woven foil, while the lowest yield was obtained from plants mulched with biodegradable foil. At the beginning of growing season the chlorophyll content in the leaves was not changed in pepper treated with herbicide and hand weeded but its decrease was recorded in pepper grown in mulches. The relative variable chlorophyll fluorescence was the highest in hand weeded pepper at the whole growing season.

Vitamin E modifies poly(D,L)lactic acid wettability and reduces bacterial adhesion

Highly biocompatible polylactic acid (PLA)-derived polymers are used for different biomedical applications such as orthopaedic screws and drug delivery devices. Nevertheless their clinical use is limited by their proinflammatory characteristics. Vitamin E (α-tocopherol, Vit. E), a natural antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent has been used to improve different biomaterials biostability [1], and among them also P(D,L)LA [2]. In this work, addition of Vit.E (10-40% w/v) to P(D,L)LA films obtained by solvent casting technique increased polymer surface wettability and human plasma protein adsorption, while addition of Vit.E acetate (Vit.E Ac, 10-40% w/v), the acetic ester of α-tocopherol, often used as an alternative to Vit.E itself, failed in modifying polymer wettability. On the other hand, bacterial adhesion experiments onto control, Vit.E and Vit.E Ac enriched P(D,L)LA films showed that both presence of Vit.E and Vit.E Ac was able to reduce the adhesion of the RP62A Staphylococcus epidermidis strain [3]. In particular, in PLA + Vit. E samples the decrease in bacterial adhesion was of 56%, while, in the case of PLA + Vit. E Ac samples the decrease was of 40%. These preliminary data suggest that Vit. E addition to PLA containing medical devices could improve their resistance to bacterial infections.

Civil Disobedience in the Movies as an Example of Politics in Pop Culture

The law cannot justify breaking the law, but it does not mean that law must be blindly followed. For law to be effective it takes more than just written rules and enforcement agencies. It takes people who respect it. It takes socjety understanding social contract. It takes civil society. Society strong enough to notice when the law or authorities are unfair, unjust against rationality or simply not effective because of a lack of social acceptance. Civil disobedience is a social conscience in action. It’s transcendental and makes perfect movie material, therefore acts of resistance against law and government fill popular culture. One may not accept civil disobedience, treat it as a crime, undermine its legal and moral basis, but cannot notice that nowadays this sort of resistance plays an important part in legal, social and cultural changes around the world. Full text: http://bazhum.muzhp.pl/czasopismo/589/?idno=14762

R Ratings for Movies with Smoking

The 2012 Surgeon General's Report concludes that a causal relation exists between exposure to smoking in movies and initiation of smoking in youth, but does the portrayal of smoking alone or the context in which it occurs underlie the association? Investigators examined this question using data from a longitudinal cohort study of 6522 …

Dielectric coated plasmonic interfaces: their interest for sensitive sensing of analyte-ligand interactions

Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors have matured over the last 2 decades into very powerful tools for the study of biomolecular interactions, chemical detection and immunoassays. The performance of the sensor depends on several parameters, such as the choice of the metal thin fi lm where the plasmonic wave propagates, the excitation wavelength and the refractive index (RI) of the glass prism. Next to these physical parameters, the strategy selected to bind the desired receptors to the SPR chip, has a strong infl uence on the overall sensitivity and selectivity of the device. This review focuses on the advancement made using lamellar SPR structures, where a thin dielectric layer is deposited onto the surface plasmon active metal thin fi lm. Silver-based SPR interfaces can be developed using this approach, as these overlayers allow an effi cient protection of the underlying silver fi lm. At the same time, these interfaces open the scope for new surface functionalization schemes, which can be employed for anchoring ligands to the SPR sensor chip. While self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) are widely used, due to the possibility of easily incorporating carboxylate, amine or hydroxyl groups, the drawbacks of such fi lms include limited chemical and electrochemical stability. Moreover, a poor orientation and potential problems of protein adsorption and fouling, is often encountered if no synthetic effort in the synthesis of more sophisticated thiols is made. In addition, while the surface chemistry developed on gold has been of great value, the limitations of working on gold are becoming more noticeable, with increasingly complex fabrication requirements for biometric systems and arrays. Lamellar SPR interfaces represent an alternative route. Finally, the contribution of the thin dielectric top layer to the sensitivity of SPR sensors will be discussed.

A Violent Itch

Emotions may affect the symptoms of skin disease. To study the effects of positive and negative emotions on itch and pain, 59 healthy women aged 18 years or older (mean age, 21) were randomly assigned to one of two groups. Thirty women were shown a “positive” film fragment (from the movie Happy …

Sweatshop Cinderella, a film by Suzanne Wasserman

Sweatshop Cinderella, a film by Suzanne Wasserman

The Education and Development of Foreign Culture by Digital Multimedia Contents

The Multimedia Contents, such like movies, internet and so on, are the most effective teaching means for generation c[content] learners who are accustomed to the multimedia environment. First, the multimedia contents become appropriate materials in that they help the learners understand the culture and lifestyle of its country through practical and vivid information. Second, they are useful leaning tools for the students who prefer visual media to improve interest and understanding. Third, as students have the time for developing their own contents based on given information, they understand the contents better and also have a indirect learning experience of culture. This means that the learning using multimedia contents has an influence on students' academic achievement. As a result, it is desirable for the application and development of multimedia contents to be suggested as an effective teaching method for foreign culture.

Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World (review)

Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World (review)

Toward a Renewal of Critical Practice: Reflections on the Occupy Movement and Filipino Self Determination

This essay examines the significance of the developing Occupy movement within the United States, which emerged from a year of global protests (2011). It suggests that one way to broaden its vision of solidarity is to renew our critical practice (“conscientization and action” – borrowing from Brazilian educator Paulo Freire). A renewal of critical practice within the context of this essay involves examining the following more closely: 1) the dynamics of race and class in the United States and abroad, 2) the site of the academy (the politics of knowledge production), and 3.) the significance of our submerged histories of collective struggle for racial and economic justice. The essay asserts that the Filipino diasporic experience and ongoing struggle for self determination (Filipinos now constitute one of the largest—if not the largest—segment of the Asian American population) can offer useful theoretical tools for renewing our critical practice in the Occupy era. Two contemporary Filipino cultural texts, which reflect upon the dialectical relationship between Filipinos in the United States and in the Philippines, are examined: E. San Juan, Jr.’s Toward Filipino Self Determination: Beyond Transnational Globalization (2009) and Sari Lluch Dalena and Keith Sicat’s film Rigodon (2005). These texts provide theoretical concepts and methodological approaches for renewing our critical practice within and beyond the US academy: 1.) they encourage interdisciplinary fields, which have historical roots in movements for social justice from the 1960s/70s (Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies), to renew their commitment to creating social change; 2.) they shed light on the unique contributions of Filipinos to movements for social justice.

Mass Appeal: The Formative Age of the Movies, Radio and TV – By Edward D Berkowitz

Mass Appeal: The Formative Age of the Movies, Radio and TV – By Edward D Berkowitz

Image of Plastic Surgeons and Plastic Surgery Illustrated in Korean Movies and TV Dramas

95 Copyright © 2012 The Korean Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. www.e-acfs.org pISSN 2287-1152 eISSN 2287-5603 한국 영화와 드라마에 나타난 성형외과 의사와 성형 수술의 이미지