Good Seat Research Articles

CREATION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION VIDEO PANORAMAS FOR SPORT EVENTS

This paper describes an approach for creating high-resolution video panoramas of large-scale sport events. In an exemplary football scenario, we used two ARRIFLEX D-20 "film-style" digital cameras to capture both sides of the playing field as well as large parts of the stands. From the recorded left and right view images, we created a joint panoramic view with a resolution of 5016 × 1400 pel (5k) using sophisticated image processing algorithms. These highly immersive football panoramas were screened with our modular, high-resolution multi-projection system during the FIFA World Cup 2006 in a 600 seat CinemaxX movie theater in Berlin, providing the viewers with the feeling of actually watching the game from a good seat on the stands.

The Church of England in Industrialising Society: The Lancashire Parish of Whalley in the Eighteenth Century

The Church of England in Industrialising Society: The Lancashire Parish of Whalley in the Eighteenth Century. By M.F. SNAPE (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2003; pp. 228. N.p.). THIS is a significant and well-researched book which makes a timely intervention in the debate about the success or failure of the Church of England in the eighteenth century. Against those (including this reviewer) who have argued that the Anglican Church in the Georgian period was pastorally more successful and more adept in retaining popular affection than its nineteenth-century detractors claimed, Snape uses the parish of Whalley (at 161 square miles, reputedly the largest in England) to highlight instead the Church's weaknesses and failures. In so doing he makes the case that, whatever may have been true of the south of England, the Church was ineffective in the industrial north. Snape's choice of Whalley is shrewd, since a decade ago Mark Smith, in a pioneering study of Oldham and Saddleworth (parishes not that far from Whalley), argued that the Church had fared far better in industrialising Lancashire than had hitherto been assumed. Smith pointed, for instance, to the creation of chapels of ease as an indicator of the vitality of the Church and its ability to reach out to new centres of population. But Snape cautions against giving too positive a spin on the role of chapels of ease, noting that, in Whalley at least, there were still large tracts of the population not within comfortable reach of a chapel, and that in any case not all chapels were able to provide the full range of services, so that, for the crucial rites of passage, even parishioners living near a chapel had to go elsewhere for the most important services. Snape also sheds doubt on the idea that lay interest in providing funds for chapel building was motivated by altruism in providing accommodation for the poor; rather, he argues, the well-to-do contributors were more concerned to get good seats for themselves. What is particularly suggestive about Snape's analysis is that he can admit that several of the indices which historians have recently used to indicate the vitality of the Church—such as the regular and dedicated provision of Sunday services and the frequent celebration of Holy Communion—occurred in the industrialising north. Indeed, on this score, Whalley's one parish church and seventeen chapels often outstripped their southern counterparts, generally offering two services on a Sunday where many southern parishes provided just one, and having a monthly communion. But Snape argues that this kind of success nevertheless must be seen within a general picture of overall pastoral decline. While acknowledging the provision of Sunday services, he points out that, by the 1770s, clergy were frequently noting that the poor stayed away from church, sometimes using the excuse that would become more common in the Victorian period that they did not have a ‘Sunday best’. Most tellingly, however, Snape's case for the failure of Anglicanism in the industrial north goes beyond the conventional sociological explanations for what went wrong. Rather than seeing the Church's collapse as the result of simply being overwhelmed by the growth of population, urbanisation and industrialisation—explanations which proved popular among social and ecclesiastical historians in the 1970s—Snape lays the blame for the failure of Anglicanism squarely at the door of the Church itself. The Church's weaknesses, he can acknowledge, were no doubt exacerbated by industrialisation, but he is clear they would have occurred without it. At heart, the Church's problems came from within.

Tempat Kedudukan Rest Lingual dalam Pembuatan Gigi Tiruan Sebagian Lepas Kerangka Logam Lingual Rest Seat in Removable Partial Denture

In certain cases, lingual rest is needed to provide better retention for RPD. Lingual rest is a cingulum rest placed on the lower jaw in RPD design. It is used as an indirect retainer. To make the rest fit best, a good rest seat should be prepared in the cingulum. The outline form of the lingual rest is a half moon shaped with a smooth curve from one marginal ridge to the other, crossing the center of the tooth. The rest seat itself should be V shaped, and the depth is 1 - 1 1/ 2 mm. In this situation, one of four options should be considered i.e.: fabricate a cast veneer crown, or a three quarter crown to place a lingual pin-lay, or put a small amalgam restoration in the base of the preparation when the dentin has been touched.

