BACKGROUND In movies, alcohol-related cues are frequently depicted and there is evidence for a link between movie alcohol cues and immediate alcohol consumption. Less is known about factors influencing immediate effects movie alcohol exposure on drinking. The exertion of self-control is thought to be important in avoiding or resisting certain temptations. AIMS The aim of the present study was...

This paper describes a novel way to represent the 32 crystallographic point groups for use in a classroom environment. The groups are rendered using a 3D ray-tracing package and a variety of movie and still image formats are made available in the public domain.

gain of enough knowledge on how to reduce mechanical damages is indispensable in developing fresh fruit handling as well as post harvest systems. this research was performed to determine and compare the susceptibility of five apple varieties to impact loads in khorasan region. five apple varieties of khorasan region (aroos, abbasi, yellow lobnani, red lobnani and golshahi) were loaded by two im...

As part of the Netflix Prize contest, Netflix recently released a dataset containing movie ratings of a significant fraction of their subscribers. The dataset is intended to be anonymous, and all customer identifying information has been removed. We demonstrate that an attacker who knows only a little bit about an individual subscriber can easily identify this subscriber’s record if it is prese...

We present a method of automatically constructing a domain-specific Korean sentiment dictionary which can be used to classify the sentiment of online movie reviews. More than 1.18 million online movie reviews with movie ratings ranging between 1 to 4 and 7 to 10 were collected across fourteen different movie genres to calculate the joint probability of a given word and the sentiment of movie re...

AIMS This study uses an experimental design to assess the effects of movie alcohol portrayal on alcohol consumption of young adults while watching a movie. Gender, weekly alcohol use and identification with the movie actor/character were assessed as moderators. DESIGN A two (sex) × two (movie: alcohol or no portrayal of alcohol) between-subject design was used. SETTING Participants watched ...

the aim of this article is to analyze the religious discourses represented in the movie “ketabe qanoon”. in this study mikhail bakhtin’s theory on polyphonic novel is used in which he believes that these novels do not have a univocal voice and instead reflect voices of different social strata. in order to analyze the movie, the methodology of laclau and mouffe is used. findings show that the mo...

The affective responses of audience watching movie are selected and the visual and auditory attributes in movie, which have a significant effect on the affective responses of audience, are measured. The relationship between the movie attributes and affective responses are modeled using regression analysis. Fun of a movie is evaluated based on the audiences’ affective responses and an affective ...