24 research outputs found
Grip technology in contemporary film and commercial
No full textTato bakalářská práce se zaměřuje na roli a význam gripové techniky v současném filmu a reklamě. Práce zkoumá historický vývoj gripové techniky a analyzuje její stěžejní principy a technologie. Zároveň se práce věnuje současným estetickým trendům ve filmovém a reklamním průmyslu a zkoumá, jak gripová technika ovlivňuje vizuální styl a narativní strukturu děl. Skrze příklady z praktického života ukazuje, jak správné využití gripové techniky může značně zvýšit emoční dopad a vizuální kvalitu díla, a to jak v kontextu tradičního filmového vyprávění, tak v reklamních spotech. Závěr práce podtrhuje nezbytnost gripové techniky pro vytváření inovativních a poutavých vizuálních zážitků v dnešním rychle se vyvíjejícím mediálním prostředí.This bachelor thesis focuses on the role and significance of grip technology in contemporary film and advertising. The work examines the historical development of grip technology and analyzes its key principles and technologies. Simultaneously, the thesis delves into current aesthetic trends in the film and advertising industry and explores how grip technology influences visual style and narrative structure. Through real-world examples, it demonstrates how the proper use of grip technology can significantly enhance the emotional impact and visual quality of a piece, both in the context of traditional film storytelling and in advertising spots. The conclusion of the thesis underscores the indispensability of grip technology in creating innovative and engaging visual experiences in today's rapidly evolving media environment
Correction: Obesity and brain structure in schizophrenia - ENIGMA study in 3021 individuals
No full textCorrección de: Molecular Psychiatry https://doi-org.udd.idm.oclc.org/10.1038/s41380-022-01616-5 , publicado en línea el 14 de junio de 2022
El nombre de uno de los coautores (Javier Vázquez-Bourgon) había sido escrito incorrectamente en el pasado, lo que ya ha sido corregido.
The article “Obesity and brain structure in schizophrenia – ENIGMA study in 3021 individuals”, written by Sean R. McWhinney, Katharina Brosch, Vince D. Calhoun, Benedicto Crespo-Facorro, Nicolas A. Crossley, Udo Dannlowski, Erin Dickie, Lorielle M. F. Dietze, Gary Donohoe, Stefan Plessis, Stefan Ehrlich, Robin Emsley, Petra Furstova, David C. Glahn, Alfonso Gonzalez- Valderrama, Dominik Grotegerd, Laurena Holleran, Tilo T. J. Kircher, Pavel Knytl, Marian Kolenic, Rebekka Lencer, Igor Nenadić, Nils Opel, JuliaKatharina Pfarr, Amanda L. Rodrigue, Kelly Rootes-Murdy, Alex J. Ross, Kang Sim, Antonín Škoch, Filip Spaniel, Frederike Stein, Patrik Švancer, Diana Tordesillas-Gutiérrez, Juan Undurraga, Javier Váquez-Bourgon, Aristotle Voineskos, Esther Walton, Thomas W. Weickert, Cynthia Shannon Weickert, Paul M. Thompson, Theo G. M. Erp, Jessica A. Turner, Tomas Hajek, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal on 14 June 2022 without open access. With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on 20 May 2022 to © The Author(s) 2022 and the article is forthwith distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/.Versión Publicad
Juvenile homicide : a criminological study on the possible causes of juvenile homicidal delinquency in Jamaica
No full textJamaica, the so-called land of wood and water, normally is the embodiment of a dream holiday destination with white sandy beaches, tropical palm trees, dazzling sunshine and the typical Caribbean flair. Generally, murder and manslaughter are not associated with Jamaica. However, international comparisons of crime rates reveal that Jamaica has persistently had one of the highest homicide rates in the world. Jamaica has been described as the murder capital of the world in 2006 by the BBC news after more than 1’600 people were killed in the year 2005; a tally of at least five people murdered a day. The majority of the homicides are caused by young men. Despite the dimension and severity of the homicidal problem in Jamaica, it is astonishing that literature on this phenomenon in Jamaica is very sparse and the literature that is available either doesn’t conform to the current homicide situation in Jamaica anymore or is inconsistent with other studies. The aim of the present research study was thus to close this gap and to help the process of comprehending the problem of fatal juvenile delinquency by engaging empirical research in serious efforts to describe and explain the epidemic. According to the author, understanding juvenile homicidal delinquents and their actions and thus ascertaining a plausible explanation for their high homicide rate can only be achieved by going back to those whose acts are to be explained: The juvenile homicidal delinquents themselves. The findings of the present study are therefore based upon the data gathered by means of 20 face-to-face, semi-standardised interviews with young men who have committed at least one homicide during the last five years prior to the interview and were aged between 12 and 25 years at the time of the respective homicide(s). The author acts on the assumption that homicides by juveniles can be understood as a reaction that emerges situationally and is based on a complex bundle of causes which leads to an increased susceptibility to homicides. The aim of the present study was to generate a plausible and scientifically substantiated hypothesis to explain the high proportion of male juveniles responsible for the homicide rate in Jamaica. Three groupings were examined: The individual personality characteristics of the homicide delinquents, the social context influencing the individual’s thoughts and actions and the triggering factors in the homicide context.
