Exploring Image Culture Through Narrative： A Study on Jennifer Egan＇s Twitter Fiction Black Box

Notable for the completeness with which it surrenders formally and artistically to the textual dictates of Twitter, Jennifer Egan＇s 2012 short science fiction Black Box is one of the most triumphant and fully-fledged fictions written in the form of new media. This paper explores the Twitter narrative employed in Black Box, pointing out that the serialized tweeting format of the story released via computer, mobile phone, or other electronic equipments brings readers immediate reading experience, allowing readers to sense the same feelings as the protagonist does. Through the experimental serialization of＂Twitter＂ narrative, Egan expresses her concerns and worries about the security of the American security as well as the whole world in the post-＂9.11＂ period and at the same time she embraces the virtues and pleasures of traditional storytelling delivered through a wholly new digital format. This paper concludes that Black Box is perhaps one of the boldest experiments of narrative form and is direct exploration into the contemporary image culture.

Monster Image (in Horror Films) Made to Converge by Cyber Tech

By reviewing the contemporary films produced in the East and West, the author of this thesis makes a comparative study of monster image in horror films between the two worlds, and reveals the truth that monster image has been gradually transformed into convergence with the impact of modern computer-generated technology although the distinction of their respective cultural identities are still there. This shifting phenomenon also accounts for the influence of Internet technology and economic globalization on filmdom.

Effect of hydration film on scanning images of atomic force microscope

A standard calibration grating was used for image scanning to investigate the effect of hydration films on imaging resolution by Atomic Force Microscope （AFM）. The results showed that the hydration films greatly affect the imaging resolution for the tapping mode, but no evident effect on the contact mode, The possible reasons for the effect of hydration films on scanning images of AFM are also brought forward here.

Image Processing of Biological Liquids Films for Medical Diagnostics

In this paper, the development of smart medical autonomous technology is considered. An example of a smart medical autonomous distributed system for diagnostics is also discussed. To develop this system for medical image analysis we review several processing methods. The use of the cuneiform dehydration method for medical diagnosis is considered. The experimental results obtained for blood serum dehydrated films are presented. The author proposes an algorithm for the primary identification of structures formed in the films and their use for automated detection of various structures for diagnostic purposes. The paper describes the first stage of image processing, i.e. the selection of filtering types for the correct identification of structural features and characteristics of the images. The results of filtering and some computational results of various types of structures in the films are presented.

Analysis of the Characterization of the Old Man in“The Law of Life”from the Narrative Perspective

“The Law of Life”is one of Jack London’s representative works,depicting the story of an elderly Native American abandoned by his family,alone and waiting for life to fade away.This paper,based on narrative theory,aims to explore how the author employs narrative techniques to present the image of the old man in the short story.The narrative techniques of dual focalization and dual narrative timelines in the text demonstrate the abandonment of the old man’s homeland and his inescapable death under a naturalistic view of life and reflect a desolate life picture of resignation towards death under naturalistic determinism,depicting a grim elderly world under the naturalistic concept of“survival of the fittest.”Studying this short story helps us reflect on the living conditions of the elderly and provides insights into how to better care for the elderly population amid the global trend of aging.

Assessment of Radiotherapy Treatment Field on Portal Film Using Image Processing

Many factors contribute to the accuracy of delivered dose to patients in external-beam radiotherapy (EBRT). Although some of these factors can be checked by implementing suitable quality control procedures, the main aim was to assess the radiotherapy treatment filed on portal film using image processing technique in order to increase the accuracy of treatment delivery to the tumor by measuring the actual F/S, dose uniformity and penumbra size using portal film. This research is conducted at radiation therapy department, Khartoum Oncology Center (RICK), Khartoum state, Sudan, from July-2014 up to December-2014. The field size of each type of radiotherapy Co60 is measured as (9.4 × 9.4) cm and (9.1 × 9.1) cm, for linear accelerator machines it was 10 × 10 cm exactly as the reference field size, and there is no area reduced in linacs. The penumbra size for the two types of Co60 machine was measured also and it was 1.2 cm and 1.0 cm, and penumbra size of the linear accelerator machines was found to be 4 mm. The area of the field that received radiation by 100% was measured and it was 94.1% and 91.1% in Co60 and 100% for linear accelerator machine and that means linacs deliver the 100% of the dose to the useful field size. The dose percentage in the field for Co60 was 98.0% and 94.1% and thus the dose in the border of field 83.1% and 89.0% and it’s different in linacs because the dose percentage in the field was 78.4% and 78.4% and there is no measurable dose outside its field. Penumbra Co60 machines are relatively large which increase radiation dose to normal tissue and reduce the TCP, so calculation and accuracy of such calculation are necessary to the patient in term of NTCP.

