We\u27ll Get Through This Together : Fan Cultures and Mediated Social Support on AMC\u27s Talking Dead

In this rhetorical analysis, the role of fandom through the technological advances in new media communication and its impact on social media are examined. Specifically, I analyze the rhetorical strategies that individuals use online in order to create narratives reaffirming their own conceptualizations of what it means to be a fan. This dissertation explores how changes in our contemporary media landscape has afforded a new space in popular culture, particularly the television genre of the Live After Show, which is specifically geared towards fans gaining public momentum, while highlighting the productive and performative elements of fan labor. The primary texts used in the dissertation are the AMC Live After Show, Talking Dead, along with The Walking Dead subReddit forums to illustrate how the various fan narratives constitute a typology of an engaged fan. The central argument is that fandom is not only constituted within the individual, but that The Walking Dead fans use their collective identity to maintain and enforce a sense of decorum, both on the subReddit forums and against those celebrity-guests-as-fans appearing on Talking Dead, in order to discipline certain behaviors not conducive towards the vision of the engaged fan. Such disciplinary actions are not limited just to online fans, but are also spearheaded, at times, by Talking Dead’s host, Chris Hardwick. Hardwick, through a series of case studies, attempts to further align himself with those engaged The Walking Dead fans, by actively exerting power in these televised interactions to reinforce and return the discussion to more appropriate topics. Intertwined throughout these various rhetorical theories are instances for the role that social support plays throughout the construction and constitution of fan identity. The analysis illustrates how communication technology aids in contributing to the creation of discursive spaces where fans can direct their emotional appeals and experience some sort of resolution or catharsis by sharing their stories and publicly expressing their feelings of grief and sorrow. The rhetorical construction of fandom in a social media environment provides a wealth of textual narratives that push the continuum of fan studies in new directions

Automatic human behaviour anomaly detection in surveillance video

This thesis work focusses upon developing the capability to automatically evaluate and detect anomalies in human behaviour from surveillance video. We work with static monocular cameras in crowded urban surveillance scenarios, particularly air- ports and commercial shopping areas. Typically a person is 100 to 200 pixels high in a scene ranging from 10 - 20 meters width and depth, populated by 5 to 40 peo- ple at any given time. Our procedure evaluates human behaviour unobtrusively to determine outlying behavioural events, agging abnormal events to the operator. In order to achieve automatic human behaviour anomaly detection we address the challenge of interpreting behaviour within the context of the social and physical environment. We develop and evaluate a process for measuring social connectivity between individuals in a scene using motion and visual attention features. To do this we use mutual information and Euclidean distance to build a social similarity matrix which encodes the social connection strength between any two individuals. We de- velop a second contextual basis which acts by segmenting a surveillance environment into behaviourally homogeneous subregions which represent high tra c slow regions and queuing areas. We model the heterogeneous scene in homogeneous subgroups using both contextual elements. We bring the social contextual information, the scene context, the motion, and visual attention features together to demonstrate a novel human behaviour anomaly detection process which nds outlier behaviour from a short sequence of video. The method, Nearest Neighbour Ranked Outlier Clusters (NN-RCO), is based upon modelling behaviour as a time independent se- quence of behaviour events, can be trained in advance or set upon a single sequence. We nd that in a crowded scene the application of Mutual Information-based social context permits the ability to prevent self-justifying groups and propagate anomalies in a social network, granting a greater anomaly detection capability. Scene context uniformly improves the detection of anomalies in all the datasets we test upon. We additionally demonstrate that our work is applicable to other data domains. We demonstrate upon the Automatic Identi cation Signal data in the maritime domain. Our work is capable of identifying abnormal shipping behaviour using joint motion dependency as analogous for social connectivity, and similarly segmenting the shipping environment into homogeneous regions