The study comes to the conclusion that the homicides of the respondents of the present study – additionally to the basic prerequisites of the occurrence of homicides in general such as a life in deprivation and the failure of the institutions of socialisation to sufficiently socialise their members – can be explained in high gear by the widely dispread culture of violence. Within this culture, violence constitutes a part of every-day behaviour and killing is perceived as a legitimate form of dispute resolution to which one has adapted because it utterly works. This is an instrumental understanding of violent behaviour. This apparent culture of violence of the underclass society with the deeply embedded willingness to apply violence to solve even seemingly minor disputes is intensified by a high gun prevalence and easy firearm accessibility as well as the wide distribution of and attachment to gangs. Firearms as well as delinquent gangs are two powerful factors that accord power, a feeling of strength and superiority to the individual. Status, power and respect rank high within the impecunious underclass society in Jamaica. Violence is perceived as a necessary instrument to sustain the own identity, status and respect. Thus, the fight for respect in the street culture of Jamaica’s urban inner-city youth depicts an act in self-defence for the parties involved. And such an act in self-defence legitimises to kill
Pancreas and gallbladder agenesis in a newborn with semilobar holoprosencephaly, a case report
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from BioMed Central via the DOI in this record.BACKGROUND: Pancreatic agenesis is an extremely rare cause of neonatal diabetes mellitus and has enabled the discovery of several key transcription factors essential for normal pancreas and beta cell development. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a Caucasian female with complete pancreatic agenesis occurring together with semilobar holoprosencephaly (HPE), a more common brain developmental disorder. Clinical findings were later confirmed by autopsy, which also identified agenesis of the gallbladder. Although the sequences of a selected set of genes related to pancreas agenesis or HPE were wild-type, the patient's phenotype suggests a genetic defect that emerges early in embryonic development of brain, gallbladder and pancreas. CONCLUSIONS: Developmental defects of the pancreas and brain can occur together. Identifying the genetic defect may identify a novel key regulator in beta cell development.Financial support was from the Universitaire Stichting van België (RH), VUB Research Council (SRP35) (HH) and the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (FWO) (G034613N) (HH). ATH is a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator and an NIHR Senior Investigator
Author Correction: Mapping local patterns of childhood overweight and wasting in low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2017
No full textThe 2014-17 Global Coral Bleaching Event: The Most Severe and Widespread Coral Reef Destruction
No full textOcean warming is increasing the incidence, scale, and severity of global-scale coral bleaching and mortality, culminating in the third global coral bleaching event that occurred during record marine heatwaves of 2014-2017. While local effects of these events have been widely reported, the global implications remain unknown. Analysis of 15,066 reef surveys during 2014-2017 revealed that 80% of surveyed reefs experienced significant coral bleaching and 35% experienced significant coral mortality. The global extent of significant coral bleaching and mortality was assessed by extrapolating results from reef surveys using comprehensive remote-sensing data of regional heat stress. This model predicted that 51% of the world’s coral reefs suffered significant bleaching and 15% significant mortality, surpassing damage from any prior global bleaching event. These observations demonstrate that global warming’s widespread damage to coral reefs is accelerating and underscores the threat anthropogenic climate change poses for the irreversible transformation of these essential ecosystems.The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch program and National Coral Reef Monitoring Program were supported by funding from the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program and Ocean Remote Sensing Program. University of Maryland and ReefSense personnel were fully supported by NOAA grant NA19NES4320002 (Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies) at the University of Maryland/Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, and by the Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Program (ProTech)-Satellite contract with Global Science & Technology, Inc. Funding for data collation and analysis provided by Vulcan Inc. The scientific results and conclusions, as well as any views or opinions expressed herein, are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of NOAA or the Department of Commerce. Figure 4 inspired by a National Geographic infographic [57]. We thank J. Moneghetti for assistance with statistical programming
Measurement of cross-sections for production of a boson in association with a flavor-inclusive or doubly -tagged large-radius jet in proton-proton collisions at TeV with the ATLAS experiment
No full textWe present measurements of cross-sections for production of a leptonically
decaying boson in association with a large-radius jet in 13 TeV
proton-proton collisions at the LHC, using of data from
the ATLAS detector. Integrated and differential cross-sections are measured at
particle-level in both a flavor-inclusive and a doubly -tagged fiducial
phase-space. The large-radius jet mass and transverse momentum, its kinematic
