A review of the few existing literature on Philippine film animation explicates a history that can generally be situated along three interrelated streams: the form’s mutualism with comic arts, or komiks as it is known in the vernacular; its intervening relationship with political and...

The success of streaming services seemed to mark the end of the two-decade-long debate about online piracy. However, the emergence of new websites aggregating and distributing illegally content from multiple streaming platforms rekindled the debate. In this paper, we are interested in...

Famous environmental claims implicating well-known corporations have already been reviewed by several publications, such as "Corporate Crime and Violence" (Russell Mokhiber, 1988). Such publications may not eventually achieve to either stress or even imply to a broader audience the relevance of...

China is the most important foreign market for Hollywood blockbusters because of its large number of moviegoers. Exploring blockbusters in China and marketing strategies is essential for Hollywood studios. We analyzed data on 959 movies and users of Douban and Maoyan to determine the effects of...

FlixTime is a movie recommendation web application that recommends a group of friends having different interests in movie genres, some movies that most of them will enjoy. The system uses Hybrid approach to recommend movies due to the downsides of using only content based approach or...

"Nobody cares about Hong Kong film." I was on the set of a Hong Kong film shoot in October 2021, and a film director1 that I have known since I started research on film/TV production here in 2005 uttered this to me, as he had many times over recent years. The director's remark referred to his...

Using cinema in the pedagogy of entrepreneurship can be useful to illustrate the process and dy-namics of the Business Model in a limited time. Here, the movie La La Land is used as a case study to analyze the links and the alignment between the value proposition and the other components of the...

Using a uniquely collected dataset on Chinese movies, we investigate the impact of studios’ profit orientation on their movie themes under censorship. The Value Adjustment Mechanism (VAM), which links executives’ incomes with studios’ box office within 5 years after the studios are...

This study intended to broaden the research on brand-extended film and contribute to the generalization of the theory by applying the concept of brand extension to the film industry. By applying multiple regression analysis, we can grasp the effect of movie performance predictors on the...

Consumers often rely on product rankings to make purchase decisions. Using data from China’s movie market, we examined the demand effects of opening-week box office rankings. We allowed two potential channels through which such rankings affect consumer demand: quality signaling and information...

Plastic mulch film application in agricultural production creates conflicts between environmentalists, farmers and society. Besides being a disturbing element in the landscape and fauna habitats, mulch films also cause plastic emissions to the environment. Farmers apply the mulch film to produce...

Although graphene-based materials have been projected to be impervious even to Nature's smallest molecule, He, so far graphene-based barriers have exhibited a rather high water vapor transmission rate (WVTR) of 10 -1 – 10 -2 g/m 2 ·day. This disparity stems from the abundant nano- and...

Lithium metal is considered to be an ideal anode material due to its ultra-high theoretical capacity and extremely low electric potential. However, the unlimited volume expansion and uncontrollable growth of lithium dendrites during the plating/stripping process hinder its practical application....

Functional polymer films (FPFs) have drawn increasing interests recently for their promising applications. Unfortunately, it still remains a challenge to fabricate large-area FPFs by a facile, continuous and environmentally friendly method. Herein, via coextrusion blow film molding, sandwiched...

The presence of silicon oxyphosphide in the heavily phosphorus-doped n + -type polycrystalline silicon film (poly Si) of TOPCon solar cell has been mainly revealed through a depth-profile X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) characterization of chemical components. X-ray diffraction (XRD)...

Pt nanoparticle-dispersed tungsten trioxide (Pt-WO3) gasochromic switchable films are fabricated from a precursor solution containing oxalic acid at room temperature without any heat treatment. The color of the fabricated Pt-WO3 films changed between transparent and deep blue states after being...

The rapid development of terahertz technology is accompanied by serious electromagnetic pollution, it is extremely imminent to prepare high efficiency terahertz absorbers. However, currently terahertz absorbers mostly concentrate on complex structural absorption-based metamaterials and thicker...

This work focused on the development of active film used for food packaging based on Poly (lactic acid) (PLA) reinforced with olive wood flour (OWF). The biofilm was produced by solvent casting with different wood flour contents, where the OW0, OW1, OW3, OW5, and OW10 biofilms were chosen (0, 1,...

Grain size is a critical factor determining materials properties but is challenging to be modulated in nanoscale. Here, we found the grain size can be enhanced from ~23 nm to ~557 nm for Cu but slightly from ~30 nm to ~145 nm for Cu 96 W 4 with the substrate temperature from 298 to 773 K using...

