As therapeutic strategies to prevent acute rejection progressively improve, transplant vasculopathy (TV) constitutes the single most important limitation for long-term functioning of solid organ allografts. In TV, allograft arteries characteristically develop severe, diffuse intimal hyperplastic lesions that eventually compromise luminal flow and cause ischemic graft failure. Traditional immuno...

Fan fiction writers use an existing fictional universe to develop scenarios and characters in creative ways within the logic of the original universe. In this chapter, I examine the representations of the erotics of pain in two fanproduced, so-called femslash texts describing romantic and sexual relationships between the two vampire slayers Buffy and Faith from Joss Whedon’s TV series Buffy the...

Obesity is a serious and growing health concern worldwide. Watching television (TV) represents a condition during which many habitually eat, irrespective of hunger level. However, as of yet, little is known about how the content of television programs being watched differentially impacts concurrent eating behavior. In this study, eighteen normal-weight female students participated in three coun...

Directed graphical models such as Bayesian networks are a favored formalism for modeling the dependency structures in complex multivariate systems such as those encountered in biology and neural science. When a system is undergoing dynamic transformation, temporally rewiring networks are needed for capturing the dynamic causal influences between covariates. In this paper, we propose time-varyin...

We address the problem of video face retrieval in TV-Series which searches video clips based on the presence of specific character, given one video clip of his/hers. This is tremendously challenging because on one hand, faces in TV-Series are captured in largely uncontrolled conditions with complex appearance variations, and on the other hand retrieval task typically needs efficient representat...

We analyze three different scenarios for security in TV series “24” and compare these scenarios with respect to physical security. We apply “security engineering” to analyze these scenarios and find that these scenes are farfetched from reality.

Abstract Despite increasing access to high quality television (TV) series in the golden age of television, political scientists (and especially scholars comparative politics) have not systematically considered possibilities that might offer for instruction. This article aims fill this gap by illustrating opportunities teaching science using TV and outlining ways integrating into classroom selec...