Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman)

An exploration of how film portrays psychopathology: the animated documentary film Waltz with Bashir, the depiction of PTSD and cultural perceptions.

With the inauguration of the UK's first ever Medical Film festival MedFest in 2011 there has been resurgence in the interest of the association between psychiatry and film. The festival in 2012 was titled "HealthScreen": Understanding Illness through Film and its aim, according to the founder Dr Kamran Ahmed, was, 'To stimulate debate of the social, political and ethical implications of portray...

Waltz Filtering in Java with JSolver

This paper uses the Waltz Filtering Algorithm and the Line-Labelling Problem to illustrate how AI algorithms can easily be implemented using Java and JSolver2 – a constraint-programming class library. The Waltz Filtering Algorithm popularised the technique of constraint propagation – the cornerstone for algorithms to solve constraint-satisfaction problems (CSP). It was initially developed as a ...

Waltz of the chromosomes

cientists have discovered a new function for amyloid precursor protein (APP), a protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease. The finding may reveal how APP gets mixed up with the enzymes that make it go bad. APP has an evil reputation. The and secretases transform it into amyloidpeptide, a component of the plaques that riddle the brain in Alzheimer’s disease. Previous work by Larry Goldstein (Univesi...

First person - Aushaq Bashir Malla.

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Aushaq Bashir Malla is co-first author on ' IP6K1 is essential for chromatoid body formation and temporal regulation of Tnp2 and Prm2 expression in mouse spermatids', published in Journal of Cell ...

Remembering Dave Waltz (1943-2012)