Interpretations on the Rainbow’s Cultural Image From Literary Anthropology

A cultural image is a kind of cultural symbol and cognitive schema,which can make the national wisdom and historical memory get together.From the view of literary anthropology,the article applies quadruple-evidence approaches to interpret cultural images of rainbow multi-dimensionally and systematically in the field of the great tradition.Meanwhile,in order to break through the concealment and misleadingness of ancient documentary records,we need rely on the multi-ethnic living ethnography from generation to generation and jade Huang(玉璜,semi-annular jade pendant)narrative in the form of hierophany.So we can find that the rainbow represents luckiness,a bumper harvest,and sexual intercourse.Moreover,we conclude that faith in rainbow culture in ancient times is the headstream of faith in dragon culture that rooted in the heart of all Chinese.Hence,quadruple-evidence approaches play more significant roles in the reconstruction and rebuilding of Chinese great tradition’s view of culture than before.

Encountering Mandela on Screen： Transnational Collaboration in Mandela Image Production From 1987-2010

This article examines transnational collaboration in the production of Mandela＇s biopics and what it means for Mandela＇s self-image, for South African history, and for the globalization of human experience. The films covered in this discussion include： Mandela （1987）, Sarafina （1992）, Mandela and de Klerk （1997）, Goodbye Bafana （2007）, Endgame （2009）, and Invictus （2010）. The article examines the portrayals of Mandela as a lover, action hero, conciliator, and as a symbol of the anti-apartheid liberation struggle, and then focuses on Invictus, Clint Eastwood＇s adaptation of Carlin＇s book, Playing the Enemy to show the degree to which Mandela is incarnated on screen through Morgan Freeman＇s stunning performance while at the same time underscoring the dangers of Euro-American cultural production of Mandela＇s image. While Carlin＇s book employs reminiscences, flashbacks, and shifting chronology to expose the injustice, oppression and brutality that the Springboks symbolized, the film instead focuses on magnifying Mandela＇s image and charm at the expense of South African history, leading to the misrepresentation of Mandela： the ＂heroic self-transcendence＂ typical of Hollywood＇s shallow treatment of historical material for commercial and cultural expediency.

Application of Narration in QR Code Image Design

Narrative design was originated in the 20th century.As a kind of design thinking,it runs through various fields such as architecture,environment,and new media.The QR code design has gradually become a bridge for media integration design,and its importance is becoming increasingly obvious.An optimized QR code design may gradually replace the original LOGO of certain goods or brand.In this study,narration is embedded into the QR code design,and a new QR code design image is gradually constructed through three ways of planarization,spatialization,and narration.

The Narrative History of “Visualization”: The Value of Bookhart and Warburg’s Imagology Research

As various visual images,they can carry the function of recording and narrating history.Scholars from different fields will provide different interpretations of the same visual work within their own temporal and spatial perspectives,or supplement the connotations and extensions of the cultural,sociological,and many other aspects of them or their era’s imagery.Jacob Burckhardt(1818-1897),an outstanding cultural historian in 19th century Switzerland,made his own understanding and interpretation of iconography from the perspective of cultural history;Aby Warburg(1866-1929),an outstanding German art historian and cultural historian of the 20th century,hoped that his research on art history could provide a methodological reference for later generations in terms of material or spatial expansion.Whether through cultural or artistic history approaches,these great scholars in history have provided valuable epistemological perspectives for our academic research from the perspective of iconography,providing us with more academic perspectives and methodological possibilities for studying history and understanding the world.