The Asian Electronics Industry Looks to the Future

SUMMARY In recent years, the electronics industries in some Idcs have become a focus of attention, due to their success in creating employment and promoting exports. This article assesses the future of the Asian electronics industry, distinguishing the early entrants, such as South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, from the latecomers, such as Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. The former group has been able to develop a relatively independent industry, both with regard to ‘mature’ consumer goods industries and in relation to components. The new entrants, by contrast, remain heavily dependent upon MNC investment and technology. Three factors affect the future of the industry—domestic markets, protectionism and technical change. After assessing each of these factors, the article concludes on a rather pessimistic note, but points to the potential for greater intra?Third World trade. RESUME L'électronique asiatique est tournée vers l'avenir Depuis peu, l'industrie électronique de certains PVD force l'attention, car elle a réussi à créer des emplois et à gonfler les exportations. Cet article évalue l'avenir de l'industrie asiatique, en distinguant les premiers arrivés tels que la Corée du Sud, Taïwan, Hong Kong et Singapour, des derniers venus tels que la Malaisie, les Philippines, I.Indonésie et Sri Lanka Le premier groupe a su développer une industrie relativement autonome, tant pour les biens de consommation “élaborés” que pour les composants. Le deuxième reste par contre étroitement dépendant des investissements et des techniques des multinatinaux. Ces facteurs jouent sur l'avenir du secteur: marché intérieur, protectionnisme et progrès technique. Après avoir étudié chacun de ces facteurs, l'article conclut sur une note pessimiste, mais souligne la possibilité d'une intensification des échanges au sein du tiers monde. RESUMEN La industria electrónica asiática mira hacia el futuro En años recientes, las industrias electrónicas en algunos países menos desarrollados ha constituido un foco de atención, debido a su éxito en la creación de empleo y promoción de exportaciones. En este artículo se evalúa el futuro de la industria electrónica asiática, distinguiendo entre los primeros participantes, tales como Corea del Sur, Taiwán, Hong Kong y Singapur y los recién llegados, tales como Malasia, las Filipinas, Indonesia y Sri Lanka. El antiguo grupo ha podido desarrollar una industria relativamente independiente, tanto respecto a las industrias “maduras” de productos de consumo como en relación con la de componentes. Los nuevos participantes, en contraste, siguen dependiendo muchísimo de la inversión y tecnología de las multinacionales. Hay tres factores que influyen en el futuro de la industria: el de los mercados nacionales, el proteccionismo y el cambio tecnológico. Después de evaluar cada uno de estos factores, el artículo concluye con una nota más bien pesimista, pero señala las posibilidades para un mayor comercio entre los países del Tercer Mundo

Calculation of Nuclear Magnetic Shielding Constants in Two Simple Systems

The nuclear magnetic shielding constants of two simple systems are calculated explicitly. These systems are (1) a nucleus μ at a distance R from a hydrogenic atom of charge ζe in the presence of an external electric field, and (2) a nucleus μ of a hydrogenic atom of charge ζe in the presence of a point charge at R with the result expanded in inverse powers of R. These calculations should prove useful in understanding the long‐range contributions of functional groups and neighboring molecules to observed chemical shifts of molecules

Strong to ultra-strong coherent coupling measurements in a YIG/cavity system at room temperature

We present an experimental study of the strong to ultra-strong coupling regimes at room temperature in frequency-reconfigurable 3D re-entrant cavities coupled with a YIG slab. The observed coupling rate, defined as the ratio of the coupling strength to the cavity frequency of interest, ranges from 12% to 59%. We show that certain considerations must be taken into account when analyzing the polaritonic branches of a cavity spintronic device where the RF field is highly focused in the magnetic material. Our observations are in excellent agreement with electromagnetic finite element simulations in the frequency domain.Comment: 19 pages, 12 figure

New remains ofMachimosaurus hugiivon Meyer, 1837 (Crocodilia, Thalattosuchia) from the Kimmeridgian of Germany

The fourth complete skull of the marine crocodilian Machimosaurus von Meyer, 1837 is hereby described together with an associated complete mandible and disarticulated postcranial elements from the Kimmeridgian of Neuffen, Germany. Although the genus has been described fairly recently on the basis of two nearly complete skulls, their state of preservation did not allow a thorough examination of the entire skull anatomy. Here, we add new information with the description of nicely preserved cranial and mandibular elements of a single individual attributable to Machimosaurus hugii von Meyer, 1837. The diagnosis is updated for the genus and for the species M. hugii and challenges the validity of the second species M. mosae (Liénard, 1876). Moreover, previous assumption that Steneosaurus obtusidens Andrews, 1913 is a junior synonym of Machimosaurus hugii is not supported by our observations. Notably, M. hugii differs from S. obtusidens by a lower tooth count, the morphology of the dentition, the shape of the supratemporal fenestrae and the absence of an antorbital fenestra. Comparative anatomy and a phylogenetic analysis show that Machimosaurus is more closely related to the genus Steneosaurus than to Teleosaurus cadomensis (Lamouroux, 1820).doi:10.1002/mmng.20130000

Front Office Department in Hotel Atlet Century Park Jakarta

The functions of this Industrial Placement program are to build to improve the technique and experience of the student in in Front Office Department. This Industrial Placement program has been started from June 2019 until December 2019 in Hotel Century Park Jakarta. The advantage of this Industrial Placement program is to be able to learn by practicing it is like working in real hotel. This report is made to finish the course curriculum and expectantly can give the specific information about the exercise for the readers. During the Industrial Placement, the writer encountered several problems such as at the first time, the writer was not fast, not neat, and lack of knowledge. However, such problems can be solved by diligently practicing, having the intention to work, and also studying seriously. For more information, this report contains specific of procedures and workflows during the Industrial Placement. This report explains all the specifics of the activities carried out from the beginning of the Industrial Placement until it has finished. This information can be used with the implications of giving references or to compare Industrial Placement programs or other curriculum courses on college