The seating dilemma in aged care

Choosing the most appropriate easy chair for elderly clients is often difficult. The demands that need to be fulfilled by the chair chosen need to be identified and considered in order of priority. Benefits of good seating are identified, as are consequences of poor seating. Some guidelines are provided for choosing specific chair characteristics. There is discussion of the thought provoking points raised.

The best remaining seat

It is important that an auditorium be designed to have as many good seats as possible. Not all seats in an auditorium are equally good. This is manifested in that the audience does not choose its seats randomly. The audience understands intuitively that, generally speaking, the closer a seat is, and the more straight on, the better it is. Imagine an auditorium with open seating and the audience entering one at a time. People will in turn make a selection of what in their opinion is the best remaining seat. The order in which the seats are chosen is an indicator of the rank order of the desirability of the individual seats. As the audience makes its seat selection, a geometric pattern of the occupied seats unfolds, and reveals the boundary of the preferred seats. The perimeters describe the equal desirability curves and outlines the auditorium plan with as many good seats as possible. The audience choice of seat is recorded by time lapse photography. The data are analyzed in a combined computer drawing and mathematics program. A mathematical model has been developed that evaluates the desirability of the seating in an auditorium from the audience’s point of view.

The Best Remaining Seat: Evaluating Auditorium Plans for Desirability

It is important that an auditorium be designed to have as many good seats as possible. Not all seats in an auditorium are judged to be equally good. This is manifested in that the audience does not choose its seats randomly. The audience understands intuitively that, generally speaking, the closer a seat is to the performers, and the more straight on the better it is. Acoustics should be the most important consideration in selecting a seat, prior to a concert. However, the visual, comfort and economic factors are also important, along with others, not easy to isolate or define. Imagine an auditorium with open seating and the audience entering one at a time. People will in turn make a selection of what in their opinion is the best remaining seat. The order in which the seats are chosen is an indicator of the rank order of the desirability of the individual seats. As the audience makes its seat selection, a geometric pattern of the occupied seats unfolds, and reveals the boundary of the preferred seats. The perimeters describe the equal desirability curves and outlines the auditorium plan with as many good seats as possible. The audience choice of seat is recorded by time lapse photography. The data is analysed in a combined computer drawing and mathematics program. A mathematical model has been developed that evaluates the desirability of the seating in an auditorium from the audience point of view.

SENIORITY SEATING AT THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE

This paper examines lotteries and seniority queues as forms of commodity bundling price discrimination. There are good and bad seats, and two types of potential purchasers. Offered the choice of a high-priced good seat and a moderately-priced bundle of good and bad seats, customers self-select into high and low valuation types. For single-period purchases, the bundle is a lottery over good and bad seats. For repeated purchases, monopolists such as the Royal Opera House can do better by setting up a seniority allocation system.

Vancouver Notes from the Fringe / 1

Knots of people are walking about the dark, vacant streets. Talking, studying newspapers, pointing the way, they emerge to cross brightly lit intersections, pass used-car lots festooned with rustling flags, and then recede back into the half-light between house porches, apartment balconies, and bodyshop signs. The groups converge every hour or so on a miscellany of doorways, sometimes in a facade of tiny storefronts, sometimes among flat-topped industrial buildings, sometimes in an imposing heritage building. This is Mount Pleasant’s magical mystery tour, Fringe ‘86. Inside the doors, past the cash boxes, there are greetings, discussions of other shows and a scramble for good seats. Lighting board and sound operators are sitting in corners or beside pillars working with equipment lent by theatres and theatre departments from across the lower mainland. Refinished dance floors, jute matting, old cinema seats, and the chatting fade as the house lights go down. An hour or so later the doorways disgorge their excited (or disgruntled, or amused, or bemused) audiences who consult their programme guides, regroup, and fan out across the district again.

