Female offenders are fairly common on prime time crime dramas, yet little is known about how these characters are depicted on these shows. This study examines four popular crime dramas to understand how women are portrayed and the images associated with these characters. The prevalence of these characters varies by program, but their characteristics are fairly consistent. Female offenders are p...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency and accuracy with which cardiopulmonary resuscitation is portrayed in British television medical dramas. DESIGN Observational study. SUBJECTS 64 episodes of three major British television medical dramas: Casualty, Cardiac Arrest, and Medics. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Frequency of cardiopulmonary resuscitation shown on television; age, sex, and diagnosis of...

Building on Judith Butler’s understanding of visibility as “the object continuous regulation and contestation,” art/aesthetics studies in international relations, feminist theater studies, we identify “her-story” a unique site where Western “gender-/sexuality-inclusive” soldiering is visibilized, contested, subverted. Drawing ethnographic observations two award-winning dramas, interviews with a...

In this issue, Lietha and colleagues (2007) report the structure of focal adhesion kinase (FAK) and reveal how FAK maintains an autoinhibited state. Together with the structure of another tyrosine kinase, ZAP-70 (Deindl et al., 2007), this work highlights the diversity of mechanisms that nature has evolved within the kinase superfamily to regulate their activity through autoinhibition.

the current study aims to examine the relationship of socrates with classic tragedy and assess these two cases. the rise of poetic tragedy in the form of dramas of “aeschylus” was accompanied with periods of enhancement of socrates. socrates got familiar with the dramas of aeschylus in his youth in athen. being inspired by the religious content of tragedy based on fate, justice and righteousnes...

The focus of this article is the design of Interactive Pedagogical Dramas (IPD). An IPD is a computer-generated environment that immerses the learner as an active participant in an engaging, evocative story, populated with animated characters. The story unfolds based on the learner’s decisions. The various design issues that are faced in crafting IPDs will be covered. In particular, how pedagog...

. Bastian Leibe, Konrad Schindler, Nico Cornelis, and Luc Van Gool, “Coupled Object Detection and Tracking from Static Cameras and Moving Vehicles,” winner of the Best Paper Prize, sponsored by Siemens and ObjectVideo. . Anat Levin, Alex Rav-Acha, and Dani Lischinski, “Spectral Matting,” winner of the Best Paper Prize Honorable Mention, sponsored by Honeywell and Siemens. . Oncel Tuzel, Fatih P...

The fight to curb the ever-increasing amount of unsolicited commercial email or “spam” showing up in the inboxes of American businesses has generated both state and federal legislation. The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 was enacted to create a bright-line between spam and legal commercial email. The Act preempted many state spam laws but also left significant enforcement abilities to the individual stat...