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Analisis Pengaruh Faktor Eksternal Dan Internal Pelanggan Dalam Pengambilan Keputusan Pembelian Surat Kabar Harian Borneo Tribune
Authors: Haryanto Dedi , Rusmayanti Ria
Published: January 2018

The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of external factors and internal when making a decision to buy Borneo Tribune Daily newspaper. The author uses descriptive methods f and using 100 respondents were using purposive sampling. External variable is an indicator for culture, sub-culture,social class, reference groups / reference and families. Indicators for the internal variables are motivation, perception, learning, and beliefs and attitudes. While the indicator for the decision variables measured through 5 stages of buying decision process konsume purchase. The analytical tool used is multiple linear regression. The results of the study revealed that the external and internal factors significant and positive influence in the purchase decision Borneo Tribune Daily News of 0.581 and 0.400. Based on this value it can be concluded that external factors have a greater influence than internal factors. simultaneous correlation coefficient indicates a strong relationship category. value of F at 145.661> 3.09 so the value Ftable simultaneously (synchronously) does not have significant influence in the purchase decision Borneo Daily News Tribune was denied. t value> of ttable, so the null hypothesis that external factors and internal states partially customers do not have a significant influence in the purchase decision Borneo Daily News Tribune was denied.Keywords: Faktor internal, faktor eksternal, pengambilan keputusan pembelian, Borneo Tribun.
Pengaruh Dinamika Lingkungan Terhadap Daya Saing Perusahaan
Authors: Fachri Helman
Published: January 2018

This study was to analyze the user's satisfaction JAMKESMAS in UPTD District Health Clinics of North Pontianak. particularly the dimensions of service quality that is composed of variable reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy, and tangibles. The study used survey methods, data collection techniques, namely: observation, interviews, and questionnaires. Samples used as many as 100 people by using purposive sampling. Data were analyzed using the Cartesian diagram. The results of this study indicate that the majority of respondents were satisfied with the service UPTD District Health Clinics of North Pontianak with an average satisfaction level of 4.29 and the value of the  average rate of interest of 4.21 dimension of service quality the most satisfying user JAMKESMAS is the dimension of certainty guarantees, and physical evidence, where the majority of respondents' votes are in quadrant B, which means that the interest and customer satisfaction are at a high level and in accordance with the wishes of the consumer. Dimensional quality of services that they are in quadrant A, which means the consumer is not satisfied then it should be further enhanced by the company. While the dimensions of the quality of services that are in quadrant C and D in which the interests of consumers are at a low level is considered normal practice even though consumers are satisfied because it is not very important.Keywords: Satisfaction, Service Quality Dimensions Services
Predicting Trump and Presenting Canada in Philip Roth'sThe Plot against America
Authors: Ward Maggie
Published: January 2018

In an essay published in the New York Times a month prior to the release of The Plot against America, Philip Roth writes that it “would be a mistake” to “take this book as a roman à clef to the present moment in America” (“Story”). Despite this, many reviewers and critics find it nearly impossible to ignore the (albeit inexact) parallels between the historical-political moment Roth reimagines and twenty-first-century American politics. The election of Donald Trump demonstrates the ease with which Roth's fictional political moment has manifested itself in the current state of politics in the United States. However, to concentrate exclusively on drawing these connections and to ignore Roth's historical focus is not productive. Notably, Canada in Roth's fiction is depicted as a place of liberation from anti-Semitic persecution, yet the real Canada during this era, a period that has been called “the bleakest chapter in Canadian history” (Klein xviii), very closely resembles Roth's fictional America.
Balancing Atlantic Canadian Clichés with Historical Accuracy inWhat Is Left the Daughter
Authors: Hoffman Claire
Published: January 2018

The Ohio-born American author Howard Norman sets the majority of his novels in Nova Scotia, because he feels at home there, a sensation that reflects the “emotional dimensions of one's life and […] literary imagination” (qtd. in Hickman). Norman's use of the word “imagination” suggests that, as a writer, he engages with the landscape of Nova Scotia and the broader context of Atlantic Canada as a fertile background, in front of which his characters may enact scenes of his choosing and advance their plot lines. In What Is Left the Daughter, Canada is a place where anxieties and preoccupations regarding America's involvement with World War II, as well as the treatment of German immigrants and citizens during and after it had ended, are enacted and explored from a safe distance—namely, on the windswept shores of Nova Scotia and on the streets of Halifax.
An Anatomy Pre-Course Predicts Student Performance in a Professional Veterinary Anatomy Curriculum
Authors: McNulty Margaret A. , Lazarus Michelle D.
Published: January 2018

Little to no correlation has been identified between previous related undergraduate coursework or outcomes on standardized tests and performance in a veterinary curriculum, including anatomy coursework. Therefore, a relatively simplistic method to predict student performance before entrance would be advantageous to many. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether there is a correlation between performance in a veterinary anatomy pre-course and subsequent performance within a professional anatomy curriculum. Incoming first-year veterinary students at the Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine were asked to participate in a free weeklong pre-course, before the start of the semester. The pre-course covered the musculoskeletal anatomy of the canine thoracic limb using dissection-based methods. Student performance, as evaluated by test grades in the pre-course, did indeed correlate with test grades in professional veterinary anatomy courses. A significant and positive correlation was identified between pre-course final exam performance and performance on examinations in each of 3 professional anatomy courses. Qualitative analyses of student comments pertaining to their experience within the pre-course indicated differences in the perceived benefits of the pre-course between high-, middle-, and low-performing students. These varied perceptions may provide predictive feedback as well as guidance for supporting lower performing students. Together, these results indicate that performance in a weeklong pre-course covering only a small portion of canine anatomy is a strong predictor of performance within a professional anatomy curriculum. In addition, the pre-course differentially affected student perceptions of their learning experience.
Registration of ‘UA107’ Okra‐Leaf Cotton Cultivar
Authors: Bourland Fred M. , Jones Don C.
Published: January 2018

