I add to the empirical literature on vertical contracting and wholesaler conduct by using retailer entry conditions to infer unobserved choice variables and equilibrium responses to prices and advertising. After estimating the US demand for theatrical motion pictures from 1990–96, I apply these techniques to compare observed outcomes to predictions under various distributorconduct hypotheses. W...

Here we present an annotation of locations and temporal progression depicted in the movie "Forrest Gump", as an addition to a large public functional brain imaging dataset ( http://studyforrest.org). The annotation provides information about the exact timing of each of the 870 shots, and the depicted location after every cut with a high, medium, and low level of abstraction. Additionally, four ...

The purpose of this research is to identify the ways and mechanisms influence professional discourse on formation development language pictures world, as well echo-pictures world people close these specialists based their picture world. object study speech tailor Emmanuel Solovey his wife Rosa – main characters Vera Inber’s story “Solovey Rosa”; Olga Plemyannikova men her various professions in...

Spontaneous facial expressions were found to provide accurate information about more specific aspects of emotional experience than just the pleasant versus unpleasant distinction. Videotape records were gathered while subjects viewed motion picture films and then reported on their subjective experience. A new technique for measuring facial movement isolated a particular type of smile that was r...

The 1997 motion picture “Gattaca,” written and directed by Andrew Niccoll, is a futuristic film set in a time when society analyzes your DNA and determines where you belong in life. Ethan Hawke's character was born with a congenital heart condition, so, in turn, he assumes the identity of an athlete who has genes that would allow Hawke’s character to achieve his dream of space travel. Samples o...

Cinema viewed from a location other than a canonical viewing point (CVP) presents distortions to the viewer in both its static and its dynamic aspects. Past works have investigated mainly the static aspect of this problem and attempted to explain why viewers still seem to perceive the scene very well. The dynamic aspect of depth perception, which is known as structure from motion, and its possi...

To represent an approach in video and audio configuration. Two modalities were used i.e., visual and audio tracks. From audio track, rhythms of music were described by segmentation and detection of music beats. From visual track, dancer’s features and trajectories were extracted to estimate rhythm of motion. Then configuration of visual and audio extractions were performed with two more applica...

The International Affective Picture System (IAPS) is a set of standardized emotionally evocative color photographs developed by NIMH Center for Emotion and Attention at the University of Florida. It contains more than 900 emotional pictures indexed by emotional valence, arousal and dominance. However, when IAPS pictures were used in studying emotions with the event-related potentials, the resul...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effects of pictures on health communications. METHOD Peer reviewed studies in health education, psychology, education, and marketing journals were reviewed. There was no limit placed on the time periods searched. RESULTS Pictures closely linked to written or spoken text can, when compared to text alone, markedly increase attention to and recall of health education in...