Using Healthy Defaults in Walt Disney World Restaurants to Improve Nutritional Choices

Walt Disney World: Marxism and Myth Creation

Digital Surrealism: Visualizing Walt Disney Animation Studios

There are a number of fruitful digital humanities approaches to cinema and media studies, but most of them only pursue traditional forms of scholarship by extracting a single variable from the audiovisual text that is already legible to scholars. Instead, cinema and media studies should pursue a mostly-ignored “digital-surrealism” that uses computer-based methods to transform film texts in radi...

Microclimatic Impact: Glare around the Walt Disney Concert Hall

Buildings have an impact on the environment at a macroscale in terms of the resources that they use. But they also have an impact in the microclimate of their immediate surroundings. One such building is the Walt Disney Concert Hall, designed by Frank Gehry. It is a landmark, scintillating building, in more ways than one. Occupants of surrounding buildings have complained of elevated temperatur...

Brand Image and Walt Disney: A Qualitative Analysis of “Magical Gatherings”

Brilliant brand images have become increasingly essential to the longevity and popularity of products in today’s marketplace. Although much research has covered the theoretical aspects of brand image, little has focused on the actual techniques used to create successful brand images and the criteria by which brand images should be judged. By comparing the brand image of the Magical Gatherings v...

Using the Power of Two Choices to Improve Bloom Filters

We consider the combination of two ideas from the hashing literature: the power of two choices and Bloom filters. Specifically, we show via simulations that, in comparison with a standard Bloom filter, using the power of two choices can yield modest reductions in the false positive probability using the same amount of space and more hashing. While the improvements are sufficiently small that th...