‘UA107’ (Reg. No. CV‐136, PI 685638) is a conventional open‐canopy cultivar of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) released by the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station in February 2017. The cultivar was released as part of an ongoing effort to develop improved genotypes having enhanced yield, yield components, earliness, host plant resistance, and fiber properties. UA107 expressed earlier maturation than ‘DP 393’, which is considered a short‐season cultivar. When evaluated over years and locations in Arkansas, lint yields of UA107 were higher than DP 393 and ‘UA48’ except at Keiser, where its yields were equal to DP 393. Lint yields of UA107 were associated with greater lint index, more fibers per seed, fewer seed produced per area, and higher fiber density. Across the 12 locations of the 2015 Regional Breeders’ Testing Network, UA107 produced the second‐highest lint yield of 28 entries, which suggests that it is widely adapted. UA107 displays high resistance to bacterial blight and Fusarium wilt but is more sensitive than DP 393 to tarnished plant bugs. UA107 exhibited longer fiber length and lower micronaire than DP 393. These fiber qualities are positively related to better spinning performance. UA107 displays an unusual combination of high yielding ability, very early maturity, high fiber quality, and host plant resistance traits. UA107 is a very early maturing, widely adapted, conventional cultivar that produces good fiber quality.
Experimental Investigation on Seismic Behavior of Steel Truss-RC Column Hybrid Structure with Steel Diagonal Braces
Authors: Wang Bo , Dai Huijuan , Wu Tao , Bai Guoliang , Bai Yongtao
Published: January 2018

This paper aims to provide an experimental support on seismic performance evaluation of the steel braced truss-RC (reinforced concrete) column hybrid structure, which could be applied as the air-cooled supporting structural system in large-capacity thermal power plants located in strong earthquake prone regions. A series of pseudo-dynamic tests (PDTs) and quasi-static tests (QSTs) were performed on a 1/8-scaled sub-structure. The dynamic characteristics, lateral deformation patterns, deterioration behavior, hysteretic behavior and failure mechanisms were investigated. Test results showed that the first vibration mode is torsion, which is caused by the small torsional stiffness of this kind of hybrid structure. The lateral deformation shape is shear mode, and the drift ratio of the structure above the corbel is significantly less than that of the column below the corbel. Earthquake energy is mainly dissipated by the RC pipe columns where cracks mainly occurred at the bottom of column and lower part of corbel. The failure mechanisms were identified indicating that the steel braces improved the global stiffness and modified the load transfer mechanism. This study affirms that the steel braced truss-RC column hybrid structure has the sufficient ductility and good energy dissipation capacity to satisfy the design requirements in high seismic regions.
Relaxation Behavior by Time-Salt and Time-Temperature Superpositions of Polyelectrolyte Complexes from Coacervate to Precipitate
Authors: Ali Samim , Prabhu Vivek
Published: January 2018

Complexation between anionic and cationic polyelectrolytes results in solid-like precipitates or liquid-like coacervate depending on the added salt in the aqueous medium. However, the boundary between these polymer-rich phases is quite broad and the associated changes in the polymer relaxation in the complexes across the transition regime are poorly understood. In this work, the relaxation dynamics of complexes across this transition is probed over a wide timescale by measuring viscoelastic spectra and zero-shear viscosities at varying temperatures and salt concentrations for two different salt types. We find that the complexes exhibit time-temperature superposition (TTS) at all salt concentrations, while the range of overlapped-frequencies for time-temperature-salt superposition (TTSS) strongly depends on the salt concentration (Cs) and gradually shifts to higher frequencies as Cs is decreased. The sticky-Rouse model describes the relaxation behavior at all Cs. However, collective relaxation of polyelectrolyte complexes gradually approaches a rubbery regime and eventually exhibits a gel-like response as Cs is decreased and limits the validity of TTSS.
How Neighborhood Effects Vary: Childbearing and Fathering among Latino and African American Adolescents
Authors: Lucero Jessica , Santiago Anna , Galster George
Published: January 2018

This study examines what neighborhood conditions experienced at age 15 and after are associated with teen childbearing and fathering among Latino and African American youth and whether these neighborhood effects vary by gender and/or ethnicity. Administrative and survey data from a natural experiment are used for a sample of 517 Latino and African American youth whose families were quasi-randomly assigned to public housing operated by the Denver (CO) Housing Authority (DHA). Characteristics of the neighborhood initially assigned by DHA to wait list applicants are utilized as identifying instruments for the neighborhood contexts experienced during adolescence. Cox Proportional Hazards (PH) models reveal that neighborhoods having higher percentages of foreign-born residents but lower levels of social capital robustly predict reduced odds of teen parenting though the magnitude of these effects was contingent on gender and ethnicity. Specifically, the presence of foreign-born neighbors on the risk of teen parenting produced a stronger dampening effect for African American youth when compared to Latino youth. Additionally, the effects of social capital on teen parenting were stronger for males than females.
The Biological Role of Hyaluronan-Rich Oocyte-Cumulus Extracellular Matrix in Female Reproduction
Authors: Nagyova Eva
Published: January 2018