Polarized Contradiction of the Female Image Created by Cao Yu --A Case Study of Fanyi

Cao Yu is an important and well-known playwright in the modern history of Chinese literature,who shapes many vivid and lively female images in his works,all of them presenting the split personality—on the one hand,they are beautiful and honest,as good as angels;on the other hand,they are crazy and insane.This paper attempts to center on the familiar female image Fanyi to analyze the writing psyche and imagination of the writer and further reveal the deep logic and immanent contradiction of the female image as the intent tool.

The Analysis of Narrative Skills in Young Goodman Brown

Young Goodman Brown is Hawthorn’s very important short story.However,many people may know little about it.The author believes that the narrative methods,the use of several images,and the characterization of the protagonist Goodman Brown are the three most important narrative skills in this story.Therefore,this study aims to analyze the story from these three aspects to help readers have a basic understanding of the story and its theme.Hawthorne uses the well-designed narration to elucidate the work perfectly and reveal the human’s original sin,which leads the readers to think of the sin and its horrible consequences further.

Image Reconstruction and the Reflection of Values in the Formation of National Traumatic Memories： A Review of Recent Anti-Japanese War Films and Teleplays in China

The cosmopolitan cultural behaviors employed by war films and teleplays in the reconstruction of national traumatic memories are worthy of understanding and respect. However, in present-day China, the quantity of Anti-Japanese War films and teleplays is abnormally high, and their values deeply enmeshed in a radical nationalism. The result is a general trend towards a ＂carnival of vengeful images.＂ Given the potential harms implicit in this situation, the question of just what kind of war narratives are appropriate for the contemporary circumstances of globalization should receive serious attention and reconsideration from society at large.

Research on emotion space of film and television scene images based on subjective perception

The premise of image emotion recognition is to determine its representative emotional adjectives and establish the quantifiable emotion space. In this paper, focusing on aroused emotion from film and television(TV) scene images, a method of selecting emotional adjectives and establishing the emotion space based on subjective perception experiment is proposed. Firstly, a special data set about film and TV scene images was established and a set of initial emotional adjectives was collected. Then the subjective perception experiment was designed to let subjects to evaluate the affection of all the initial adjectives during watching these scene images. Then the method of principal basis analysis was used for variable selection. Finally, the factor analysis was applied to accomplish the second dimension reduction to form a 5-dimensional(5 D) orthogonal emotion space. The optimized emotion space can explain more than 94% of original emotional adjectives, which greatly reduces the dimension of emotional adjectives and lays a foundation for the further research on image content and emotion recognition.

Enhanced CMOS image sensor by flexible 3D nanocone anti-reflection film

Complementary metal oxide semiconductor(CMOS) image sensors(CIS) are being widely used in digital video cameras, web cameras, digital single lens reflex camera(DSLR), smart phones and so on, owing to their high level of integration, random accessibility, and low-power operation. It needs to be installed with the cover glass in practical applications to protect the sensor from damage, mechanical issues,and environmental conditions, which, however, limits the accuracy and usability of the sensor due to the reflection in the optical path from air-to-cover glass-to-air. In this work, the flexible 3D nanocone anti-reflection(AR) film with controlled aspect ratio was firstly employed to reduce the light reflection at air/cover glass/air interfaces by directly attaching onto the front and rear sides of the CIS cover glass.As both the front and rear sides of cover glass were coated by the AR film, the output image quality was found to be improved with external quantum efficiency increased by 7%, compared with that without AR film. The mean digital data value, root-mean-square contrast, and dynamic range are increased by45.14%, 38.61% and 57, respectively, for the output image with AR films. These results provide a novel and facile pathway to improve the CIS performance and also could be extended to rational design of other image sensors and optoelectronic devices.

Image lithography in telluride suboxide thin film through controlling “virtual” bandgap

In this work, TeO_(0.7)thin films were prepared by the reactive magnetron-controlling sputtering method. Complex gray-scale patterns were successfully fabricated on TeO_(0.7)thin films through the laser direct writing method.The structural origin of TeO_(0.7)thin film was investigated for gray-scale pattern formation. It is found that multiple gray-scale levels are dependent on the "virtual" bandgap energy of TeO_(0.7)thin films. The bandgap energy changes lead to refractive index and reflectivity difference. Thus, gray-scale tones can be formed. By accurately controlling laser energy, various "virtual" bandgaps can be generated in TeO_(0.7)thin films, and colorful gray-scale levels can be formed. Experimental results indicate that TeO_(0.7)thin film can be used as micro/nano image writing material.

