Study of integrated headphone MP3 / Mohd Amirul Mukmin Abd Wahab by Abd Wahab, Mohd Amirul Mukmin

“…MP3 is part of MPEG, an acronym for Motion Pictures Expert Group, a family of standards for displaying video and audio using loss compression. …”
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The social life of books: Reading together in the eighteenth-century home by Williams, A

“…<p>Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. …”

Nucleate boiling bubble growth and departure by Staniszewski, Bogumil E.

“…The heat fluxes and heating surface temperatures have been measured simultaneously by taking high, speed motion pictures of growing bubbles. The diameter time curves of the bubbles and their diameter at the departure moment were obtained in these investigations. …”
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Pressure Injuries in the Healthcare Setting: Even Superman Is Not Immune by Janette Bisbee

“…In 2004, pressure injuries (then called pressure ulcers) got a lot of publicity when Christopher Reeve, the actor who played Superman in four major motion pictures, died from sepsis caused by an infected pressure injury on his sacrum. …”
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La cineteca di Babele. Per una nuova ontologia del film by Enrico Terrone

“…This answer, which takes into account the coming of digital era, is developed through a comparison with Carroll’s philosophy of motion pictures. While discussing, criticizing and trying to complete his theory, I will examine the concept of a film under four different aspects: as a material object, as an ideal object, as a mental object, and as a social object. …”
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A thematic analysis of Palahniuk’s fiction in light of Epicureanism by Hesamoddin Shahriari, Ghazal Toosi

“…Chuck Palahniuk is a contemporary American writer whose novels have been adapted into acclaimed Hollywood motion pictures. Palahniuk’s literary style is often branded as modernist with nihilistic undertones. …”
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Productivity Growth in Canadian and U.S. Regulated Industries by Wulong Gu, Amélie Lafrance

“…Bureau of Economic Analysis, the article examines productivity growth in transportation services (which includes air, rail, and other transportation services), broadcasting and telecommunications, cultural industries (which include publishing and information services, and motion pictures and sound recording), and financial services (which includes financial intermediation and insurance) over the period from 1977 to 2006. …”
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Un Éros de celluloïd : l’érotisation cinématographique de Paris (1945-1975) by Frédéric Hervé

“…How did motion pictures reinforce Paris' hedonistic and erotic reputation? …”
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GEORGE A. ROMERO’S DYSTOPIAS: THE REPRESENTATION OF DYSTOPIA IN THE UNIVERSE OF HIS ZOMBIE TRILOGY by Michał Zgorzałek

“…Moreover, in his motion pictures, he envisages what may be the implications of possible dystopias arising from the ashes of destroyed human civilisation and, thus, gives the audiences, and the critics, an incredible resource for interpretation and further analysis. …”
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The Insertion of Cultural Identity and Ecological Recovery through a Critique of Materialism and Overconsumption in Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro by Bipasha Mandal

“…However, many critics have been dismissive of these movies because of their anime form which, according to critics, renders the movies less important than motion pictures and are only suitable for children. The suitability of anime for only children could be a potent area open for debate, but Ghibli movies do not only deal with seemingly unimportant problems. …”
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Academy color encoding system (ACES) in the era of digital cinematography: A review on the implementation in polis evo two by Tan Teck Zee, M Fazmi Hisham

“…Thus, Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) was created, and it has become pivotal since its inception to unify all colour space available in motion pictures. Polis Evo Two (2018) was the first Malaysian film to use ACES from principal photography to Digital Cinema Package (DCP). …”
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Vertical Integration Strategies and Environmental Uncertainty: China’s Film Industry by Yubin Yang, Seungyoup Choo, Seong-Joon Limb

“…This study analyses the effectiveness of vertical integration for motion pictures’ box office revenues and the moderating effects of environmental uncertainty on China’s film industry, where a market economy was introduced in 2002. …”
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Rain removal for object tracking in image sequence by Campbell, Calina Dionne Xiu Ping

“…With the use of Matlab’s Computer Vision Tool Box, algorithms are developed to apply different techniques of rain detection and subsequently rain removal on motion pictures. The objective of the project is to come out with a program which can detect rain apart from various objects in the video. …”
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Computer-generated images of microscopic soil organisms for documentary films by Martina Fröschl, Stephan Handschuh, Rudolf Erlach, Thomas Schwaha, Helmuth Goldammer, Reinhold Fragner, Manfred G. Walzl

“…This approach enables photo-realistic digital motion pictures of various soil animals. A broad range of potential applications, the aesthetics, as well as creative Advantages justify the efforts to generate such scientific visualizations. …”
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The Novel Ave Maria: The Legacy of Cinema in the Construction of Tanizaki’s Literary World of Dreams by Luisa Bienati

“…I will examine in particular the references to films and Hollywood actresses, literary descriptions influenced by close-ups and motion pictures as well as the black and white cinema as sensual and aesthetic experiences of light and shadow.…”
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Improvement of Visual Acuity as An Aftereffect of Blur Adaptation through a Defocusing Lens by Tomokazu Sawatari, Hiroyuki Shinoda, Hideki Yamaguchi

“…In the experiment, a subject adapted to the blurred visual field by observing motion pictures through a trial lens either of 2.5D, 3.0D, 4.0D, or 5.0D. …”
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Cinema: A multimodal and integrative medium for education and therapy by Ajish G Mangot, Vasantmeghna S Murthy

“…Art is a creative form of expressing personal thoughts, opinions, feelings, and often a reflection of prevailing ethos and has been around for almost as long as man's existence. Today motion pictures (movies) are the most popular forms of artistic expression. …”
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Challenging the Roma Structural Discrimination: Deterritorialization Practices in Romanian Cinema by Simona Mitroiu

“…The paper focuses on motion pictures produced in the last decade in Romania, a prolific period due to the increasing interest for memory activism and to the multiplication of the cultural exploration of challenging topics. …”
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MovieQA: Understanding Stories in Movies through Question-Answering by Tapaswi, Makarand, Zhu, Yukun, Stiefelhagen, Rainer, Torralba, Antonio, Urtasun, Raquel, Fidler, Sanja

“…We make this data set public along with an evaluation benchmark to encourage inspiring work in this challenging domain. Keywords: Motion pictures, Visualization, Semantics, Voltage control, Cognition, Natural languages, Computer vision…”
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Shakespeare in Chinese Cinema by Hui Wu

“…Shakespeare’s plays were first adapted in the Chinese cinema in the era of silent motion pictures, such as A Woman Lawyer (from The Merchant of Venice, 1927), and A Spray of Plum Blossoms (from The Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1931). …”
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