Fertilization of the mammalian oocyte requires interactions between spermatozoa and expanded cumulus extracellular matrix (ECM) that surrounds the oocyte. This review focuses on key molecules that play an important role in the formation of the cumulus ECM, generated by the oocyte-cumulus complex. In particular, the specific inhibitors (AG1478, lapatinib, indomethacin and MG132) and progesterone receptor antagonist (RU486) exerting their effects through the remodeling of the ECM of the cumulus cells surrounding the oocyte have been described. After gonadotropin stimulus, cumulus cells expand and form hyaluronan (HA)-rich cumulus ECM. In pigs, the proper structure of the cumulus ECM depends on the interaction between HA and serum-derived proteins of the inter-alpha-trypsin inhibitor (IαI) protein family. We have demonstrated the synthesis of HA by cumulus cells, and the presence of the IαI, tumor necrosis factor-alpha-induced protein 6 and pentraxin 3 in expanding oocyte-cumulus complexes (OCC). We have evaluated the covalent linkage of heavy chains of IαI proteins to HA, as the principal component of the expanded HA-rich cumulus ECM, in porcine OCC cultured in medium with specific inhibitors: AG1478 and lapatinib (both inhibitors of epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase activity); MG132 (a specific proteasomal inhibitor), indomethacin (cyclooxygenase inhibitor); and progesterone receptor antagonist (RU486). We have found that both RU486 and indomethacin does not disrupt the formation of the covalent linkage between the heavy chains of IαI to HA in the expanded OCC. In contrast, the inhibitors AG1478 and lapatinib prevent gonadotropin-induced cumulus expansion. Finally, the formation of oocyte-cumulus ECM relying on the covalent transfer of heavy chains of IαI molecules to HA has been inhibited in the presence of MG132.
Six-Coordinate Ln(III) Complexes with Various Coordination Geometries Showing Distinct Magnetic Properties
Authors: Guo Mei , Tang Jinkui
Published: January 2018

The syntheses, structural characterization, and magnetic properties of three lanthanide complexes with formulas [Ln(L1)3] (Ln = Dy (1Dy); Er (1Er)); and [Dy(L2)2] (2Dy) were reported. Complexes 1Dy and 1Er are isostructural with the metal ion in distorted trigonal-prismatic coordination geometry, but exhibit distinct magnetic properties due to the different shapes of electron density for DyIII (oblate) and ErIII (prolate) ions. Complex 1Dy shows obvious SMM behavior under a zero direct current (dc) field with an effective energy barrier of 31.4 K, while complex 1Er only features SMM behavior under a 400 Oe external field with an effective energy barrier of 23.96 K. In stark contrast, complex 2Dy with the octahedral geometry only exhibits the frequency dependence of alternating current (ac) susceptibility signals without χ″ peaks under a zero dc field.
Anti-Phytopathogenic and Cytotoxic Activities of Crude Extracts and Secondary Metabolites of Marine-Derived Fungi
Authors: Zhao Dong-Lin , Wang Dan , Tian Xue-Ying , Cao Fei , Li Yi-Qiang , Zhang Cheng-Sheng
Published: January 2018

Thirty-one isolates belonging to eight genera in seven orders were identified from 141 strains that were isolated from several marine plants. Alternaria sp. and Fusarium sp. were found to be the predominant fungi. Evaluation of the anti-phytopathogenic bacterial and fungal activities, as well as the cytotoxicity of these 31 extracts, revealed that most of them displayed different levels of bioactivities. Due to their interesting bioactivities, two fungal strains—Fusarium equiseti (P18) and Alternaria sp. (P8)—were selected for chemical investigation and compounds 1–4 were obtained. The structure of 1 was elucidated by 1D and 2D NMR analysis, as well as high-resolution electrospray ionization mass spectroscopy (HRESIMS), and the absolute configuration of its stereogenic carbon (C-11) was established by comparison of the experimental and calculated electronic circular-dichroism (ECD) spectra. Moreover, alterperylenol (4) exhibited antibacterial activity against Clavibacter michiganensis with a minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 1.95 μg/mL, which was 2-fold stronger than that of streptomycin sulfate. Additionally, an antibacterial mechanism study revealed that 4 caused membrane hyperpolarization without evidence of destruction of cell membrane integrity. Furthermore, stemphyperylenol (3) displayed potent antifungal activity against Pestallozzia theae and Alternaria brassicicola with MIC values equal to those of carbendazim. The cytotoxicity of 1 and 2 against human lung carcinoma (A-549), human cervical carcinoma (HeLa), and human hepatoma (HepG2) cell lines were also evaluated.
The Side Effects of the Most Commonly Used Group of Antibiotics in Periodontal Treatments
Authors: Heta Saimir , Robo Ilma
Published: January 2018