Image Contrast Inversion of a Solvent Cast SEBS Film

The image contrast inversion was investigated in detail when soft polymeric materials were imaged with tapping mode atomic force microscopy （TM-AFM）. Solvent cast film of polystyrene-block-poly（ethylene/butylene）block-polystyrene （SEBS） triblock copolymers was used as a model system in this study, which showed phase separation domains with a size of several tens of nanometers. AFM contrast reversal process, through positive image, to an intermediary and till negative image, could be clearly seen in height images of the soft block copolymer using different tapping force. The higher tapping force would lead to not only contrast inversion, but also the different size of the microdomains and different roughness of the images. Moreover, contrast inversion was explained on the basis of attractive and repulsive contributions to the tip-sample interaction and indentation of the soft domains.

Centimeter-sized Cs_(3)Cu_(2)I_(5)single crystals grown by oleic acid assisted inverse temperature crystallization strategy and their films for high-quality X-ray imaging

Low-dimensional halide perovskites have become the most promising candidates for X-ray imaging,yet the issues of the poor chemical stability of hybrid halide perovskite,the high poisonousness of lead halides and the relatively low detectivity of the lead-free halide perovskites which seriously restrain its commercialization.Here,we developed a solution inverse temperature crystal growth(ITCG)method to bring-up high quality Cs_(3)Cu_(2)I_(5)crystals with large size of centimeter order,in which the oleic acid(OA)is introduced as an antioxidative ligand to inhibit the oxidation of cuprous ions effieiently,as well as to decelerate the crystallization rate remarkalby.Based on these fine crystals,the vapor deposition technique is empolyed to prepare high quality Cs_(3)Cu_(2)I_(5)films for efficient X-ray imaging.Smooth surface morphology,high light yields and short decay time endow the Cs_(3)Cu_(2)I_(5)films with strong radioluminescence,high resolution(12 lp/mm),low detection limits(53 nGyair/s)and desirable stability.Subsequently,the Cs_(3)Cu_(2)I_(5)films have been applied to the practical radiography which exhibit superior X-ray imaging performance.Our work provides a paradigm to fabricate nonpoisonous and chemically stable inorganic halide perovskite for X-ray imaging.

图像资本的视觉叙事及其意识形态批判

在现代消费社会,随着表意图谱在视觉经验处的集结,图像借助视觉技术成功地实现了对社会再生产过程的全面占领,商品的生产、流通、消费都受制于图像逻辑的规制,图像就此完成其资本身份的社会性建构。在本质上讲,图像资本不是图像本身,而是一种以图像为中介的人与人之间的社会关系。图像资本通过制造“假象”意识形态,激活人们的伪欲望结构,为资本的剩余价值增殖提供源源不断的伪消费驱动。图像资本通过将影像编织成被隔离的“景观”意识形态世界,进而把资本意识形态统治纳入到无意识控制之中。图像资本通过对非实在的象征性的结构化“符号”意识形态的控制,来完成隶属于资本的能指意识形态的再生产过程。图像资本开启了意识形态直接物化的大门,建构了比现实还真实的超真实“场境”意识形态,使受众自愿地投入到资本意识形态的逻辑框架之中。从“假象”到“景观”、到“符号”再到“场境”,验证了马克思的政治经济学批判范式对于图像资本意识形态依然具有持续的解释力。

民族志动画中的跨越“在场”与记忆“再现”——基于湘西苗族仙娘仪式影像的实践反思

文化记忆是一个民族凝聚群体、实现文化认同的重要内核,其中族群仪式作为一种具体的文化行为深嵌于特定的社会情景场域,对集体记忆和文化记忆的构筑起到关键作用,一直是人类学研究的重要议题。民族志动画通过一套特别的视觉媒介符号体系进行知识生产与意义呈现,在表达回忆、经历等抽象经验方面可跨越“在场”时空屏障,为新时代的影视人类学提供新的范式实验和新的模态可能。基于湘西苗族仙娘仪式影像实践,通过与文化持有者开展互为主体性合作和反身性对话,可生成饱含原住民真切情感的民族志动画影像文本,在影像志的“抒写”中实现仪式记忆的“再现”与族群文化记忆的表达。