Movie scene detection has emerged as an important problem in present day multimedia applications. Since a movie typically consists of huge amount of video data with widespread content variations, detecting a movie scene has become extremely challenging. In this paper, we propose a fast yet accurate solution for movie scene detection using Nyström approximated multisimilarity spectral clustering...

BACKGROUND Most behavioral approaches to adolescent smoking address the behavior directly. We explore an indirect approach: modifying exposure to portrayals of smoking in movies. OBJECTIVES To describe adolescents' exposure to smoking in movies and to examine factors that could modify such exposure. DESIGN Occurrences of smoking were counted in each of 601 popular movies. Four thousand nine...

As one of the motivational theories which define both values and attitudes beyond personal as well as organizational benefits, Public Service Motivation (PSM) model aims to underscore the appreciation of individuals with regard to public interests. If PSM pattern being optional is synchronized with civic-organizational behavior, its effectiveness is manifested in improving service quality. The ...

KEY WORDS heat shock proteins; cytokines; heat shock factor t has become clear in recent years that, heat shock proteins (hsps) play a major role in the acute in-flammatory response and inflammatory diseases. 1,z Heat shock proteins were originally characterized as a highly conserved group of proteins involved in the response of cellular organisms to stresses such as heat shock. 3,4 These prote...

citizenship is one of the most important sociopolitical concepts that have full of ups and downs along the history and thinkers and scholars interested in socio culture issues have been challenged and discussed since ancient times. this concept consists of a set of rights and obligations that member of society have in related to each other, entities, and society. the aim of the research is to i...

background and purpose: the problematic reduction of civic engagement in local communities of khuzestan province in the southwest of iran has became a serious issue for research in social planning and policy making. efforts have been made to study the risk factors as the deterrents to engaging in the society. methods: this study aims to investigate the factors influencing civic engagement among...

Based on the past sixteen years of experience with an online collaborative endeavor offered across differing university types, as well modes instruction, best practice found that by fostering student peer exchanges a web site students reached high level achievement in these courses. Findings indicate despite differences institutions or were academically reflective their discussions geographic b...