Antibiotic combinations are preferred for the treatment of periodontal diseases, with the aim of hitting the bacterial flora, according to its characteristics—aerobic, anaerobic, gram-negative, and gram-positive—with certain antibiotics that act on certain bacteria. The aim of this study is to analyze the side effects of the antibiotics used. Data on the side effects (preferably expressed in percentages) of some antibiotics, the favorites in periodontal recipes, are gathered from the literature. These data are listed according to the antibiotic used. In the case of providing a periodontal prescription, the patient is at risk of allergy (5%), nephritis (3%), hematological problems (2–2.5%), gastrointestinal problems (5.5%), disturbance in the nervous system (2%), allergic signs on the skin (5.5%), and problems with electrolytes displayed in lower percentages. Interaction with different medications is present in almost all cases. The influence on the body systems is 4% in total, the maximum value of which is expressed on the skin, and the minimum value is expressed in the nervous system. Cross allergies are at a high value because of the expressed structural similarity of antibiotics. Given a recipe, we have a balance of the percentage of side effects, the percentage of bacterial resistance, and the percentage of the success of the recommended dose of antibiotics.
Resistivity and Passivity Characterization of Ni-Base Glassy Alloys in NaOH Media
Authors: Emran Khadijah , Al-Refai Hanaa
Published: January 2018

Resistivity and passivation behavior of two Ni-base bulk metallic glasses, with the nominal composition of Ni70Cr21Si0.5B0.5P8C ≤ 0.1Co ≤ 1Fe ≤ 1 (VZ1) and Ni72.65Cr7.3-Si6.7B2.15C ≤ 0.06Fe8.2Mo3 (VZ2), in various concentrations of NaOH solutions were studied. The investigations involved cyclic polarization (CP), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), and electrochemical frequency modulation (EFM) methods. Cyclic polarization measurements showed spontaneous passivation for both Ni-base glassy alloys at all alkaline concentrations, due to the presence of chromium as an alloying element that formed an oxide film on the alloy surface. The EIS analysis showed that the passive layers grown on the two Ni-base glassy alloy surfaces are formed by a double oxide layer structure. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) examinations of the electrode surface showed Cr, Ni, Fe, and O rich corrosion products that reduced the extent of corrosion damage. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) imaging technique was used to evaluate the topographic and morphologic features of surface layers formed on the surface of the alloys.
Liposomal TriCurin, A Synergistic Combination of Curcumin, Epicatechin Gallate and Resveratrol, Repolarizes Tumor-Associated Microglia/Macrophages, and Eliminates Glioblastoma (GBM) and GBM Stem Cells
Authors: Mukherjee Sumit , Baidoo Juliet , Sampat Samay , Mancuso Andrew , David Lovena , Cohen Leah , Zhou Shuiqin , Banerjee Probal
Published: January 2018

Glioblastoma (GBM) is a deadly brain tumor with a current mean survival of 12–15 months. Despite being a potent anti-cancer agent, the turmeric ingredient curcumin (C) has limited anti-tumor efficacy in vivo due to its low bioavailability. We have reported earlier a strategy involving the use two other polyphenols, epicatechin gallate (E) from green tea and resveratrol (R) from red grapes at a unique, synergistic molar ratio with C (C:E:R: 4:1:12.5, termed TriCurin) to achieve superior potency against HPV+ tumors than C alone at C:E:R (μM): 32:8:100 (termed 32 μM+ TriCurin). We have now prepared liposomal TriCurin (TrLp) and demonstrated that TrLp boosts activated p53 in cultured GL261 mouse GBM cells to trigger apoptosis of GBM and GBM stem cells in vitro. TrLp administration into mice yielded a stable plasma concentration of 210 nM C for 60 min, which, though sub-lethal for cultured GL261 cells, was able to cause repolarization of M2-like tumor (GBM)-associated microglia/macrophages to the tumoricidal M1-like phenotype and intra-GBM recruitment of activated natural killer cells. The intratumor presence of such tumoricidal immune cells was associated with concomitant suppression of tumor-load, and apoptosis of GBM and GBM stem cells. Thus, TrLp is a potential onco-immunotherapeutic agent against GBM tumors.
End-to-End Airplane Detection Using Transfer Learning in Remote Sensing Images
Authors: Chen Zhong , Zhang Ting , Ouyang Chao
Published: January 2018

Airplane detection in remote sensing images remains a challenging problem due to the complexity of backgrounds. In recent years, with the development of deep learning, object detection has also obtained great breakthroughs. For object detection tasks in natural images, such as the PASCAL (Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning) VOC (Visual Object Classes) Challenge, the major trend of current development is to use a large amount of labeled classification data to pre-train the deep neural network as a base network, and then use a small amount of annotated detection data to fine-tune the network for detection. In this paper, we use object detection technology based on deep learning for airplane detection in remote sensing images. In addition to using some characteristics of remote sensing images, some new data augmentation techniques have been proposed. We also use transfer learning and adopt a single deep convolutional neural network and limited training samples to implement end-to-end trainable airplane detection. Classification and positioning are no longer divided into multistage tasks; end-to-end detection attempts to combine them for optimization, which ensures an optimal solution for the final stage. In our experiment, we use remote sensing images of airports collected from Google Earth. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is highly accurate and meaningful for remote sensing object detection.
Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Sensors in 2017
Authors:   Sensors Editorial Office
Published: January 2018

Peer review is an essential part in the publication process, ensuring that Sensors maintains high quality standards for its published papers.[...]
Carbon Dioxide Emissions of Spectators’ Transportation in Collegiate Sporting Events: Comparing On-Campus and Off-Campus Stadium Locations
Authors: Triantafyllidis Stavros , Ries Robert , Kaplanidou Kyriaki
Published: January 2018

