The Silence of the Lambs, a suspense novel written by Thomas Harris in 1999, tells story about clever and courageous FBI agent, Clarice Starling, who overcomes difficulties caused sexism wins herself reputation honor investigating serial murder case. Since was published, discussions plot characters have never stopped. Nevertheless, research related to protagonist Starling based on existentialis...

O romance Frankenstein ou o Prometeu Moderno, escrito por Mary W. Shelley e publicado originalmente em 1818, tornou-se numa das obras basilares do imaginário gótico-fantástico, graças a inúmeras versões deste relato, quer no continente europeu, americano, tanto na literatura, como cinema teatro. presente artigo tem objetivo refletir sobre modo como, três dos seus contos, “Noites brancas” (1920)...

Idol-nurturing reality shows that aim to produce idol groups by audience-chosen have become a hotbed for nurturing celebrities. The unique concepts and designs of idol-nurturing attracted group committed female fans. As result, the show has an essential genre in Asian market part culture. This study concerned psychology behavior fans throughout shows. Results structural equation modeling based ...

We develop a Bayesian model for decision-making under time pressure with endogenous information acquisition. In our model, the decision-maker decides when to observe (costly) information by sampling an underlying continuoustime stochastic process (time series) that conveys information about the potential occurrence/non-occurrence of an adverse event which will terminate the decisionmaking proce...

$%675$&7 We describe an approach to a new authoring method for interactive storytelling. After positioning digital storytelling in a theoretical context to literature, we consider the author’s view of the tools to be used and introduce a coherent environment that does not restrict the creative process and lets the author feel comfortable, leading him to create well-narrated, interactive non-lin...

Computer games are audio-visual entertainment media that provide an escapist experience (Grimshaw, 2007). That is, computer games utilize both audio and visual media to capture players’ attention and engage players’ motor and mental skills; thus immersing the players in the gameworld. This immersion provides an escape for players from everyday life. Immersion occurs when the game: (1) “monopoli...

1 pro-fibrotic phenotype 2 3 4 Bram Piersma, Ruud A. Bank 5 6 1 University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Pathology and 7 Medical Biology, Matrix Research Group. 8 9 *corresponding author: Ruud A. Bank, [email protected] 10 11 12 Fibrosis in vital organs causes significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Although our 13 understanding of the cellular and molec...

Unexpectedness is a major factor controlling interest in narratives. Emotions, for instance, are felt intensely if they are associated with unexpected events. The problem with generating unexpected situations is that either characters, or the whole story, are at risk of being no longer believable. This issue is one of the main problems that make story design a hard task. Writers face it on a ca...