Light Shadows: Loose Adaptations of Gothic Literature in American TV Series of the 1960s and early 1970s by Dennis Tredy

“…Yet, these series –though often camp if not unintentionally burlesque and with often laughably low production values by today’s standards –have still consistently grown in popularity over time, thanks to syndication, later reboots on TV and as feature films –making these initial hybrids and their off-the-wall characters cult icons today and leading to scores of current programs that readily admit to the significant influence of these early, low-budget experiments.…”
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Cognitive Capacity Genome-Wide Polygenic Scores Identify Individuals with Slower Cognitive Decline in Aging by Yoonjung Yoonie Joo, Jiook Cha, Jeremy Freese, M. Geoffrey Hayes

“…The additional phenome-wide analyses identified several associations between cognitive capacity GPSs and cognitive/behavioral phenotypes, such as <i>similarities</i> task (β = 1.36, 95% CI = (1.22, 1.51), <i>p</i>-value = 3.59 × 10⁻⁷⁴), <i>number series</i> task (β = 0.94, 95% CI = (0.85, 1.04), <i>p</i>-value = 2.55 × 10⁻⁷⁸), <i>IQ scores</i> (β = 1.42, 95% CI = (1.32, 1.51), <i>p</i>-value = 7.74 × 10⁻¹⁷⁹), <i>high school classrank</i> (β = 1.86, 95% CI = (1.69, 2.02), <i>p</i>-value = 3.07 × 10⁻¹⁰¹), Openness from the BIG 5 personality factor (<i>p</i>-value = 2.19 × 10⁻¹⁴, β = 0.57, 95% CI = (0.42, 0.71)), and leisure activity of reading books (β = 0.50, 95% CI = (0.40, 0.60), <i>p</i>-value = 2.03 × 10⁻²¹), attending cultural events, such as concerts, plays, or museums (β = 0.60, 95% CI = (0.49, 0.72), <i>p</i>-value = 2.06 × 10⁻²³), and watching TV (β = −0.48, 95% CI = (−0.59, −0.37), <i>p</i>-value = 4.16 × 10⁻¹⁸). …”
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Preschool Minority Children’s Persian Vocabulary Development: A Language Sample Analysis by Mohamad Reza Farangi, Saeed Mehrpour

“…In addition, high-SES children scored higher on the vocabulary measures in pretest and posttest. …”
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Volume, patterns, and types of sedentary behavior and cardio-metabolic health in children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study by Janssen Ian, Carson Valerie

“…For types of sedentary behavior, high TV use, but not high computer use, was a predictor of high CRS after adjustment for MVPA and other confounders. …”
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‘La via della musica’. Rischi e trasformazioni del live film opera nelle produzioni Rai di Andrea Andermann by Andrea Malvano

“…Finally, Cenerentola plays the wild card of mixing opera and cartoon, attempting also the daring move of altering Rossini’s score. The article highlights the shared element of risk while analyzing the main transformations in the series that bring together liveness and live in an original utilization of television.…”
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WCC-JC 2.0: A Web-Crawled and Manually Aligned Parallel Corpus for Japanese-Chinese Neural Machine Translation by Jinyi Zhang, Ye Tian, Jiannan Mao, Mei Han, Feng Wen, Cong Guo, Zhonghui Gao, Tadahiro Matsumoto

“…To address this shortcoming, we thoroughly analyzed the issues associated with the construction of WCC-JC 1.0 and constructed the WCC-JC 2.0 corpus by first collecting subtitle data from movie and TV series websites. Then, we manually aligned a large number of high-quality sentence pairs. …”
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