Our challenge is focused on making two predictions that revolve around the outcome of movies for the current year 2014. The first challenge is to predict the nominees and award winners for the 72nd Golden Globe Awards taking place on January 11th, 2015. We will focus our efforts to predict the winners of the following four categories: Best Director, Best Actor Motion Picture Drama, Best Actress...

Immunological phenomena that were once deduced from genetic, biochemical, and in situ approaches are now being witnessed in living color, in three dimensions, and in real time. The information in time-lapse imaging can provide valuable mechanistic insight into a host of processes, from cell migration to signal transduction. What we need now are methods to quantitate these new visual data and to...

In 1997 Ron Davis, Tobacco Control’s inaugural editor, and I wrote an editorial titled Smoking in movies: is it a problem? Since then, a growing body of research has examined the relation between viewing of movies containing depictions of smoking and subsequent smoking among youth. Reviewing this evidence, a 2008 National Cancer Institute monograph concluded ‘‘The depiction of cigarette smoking...

Peer-rating systems have become an increasingly popular way for consumers to learn about the quality of products. However, measuring the true impact of these ratings systems on consumer behavior represents a challenging empirical problem. In this paper we attempt to measure the impact of rating systems on consumer behavior by designing and implementing a randomized field experiment to determine...

be up to date for at least a few months. It does suffer from the deliberate shortcoming of being only a supplement; beginning students of molecular biology will need to read the Supplement side by side with the original text. But for those lucky enough to have already read DNA Replication, this Supplement is not to be missed, especially with a price tag of less than an evening out at the movies.

Robots frequently feature in the movies and occasionally in the theatre. Their presence in the media is of major importance on how users interact with them. Due to the scarcity of robots in everyday life, most of the users’ expectations and interpretations about robots stem from the media. This paper provides a framework of robots in the media that will help robot interaction designers to asses...

Introduction [1] There is an ongoing debate in the field of religion and film studies about whether or not film makes a unique contribution to our understanding of religion. Since most religion and film scholars are concerned about the representation of religion on the silver screen, only a few scholars who are interested in something more than how religion is portrayed in the movies carry out ...

ALTHOUGH FILMS occupy a central place in American popular culture, that place is also, paradoxically, difficult to understand and characterize. Watching movies has been a major leisure and cultural activity for Ameri­ cans for more than a hundred years. But for nearly the entire duration of their history, there has been an active debate about the movies and their merits. They have been criticiz...

There are several ways that our species might try to send a message to another species separated from us by space and/or time. Synthetic biology might be used to write an epitaph to our species, or simply "Kilroy was here", in the genome of a bacterium via the patterns of either (1) the codons to exploit Life's non-equilibrium character or (2) the bases themselves to exploit Life's quasi-equili...

T he world continues to have a passion for movies. Moviegoers worldwide spent $20.3 billion and purchased 8.6 billion admission tickets to see films in 2003. 2002 was a record breaking year at the UK box office, with 176 million cinema admissions, £755 million in total box office receipts, and 369 films released. In the USA in 2003, there were 1.6 billion cinema admissions, $9.5 billion in box ...