Animated movies for educational presentations of scientific concepts are increasingly interesting a small but dedicated number of scientists, engineers, educators, and animators. The' value of animated movies for presenting complicated concepts has long been recognized. Now a new method for producing animated movies has been devised, and has led to the present renewed interest. Previously, anim...

The Surgeon General has concluded that there is a causal relationship between depictions of smoking in the movies and the initiation of smoking among young persons (1). The more youths see smoking on screen, the more likely they are to start smoking; youths who are heavily exposed to onscreen smoking imagery are approximately two to three times as likely to begin smoking as are youths who recei...

The present study investigated the efficacy of segmental/suprasegmental vs. holistic pronunciation instruction in development listening comprehension skills by EFL learners, using a pre-test post-test design. Six groups 20 intermediate learners at university Iran took part study, all receiving same amount (10 hours over 5 weeks). control group listened to/viewed authentic audio recordings and m...

People are gregarious by nature, which explains why group activities, from colleagues sharing a meal to friends attending a book club event together, are the social norm. Online group recommenders identify items of interest, such as restaurants, movies, and books, that satisfy the collective needs of a group (rather than the interests of individual group members). With a number of new movies be...

The objective of this study is to determine the effectiveness learning English for junior high school students on local Indonesian literature in English, listening and understanding content language skills based popular folktale "Timun Emas" uploaded Andree Rivan Kurniawan's YouTube channel. This was conducted at State Junior High School (SMP) 5 Rakit Kulim from August October 2021 20 seventh g...

Background: A method for systematically identifying, selecting, and ranking high quality movies for public health training does not exist. We therefore aimed to pilot a method and use it to generate an initial selection of suitable movies in a range of public health categories. Methods: To identify possible movies, systematic searches were undertaken of two large movie databases. If meeting min...

19 Contrafreeloading, which means that animals work for food even though 20 identical food is freely available, has been reported in animals’ feeding behavior. This 21 phenomenon has been assumed to be explained by the information primacy model, in 22 which the information about a food resource as well as the food itself is valuable for 23 animals. This study confirmed a contrafreeloading-like ...

In the preceding paper we described the responses of cells in the cat's lateral suprasylvian visual area (LS) to large-field optic flow and texture movies. To assess response properties such as direction selectivity, cells were also tested with moving bar stimuli. We expected that there would be good agreement between response properties elicited with optic flow movies and those revealed with b...

Living in a tourist area is frequently viewed as an advantage for students learning English it provides more opportunities to practice the language. The present study looked at performance of residing and non-tourist areas explored how they learned factors affecting their language performance. A comparative was conducted using concurrent mixed-method approach. data were collected through docume...