relationship to the boson, and the angular separation of -tagged
small-radius track-jets within the large-radius jet are measured. This
measurement constitutes an important test of perturbative quantum
chromodynamics in kinematic and flavor configurations relevant to several Higgs
boson and beyond-Standard-Model physics analyses. The results highlight issues
with modeling of additional hadronic activity in the flavor-inclusive
selection, and a distinction between flavor-number schemes in the -tagged
phase-space.Comment: 44 pages in total, author list starting page 27, 5 figures, 2 tables,
published as Phys. Rev. D. 108 (2023) 1, 012022. All figures including
auxiliary figures are available at
https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/STDM-2017-37
Searches for new phenomena in events with two leptons, jets, and missing transverse momentum in 139 fb of TeV collisions with the ATLAS detector
No full textSearches for new phenomena inspired by supersymmetry in final states
containing an or pair, jets, and missing transverse
momentum are presented. These searches make use of proton-proton collision data
with an integrated luminosity of 139 , collected during
2015-2018 at a centre-of-mass energy TeV by the ATLAS detector at
the Large Hadron Collider. Two searches target the pair production of charginos
and neutralinos. One uses the recursive-jigsaw reconstruction technique to
follow up on excesses observed in 36.1 of data, and the other
uses conventional event variables. The third search targets pair production of
coloured supersymmetric particles (squarks or gluinos) decaying through the
next-to-lightest neutralino via a slepton or
boson into , resulting in a kinematic endpoint
or peak in the dilepton invariant mass spectrum. The data are found to be
consistent with the Standard Model expectations. Results are interpreted using
simplified models and exclude masses up to 900 GeV for electroweakinos, 1550
GeV for squarks, and 2250 GeV for gluinos.Comment: 75 pages in total, author list starting page 58, 16 figures, 23
tables, published in EPJC. All figures including auxiliary figures are
available at
https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/SUSY-2018-05
Mapping disparities in education across low- and middle-income countries
No full textEducational attainment is an important social determinant of maternal, newborn, and child health1–3. As a tool for promoting gender equity, it has gained increasing traction in popular media, international aid strategies, and global agenda-setting4–6. The global health agenda is increasingly focused on evidence of precision public health, which illustrates the subnational distribution of disease and illness7,8; however, an agenda focused on future equity must integrate comparable evidence on the distribution of social determinants of health9–11. Here we expand on the available precision SDG evidence by estimating the subnational distribution of educational attainment, including the proportions of individuals who have completed key levels of schooling, across all low- and middle-income countries from 2000 to 2017. Previous analyses have focused on geographical disparities in average attainment across Africa or for specific countries, but—to our knowledge—no analysis has examined the subnational proportions of individuals who completed specific levels of education across all low- and middle-income countries12–14. By geolocating subnational data for more than 184 million person-years across 528 data sources, we precisely identify inequalities across geography as well as within populations. © 2019, The Author(s)
Measurements of the suppression and correlations of dijets in Pb+Pb collisions at = 5.02 TeV
No full textStudies of the correlations of the two highest transverse momentum (leading)
jets in individual Pb+Pb collision events can provide information about the
mechanism of jet quenching by the hot and dense matter created in such
collisions. In Pb+Pb and pp collisions at = 5.02 TeV,
measurements of the leading dijet transverse momentum ()
correlations are presented. Additionally, measurements in Pb+Pb collisions of
the dijet pair nuclear modification factors projected along leading and
subleading jet are made. The measurements are performed using
the ATLAS detector at the LHC with 260 pb of pp data collected in 2017
and 2.2 nb of Pb+Pb data collected in 2015 and 2018. An unfolding
procedure is applied to the two-dimensional leading and subleading jet
distributions to account for experimental effects in the
measurement of both jets. Results are provided for dijets with leading jet
greater than 100 GeV. Measurements of the
dijet-yield-normalized distributions in Pb+Pb collisions show
an increased fraction of imbalanced jets compared to pp collisions; these
measurements are in agreement with previous measurements of the same quantity
at 2.76 TeV in the overlapping kinematic range. Measurements of the
absolutely-normalized dijet rate in Pb+Pb and pp collisions are also presented,
and show that balanced dijets are significantly more suppressed than imbalanced
dijets in Pb+Pb collisions. It is observed in the measurements of the pair
nuclear modification factors that the subleading jets are significantly
suppressed relative to leading jets with between 100 and 316
GeV for all centralities in Pb+Pb collisions.Comment: 49 pages in total, author list starting page 32, 18 figures, 1 table,
published in Physical Review C. All figures including auxillary figures are
available at
https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HION-2019-02/ This
version includes modifications described in the erratum that can be found at
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.109.02990
