This essay is in two parts. The first part specifically about colonial era amateur film, a large amount of which I had worked on as my research for the Colonial Film: Moving Images British Empire project.11 www.colonialfilm.org.uk second attempts to think some fundamental properties film such, and indicate problems that arise from consideration or private material. During Film project, came be ...

OBJECTIVE To use a practical battery of eight neuropsychological tests for the detection of an association between amateur boxing and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. DESIGN A controlled prospective neuropsychological study over a 15-18-month period. SETTING Dublin, Ireland. March 1992 to September 1993. PARTICIPANTS Twenty experienced actively competing amateur boxers and 20 controls ma...

BACKGROUND There is a paucity of epidemiological data on neck injury in amateur rugby union populations. The objective of this study was to determine the incidence, severity, aetiology and type of neck injury in Australian men's amateur rugby union. METHODS Data was collected from a cohort of 262 participants from two Australian amateur men's rugby union clubs via a prospective cohort study d...

How do standards of poetic beauty change as a function of time and expertise? Here we use computational methods to compare the stylistic features of 359 English poems written by 19th century professional poets, Imagist poets, contemporary professional poets, and contemporary amateur poets. Building upon techniques designed to analyze style and sentiment in texts, we examine elements of poetic c...

Despite the central place occupied by language transfer of audiovisual products, particularly in the European cinema and television sector, audience perception of both dubbing and subtitling is a largely neglected field of study and research. When, however, we start looking into the available research on the perception of translated humor and, more specifically, of the perception of humor as re...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the physiological and anthropometric characteristics of amateur rugby league players. METHODS Thirty five amateur rugby league players (19 forwards and 16 backs) were measured for height, body mass, percentage body fat (sum of four skinfolds), muscular power (vertical jump), speed (10 m and 40 m sprint), and maximal aerobic power (multistage fitness test). Data were ...