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions related to spectator’s transportation to collegiate football events is a significant consideration in the overall carbon footprint of collegiate sporting events. Transportation mode affects CO2 emissions per spectator and stadium location, specifically on- and off-campus locations affect the transportation mode chosen by spectators. The quantity of CO2 emissions generated from spectators’ transportation to collegiate sporting events at an on-campus university stadium is compared to off-campus stadium. The transportation modes and miles traveled by spectators were modeled with GREET 2016 to estimate CO2 emissions. Significant differences were found between the two stadium locations regarding the spectators’ choice of transportation mode and distance traveled. Implications are presented for environmental sustainability and planning.
Long Term Land Use Effects of New Rail Investment: Lessons from San Diego
Authors: King David , Fischer Lauren
Published: January 2018

In recent decades, U.S. cities have invested in rail transit for reasons beyond supplying alternatives to driving. Increasingly, rail investments are specifically promoted to reshape the built environment for property-led economic development. In these cases, new investment in rail transit is claimed to facilitate particular types of land use changes, mostly in the form of dense multi-family residential and mixed-use developments. Although rail’s effects on land use are widely claimed, scholarly evaluations offer mixed results. This paper examines two potential reasons for these mixed results. First, as most empirical examinations tend to be conducted shortly after new transit investment opens analysis is often criticized on the basis that short time frames may not allow land use changes to materialize. The second is that rail investment often includes changes to local zoning and land use regulations, creating opportunities for types of development that were previously outlawed. This paper evaluates these two critiques through an analysis of long-term land use effects associated with new rail transit service in San Diego, California. The results suggest that even after three decades of development cycles, rail transit has not led to consistent regulatory patterns of increased density or new mixed-use development.
Erratum: Lavergne, S.N. In Vitro Research Tools in the Field of Human Immediate Drug Hypersensitivity and Their Present Use in Small Animal Veterinary Medicine Vet. Sci. 2017, 4, 1
Authors: Lavergne Sidonie
Published: January 2018

Due to an error during production, the author, Lavergne S. Lavergne’s name in the published paper [1] was incorrect.[...]
Les prix du vin, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle. Le Midi et les grandes aires de production françaises
Authors: Larguier Gilbert
Published: January 2018

La historia de los precios, en particular del precio del vino, muy cotizada hace poco, parece no estar de moda ya. ¿ Será que todo está dicho ? Una nueva lectura de las listas de precios muestra que no es así. Se puede comprobar con ejemplos meridionales y más ampliamente si se comparan las grandes áreas de producción y de consumo. Aquí se trata de mostrar que la historia de los precios anteriores al siglo xIx sigue siendo un campo de investigación que se puede desatender.
Édouard Barthe, les parlementaires de l'Hérault et la question du prix du vin durant l'entre-deux-guerres
Authors: Bagnol Jean-Marc
Published: January 2018

Durant les années 1920 et 1930, marquées par une crise viticole profonde, la question du prix du vin est plus que jamais posée à travers les débats et les actions des parlementaires. Elle est liée d’abord à la mise en marché du produit, qui doit se faire au meilleur prix possible pour les producteurs comme pour les consommateurs. Elle est ensuite le fil conducteur des grandes lois du Statut de la viticulture, qui tentent de retrouver un vin en quantité moindre, mais de meilleure qualité. Elle se trouve, enfin, au carrefour des diverses tentatives de régulation du marché, malthusiennes ou socialistes, l’ensemble débouchant sur la notion de prix social du vin à la veille de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Les chartreux et la résolution du Grand Schisme d'Occident (1392-1409)
Authors: Millet Hélène
Published: January 2018

The audacious attempt by two Cartusian monks, Pierre of Montevici, prior of Asti, and Bartolomeo of Ravenna, prior of Gorgona, contributed, as early as 1392, to the reversal of consciences in favor of church unity. They were the intermediaries in the exchanges that took place between the two Popes and the King Charles VI. In Paris, they stayed at the Chartreuse of Vauvert where a notable text was prepared in view of the Assembly of the Clergy in 1395, describing how a ritual of renunciation of the Papacy by the two rival Pontiffs could take place. The prior of Vauvert, Simon of Chaignet, continued to be consulted by the royalty. His successor, Jean of Griffomonte, represented the Order at the Council of Pisa in company of the prior of Genoa and of that of Bourgfontaine. This prior, Jean Tirelli, had been involved in the negotiations on the guarding of Benedict xIII in 1399 as emissary of the Duke of Orleans ; he had a bad memory of this event and he testified against this Pope in the trial set up by the Pisans. In 1410, Jean of Griffomonte was the principal artisan of the reunification of the order.
Le noir et blanc au cinéma
Authors: Bailblé Claude
Published: January 2018

Though well-nigh abandoned by today's commercial cinema, and even overridden in the case of colorization for television, black-and-white cinematography continues to exert a certain power of attraction by virtue of its ability to create lighting effects somewhere between day and night. By exploiting the visual modifications made possible by the screen (suspension of perceptual constancy ; coplanar vision) or by the film (contrast modulation ; autonomy of light with respect to what is illuminated], the author can strive to shape the expressive power of shadows and light while at the same time engaging with optical tactility, with graininess and texture, within a world temporarily devoid of color. This art and science approach ushers us into a «workshop of lighting » where the black-and-white image is refined and where the aesthetic feel may be varied to accord with situations and characters. The geometrical truth of the camera lens recording an unalterable space is thus complemented by the authenticity of the artist remodeling appearances by means of light in order to create emotion.
Les scénarisations dominantes des opérations techniques
Authors: Faroult David
Published: January 2018

