This article investigates historical trends of mean shot durations in 9,400 English-language and 1,550 non-English-language movies released between 1912 and 2013. For the sound-era movies of both sets there is little evidence indicating anything other than a linear decline plotted on a logarithmic scale, with the English-language set providing stronger results. In a subsample of 24 English-lang...

Background: Exposure to ionizing radiation is inevitable. Using of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) stimulates tissue repair and reduces inflammation. The objective of the present study aimed at evaluating the therapeutic efficacy of Helium-Neon (He-Ne) laser in stimulating the reparative processes in the liver of mice after whole body gamma-irradiation (WBγ-I). Materials and Methods: Two hundred...

When entrepreneurs enter “structural holes” in information networks, they can make a profit by exploiting the access and control benefits that these provide. That is Ronald Burt’s 13-year-old argument. Ever since, evidence for the suggested advantages from the occupancy of strategic network positions has steadily accumulated. What has not been shown, however, is whether those who strive for suc...

AIM To prospectively evaluate peripheral visual fields after vitrectomy for idiopathic macular holes. METHODS Goldmann perimetry was performed in 105 patients before, as well as 6 weeks and 12 months after macular hole surgery. RESULTS Only one patient (< 1%) with a stage III macular hole developed an asymptomatic postoperative visual field defect. The scotoma was wedge-shaped, peripherally...

Despite almost thirty years of research in the area of telework, the findings regarding outcomes remain equivocal (Bailey and Kurland, 2002). This research in progress hopes to advance understanding by identifying a key mechanism by which telework affects performance, specifically its influence on the social network properties of cohesion, power and structural holes. With knowledge of how the n...

Object-Oriented software structures represent multi-level characteristics. In this paper, two parameters -structural holes and closeness used in complex networks are introduced to study topological characteristics of software networks from multi-granularity perspective. By this method, software networks are observed and analyzed in three levels: package granularity, class granularity and method...

Shot boundary detection is an important for retrieval of visual media in multimedia system. Video temporal segmentation algorithms use thresholding techniques to identify both abrupt shot changes and gradual shot transitions. Thresholding methods frequently provide false positives due to large variations in gradual transition regions. The principal components decomposition and the progressive n...