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. Then 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; also, good performance requires that movies be...

Foreign language learners without an immersion experience are advised to partake in activities that enhance their learning outside the classroom. The objectives of this study were explore which forms practice English as a Language (EFL) engage classroom and whether increases proficiency. results showed most frequent academic (e.g., reading textbooks) recreational watching movies). In study, EFL...

Abstract Reducing alcohol use is challenging due to the volume of shown in media and relationship between exposure use. It unclear what degree people are aware able estimate media, such as movies. In this study, 609 Australian adults estimated amount up 10 102 popular movies they remembered best. They reported when last saw each movie, their use, age, gender. Participants underestimated by an a...

Hayao Miyazaki’s (born on January 5, 1941 in Tokyo), is a Japanese animator, animation producer, cartoonist, director, and screenwriter. His movies have lasting impact. Based the conceptual metaphor theory of cognitive linguistics, this study analyzes multi-modal metaphors his animated to explore needs behind creation find out how these are generated. This paper uses method qualitativ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the depiction of injury prevention practices in children's movies released during 1998-2002 is different from an earlier study, which found that characters were infrequently depicted practicing recommended safety behaviors. METHODS The top 25 G (general audience) and PG (parental guidance suggested) rated movies per year from 1998-2002 comprised the study sample...

Considered an important art form, a source of entertainment and a powerful method for educating, movies have great power to affect us, perceptually, cognitively and emotionally. Technological advances are making a huge amount of movies and related information available. Visualization has the potential to help handling this very interesting but complex richness. In particular, time-oriented visu...

Indian regional movie dataset is the €rst database of regional Indian movies, users and their ratings. It consists of movies belonging to 18 di‚erent Indian regional languages and metadata of users with varying demographics. Œrough this dataset, the diversity of Indian regional cinema and its huge viewership is captured. We analyze the dataset that contains roughly 10K ratings of 919 users and ...

Grouping people into clusters based on the items they have purchased allows accurate recommendations of new items for purchase: if you and I have liked many of the same movies, then I will probably enjoy other movies that you like. Recommending items based on similarity of interest (a.k.a. collaborative ltering) is attractive for many domains: books, CDs, movies, etc., but does not always work ...

Exposure to onscreen smoking in movies increases the probability that youths will start smoking. Youths who are heavily exposed to onscreen smoking are approximately two to three times more likely to begin smoking than youths who are lightly exposed; a similar, but smaller effect exists for young adults. To monitor the extent to which tobacco use is shown in popular movies, Thumbs Up! Thumbs Do...

Response reliability is complementary to more conventional measurements of response amplitudes, and can reveal phenomena that response amplitudes do not. Here we review studies that measured reliability of cortical activity within or between human subjects in response to naturalistic stimulation (e.g. free viewing of movies). Despite the seemingly uncontrolled nature of the task, some of these ...