Le sujet de cet article est d'analyser les idéologies dominantes dans la scénarisation par la mise en œuvre des différentes techniques au cinéma. L'hypothèse de départ est de considérer l'ensemble des films comme des productions idéologiques, ce qui exige d'emblée de définir le concept d'idéologie et la fonction du cinéma dans l'organisation de la société. Dans ce cadre, le concept de scénarisation désigne l'organisation des représentations, toujours déterminée par des conceptions philosophiques implicites (conceptions du monde, de la connaissance, du cinéma bien sûr, de la narration, du spectateur, ...). À partir de là, le questionnement peut se déployer autour de quatre thèses : 1. Les choix artistiques et techniques (conscients ou inconscients] en jeu dans la confection d'un film peuvent être considérées comme autant d'opérations de scénarisation. 2. La tendance idéologique qui domine un film est le résultat d'une lutte entre les multiples scénarisations au sein de ce film. 3. La pratique habituelle des techniciens dans le cinéma dominant est la naturalisation de la technique : elle doit être invisible, transparente pour le spectateur. 4. Cette naturalisation des techniques, pour autant qu'elle soit dominante, n'est pas la seule démarche possible.
De quelques implications esthétiques des innovations techniques dans la dimension sonore des films
Authors: Canonville Christian
Published: January 2018

Peu à peu, avec les avancées techniques, le silence ne s'affirme plus seulement en tant qu'absence de bruit, phénomène à part entière avec ses effets dramatiques et structurels, mais comme un véritable continuum composé d'un fourmillement de sons, d'événements non-identifiables, d'où naît le sonore pour y retourner. Parallèlement, alors que la «haute définition» des bruits engendre une «haute fidélité» aux objets dans un rapport de mimesis, elle permet une saillence du sonore propice à d'autres aspects du réel.
Filmer en amour
Authors: Guéneau Catherine
Published: January 2018

Entrevoir dans ce texte des problématiques liées à l'expression cinématographique de la relation amoureuse. À l'intersection de la vie et du cinéma, il sera question de la rencontre et particulièrement de celle des images à travers la surimpression, du regard, du mouvement, de la construction de différentes temporalités, de (co)naissance.
Questionnement sur le sens de l'acoustique
Authors: Millot Laurent
Published: January 2018

La définition de l'Acoustique repose sur te principe de propagation d'ondes. En utilisant ce principe, de nombreux résultats intéressants peuvent être trouvés mais il subsiste des résultats expérimentaux qui ne sont toujours pas expliqués par la propagation d'ondes. En reconsidérant les origines de l'Acoustique, nous proposons un principe plus général qui devrait permettre d'expliquer ces phénomènes : les écoulements acoustiques. Mais, avec une approche aussi différente, la définition et les équations de l'Acoustique doivent être réexaminées et des principes doivent être abandonnés : principe de superposition, réponse impulsionnelle, fonction de transfert, modes propres, ... De plus, la comparaison avec les autres branches de la Physique, nous conduit à penser que la dualité ondes-corpuscules pourrait ne pas être pertinente : les ondes pourraient ne représenter, sous certaines conditions, qu'une approximation locale des phénomènes physiques, y compris peut-être en Mécanique Quantique !
Contribution à une redéfinition du cinéma
Authors: Leblanc Gérard
Published: January 2018

Le cinéma a connu de nombreuses transformations au cours de son histoire qui, toutes, ont provoqué des débats ontologiques. Mais nul ne prétendait, comme il en va aujourd'hui avec le numérique, que le cinéma allait disparaître. L'image de synthèse diffère de l'image analogique par ses caractéristiques techniques. Peut-on en déduire pour autant qu'elle a un statut ontologique différent ? L'auteur de cet article fait l'hypothèse qu'il existe une connivence fondamentale entre les deux ontologies. Il n'y a pas d'antagonisme entre le régime de la trace et celui du devenir image de toute image. Le passage au numérique porte la combinaison de ces deux régimes à un niveau supérieur de complexité. Elle nécessite une nouvelle ontologie du cinéma. Cet article en propose quelques éléments.
«Artiss» : de la crapule bourgeoise-romantique
Authors: Pelé Gérard
Published: January 2018

La perméabilité des frontières entre tes formes d'art est le cheval de Troie du néo-conformisme contemporain. La création contemporaine, qui tire globalement son modèle d'une approche «adoucie» de l'univers concentrationnaire - adoucie, mais favorable et quasi dédiée aux pires réajustements qu'elle garde toujours en sa réserve muséale permanente (musée en herbe, en grains, en poudre ou musée virtuel fondant l'illusion du partage intellectuel total) -, organise sa pérennité à travers deux axes croisés : un retrait mené jusqu'à l'invisibilité des créateurs au profit de leurs œuvres et la création d'une zone mentale, floue et mondiale, assimilable en tous points à ce qui doit être tenu pour la seule réalité économique planétaire viable et revendiquée comme telle. Car être invisible n'est pas pour autant ne pas occuper l'espace. Voire tout l'espace et sa représentation (sous une forme connue, inconnue ou à connaître) comprise. Car à travers la réification de l'individu et tout en s'appuyant sur la massification de ses désirs, l'art s'écrit aujourd'hui lui-même, comme Shakespeare le fit, un rôle auquel il a pris fortement goût en l'absence de discipline à laquelle la technologie de masse semble parfois conduire.
Trois jours en Grèce, de Jean-Daniel Pollet. Pour une poétique du fragment
Authors: Maury Corinne
Published: January 2018