Influence of teaching techniques on infant car seat use

This study was undertaken to determine the effectiveness of two types of educational interventions on child safety seat usage among new mothers at the time of discharge from a hospital setting. Ninety-three women included in this study were divided into three groups consisting of (a) a control group, (b) a video teaching intervention, and (c) a video and face-to-face intervention. All women were given a demographic questionnaire during their hospital stay and observed for actual car seat usage at the time of discharge. Results, based on a 1 X 3 Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), showed no statistically significant difference in child safety seat usage between control and experimental groups. Factors which may have influenced the findings were the unusually high overall complicance rate of this population (83.9%) and the socio-economic make-up; the majority being white, well-educated, and above average income. Good maternal seat belt use may have predisposed this group toward high child restraint device (CRD) compliance, as well as the widespread diffusion of information on child safety seats and awareness of the California CRD law. Supplementary analyses indicated that video instruction and video plus face-to-face instruction may be more effective with first-time mothers who have performance scores below 80, are themselves not seat belt users and who are members of minority groups.

The Story That Haldemann Julius Told, and: Jack Ruby Believed

THE STORY THAT HALDEMANN JULIUS TOLD / Michel Englebert "There are one thousand ways to tell a story" for George Oppen The story that Haldemann Julius told of the Italian immigrant who found work as a sewing machine operator rising early and working long hours who missed terribly not going to the opera as he had during less lean years at Bologna but in a year managed to save enough, scrimping on food, to afford a good seat to Aida and on opening night arrived early and though hungry could feel his pain slip into the green stub of his ticket, vanish when the attendant greeted him with courtesy ends as a story of joy. While the story that Haldemann Julius told of the Italian immigrant who in a year managed to save enough from his sweat-shop wages to afford a seat to Aida and on opening night walked three miles, arrived early, his suit camphorous, and gazed at photographs on posters of the former prima donnas, and found his seat and sat in it but by the middle of the first act fell asleep, being tired, ends as a story of despair. While the story that Haldemann Julius told of the Italian immigrant who for a year each week slipped three coins in an envelope counting and recounting nightly; who did not stop when he had saved enough for a mezzanine seat 68 · The Missouri Review but kept on saving till he could afford a box seat and on opening night exhumed the one brown suit folded in dignity and blue cardboard and mingled in the foyer with lovers of grand opera and ran his hand along the plush velour of the seatbacks the overture filling him and the story which he knew backwards unfolding irrevocably toward finale; who woke hours later from wonderful dreams, to applause, roused himself, joined, half dazed and cheerful, the ovation, ends as a story of joy. So that at last the story Verdi told of the Egyptian hero Rhadames spurning the princess assigned him for the slave he fancies; his murder, her murder, and the actors and the anecdotes the actors will remember from rehearsals, and the carving out of the present on the stage of Verdi's history of Egypt craftfully displayed before a crowd among which there is at least one man sleeping, overtired, becomes again a story of despair. Michel Englebert THE MISSOURI REVIEW · 69 JACK RUBY BELIEVED / Michel Englebert "Now everyone will see that Jews have balls." Jack Ruby Oh, sure, I knew Jack Ruby pretty good; in fact it used to drive him crazy because I was a pimp and him the respectable business man, but I drove respectable cars and Jack Ruby never could close a deal. Company Man I called him. The Company takes care of its own. America the Beautiful Company. Where a man from the projects can own his own club. Where you play by the rules the rules take care of you. Where you play by the rules and you be somebody. He was a good ole boy that Jack Ruby all right. And always something for sale. Mail-order make-it-big exercise twist-plate for a buck and a half, or the cheap purple bird with the big ass tilting into and out of a glass of warm water he called perpetual motion. Jack had more faith than Mary Baker Eddy; Jack believed he had class and could make it rub off. One of his girls mentioned she'd left her husband because he beat her, so when the guy showed up to patch things with his wife and take her home Jack beat him up and threw him down the stairs though all the while she was shouting at him to stop and to mind his own business. Jack believed he had power: that pathetic little gun like a blue fist; like the hand at the end of a gimpy arm. Jack believed he had friends on the Force: the same cops who'd wrestle him dirty in the basement of the Dallas County Jail 70 · The Missouri Review and would as soon have split his brain as spit if...

