Within the Minster of Beverley, at its liturgical center next to the high altar, sits a stone chair that once bore the inscription, "Haec sedes lapidea Freedstoll dicitur i.e. pacis cathedra, ad quam reus fugiendo perveniens omnimodam habet securitatem."1 On these words the sanctuary seeker relied as he made his desperate way to the refuge that would protect him from the penalties that the Comm...

We address the problem of classifying scenes from feature films into semantic categories and propose a robust framework for this problem. We propose that the Finite State Machines (FSM) are suitable for detecting and classifying scenes and demonstrate their usage for three types of movie scenes; conversation, suspense and action. Our framework utilizes the structural information of the scenes t...

The further that I read into Whittle and colleagues’ editorial on patients’ optimism about percutaneous coronary interventions, the more the suspense grew. Imagine my surprise when I found no real reference to the effect of the cardiologist’s needs and wants on the frequency of the procedure being offered. The more powerful person in the therapeutic relationship is the doctor, not the patient, ...

This study investigates examples of horse race commentaries and compares the acoustic properties with an auditorily based description of the typical suspense pattern from calm to very excited at the finish and relaxation after the finish. With the exception of tempo, the auditory impressions were basically confirmed. The examination shows further that the results of the investigated prosodic pa...

Trumpeted as the artistic hallmark, central to Russian Formalism, and persistent ever since, estrangement yet remains an ill-defined term.We have nothing like a comprehensive approach to it, equipped to specify its workings by kind, medium, art form, discourse level, historical context. Narrative, Shklovsky’s own forte, would appear the paradigm case, as the most inclusive genre and the most ak...

Research on early false belief understanding has entirely relied on affect-neutral measures such as judgments (standard tasks), attentional allocation (looking duration, preferential looking, anticipatory looking), or active intervention. We used a novel, affective measure to test whether preschoolers affectively anticipate another’s misguided acts. In two experiments, 3-year-olds showed more e...

In a search for a reproducible means of evoking different types of emotional stress it was found that in spite of increased adrenaline secretion slowing of the heart occurred when watching violent television programmes. Further evidence of increased vagal tone was provided by the "sinus arrhythmia" effect, a widening of the gap between the maximum and minimum heart rates during the respiratory ...

In this paper, we address the problem of the scene classifications in feature films and propose a robust framework for the stated problem. The framework utilizes the structural information of the movie scenes rather than analyzing the global low level feature values. We propose and demonstrate that the Finite State Machines (FSM) are suitable for classifying the movie scenes into three categori...

Cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) is a crucial intracellular second messenger molecule that converts extracellular molecules to intracellular signal transduction pathways generating cell- and stimulus-specific effects. Importantly, specific phosphodiesterase (PDE) subtypes control the amplitude and duration of cAMP-induced physiological processes and are therefore a prominent pharmacologica...

Human beings continuously emit chemicals into the air by breath and through the skin. In order to determine whether these emissions vary predictably in response to audiovisual stimuli, we have continuously monitored carbon dioxide and over one hundred volatile organic compounds in a cinema. It was found that many airborne chemicals in cinema air varied distinctively and reproducibly with time f...