Le film Trois jours en Grèce de Jean-Daniel Pollet est une promenade poétique et philosophique qui tresse dans un même élan cinématographique des gros plans sur des vases grecs antiques, un flux d’images de la guerre du Golfe, de longs travellings dans la maison du cinéaste en Provence ou encore une mise-en-voix d’un poème de Yannis Ritsos… Le cinéaste invite à un voyagemémoire morcelé, fait de miettes, d’allers-retours et de chemins de traverse. Par quelles figures cinématographiques Jean-Daniel Pollet parvient-il à réunir ces présences polymorphes, fragmentaires et souvent antagonistes en autant de vitalités poétiques ? Nouer le moderne et l’antique, rapprocher le lointain et le proche, faire dialoguer le béton et la pierre : tel un tisserand du temps et de l’espace, Jean-Daniel Pollet déstabilise ainsi notre regard et inquiète notre imaginaire.
Modernité et postmodernité : De l’isolement à l’éclatement dans le cadre (Blow up - Minority Report)
Authors: Labeyrie Nicolas
Published: January 2018

Le processus du découpage, dans son incarnation réflexive, peut morceler l’événement, le déconstruire. C’est précisément ce qui s’opère dans Blow up (Michelangelo Antonioni, GB, 1966) et

Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, USA, 2003), récits aux formes distinctes mais complémentaires, où la découpe travaille l’esthétique et la narration, par des hors-champs visuels et narratifs. Mais si la découpe interpelle, dans l’exemple de la modernité, les frontières du cadre, la perception englobante de l’espace dans la postmodernité procure un éclatement du regard, par l’usage du numérique et l’hybridation des textures d’images qui en découlent.
Grandes et petites “fenêtres“ des arts visuels. Mesure et démesure de la coupe
Authors: Maza Monique
Published: January 2018

The window, its use, its functions and its historical relationship to a renewal of the narrative representation in pictorial space, can be perceived as founder of cinematographic cutting. But today, while, of the space conquest muséal to that of the cyberspace, the cinema opens with diversified forms of audio-visual expression, the window remains present, as tallies, cut and other figures. The analysis of this persistence in the works located as well in traditional filmic proposals as in devices of installation or exposure of cinematographic flow will try to clarify constants of cuts and executives, but also of specificities related to an often reversed provision of space and time. It consequently becomes necessary to elucidate the points of passage on the occasion of which the function “ window” insufflates with the figure a new metaphorical dimension while conversely, the window, like reality, will be the occasion of new functions.
Espaces lacunaires
Authors: Bonnet François
Published: January 2018

Vacuity under three aspects. Three avatars, more than three points of view, aiming the same object. A sound installation, a "workless" picture and two meetings which have never happened. A simulacrum of materialization of the immaterial. Vacuity : erasing saturated landscapes, spelling memories, and digging up into the bodies. Vacuity bore everywhere. The germs of ruins and disaster come out from new holes like an other horizon.
La perversion du vide
Authors: Pelé Gérard
Published: January 2018

Amour : salissant ;

Cave : cavité, caveau, caverne ou cerveau ;

Désœuvrement : oiseau futile ;

Fille : s'y abîmer ;

Illusoire : creux vacant ;

Inframince : insipide fadeur imperceptible ;

Répétition : i genitori ;

Sens : pas de signification ni d'histoire ;

Sentiment : écraser les cloportes ;

Soulagement : maître des sens amante ;

Travail : récuser l'oppression ;

Verre : à remplir.
Vacance
Authors: Leblanc Gérard
Published: January 2018

The poetic state, without which poetry could not be written, categorically refuses to be reduced to easily-digested narrative chunks. Poetry is an enterprise which requires the decomposition and recomposition of subjectivity on its own terms. It is open to the essential as well as to the superfluous, to significance as well as to insignificance. It is thus close to silence, its only horizon, haunted by words and even by images.
Incidences de quelques progrès technologiques sur la capture de l’image
Authors: Martin Pascal
Published: January 2018

From its inception, photographic material has never ceased being developed and perfected. The length of exposure time has been reduced, resulting in a marked improvement in lens quality. After much research, the now indispensible zoom was invented. Increasingly sophisticated automated mechanisms help photographers take their pictures. The digital age and the progress made by micro-processors have rendered cameras more and more efficient and the aids to capturing the decisive moment ever more precise. Nowadays, these systems can be used to produce HD videos. This paper aims to analyse the best of these technological advancements and their repercussions on the ‘ decisive moment’.
La photographie est-elle encore moderne ?
Authors: Gunthert André
Published: January 2018

The digitization of photography is its most important technical mutation since the negative-positive process. However, within the professionnal field, this revolution seems invisible. There is a strong resistance against the manifestations of change, and a lot of misunderstandings. The fall of economic revenues is not caused by the concurrence of amateurs, but by the new indexicability of image contents on internet. The debate about retouching is hiding the advantages of versatility.
Quels modèles économiques pour les marchés de la photographie à l’heure du numérique ?
Authors: Sagot-Duvauroux Dominique
Published: January 2018

