A Cognitive Study of the Construction of Killing Scenes in Chinese TV Series

Killing scenes are bloody and can make people feel sick and uncomfortable. Therefore, they are usually partially presented in film and TV works. Yet the audience can still work out the whole killing scene. The underlying mechanism has been sparsely investigated. The current study explores the underlying mechanism by devising a model integrating the Killing Scenario and the concept of multimodal low-level situational metonymy. Through case studies of killing scenes in some Chinese TV series, the paper finds that multimodal situational metonymy is the underlying cognitive mechanism and can well explain how the audience construct the whole killing scenes on the basis of partial clues

Superconducting properties of novel BiSe2_{2}-based layered LaO1−x_{1-x}Fx_{x}BiSe2_{2} single crystals

F-doped LaOBiSe$_{2}$ superconducting single crystals with typical size of 2$\times$4$\times$0.2 mm$^{3}$ are successfully grown by flux method and the superconducting properties are studied. Both the superconducting transition temperature and the shielding volume fraction are effectively improved with fluorine doping. The LaO$_{0.48}$F$_{0.52}$BiSe$_{1.93}$ sample exhibits zero-resistivity at 3.7 K, which is higher than that of the LaO$_{0.5}$F$_{0.5}$BiSe$_{2}$ polycrystalline sample (2.4K). Bulk superconductivity is confirmed by a clear specific-heat jump at the associated temperature. The samples exhibit strong anisotropy and the anisotropy parameter is about 30, as estimated by the upper critical field and effective mass modelComment: 5 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in Europhysics Lette

A blow-up criterion for a 2D viscous liquid-gas two-phase flow model

AbstractIn this paper, we prove a blow-up criterion in terms of the upper bound of the liquid mass for the strong solution to the two-dimensional (2D) viscous liquid-gas two-phase flow model in a smooth bounded domain. The result also applies to three-dimensional (3D) case