Effect of internal relief, vibration, and venting on the vertical seating of cemented crowns

The presence of a vent hole in the occlusal surface, vibration during seating, and internal relief inside cast crowns were investigated individually and in all combinations for their effect on vertical seating on metal dies, using zinc phosphate cement. It was found that: 1. Vibration, applied horizontally, had no effect by itself or any interaction with venting or internal crown relief. 2. Venting and internal relief alone effectively achieved good seating. 3. Venting and internal relief together were the most effective combinations. 4. When crowns were seated well, they tended to tilt less.

A chair of anaesthesia.

Some of the requirements of comfortable seating are discussed. A chair for use by anaesthetists in the operating room is described which fulfils most of the criteria of good seating.

A study on the cushioning of seat assembly

A good seat can never be obtained without adequate cushioning design, however precisely its tilt or the inclination of the back rest may be indicated.In order to investigate the relation between the cushion of seats and their preference, a feeling test study was performed, assuming 8 items of cushioning factors. The cushioning quality was demonstrated to be approximately estimated dy the softness of the seat surface, the degree of depression, the feeling of spring and the feeling of bottom-touch.For both of soft and hard seats, the preferred ratio of the softness of the seat to that of the back rest seemed to be constant. The optimum balance between them was studied and it was concluded that a back rest of softer surface than the seat was preferable.

Improved Formation Evaluation With Log-Test-Log Technique

Abstract Formation evaluation has been greatly improved by obtaining the data from drill-stem testing and a series of logs with one trip in the hole. The log is run immediately before and after the test. Both gamma ray and resistivity curves are recorded down-hole in a self-contained apparatus. In addition to the basic information contained in the log itself, the combination with data obtained from drill-stem testing will permit more accurate and complete formation evaluation. Field examples are presented to illustrate results obtained with this technique. Introduction Formation evaluation with dynamic techniques is an expanding technology the is putting new and useful information in the hands of the oil industry before the large financial commitments in well completion are made. The ultimate goal is total formation evaluation which could describe the reservoir size, its location, the nature of its contents and the producibility of these contents before completion expenditures are made. This goal has not yet been achieved but important progress has been made with the development of a log-test-log technique. This is an open-hole method which provides a resistivity and gamma ray log before and after a drill-stem test with a single trip into the hole. Comparison of these two logs can accurately locate the intervals which produce fluid during the test. In addition to this, both correlation information and depth information for subsequent well completion are provided. Use of log information with drill-stem test data will yield more information about the reservoir and its contents very early in the well program. Information Available From Drill-Stem Test Table 1 tabulates the information that is presently available from a modern drill-stem test using multi-flow evaluation techniques. Examination of these data indicates that several additional types of information could provide much more complete formation evaluation. A normal drill-stem test can be conducted over an interval of three to several hundred feet at a depth which can be defined only by measured joints of pipe. In addition, the actual producing zone or zones are known to be somewhere within the total interval tested but cannot be pinpointed. In the case where several zones produce simultaneously, there is a need for defining the boundaries of each zone as well as the type of fluid withdrawn from each. It is also significant that 95 per cent of all drill-stem tests are run before any wireline log is run. This means that the needed log information for correlation, for verifying test interval location and selection of a good packer seat is not available for most tests. The value of drill-stem test data is increased greatly if the depth and boundaries of the producing zones can be relocated during subsequent operations. This is particularly true after casing and completion when accurate perforation and treatment can determine success or failure of the well to produce. The need for additional information has been responsible for the development of a log-test-log technique for the location of the test interval and for the definition and location of producing formations in a wellbore. Fig.1 illustrates the hydraulic changes which take place in and around the wellbore during the drill-stem test. Prior to the test (Fig. 1a) the mud filtrate has invaded the permeable formations. In the process most of the original formation fluids have been displaced, leaving around the borehole an invaded zone. During the drill-stem test (Fig. 1b) the mud filtrate is forced back into the wellbore by the flow of formation fluids. The displaced fluids collect in the borehole and mix with the mud. No reinvasion of the permeable formation takes place until a hydrostatic pressure higher than the formation pressure is built up. Nonpermeable formations are, of course, not altered by the invasion process. These important hydraulic changes provide the foundation for the new log-test-log technique. JPT P. 1411ˆ