This paper examines the computer game Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in relation to the novel with the same title. The analysis focuses on the temporal aspects of the works, and differences and similarities regarding both media structure and artistic devices are described. The notion of content space is central and a distinction is made between information content space, action conten...

In her article "Human Cloning as the Other in Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go" Wen Guo analyzes Kazuo Ishiguro's novel with focus on Ishiguro's analogy between human cloning and people of marginality in contemporary society. Guo discusses the novel's ambience of doubt and suspense and elaborates on how the theme of otherness is addressed by Ishiguro's mock-realism in a landscape of science fiction. ...

This paper proposes a novel approach for detection of video songs sequences using audio clues from bollywood movies. Approach exploits the fact that how audio clues help us to differentiate song portion and non-song portion. The Proposed method relies on following phases: Movie segmentation, Audio Intensity Based Classifier (AIBC), Song Sequence Generator (SSG), and Audio Clues Based Classifier...

In 1976, an outbreak of viral hemorrhagic fever occurred in the Yambuku region of Zaire near the Ebola River. Taking its name from the river, the virus that caused the outbreak is one of the filoviruses, so called because under the microscope they look like threads or filaments. In the years following the outbreak, the U.S. public has become increasingly fascinated with the Ebola virus, as show...

C A R EN R O SE N B LA TT Every click on a link is a leap of faith. When you click on the blue underlined text or on a picture on a Web page, there is always a (sometimes much too long) moment of suspense when you are waiting for the page to load. Until you actually see what is behind the link, you don’t know whether it will lead to the reward of another interesting page, to the disappointment ...

The history of Irofulven, MGI Pharma’s novel anti-tumor drugcandidate, unfolds like a suspense story. It involves toxins, great expectations and crushed hopes, and a promise for a better future. The journey of Irofulven from a natural toxin isolated from a mushroom to a chemotherapeutic drug has involved people and places that have influenced American mycology in the 20th century, and has left ...

Neste artigo identificamos estratégias empreendidas por serviços locais de streaming enquanto um esforço adaptação, entrada e permanência no contexto altamente competitivo do novo ecossistema televisivo. Para isso, nos concentramos em analisar potenciais inovações narrativas questões serialidade da telenovela Todas as flores (Rebelo Paulon, 2022-2023), a primeira com roteiro completamente origi...

O propósito deste estudo é apresentar alguns dos principais elementos do cinema expressionista alemão recuperados pelo noir, analisando de que maneira são trabalhados no filme italiano Processo Alla Città (1952), Luigi Zampa. Portanto, busca-se resgatar um pouco da história e gênero cinematográfico bem como produção analisada. Os teóricos utilizados neste trabalho Arruda, Augusti, Frezza, Nappi...

The study investigated if 2.5-year-olds are susceptible to suspense and express tension when others' false expectations are about to be disappointed. In two experiments (N = 32 each), children showed more tension when a protagonist approached a box with a false belief about its content than when she was ignorant. In Experiment 2, children also expressed more tension when the protagonist's belie...