The closure of prestigious agencies confronts professional photographers with a serious crisis, creating a rapid decline of their incomes. The lack of respect for traditional business models in the industry, the competition of a low-cost market largely fuelled by the amateur photographs and the fact that financial globalisation puts pressure on agencies and broadcasters all contribute to this resulting situation. The only source of optimism for this occupation seems to be the developing market of photographic prints. However, photography has never been so present, produced in so much volume, and such a source of valuable creation, as today. Where is this value going ? And how to make sure that the people who create these pictures (photographers and agencies) obtain their fair share ?
De l’expression subjective directe
Authors: Leblanc Gérard
Published: January 2018

Il y aurait, dans la création, quelque chose qui ne relèverait pas de la création mais de l’horizon de vie du créateur. L’enjeu du film n’est pas le film comme activité séparée mais l’ensemble des interactions que le film construit avec la vie : celle des filmeurs, celle des filmés, celle des spectateurs (les personnes qui sont amenées à découvrir un film parce qu’ils partagent quelque chose avec lui).
Qui veut l’objet veut l’instrument
Authors: Pelé Gérard
Published: January 2018

Je voudrais proposer ce que, à mon sens, le terme “ musique” recouvre : 1. C’est une sorte de comportement nécessaire pour quiconque la pense et la fait ; 2. C’est un “pleroma” individuel, une réalisation ; 3. C’est un accomplissement sonore de virtualités imaginées (cosmologique, philosophique, …, raisonnements) ; 4. Elle est normative, ce qui, inconsciemment, est un modèle de l’être et du faire par “sympathie” (ou empathie) ; 5. Elle est catalytique : sa simple présence permet des transformations psychiques et mentales de la même manière que la boule de cristal de l’hypnotiseur ; 6. C’est le jeu gratuit d’un enfant ; 7. C’est un ascétisme mystique mais athée.
L’énonciation personnelle du film
Authors: Gantheret Lise
Published: January 2018

Cet article avance l’idée d’une énonciation personnelle au regard des réflexions théoriques menées sur l’énonciation impersonnelle par Christian Metz. Plusieurs idées sont issues des champs de la sémiologie, de la philosophie et de la communication. Visant à établir un modèle théorique interprétatif, précis et productif du cinéma autobiographique ou plus largement des films personnels, notre approche argumentative s’inspire de la sémiopragmatique tout en croisant d’autres logiques et niveaux d’analyse notamment en faisant appel à l’herméneutique développée par Paul Ricoeur et son travail sur l’ontologie de l’être, ainsi qu’au pacte autobiographique de Philippe Lejeune. Il s’inscrit dans le prolongement des réflexions de J. Mitry, E. Branigan, F. Jost, F. Cassetti, P. Ezquenazi, A. Gardies, Bill Nichols ou encore R. Dulong portant sur la subjectivité et le point de vue. L’article avance plusieurs pistes visant à résoudre les questions de la place du Sujet et de sa subjectivité dans un film en prenant en considération une lecture spectatorielle sur deux niveaux : textuelle and contextuelle.
Les « mises en regard » dans les films de Johan van der Keuken
Authors: Pierron-Moinel Marie-Josèphe
Published: January 2018

Johan van der Keuken considère le cinéma comme un art du visuel qui s’appuie sur les perceptions, et non comme un art du spectacle qui donne l’illusion au spectateur placé en position de fauteuil d’orchestre de tout voir et tout savoir sur la réalité présentée par le film. Ainsi ce cinéma que je désigne comme «cinéma du regard» se propose de filmer le réel tout en affichant le regard qu’il porte sur ce réel. Cette inscription de la subjectivité filmique dans une problématique du regard s’ouvre au niveau théorique sur une conception de «l’énonciation interactionnelle» qui rejoint et prolonge d’autres conceptions théoriques. (F. Casetti, C. Metz, R. Odin) Le sujet filmé / filmant (conception déictique) s’inscrit dans des conditions particulières de production (conceptions impersonnelles et sémio-pragmatiques) et s’ouvre à une interaction. (M. J. Pierron, 2010 : 201) L’espace de vie rejoint l’espace de filmage et de réception en plaçant le regard au centre des différentes interactions en jeu dans le film. L’édition intégrale des films de van der Keuken est disponible sur Arte boutique en 5 volumes.
Managing the Archives of the Hellenic Film and Television School
Authors: Dendramis Panagiotis
Published: January 2018

For the purposes of my dissertation concerning the evolution of Greek institutions that have provided education for future filmmakers and other professionals of the audiovisual sector, I had the opportunity to access the archives of the Hellenic Film and TV School «L. Stavrakos» . Being the oldest and most recognized institution of its kind in Greece, it has served for many years as the main source of professionals for its national film industry. Its archives consist of numerous documents on a variety of issues, such as detailed catalogues of students and faculty, notes on lessons, grades and diplomas. All this material, from the institute's foundation until today, has been preserved in a proper state thanks to its director’s care and interest, followed to an equal extent by its heirs.

Given the fact that academic research relating to Film Studies in Greece faces a notable difficulty to find archives of that kind on such a large scale and in such good condition, their importance can be easily understood. The combination of the information they provide, along with other testimonies and the few existing related bibliographical references, constitutes the main corpus of my study. Furthermore, the methodology used in processing the findings could be useful as an example for similar research attempts.