cleaning up the houses and streets under their charge. This emphasis upon the amelioration of mortality extended to the occupational categorization adopted in the published reports on the successive decennial census of the second half of the nineteenth century. Classes were defined in terms of the materials with which and the manner in which people worked. There was no attempt at an economic an...

This paper presents an interactive production model for nonfiction multimedia, referred to as interactive documentary. We discuss the design of ontologies for authoring interactive documentary. A working prototype supports the use of reasoning for retrieving, composing, and displaying media resources in real-time. A GUI is designed to facilitate concept-based navigation which enables queries ac...

An increasing interest in qualitative data archiving and data sharing raises interesting challenges for researchers in terms of the ways in which they approach and treat documentary data and other secondary sources. Exploring the potential of documents to make sense of complex social worlds enables a consideration of the distinctive and multidimensional qualities of ‘documents of life’. In ‘a q...

Documentary research that aims to present the scope of the legislation and Blood Policy and Blood Products and to analyze the repercussions of the School Project of Hematology and Hemotherapy Center of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis as a strategy to blood donors motivation. Eight official documents and thirteen technical documents were investigated for the period of July 2010 to January 2011. Fo...

Translating Dialects in Search: Mapping between Specialized Languages of Discourse and Documentary Languages by Vivien Petras Doctor of Philosophy in Information Management and Systems University of California, Berkeley Professor Michael K. Buckland, Chair The biggest problem in searching an information system is to find the appropriate search terms that not only represent the searcher’s inform...

Archival images and audiovisual testimony-Negotiating the end of empire in the documentary films Guerra Colonial. Hist6rias de Cam pan ha em Mo~ambique {1998) and Natal71 {1999) 1 ABSTRAa KEYWORDS This article analyses Portuguese documentary films from the 1990s, when public archive discussions about the war of decolonization gained a new dynamic. The video series documentary film Guerra Coloni...

In contrast to the well-established scientific evidence linking negative emotional states (e.g., depression, anxiety, or anger) to increased risk for cardiovascular disease, much less is known about the association between positive emotional states (e.g., laughter, happiness) and cardiovascular health. We determined the effects of mirthful laughter, elicited by watching comic movies, on endothe...