This paper describes an empirical study that assesses a multimedia science learning environment, and the impact on student learning of movies and simulations as lesson components. The study measures summative effects on student performance and satisfaction, and gathers formative data about student use of the environment for iterative improvement to the system and lessons. Two lessons containing...

In this paper we describe the results that we have obtained while integrating algorithm visualization (AV) movies (strongly tightened with the other teaching material), within a first-year undergraduate course on algorithms and data structures. Our experimental results seem to support the hypothesis that making these movies available significantly improved students' performances. Moreover, the ...

Given the importance and impact of advertising on audiences, as well as the importance of the film industry and its undeniable role in the promotion and dissemination of culture, this research has been carried out. The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of outdoor advertising techniques in movies (billboards, posters and bus banners) on the cinema attendance in Tehran based ...

Managing the allocation of shelf space for new products is a problem of significant importance for retailers. The problem is particularly complex for exhibitors—the retailers in the motion picture supply chain—because they face dynamic challenges, given the short life cycles of movies, the changing level of demand over time, the scarcity of shelf space, and the complex revenue sharing contract ...

Movies are one kind of enjoyment, however the challenge is locating specified resources among lots movies discharged annually. To search out a show what users seeking through this technology incredibly troublesome. However, recommendation structures return abundant handier in these things. Searching first step depending on which recommended to user. movie user may use any parameter like name ac...

Movies are considered an important art form, a source of entertainment, and a powerful method for educating, having great power to affect us, perceptually, cognitively, and emotionally. A huge amount of movies and related information are becoming increasingly available due to technological advances, demanding new and more powerful ways to search, browse, and view this interesting but complex in...

OBJECTIVE To determine the extent to which movies popular with adolescents feature characters who jointly engage in violence and other risk behaviors. We hypothesized that violent characters engage in other risk behaviors equally often in films rated appropriate for children over 12 (PG-13) and Restricted (R)-rated films. METHODS Content analysis of a sample of top-grossing movies from 1985 t...

Until now, viewing movies and animations on the web has been a tortuous and slow process involving configuration of helper applications, choosing between a wide range of incompatible file formats, and interminable waits for huge files to download. So, web movies have remained to some extent the province of net-obsessives, and they don’t yet play much of a part in the average biologist’s day-to-...

We summarize an effort to predict box office revenues using Twitter data. It is hypothesized that an increased number of tweets about a movie before its release will result in increased box office revenue. Our task can be decomposed into two subtasks: the estimation of the frequency of tweets about particular movies and revenue prediction given this frequency.

This paper seeks to explain some of the most important recent production and technological changes that have affected the relationship between television and film, especially in Croatia, from the aspect of the development of visual anthropology. In the production segment, special attention was given to the role of Croatian television stations in the production of movies, "splitting" the movies ...