Eliminating the Effect of Rating Bias on Reputation Systems by Leilei Wu, Zhuoming Ren, Xiao-Long Ren, Jianlin Zhang, Linyuan Lü

“…Compared with existing methods, the IB method has higher ability to find the “dark horses,” that is, not so popular yet good movies, in the Academy Awards.…”
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Almodóvar’s Baroque Transitions in the Early Films (1980–1995) by Frederic Conrod

“…This paper seeks to focus exclusively on the rise of the director’s style in the last two decades of the 20th century that corresponds to Spain’s problematic and somewhat tragic transition from dictatorship to democracy and explore the ‘Baroque transitions’ that led Almodóvar to national, European and international recognition prior to the obtention of the Academy Awards he received for “All about my mother” in 2000. …”
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