Dickens, David Lean, and After: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations of Oliver Twist by Chris Louttit

“…This essay provides one such account by analysing the influence of David Lean’s classic 1948 Cineguild production on subsequent films, with a particular focus on two twenty-first-century examples. …”
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From Uncle Tom to Nat Turner: An Overview of Slavery in American Film, 1903-2016 by Melvyn Stokes

“…This seemed to change in the second decade of the twenty-first century when three films—Lincoln (2012), Django Unchained (2012), and 12 Years a Slave (2013)—dealt critically with slavery while also attracting a mass audience. …”
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Authority and Moral Conflicts in the Films of Adébáyọ Fálétí: Àfọ̀njá, Gáà, Ṣawo Ṣẹ̀gbẹ̀rì and the Yorùbá Cosmopolis by Olayinka Agbetuyi

“…Fálétí’s Afọnja and Gáà’s thematic preoccupation is how the Yorùbá subjectivity has been constituted over time through its political evolution. The three films also demonstrate what Stuart Hall considers to be the connection that cultural studies seeks to make to matters of power and cultural politics.3 With regards to the role of Fálétí as pioneer in the area of radio-vision cultural industries the broadcasting mogul narrated the manner in which he pioneered the phone-in radio broadcast in Nigeria on the programme “Ѐyí Àrà” at the Broadcasting Corporation of Ọyọ̀ ́ State, Ibadan (BCOS) after pioneering Yorùbá broadcasting on Africa’s first television station Western Nigeria Television (WNTV) twenty years earlier.4 Fálétí’s career spanning close to seven decades dovetails public services with private engagement with drama production. …”
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How Tourism Imaginary has been Updated in the New Spanish Sun-and-Beach Comedy: Fin de curso, Atasco en la nacional and Benidorm, mon amour by Salvador Martínez Puche, Antonio Martínez Puche

“…An analysis of three feature films, Fin de curso (School’s Out, 2005), Atasco en la nacional (Traffic Jam, 2007)and Benidorm, mon amour (2015), shows how the stereotypical representation of sun-and-beach tourism, rather superfluous in the twenty-first century, has been influenced by deeply rooted imaginaries that previously served to promote the country’s commodified offerings.…”
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The Correlation between Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 Point-of-Care Immunoassay, Tear Film Osmolarity, and Ocular Surface Parameters by Min-Ji Kang, Hyun Seung Kim, Man Soo Kim, Eun Chul Kim

“…The study aimed to evaluate the correlations between tear film matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9), tear film osmolarity, and ocular surface parameters in patients with dry eyes. …”
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The effects of two different net modifications on reducing discards in the trammel net fishery for prawn in Mersin Bay by Bozaoğlu Adem Sezai

“…The modified nets were tested in Mersin Bay with twenty-one fishing operations between September and December 2021. …”
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Early Radiologic Diagnosis of Pulmonary Infection in Febrile Neutropenic Patients: A Comparison of Serial Chest Radiography and Single CT Chest by Wanaporn Burivong, Thanatorn Sricharoen, Apichart Thachang, Sunsiree Soodchuen, Panitpong Maroongroge, Vichit Leelasithorn

“…Three radiologists independently and blindly evaluated chest films and CT chests. The sensitivity, specificity, and correlation of chest film with absolute neutrophil count were carried out. …”
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Slowness and Renewed Perception: Revisiting Douglas Gordon’s 24 Hour Psycho (1993) with Don DeLillo’s Point Omega (2010) by Françoise Sammarcelli

“…In 1993 Douglas Gordon appropriated Alfred Hitchcock’s famous film Psycho and slowed it down to approximately two frames a second (instead of the usual twenty-four). …”
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Topical Osmoprotectant for the Management of Postrefractive Surgery-Induced Dry Eye Symptoms: A Randomised Controlled Double-Blind Trial by R. M. Hazarbassanov, N. G. T. Queiroz-Hazarbassanov, J. N. Barros, J. A. P. Gomes

“…Eye exams were performed before surgery (T0) and 1-month (T1) and 3-month (T3) follow-up and consisted of tear film osmolarity, Schirmer 1 test, tear film breakup time (TBUT), fluorescein staining, and ocular surface disease index (OSDI) and patient symptoms questionnaires. …”
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Les représentations filmiques de Marie Stuart– Une femme de pouvoir dans l’air du temps by Armel Dubois-Nayt

“…This essay then moves on to argue that despite this reproduction of dated opinions, Mary Queen of Scots in these three films is an icon for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. …”
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Disorders of Mineral and Bone Metabolism in Patients with Crohn's Disease by C. Von Westarp, A.B.R. Thomson, T.R. Overton, R.M. Rogers, P.E. Hodges, V.L. Fornasier, P.M. Crockford

“…A battery of tests may be needed to exclude the diagnosis of metabolic bone disease but a 25-hydroxyvitamin D assay and hand x·rays using industrial grade film are recommended as a valuable preliminary assessment.…”
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Using Simplified Models to Assist Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Large Hydrogenerators by Geraldo Carvalho Brito Junior, Roberto Dalledone Machado, Anselmo Chaves Neto

“…Based on experimental evidence collected in a set of twenty 700 MW hydrogenerators, this article shows that the operating conditions of large hydrogenerators journal bearings may have unpredictable and significant changes, without apparent reasons. …”
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Evaluating causes and gestures: source-related and crossmodal features in the perception of environmental sounds by Sven-Amin Lembke

“…Communication through auditory cues often evokes associations to other sensory modalities. In film music, for instance, a descending pitch contour commonly resembles a falling motion. …”
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Certain Death: Mike Flanagan’s Gothic Antidote to Traumatic Memory and Other Enlightenment Hang-Overs in <i>Doctor Sleep</i> by Erik Bond

“…This article uses the English Gothic’s eighteenth-century dismantling of male lineage and Enlightenment certainty in Horace Walpole’s <i>The Castle Otranto</i> as a lens for understanding the twenty-first-century commercial popularity of director Mike Flanagan’s Gothic films, particularly <i>Doctor Sleep</i>. …”
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Intense Pulsed Light Therapy with Optimal Pulse Technology as an Adjunct Therapy for Moderate to Severe Blepharitis-Associated Keratoconjunctivitis by Fang Ruan, Yunxiao Zang, Ruti Sella, Hongshuang Lu, Shang Li, Ke Yang, Tao Jin, Natalie A. Afshari, Zhiqiang Pan, Ying Jie

“…This open-label nonrandomized clinical trial evaluated 33 patients diagnosed with BKC. Twenty-one patients received four bilateral OPT therapy sessions with Meibomian gland expression (MGX) (treatment group), and 11 patients received MGX alone (controls). …”
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Conflits, féminité et identités diasporiques. Le pouvoir de la représentation chez Pratibha Parmar et Gurinder Chadha by Amandine Ducray

“…Ever since they started making films, British Asian female directors Pratibha Parmar and Gurinder Chadha have been aiming to better represent their community and tackle the specific concerns of women from their ethnic groups. …”
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Reciprocation with different motions: an in vitro comparative study by Vittorio Franco, Maya Feghali, Rosalie Chakra, Mohammed Hammo, Valentina Vincenzi, Kadriye Ozdayi, Hyeon-Cheol Kim, Massimo Galli, Gabriele Miccoli

“…A video camera mounted on a tripod continuously filmed and recorded both the instrument’s progression inside the canal and the torque displayed by the motor. …”
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Automated Video Assistant Referee in Lead Climbing by Eliane Künzler, David Roder, Urs Stöcker, Peter Wolf

“…Initially, twenty videos (30 seconds each including the fall from the wall towards the end) were extracted. …”
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