OBJECTIVE To examine the joint effects of movie smoking exposure and team sports participation on established smoking. DESIGN Longitudinal study. SETTING School- and telephone-based surveys in New Hampshire and Vermont between September 1999 through November 1999 and February 2006 through February 2007. PARTICIPANTS A total of 2048 youths aged 16 to 21 years at follow-up. Main Exposures B...

A Video-on-Demand (VOD) server needs to store hundreds of movie titles and to support thousands of concurrent accesses. This, technically and economically, imposes a great challenge on the design of the disk storage subsystem of a VOD server. Due to diierent demands for diierent movie titles, the numbers of concurrent accesses to diierent movie titles can diier a lot. We deene access proole as ...

A 47-year-old woman without a significant medical history , including no history of intravenous drug abuse, no body piercings, and no tattoos, was referred with a 6-day history of high fever and arthralgia. Blood cultures were all positive for Staphylococcus aureus Meti-S. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed: 1) an irregular thickening of the posterior mitral valve root with mobile extensio...

nowadays, in discourse of cinema, movie poster is one of the inseparable parts of showing movie. these posters are influenced by their own social and political discourses of the time when they were produced. the current paper aims for description and interpretation of social and political changing contents of the iranian cinema blockbuster of the past fifty years. for this purpose 47 movie post...

A Video-on-Demand (VOD) server needs to store hundreds of movie titles and to support thousands of concurrent accesses. This, technically and economically, imposes a great challenge on the design of the disk storage subsystem of a VOD server. Due to diierent demands for diierent movie titles, the numbers of concurrent accesses to each movie can diier a lot. We deene access proole as the number ...

Social learning is thought to be a key determinant of the demand for motion pictures. This can be a double-edged sword for motion picture distributors, however, because when a film is good, social learning can enhance the effectiveness of movie advertising, but when a film is bad, it can mitigate this effectiveness. This paper analyzes an equilibrium model of the demand for films and the supply...

An user-specific tendency of biased movie rating is investigated, leading six identified types of rating pattern in a massive movie rating dataset. Based on the observed bias assumption, we propose a rescaling method of preferential scores by considering the rating types. Experimental results show significant enhancement for movie recommendation systems.

Movie S2: Zoom of the interface region between left, middle, and right particle. The left and right particles are cut for better visibility of the interface area and rendering colors are set as in movie S1. The movie clearly shows the enhanced Fe and Ni concentrations at the surface of the left and right particle as well as throughout the middle particle. In the last third of the movie the midd...

In this paper, a new kind of domain specific feature-based heuristic for sentiment analysis of movie reviews using aspect-level is presented. The unsupervised learning technique for sentiment classification is used. The SentiWordNet based scheme using two different linguistic feature selections containing adjectives, adverbs and verbs and n-gram feature extraction is performed. In aspect orient...