Physicians attempting to carry out well-executed scientific investigations require an historical perspective; an awareness of our ignorance; an imagination unencumbered by scientific prejudices; originality, curiosity and imagination; patience and persistence in the face of frustration; adaptability and perseverance; a critical spirit of evaluation and willingness to question dogma; devotion to...

The cinematic landscape provides a rich opportunity to explore cultural representations of place, space and nature. This essay focuses on the depiction of landscape in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert (1964). Previous approaches to the critical interpretation of landscape in the cinema of Antonioni have been characterized by three principal weaknesses: a narrow emphasis on formalist and aute...

The New Testament of the Bible is a collection of 27 books, 13 of which are attributed to St. Paul, making him a significant author of the New Testament. The Pauline letters were written to churches and individuals addressing various issues in the early church and offering instructions and encouragement to the believers of his day. To understand Paul’s message as a whole, we clustered his lette...

2 experiments are reported to test the increase of responsiveness to suggestion tests following hypnotic induction over responsiveness to such tests in waking and imagination conditions, an increase that has been doubted as a result of experiments by Barber and Calverley (1962, 1963). In the 1st experiment, 60 Ss were divided into groups of 20 Ss each serving under 1 of 3 conditions in a 1st se...

This paper explores the narration of Pushkin’s novel (in translation into English by James E. Falen) by Stephen Fry and Rafael Corkhill. The aim was to analyse the actors’ oral performance in terms of prosodic invariants as compared to the Russian original recited by two professional actors. An attempt was made to measure the ‘authenticity’ of the translation by application of cluster analysis....

Hsuan Hsu, in his paper "Post-Nationalism and the Cinematic Apparatus in Minghella's Adaptation of Ondaatje's The English Patient," discusses Anthony Minghella's cinematic version of Ondaatje's novel. In Hsu's view, Minghella and Ondaatje (Ondaatje collaborated on the film script) emphasize in the film the visual and social implications of mapmaking in order to align imperialism with the cinema...

In this paper, we present a fully implemented prototype of real-time cinematic control for character-based interactive storytelling approaches, where story diversity emerges from dynamic interaction between characters. We describe the specifities of real-time cinematic control within a dynamic virtual environment, where events occur at different locations at the same time. We also present resul...