Article history: First received on May 29, 2014 and was under review for 7 months Available online 28 September 2015 How and why audiences consume films is a much-researched yet inconclusive area of film marketing. Film is an experiential product and qualitative research methods are a suitable way of gaining insight into how people choose between different film offerings and how they assess the...

English as the foremost medium of international communication at present is called upon to mediate a whole range of cultural and cross-cultural concepts, to a greater extent than in the past. Inevitably human capital has taken a slant to fit in with the globalized world, and the notion of ‘Teaching English in a Cross-cultural Context’ is crucial. Hence, this paper focuses the possibilities and ...

The aim of this work was the synthesis and study of photochromic compounds with new properties. Five dithienylethene type compounds (1a-3a and 1b-2b) were synthesized and studied. They can reversibly interconvert between two thermally stable forms, an open and a closed one, by using light of different wavelengths as triggers. Compounds 2 and 3 represent oligothiophenes endowed with a photoactiv...

We consider the logic of justified common knowledge S4n introduced in [Artemov, 2004]. This system captures the notion of justified common knowledge, which is free of some of the deficiencies of the usual common knowledge operator, and yet sufficient for analysis of epistemic problems where common knowledge has been traditionally applied. In particular, S4n enjoys cut-elimination, which opens a...

Perpetual Points (PPs) have been introduced as an interesting new topic in nonlinear dynamics, and there is a hypothesis that these points can determine whether a system is dissipative or not. This paper demonstrates that this hypothesis is not true since there are counterexamples. Furthermore, we explain that it is impossible to determine dissipation of a system based only on the structure of ...

Changes in fiscal policy typically entail two kinds of lags: the legislative lag— between when legislation is proposed and when it is signed into law—and the implementation lag—from when a new fiscal law is enacted and when it takes effect. These lags imply that substantial time evolves between when news arrives about fiscal changes and when the changes actually take place—time when households ...

Background Studies suggest that rates of anaphylaxis, the most severe form of an allergic reaction, are increasing in Pediatric Emergency Departments (PED). Significant gaps still exist regarding the prevalence, triggers and temporal trends of anaphylaxis in Canada. The Cross-Canada Anaphylaxis Registry (C-CARE) was created with the primary goal of determining the societal burden of anaphylaxis...

Metaphor is an important way of conveying the affect of people, hence understanding how people use metaphors to convey affect is important for the communication between individuals and increases cohesion if the perceived affect of the concrete example is the same for the two individuals. Therefore, building computational models that can automatically identify the affect in metaphor-rich texts l...

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The World Wide Web is a great source of new topics significant for trend birth/creation. Here we propose a method for discovering such topics from the web. The obtained web pages absorb attentions of people from multiple interestcommunities, to enforce the spread of latent interest trends. Topics in such pages can be triggers for personal/social progress of interests, beyond the bounds of exist...