The present study investigated the effect of single and multiple genre movies on listening comprehension of upper intermediate language learners. To this end, a language proficiency test was administered to 40 male and female postgraduates of different majors attending International English Language Testing System (IELTS) classes and ultimately 25 upper intermediate language learners were selec...

We provide here a molecular movie that captures key aspects of RNA polymerase II initiation and elongation. To create the movie, we combined structural snapshots of the initiation-elongation transition and of elongation, including nucleotide addition, translocation, pausing, proofreading, backtracking, arrest, reactivation, and inhibition. The movie reveals open questions about the mechanism of...

We apply the Artificial Immune System (AIS) technology to the Collaborative Filtering (CF) technology when we build the movie recommendation system. Two different affinity measure algorithms of AIS, Kendall tau and Weighted Kappa, are used to calculate the correlation coefficients for this movie recommendation system. From the testing we think that Weighted Kappa is more suitable than Kendall t...

OBJECTIVE To examine the joint effects of movie smoking exposure and team sports participation on established smoking. DESIGN Longitudinal study. SETTING School- and telephone-based surveys in New Hampshire and Vermont between September 1999 through November 1999 and February 2006 through February 2007. PARTICIPANTS A total of 2048 youths aged 16 to 21 years at follow-up. Main Exposures B...

A Video-on-Demand (VOD) server needs to store hundreds of movie titles and to support thousands of concurrent accesses. This, technically and economically, imposes a great challenge on the design of the disk storage subsystem of a VOD server. Due to diierent demands for diierent movie titles, the numbers of concurrent accesses to diierent movie titles can diier a lot. We deene access proole as ...

A 47-year-old woman without a significant medical history , including no history of intravenous drug abuse, no body piercings, and no tattoos, was referred with a 6-day history of high fever and arthralgia. Blood cultures were all positive for Staphylococcus aureus Meti-S. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed: 1) an irregular thickening of the posterior mitral valve root with mobile extensio...

nowadays, in discourse of cinema, movie poster is one of the inseparable parts of showing movie. these posters are influenced by their own social and political discourses of the time when they were produced. the current paper aims for description and interpretation of social and political changing contents of the iranian cinema blockbuster of the past fifty years. for this purpose 47 movie post...

A Video-on-Demand (VOD) server needs to store hundreds of movie titles and to support thousands of concurrent accesses. This, technically and economically, imposes a great challenge on the design of the disk storage subsystem of a VOD server. Due to diierent demands for diierent movie titles, the numbers of concurrent accesses to each movie can diier a lot. We deene access proole as the number ...

Social learning is thought to be a key determinant of the demand for motion pictures. This can be a double-edged sword for motion picture distributors, however, because when a film is good, social learning can enhance the effectiveness of movie advertising, but when a film is bad, it can mitigate this effectiveness. This paper analyzes an equilibrium model of the demand for films and the supply...

An user-specific tendency of biased movie rating is investigated, leading six identified types of rating pattern in a massive movie rating dataset. Based on the observed bias assumption, we propose a rescaling method of preferential scores by considering the rating types. Experimental results show significant enhancement for movie recommendation systems.