scholarly journals Spiral, Slasher, and Sequel: Case of "Happy Death Day" (2017) and "Happy Death Day 2U" (2019)

Panoptikum ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 128-143
Author(s):  
Radomír D. Kokeš
Keyword(s):  
Closed Loop ◽  
Solution Process ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Problem Solution ◽  
General Hypothesis ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
The Aesthetic

This article focuses on the films Happy Death Day (2017) and Happy Death Day 2U (2019). Both handle the spiral narrative, which is recognised by the article as a specific storytelling pattern with a protagonist stuck in an iterative segment of space, time and causality – and this protagonist is not only fully aware of this situation but also tries to deal with it. What for other unaware characters is a closed loop is for the protagonist an open experience with an odd number of turns of time spiral. The spiral narrative is known mostly from high-budget films such as Groundhog Day (1993) or Edge Of Tomorrow (2014). Nevertheless, as the article explains, it occurs in dozens of other theatrical films, VOD films, television films or television shows. However, what are the reasons why, when there is an extensive set of works to choose from, does the article take just the doublet of Happy Death Day films? (1) On their example, the article discusses the author’s general hypothesis about spiral narrative works as a series of applications of the innovative narrative schema as an aesthetic tool. Such a hypothesis consists of three broader dimensions: (a) the aesthetic dimension, i.e. the spiral schema as a part of the art work; (b) the creative dimension, i.e. the spiral schema as part of the problem-solution process of filmmaking; (c) the production dimension, i.e. the spiral schema as a part of the competition of audiovisual production. (2) An even more important reason, though, for selecting just these two films has been the fact that Happy Death Day 2U is a sequel of Happy Death Day. In the „post-classical era” of global franchises, sequels, prequels, remakes, reboots and transmedia storytellings, this does not seem to be exceptional. However, in the context of the spiral narrative, this is an unprecedented step that raises several questions the article asks.

MANIPULATING PLANAR SHAPES WITH A LIGHT-SENSITIVE EXCITABLE MEDIUM: COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES OF CLOSED-LOOP SYSTEMS

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (08) ◽  
pp. 2333-2349 ◽  
Author(s):  
SERGEY SKACHEK ◽  
ANDREW ADAMATZKY ◽  
CHRIS MELHUISH
Keyword(s):  
Closed Loop ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Excitable Medium ◽  
Computational Studies ◽  
Wave Fronts ◽  
Nonlinear Media ◽  
Time Dynamics ◽  
Distributed Manipulation ◽  
Closed Loop Systems ◽  
Planar Shapes

We study how to employ space-time dynamics in nonlinear media to achieve distributed manipulation of objects — positioning, orienting and transporting objects by wave-fronts and patterns in excitable medium. We present the results of computational experiments of a massive parallel actuator controlled by a cellular-automaton model of an excitable medium. The model incorporates closed-loop actuation where sites of the medium can be excited not only by their closest neighbors but also by the edges of the manipulated object. We analyze motion of basic planar shapes (either initially aligned along axes or randomly oriented) induced by an actuator controlled by excitable lattice with various excitation rules. We demonstrate that space-time excitation dynamics in discrete nonlinear media bears a huge potential in terms of sensible nontrivial manipulation of planar shapes.

scholarly journals Closed-loop MIMO transceiver with space-time multilayer transmit selection

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 963-978
Author(s):  
André L. F. de Almeida ◽  
Ícaro L. J. da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Closed Loop ◽  
Space Time

scholarly journals Participation of the Public in Central and Local Governance: Principles, Statistics and European Experiences for Ukraine

2019 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
V. М. Semianovskyi
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Solution Process ◽  
Problem Solution ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
Society Business ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Soviet Union

Issues of the effective participation and cooperation of the civil society in power bodies have been a central social problem of the globe in the latest times. Although theoretical issues of participatory governance have been well developed and widely implemented, e. g. in business sector, cooperation of Power and Community pose a serious problem in the world and Ukraine in particular. The effectiveness of cooperation between Power and the civil society is downgraded by the issue the current condition of both parties, the quality of their work and their mutual trust. Also, it needs to be born in mind that this problem is a part of the triangle Power – Society – Business, and that the external environment has significant impact in the conditions of globalization. Given the Ukrainian context, it should be considered that the power system here was inherited from the Soviet Union. It is incompatible with the present-day realities, and its reform has been so far ineffective. The data from the State Statistics Service of Ukraine (SSSU) show the vast numbers of officials in local governance and central power bodies, picked up in industry-like administrative departments. The bulky apparatus of public governance being streamlined on the problem solution process in economic industries, social problems, not mentioning the ones of individual humans, can be looked at only before elections.   On the other hand, according to SSSU, Ukraine has a network of rather diverse public organizations, but their total number is small. According to Eurostat, quantitative and qualitative parameters of the civil society in Ukraine lag far behind the European ones. A diversity of goals, weak consolidation of efforts, resources and methods for solving the most important problems are factors complicating the cooperation between Power and Community. Theoretical and practical aspects of the problem related with cooperation of Power and the civil society have been elaborated in Europe since long. Advanced principles and various technologies for its solution have been proposed and implemented. The first typology of the public participation in form of “public participation staircase” was admittedly made by researcher Sh. R. Arnstein. She broke the staircase into the three levels: non-participation, symbolic participation, public power. To boost the effectiveness of collaborative action, the European community has elaborated the Code of recommended norms for the participation of the public in taking public decisions. In fact, this technology is the standard of cooperation between Power and Community in Europe.   The need for reform of the system for cooperation of power bodies with the civil society in Ukraine by use the European experience of cooperation is substantiated. The issues of goals, principles, methods and phases of cooperation between the power and the society, their advantages and drawbacks are highlighted.

Study of Supervised Segmentation Algorithm Based on Ant Colony for Putamen Region in Brain MRI

2011 ◽  
Vol 340 ◽  
pp. 357-362
Author(s):  
Xiao Jun Liu ◽  
En Qing Dong ◽  
Cheng Lin Lv ◽  
Xiao Yang Li ◽  
Bo Cui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ant Colony Algorithm ◽  
Brain Mri ◽  
Solution Process ◽  
Search Space ◽  
Segmentation Algorithm ◽  
Ant Colony ◽  
Object Function ◽  
Snake Model ◽  
General Hypothesis ◽  
Supervised Segmentation

A supervised segmentation algorithm based on ant colony for putamen region in brain MRI is proposed. Since the variance of the putamen template and the searching contour is adopted as the object function, the solution process for the supervised ant colony algorithm model proposed is transformed as the process of the minimum of the object function, or as the optimal searching path problem in the search space. A new scheme for finding search space is proposed, and discusses how to decide the optimal searching scheme. By a general hypothesis for the template, the solution process for the problem is described in detail. A great deal of experimental results show that the supervised segmentation algorithm based on ant colony proposed is better than the Fuzzy c-Mean segmentation, region growth segmentation, GVF(Gradient Vector Flow) Snake model segmentation and the basic ant colony segmentation in the shape of the real template, the shape comparability between adjoining slices and the continuity in single slice. Moreover, the convergence speed of the proposed algorithm is the fastest than the others.

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