I Am Big, It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Sound Technologies and Franz Waxman’s Scores for Sunset Boulevard (1950) and The Twilight Zone’s “The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine” (1959) [PDF]
Franz Waxman composed over 150 film scores, the most famous of which is Billy Wilder’s film noir Sunset Boulevard (1950). The film plot bears a striking resemblance to Rod Serling’s teleplay for The Twilight Zone, “The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine” (1959 ...
Reba Wissner
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OClO as observed by TROPOMI: a comparison with meteorological parameters and polar stratospheric cloud observations [PDF]
Chlorine dioxide (OClO) is a by-product of the ozone-depleting halogen chemistry in the stratosphere. Although it is rapidly photolysed at low solar zenith angles (SZAs), it plays an important role as an indicator of the chlorine activation in polar ...
J. Puķīte +4 more
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Challenging the Love Triangle in Twenty-First-Century Fantastic Young Adult Literature
From Stephenie Meyers’ Twilight (2005-2008) to Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games (2008-2010), the love triangle is a controversial but pervasive feature of 21st-century fantastic YA literature. The setup and outcome rarely vary: a female protagonist must
Stephanie Lyttle
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The Outer Limits, by Joanne Morreale
Netflix’s Black Mirror (2011–present) is often compared to The Twilight Zone (1959–1964) for its thoughtful science fiction (SF) commentary on contemporary society.
Mehdi Achouche
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Pygmy Blue Whale Diving Behaviour Reflects Song Structure
Passive acoustic monitoring is increasingly employed to monitor whales, their population size, habitat usage, and behaviour. However, in the case of the eastern Indian Ocean pygmy blue whale (EIOPB whale), its applicability is limited by our lack of ...
Andrew M. Davenport +5 more
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Optical Night-Sky Brightness at Mauna Kea over the Course of a Complete Sunspot Cycle [PDF]
We have produced a data base of V-band and B-band night-sky brightness measurements rather evenly spread out over the course of a whole sunspot cycle from September 1985 to August 1996.
Krisciunas, K.
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We address the problem of semantic nighttime image segmentation and improve the state-of-the-art, by adapting daytime models to nighttime without using nighttime annotations.
Dai, Dengxin +2 more
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Interference filter spectral imaging of twilight O+(2P-2D) emission [PDF]
A spectral imager specifically designed to measure the O+(2P-2D) emission in the thermosphere during twilight has been constructed and tested in Toronto (43.8°N, 79.3°W), and found to show promise for long-term and campaign-mode operations.
Y. Ma +5 more
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Three years of experience with the STELLA robotic observatory [PDF]
Since May 2006, the two STELLA robotic telescopes at the Izana observatory in Tenerife, Spain, delivered an almost uninterrupted stream of scientific data.
Granzer, Thomas +2 more
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MASE: A New Data--Reduction Pipeline for the Magellan Echellette Spectrograph [PDF]
We introduce a data reduction package written in Interactive Data Language (IDL) for the Magellan Echellete Spectrograph (MAGE). MAGE is a medium-resolution (R ~4100), cross-dispersed, optical spectrograph, with coverage from ~3000-10000 Angstroms.
Bernstein, Rebecca A. +9 more
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