How I Met your Mother (CBS, 2005-2014) is an American sitcom in which Future Ted (the Mosby of 2030) retrospectively tells his two children the story how he met their mother. It has been described as innovative that relies on sophisticated, inventive narrative techniques, both audio and visual channels. The complexity narration arises from unreliability narrator well time manipulation, among ot...

The Mermaid project focuses on the construction of simulation models for MIMD multicomputers in order to evaluate them and to give estimates of the system’s performance. A multi-layered approach was adopted in which three levels can be distinguished. The application level describes application behaviour in an abstract manner, unrelated to any hardware or architecture specifics. Subsequently, th...

A policy for developing local culture has been magnified these days. Visual-image Content especially plays a central role in developing OSMU in Korea, and so local governments actively support this field. Jeju has served as the backdrop for a number of visual-image content thus far by utilizing its own characteristics, such as its natural environment, its myths, and its living culture. This stu...

In feminist studies, the figure of the mermaid has long been regarded as flawed, disabled and less-than-human. Her theoretical counterpart in that respect would be the cyborg, an image used to show that with the aid of robotics, humankind could be larger than life. What would happen if we could combine those two images and apply them to create “super love” more-than-human relationships? This ar...

Lectins including flowering plant lectins, algal lectins, cyanobacterial lectins, actinomycete lectin, worm lectins, and the nonpeptidic lectin mimics pradimicins and benanomicins, exhibit anti-HIV activity. The anti-HIV plant lectins include Artocarpus heterophyllus (jacalin) lectin, concanavalin A, Galanthus nivalis (snowdrop) agglutinin-related lectins, Musa acuminata (banana) lectin, Myrian...