The electric field manipulation of a magnetic order is a key feature of advanced information technologies and the development of room-temperature multiferroic magnetoelectrics remains an important task. In this work, we report novel single-phase magnetoelectric (ME) films consisting of a (Co...

The polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)-Ba 0.8 Sr 0.2 TiO 3 (BST) nanocomposite facile thick films of thickness ~100 μm have been synthesized by tape-casting technique. Only 5 wt % of Ba 0.8 Sr 0.2 TiO 3 (BST) nanoparticles are incorporated in the PVDF matrix. An electric field of 22 kV/mm (for...

The pure and silver nitrate-doped polyvinyl alcohol films were synthesized using Dip Coating method. The effect of different concentration of silver nitrate (AgNO 3 ) on the electrical and optical properties of Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) films were investigated. The synthesized composite films were...

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with unique layered structure and interesting electronic properties, which has the narrower band-gap and high electron-hole recombination rate, limiting its application in many optical devices. The combination of wide and narrow is an excellent strategy...

Solar-driven interfacial evaporation is considered a promising solution to water pollution and water shortages, potentially reducing heat loss and improving energy conversion efficiency. However, the current photothermal films used for solar-driven interfacial water evaporation have some issues...

In this paper, CuO/MnO2 nanocomposites were successfully fabricated by simple and economical electrodeposition and successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR) method as electrode materials for supercapacitors (SCs). Spherical and wheat-shaped CuO nanomaterials were obtained by...

We study stock market reactions to the release of movies re-exposing past publicly known corporate scandals. Using a sample of 54 event firms featured in 23 movies, we find event firms have significantly negative and persistent abnormal returns to movie releases. We posit that such negative...

We have described a very simple and low cost deposition method to grow polyaniline thin films. A conventional chemical bath deposition (CBD) method is used. Aniline monomer, oxidizing agent and dopant acid is used for the deposition of polyaniline thin films. The impact of dopant acid...

Natural anthocyanins are considered favorable indicators for new sensing materials because of their wide pH color range. In this study, a smart visual indicator film was developed by introducing black wolfberry (BW) anthocyanins to a solid matrix composed of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and methyl...

Graphene films with excellent thermal conductivity have realized applications in many electronic devices. Further improving the performance of graphene thermally conductive films (GFs) is the key to meeting the thermal management needs of devices with higher power densities. However, factors...

The combined effects of the dominated flow parameters at contoured end-wall and the geometrical parameters of elliptical-crater on the cratered-hole film cooling performances and flow mechanisms were investigated experimentally and numerically. Seven cratered-holes were designed to demonstrate...

HfO 2 -based films are important materials used in broad range of electronic applications from high-performance transistors and memory cells, to thermoelectric and energy harvesting elements. By employing scanning probe methods, we made nanoscale comparison of chemical composition, surface...

We investigate the welfare effects of vertical integration in China's movie industry. We leverage data covering all theaters and 423 popular movies in China during 2014-2018. Integrated theaters show their movies for longer, allocate more screenings, and charge lower prices. There is no evidence...

In this work, a different insight into the absorption characteristics of the chalcogenide thin film over the visible-wavelength range is studied in detailed. A comparative study of the lossy mode resonance dips stem from the evanescent-wave absorption is theoretically and experimentally...

The influence of mathematical interfaces on the dynamics of viscoelastic thin liquid films bounded above by fluid-fluid interface and below by a horizontal solid plate is studied in this work. The present work allows for integration of both chemical and physical properties of the thin liquid...

Highlights• Compound specific leaching of PFAS from historically AFFF contaminated soil• Short-chain PFAS decreased rapidly in concentration• Long-chain PFAS showed an initial increase in concentration• Residual PFAS levels in the soil are high in low DOC levels in leachate

In this work, the detailed rupture processes of a liquid film formed by a shocked drop-in-liquid were systematically studied using a numerical method combined with an experimental method. The numerical and experimental results were consistent. It was found that the rupture of the liquid film...

Ridge furrows with plastic film mulching (RP) and flat soil surfaces with plastic film mulching (FP) are two main film mulching methods in the Loess Plateau of China. Our previous study indicated that FP could improve wheat yield more effectively than RP, although the reason remains unclear. The...

In order to further understand the heat and mass transfer mechanism of falling film evaporation flow in narrow channel, a set of narrow channel falling film evaporation experimental system is established. This paper focuses on heat transfer characteristics, pressure loss and two-phase flow...

Plastic film mulching has been extensively used to improve yield and water use efficiency (WUE) of main crops in arid and semi-arid regions of northwest China. However, the plastic film residue has given rise to many problems, such as environmental pollution, land deterioration and yield...