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The television work of Alfred Hitchcock
No full textThe thesis uses close textual analysis to study and evaluate the television work of Alfred Hitchcock. The corpus consists of the twenty shows personally directed by Hitchcock, including his appearances before and after those shows. In response to most previous writing, which tends to compare the programmes with Hitchcock’s films (often unfairly) the thesis emphasises them as products of television. Programmes are evaluated on the basis of their perceived success as television- if they harness conditions related to television production and integrate them with narrative themes or to create meaning. Hitchcock is considered to be the major creative force in each programme.
Chapter One provides a variety of important contexts including a brief history of US television of the 1950s, key literature on Hitchcock and analyses of contemporaneous programmes not directed by Hitchcock. The textual analysis chapters (2-8) consider aesthetic or thematic programme aspects. Chapter Two studies the various roles played by Hitchcock’s appearances as series host. Chapter Three considers the impact of censorship on programmes frequently dealing with murder, violence and insanity. Chapter Four analyses Hitchcock’s implementation of varieties of voice-over narration, a common device in short dramatic forms. Chapter Five studies Hitchcock’s use of point-of-view shots, particularly in relation to their role in the delivery of the narrative twist. Chapter Six considers the key Hitchcock theme of detachment from the world. Chapter Seven looks at moments from the programmes which demonstrate how aesthetic is influenced by television production conditions.
Hitchcock created a number of television masterpieces. His achievements in television are in many ways comparable in quality and consistency to his theatrical films. Even when considered in the context of other 1950s US anthology dramas, the Hitchcock-directed programmes are superior on many levels. Elements of his film style were highly suited to television production. Many of his greatest achievements embrace and harness television production conditions in their presentation strategies to create an integration of style and meaning
Beyond ‘Needy’ Individuals: Conceptualizing Information Behavior
No full textUnderstanding information users and their behavior is a question of central importance for information
research and practice. The paper challenges several aspects of existing approaches to understanding information behavior, including: the focus on individual cognition at the expense of social and affective factors; the construction of information users as defined by their areas of ignorance and uncertainty, rather than their expertise; and the focus on purposive rather than non-purposive information behavior. It argues that only by addressing these weaknesses and developing new research strategies and theoretical frameworks which focus attention on the social processes and relationships which underpin users’ information behavior can we hope to develop a truly holistic understanding of the relationship between people and information. The paper uses the author’s study of information behavior researcher’s constructions of an author (Brenda Dervin) to illustrate how a social constructivist approach can both build on existing approaches to information behavior research and address some of their weaknesses. It argues that social constructivist approaches provide a theoretical lens through which information researchers can gain a clearer picture of information users not as ‘needy’ individuals to be ‘helped’, but as social beings, experts in their own life-worlds
B-line detection and localization by means of deep learning:preliminary in-vitro results
No full text\u3cp\u3eLung ultrasound imaging is nowadays receiving growing attention. In fact, the analysis of specific artefactual patterns reveals important diagnostic information. A- and B-line artifacts are particularly important. A-lines are generally considered a sign of a healthy lung, while B-line artifacts correlate with a large variety of pathological conditions. B-lines have been found to indicate an increase in extravascular lung water, the presence of interstitial lung diseases, non-cardiogenic lung edema, interstitial pneumonia and lung contusion. The capability to accurately and objectively detect and localize B-lines in a lung ultrasound video is therefore of great clinical interest. In this paper, we present a method aimed at supporting clinicians in the analysis of ultrasound videos by automatically detecting and localizing B-lines, in real-time. To this end, modern deep learning strategies have been used and a fully convolutional neural network has been trained to detect B-lines in B-mode images of dedicated ultrasound phantoms. Furthermore, neural attention maps have been calculated to visualize which components in the image triggered the network, thereby offering simultaneous weakly-supervised localization. An accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, negative and positive predictive value equal to 0.917, 0.915, 0.918, 0.950 and 0.864 were achieved in-vitro using data from dedicated lung-mimicking phantoms, respectively.\u3c/p\u3
Cheat Mountain, or, Unwritten chapter of the late war /
No full textMaroon cloth binding; stamped in gold on front cover: Cheat Mountain campaign.Signatures: [1]⁸, 2-8⁸.The author served as orderly sergeant in Company G of the 8th Regiment.Cheat Mountain -- Big Springs -- Col. Alfred S. Fulton -- Col. John H. Savage.Mode of access: Internet
A Critical Study of Alfred Jarry Based on an Analysis and Translation of Ubu-Roi
No full textThe works of Alfred Jarry are not only unknown in America, but they are unavailable other than through private importation. It is the purpose of this study to analyse and present the literary and moral essence of this author through an analytical and critical examination of his works
Correspondence; author(s) include George Chaffey, William B. Chaffey; recipient(s) include Alfred Deakin
No full textLandscape-painter as landscape-gardener : the case of Alfred Parsons R.A.
