As one of the most potent and substantial form of mass communication, film exercises a very significant influence upon the perceptions of the audience, especially in relation to mental illness issues, and that perception is very much blurred with populists' misinterpretation and lack of awareness regarding problems faced by persons suffering from mental disorders. Movies such as "Psycho", "One ...

Video is the primary archival source for human movement, with examples ranging from sports coverage of Olympic events to dance routines in Hollywood movies. The ability to reliably track the human figure in movie footage would unlock a large, untapped repository of motion data. Figure tracking using a single video source is a challenging problem due to the size of the state space, the presence ...

1 Abstract In this paper, we evaluate storage system alternatives for movies-on-demand video servers. We begin by characterizing the movies-on-demand workload. We brieey discuss performance in disk arrays. First, we study disk farms in which one movie is stored per disk. This is a simple scheme, but it wastes substantial disk bandwidth, since disks holding less popular movies are under-utilized...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine if parental restriction regarding Restricted-rated movies (R movies) predicts lower rates of early-onset alcohol use. METHOD Students from 15 northern New England middle schools were surveyed in 1999, and never-drinkers were resurveyed 13-26 months later to determine alcohol use. Drinking was determined by the question, "Have you ever had beer,...