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Chapter 7 'Our People’
This book discusses contemporary film in all the main countries of Southeast Asia, and the social practices and ideologies which films either represent or oppose. It shows how film acquires signification through cultural interpretation, and how film also serves as a site of contestations between social and political agents seeking to promote, challenge, or erase certain meanings, messages or ideas from public circulation. A unique feature of the book is that it focuses as much on films as it does on the societies from which these films emerge: it considers the reasons for film-makers taking the positions they take; the positions and counter-positions taken; the response of different communities; and the extent to which these interventions are connected to global flows of culture and capital
Emergence of self-similarity in football dynamics
The multiplayer dynamics of a football game is analyzed to unveil
self-similarities in the time evolution of player and ball positioning.
Temporal fluctuations in both the team-turf boundary and the ball location are
uncovered to follow the rules of fractional Brownian motion with a Hurst
exponent of H=0.7. The persistence time below which self-similarity holds is
found to be several tens of seconds, implying a characteristic time scale that
governs far-from-equilibrium motion on a playing field.Comment: Figures 1 and 2 are blurred due to file-size restriction.
Sharply-defined images can be viewed in the final version published by
European Physical Journal
Biological Reconstruction Using Liquid Nitrogen-Treated Tumor Bearing Bone
In general, a tumor prosthesis is used for reconstruction after removal of osteosarcoma. However, the durability of artificial materials becomes a problem in the long term, and many patients inevitably undergo revision due to loose or damaged prostheses. Moreover, preservation of articular surface is the key to maintain better limb function for long duration. Reconstruction of affected limbs using biological materials has been sought to overcome the aforementioned problems. In some countries, it is significantly difficult to obtain allograft as a biological reconstruction material because of socio-religious or cost problem. Thus, a biological reconstruction method has been developed in which the patient’s affected bone is treated and used for reconstruction. Especially in recycling treatment for affected autologous bone, liquid nitrogen treatment has several favorable characteristics. There is optimal morphological fit because the treated bone itself is one’s own, and bone strength is maintained after treatment. Satisfactory bone union and bone regeneration are expected to be achieved due to good osteoconduction and osteoinduction because proteins and enzymes are preserved in the bone
A Face-like Structure Detection on Planet and Satellite Surfaces using Image Processing
This paper demonstrates that face-like structures are everywhere, and can be
de-tected automatically even with computers. Huge amount of satellite images of
the Earth, the Moon, the Mars are explored and many interesting face-like
structure are detected. Throughout this fact, we believe that science and
technologies can alert people not to easily become an occultist.Comment: 4 page
Superdeformed hypernuclei with antisymmetrized molecular dynamics
The response to the addition of a hyperon is investigated for the
deformed states such as superdeformation in Ca, Sc and Sc. In the present study, we use the antisymmetrized
molecular dynamics (AMD) model. It is pointed out that many kinds of deformed
bands appear in Sc and Sc. Especially, it is found that there
exists superdeformed states in Sc. By the addition of a
particle to Ca, Sc and Sc, it is predicted, for the first
time, that the superdeformed states exist in the hypernuclei Ca
and Sc. The manifestation of the dependence of the
-separation energy on nuclear deformation such as spherical, normal
deformation and superdeformation is shown in the energy spectra of
Ca, Sc and Sc hypernuclei.Comment: 24 pages, 8 figure
Adaptive Texture Alignment for Japanese Kimono Design
A yukata is a type of traditional Japanese kimono. An alignment of its texture pattern is an important factor of the yukata design. There are rules in the texture alignment of the yukata. The rules are comparratively simple. However, the texture alignment is difficult for the designer because the texture alignment should be performed with consideration to the rules and the wearer's taste, Additioanlly, it is necessary for the designer to create the cutting pattern from a limited length of the kimono cloth. Consequently, a design support system for the yukata is required. We have developed the image processing algorithm to simulate the condition of the texture alignment. It becomes possible to perform the texture alignment based on the traditioonal rule automatically. However, some cutting pattern becomes over length of a standard kimono cloth. In this paper, we describe a multi-agent system for supporting the texture alignment of the yukata. We developed texture alignment agents, and a management agent. The management agent acts management of the wearer's body sizes, the condition of the texture alignment and the cutting pattern and orders to the texture alignment agents to carry out the texture alignment according to the wearer's taste. By repeating trial and error, the realistic texture alignment became possible. </p
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