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Virulence of malaria is associated with differential expression of Plasmodium falciparum var gene subgroups in a case-control study
No full textPlasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1) is a major pathogenicity factor in falciparum malaria that mediates cytoadherence. PfEMP1 is encoded by approximately 60 var genes per haploid genome. Most var genes are grouped into 3 subgroups: A, B, and C. Evidence is emerging that the specific expression of these subgroups has clinical significance. Using field samples from children from Papua New Guinea with severe, mild, and asymptomatic malaria, we compared proportions of transcripts of var groups, as determined by quantitative polymerase chain reaction. We found a significantly higher proportion of var group B transcripts in children with clinical malaria (mild and severe), whereas a large proportion of var group C transcripts was found in asymptomatic children. These data from naturally infected children clearly show that major differences exist in var gene expression between parasites causing clinical disease and those causing asymptomatic infections. Furthermore, parasites forming rosettes showed a significant up-regulation of var group A transcripts
Strategies for Publishing in Peer-Reviewed Journals in Political Science: Insights from the Editor of Latin American Politics and Society
No full textIn this presentation, Dr. Alfred P. Montero discusses insights as an author published in several scholarly journals and as the new senior editor of the refereed journal, Latin American Politics and Society.
Dr. Alfred P. Montero is the Frank B. Kellogg Chair of Political Science at Carleton College. His main research areas are the political economy of South American countries and the quality of democracy. He is the author of Brazil: Reversal of Fortune (Polity Press, 2014), Brazilian Politics: Reforming a Democratic State in a Changing World (Polity Press, 2006), Shifting States in Global Markets: Subnational Industrial Policy in Contemporary Brazil and Spain (Penn State University Press, 2002), and he is co-editor with David J. Samuels of Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America (University of Notre Dame Press, 2004).
This event was co-sponsored by the UNM Department of Political Science, and this podcast is provided courtesy of the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico. For more information, please visit http://laii.unm.edu/resources/podcasts.php.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/laii_events/1046/thumbnail.jp
Information to support the LFR ALFRED FA/core definition on VENUS: preliminary spectra analyses (with the ERANOS deterministic code)
No full textThis work was carried out in the framework of the EU FP7 project FREYA “Fast Reactor Experiments for hYbrid Applications”. The FREYA WP4 deals with the definition a critical mock-up representative of the LFR core design, to be assembled and characterised in the VENUS-F experimental facility at SCK•CEN in Mol (B). The LFR design chosen as reference is the 300 MWth Alfred core, developed during the EU FP7 Leader project.
This document summarizes the presentation done by the author in the FREYA WP4 Extended kick-off meeting on January 27th, 2015, at the SCK•CEN Headquarters in Brussels (B). A neutronic analysis was performed to verify whether the VENUS-F CC5 core (defined for the WP3 activities) can provide an “Alfred representative spectrum”, chosen as leading criterion for the LFR representativeness (to support the validation of design tools and methodologies for this new reactor concept, as neutron transport codes and data libraries). The study, carried out with the ERANOS ver. 2.2 deterministic code and JEFF3.1 data, pointed out that the CC5 core spectrum results decisively harder than the aimed Alfred ones. Since the licensing of a different Fuel Assembly (FA) was not allowed in the stringent FREYA work plan, three different strategies were investigated in order to reproduce, at least locally, an Alfred representative spectrum. The ERANOS analyses indicated that the third solution, foreseeing the insertion of some moderating inert assemblies (made of Al2O3 rodlets) disposed as a chess with the FA, can satisfy this requirement and fulfil most of the WP4 objectives
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