Final Words, Final Shots: Kurosawa, Bortko and the Conclusion of Dostoevsky???s Idiot

In their article "Final Words, Final Shots: Kurosawa, Bortko, and the Conclusion of Dostoevsky???s Idiot" Robert O. Efird and Saera Yoon discuss film adaptations of Dostoevsky???s novel. Both in his homeland and abroad, the major works of Fyodor Dostoevsky have largely made for disappointing film adaptations. This article examines the cultural diversity and aesthetic motivations underlying two very different adaptations of his novel Idiot, with particular attention to the concluding scenes. Both Akira Kurosawa and Vladimir Bortko follow the novelist's lead by hinting at some form of hope and future redemption amidst the tragedy but, for different reasons, they both fail to capture the rich ambiguity and creative ambivalence of Dostoevsky's final words. As the authors argue, the novelist's fluid dialogic aesthetic tends to disappear in visual adaptations, yet paradoxically thrives when released into new contexts less dependent on fidelity to his words. These two adaptations, despite their relative success, demonstrate the inherent difficulty of cinematizing the dynamics of Dostoevsky's art

Concert of High School Composers' Works, February 26, 1983

This is the concert program of Concert of High School Composers' Works on Saturday, February 26, 1983 at 4:00 p.m., at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Ceremony by Roland Tec, We Satie Round by Adam Guettel, Something in 3/4 by Cynthia Spark, Quartet No. 2 by John Harnois, Suite in three movements by Emily Hewitt, Sonata by Matthew Collins, Three Songs of A. E. Housman by Michael Amory, String Quartet - Scherzo by Tallis Barker, Movement from a Trio by Anna Weesner, Prelude One (Appassionata) by Sean Jackson, and Chanson d'Elegance by S. Jackson. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Song Literature III Class Recital, December 11, 1992

This is the concert program of the Song Literature III Class Recital performance on Friday, December 11, 1992 at 6:00 p.m. at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were The Lark by Mikhail Glinka, The Nursery by Modest Mussorgsky, A Dream by Sergey Rachmaninov, Harvest of Sorrow by S. Rachmaninov, 1. Within Four Walls, 2. In the Crowd, and 6. On the River by M. Mussorgsky, and Songs of Dances of Death by M. Mussorgsky. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

A framework for analyzing hyper-viscoelastic polymers

Hyper-viscoelastic polymers have multiple areas of application including aerospace, biomedicine, and automotive. Their mechanical responses are therefore extremely important to understand, particularly because they exhibit strong rate and temperature dependence, including a low temperature brittle transition. Relationships between the response at various strain rates and temperatures are investigated and a framework developed to predict large strain response at rates of c. 1000 s$^{-1}$ and above where experiments are unfeasible. A master curve of the storage modulus's rate dependence at a reference temperature is constructed using a DMA test of the polymer. A frequency sweep spanning two decades and a temperature range from pre-glass transition to pre-melt is used. A fractional derivative model is fitted to the experimental data, and this model's parameters are used to derive stress-strain relationships at a desired strain rate.Comment: 6 pages, 11 figures, conference paper from ECCMR X, 2017, p529-53

To Cut Pay or Lay Off: Exploring a Vexing HR Challenge

Key Findings: In today’s turbulent business environment the need to reduce payroll costs can arise at any time. Generally, this means resorting to one of two agonizing options: cutting pay or engaging in layoffs. The challenge, of course, is to select the option that meets the firm’s financial needs while minimizing the potential downsides involved. Several studies have examined the negative effects of cutbacks on employees. The results of these studies are of limited value to decision-makers, however, since overwhelmingly they focus either on pay cuts or on layoffs while making no attempt to compare the two. Here we report on a series of three studies that extends previous research in a couple of ways. Initially, by examining pay cuts versus layoffs to test their comparative effects. And then by explicitly considering the ways in which these effects vary depending on the context in which they are executed

Optimal Bundle of Multimedia Services in Emerging Mobile Markets

Although various emerging technologies have been launched, they present limitations as far as offering full-scale ubiquitous services independently is concerned. In view of this fact, service providers are likely to provide bundled services among possible combinations of services. Indeed, making a timely decision regarding the value maximization of bundled service is directly related to service providers' future growth and success in the turbulent market environment. This paper aims to find the optimal service bundle among five emerging mobile services: T-DMB, S-DMB, WiBro, HSDPA, and Telematics. Considering what kinds of service features among the five emerging services offer differentiation to customers, we examine four attributes (TV, voice, portable wireless internet, and location-based services) using conjoint analysis to distinguish the service features. Our results show that TV service is the most favored among the attributes, followed by voice service in second position, and the internet and location-based service in third and fourth place respectively. Our result implies that mobile operators would be better off bundling HSDPA and S-DMB first, and then adding other services later, while fixed operators would be better off bundling WiBro and S-DMB first and other services later.telecommunications and broadcasting convergence; emerging service; 4G Technology; T-DMB; S-DMB; WiBro; HSDPA; telematics; customer preference

On radiation-zone dynamos

It is shown that the magnetic current-driven (`kink-type') instability produces flow and field patterns with helicity and even with \alpha-effect but only if the magnetic background field possesses non-vanishing current helicity \bar{\vec{B}}\cdot curl \bar{\vec{B}} by itself. Fields with positive large-scale current helicity lead to negative small-scale kinetic helicity. The resulting \alpha-effect is positive. These results are very strict for cylindric setups without z/I>-dependence of the background fields. The sign rules also hold for the more complicated cases in spheres where the toroidal fields are the result of the action of differential rotation (induced from fossil poloidal fields) at least for the case that the global rotation is switched off after the onset of the instability.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Proceedings of IAU Symp. 274: Advances in Plasma Astrophysic