Military physicians deploy primarily to care for traumatic injuries. However, critically ill medical patients are also evaluated and treated in theater with similar capability as hospitals in the United States because of the close proximity of medical and surgical specialists and advanced equipment in combat support and theater hospitals. We report a case of a 33-year-old soldier diagnosed with...

Put in this way, the question of the theater ought to arouse general attention, the implication being that theater, through its physical aspect, since it requires expression in space (the only real expression, in fact), allows the magical means of art and speech to be exercised organically and altogether, like renewed exorcisms. The upshot of all this is that theater will not be given its speci...

In this paper, we propose a novel scalable video coding algorithm based on multiple reference frame method. To improve the coding efficinecy in both base layer and enhancement layer, double reference picture and double motion vector algorithms are employed for motion compensated prediction. Moreover, these two double reference picture and double motion vectot schemes can reduce drift problem, w...

In this paper, we introduce a new motion vector prediction method that could be used within multiple picture reference codecs, such as the H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) video coding standard. Our method considers for each candidate motion vector the temporal distance of its corresponding reference picture compared to the current one for the generation of the predictor motion vector. This allows for more a...

BACKGROUND The transformation of a surgical trainee into a surgeon is strongly influenced by the quality of teaching in the operating theater. This study investigates the perceptions of residents about the educational environment of the operating theater and identifies variables that may improve the operating theater education of our trainees. MATERIALS AND METHODS Residents in the department...

The purpose of this paper is to provide an algorithm for the motion picture companies to evaluate the key capabilities from firm viewpoint under fuzzy environment. The fundamental concepts we have adopted include the eigenvector method, fuzzy Delphi method, fuzzy set theory, and multi-criteria decision making method. With the concept of balanced scorecard and the interviewing managers of motion...

Using a stochastic representation provided by Wiener-regularized path integrals for the semigroups generated by certain Berezin-Toeplitz operators, a transformation formula for their resolvents is derived. The key property used in the transformation of the stochastic representation is that, up to a time change, Brownian motion is invariant under harmonic morphisms. This result for Berezin-Toepl...

Digital technologies and, especially, the Internet are profoundly reshaping the motion picture industry. Video-on-demand heightens the trend toward digitization and disintermediation. In the short term, the increasing use of digital technologies may result in significant cost reductions throughout the value chain. In the long term, the digitization of film production and distribution may induce...

Improvisational theater (improv) fits well into an academic definition of improvisation: “the process and product of creativity occurring simultaneously” (Lewis and Lovatt, 2013). The simultaneity in improv comes from the lack of scripting: players appear on stage, ask the audience for a suggestion, for example, “any object smaller than a breadbox,” and begin a frolic of their own that often la...