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Retirement is the perfect time to travel the country, enjoy the grandkids—and solve some murders... Retired robbery/homicide detective Hank Moran and his wife, Helen, are off on another adventure darting around the country in their motorhome. They'd like to make a stop in Amish country—just a little detour on their way to the White House, where they've been invited for dinner with the president as well as the senator whose life Hank recently saved. But most of all they look forward to spending time with their grandson Chip, and taking him on a pleasant weekend fishing trip to a Louisiana state park. But Chip hooks into something a bit more interesting than a five-pound bass...

본 연구는 영화 및 TV 드라마 오프닝 타이틀에 적용된 모 션그래픽 디자인이 의미를 생산하는 방식을 찰스 샌더스 퍼 스(Charles Sanders Peirce)의 기호학 이론에 기반하여 분석 하였다. 초기 영화 오프닝은 단순한 정보 전달에 머물렀으나, 기술과 디자인의 발전을 통해 오늘날 오프닝은 서사, 주제, 정서를 압축적으로 전달하는 독립적 예술 형식으로 진화하였 다. 따라서 오프닝의 의미작용 방식을 독립 장르로서 이해할 필요가 있다. 본 연구는 문헌 조사, 기호학적 분석, 사례 연구, 시각적 내용 분석을 종합적으로 활용하였다. 분석 틀로는 퍼 스의 삼원론(도상, 지표, 상징)을 적용하였으며, 분석 대상으 로 모션그래픽 기법이 활용된 영화 캐치 미 이프 유 캔(2002) 과 TV 드라마 퓨드(2017)의 오프닝을 선정하였다. 이들 오프 닝에 나타난 시각적 요소, 운동 효과, 장면 구성을 다각도로 살피고, 요소 간 상호작용을 심층적으로 분석하였다. 이를 통 해 두 작품의 오프닝은 각각의 시각 요소가퍼스의 기호학 범 주에 따라 유기적으로 결합되어 작품의 주요 서사 구조와 정 서를 효과적으로 전달하고 있음을 확인하였다. 결론적으로 본 연구는 퍼스 기호학을 활용한 분석이 모션그래픽 오프닝 의 의미 생성 구조를 해석하는 데 효과적인 이론적 틀을 제공 함을 입증하였으며, 나아가 오프닝이 서사적 함의와 감정적 긴장의 단서를 제시하는 함축적인 장치로서 기능하며, 모션 그래픽은 이를 시각적으로 조직하는 주요 매개체로 작용한다 는 사실을 확인하였다. 이러한 분석은 오늘날의 영상 커뮤니 케이션 연구의 흐름 속에서 시각 디자인 이론의 적용 범위를 확장하고 오프닝의 내러티브적·정서적 가능성에 대한 학문적 논의를 심화하는 데 기여할 것으로 기대된다.

Objective: Predicting whether children with pre-pubertal short stature will achieve catch-up growth to a normal height or remain short remains a clinical challenge. As body composition plays a vital role in growth, we aimed to compare longitudinal body composition changes in children with short stature who either achieved normal height by the onset of the growth spurt or remained short. Methods: This longitudinal, retrospective, cross-sectional, cohort study analyzed anthropometric and body composition data of children aged 8 and 12 years, allowing for both longitudinal tracking and cross-sectional comparisons. Participants were categorized into three groups: short-to-short statured (short stature at 8 and 12 years, n=177), short-to-normal statured (short stature at age 8 and normal stature at 12, n=90), and control (normal stature at both ages, n=7,195). Height, weight, body fat mass (BFM), skeletal muscle mass (SMM), body mass index (BMI), BFM index (BFMI), and SMM index (SMMI) were assessed. Growth variations were examined using a difference-in-difference estimator. Results: Cross-sectional analysis showed the short-to-short group had significantly lower weight, BFM, SMM, BMI, BFMI, and SMMI compared to controls at both ages. Longitudinally, the short-to-normal group exhibited significantly greater increases in height [0.87 and 0.95 standard deviation scores (SDS) for boys and girls, respectively], weight (0.59 and 0.68 SDS), and SMMI (0.75 and 0.50 SDS) compared to the short-to-short group. However, BFMI increases were not significant. Conclusion: Children with pre-pubertal short stature who achieved a normal height showed the most significant increase in SMMI. Children with lower increases in SMMI may require further assessment for continued short stature.

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Winner of the 2020 European Union Prize for Literature, Lana Bastašić's powerful debut novel Catch the Rabbit is an emotionally rich excavation of the complicated friendship between two women in a fractured, post-war Bosnia as they venture into the treacherous terrain of the Balkan wonderlands and their own history.It's been twelve years since inseparable childhood friends Lejla and Sara have spoken, but an unexpected phone call thrusts Sara back into a world she left behind, a language she's buried, and painful memories that rise unbidden to the surface. Lejla's magnetic pull hasn't lessened despite the distance between Dublin and Bosnia or the years of silence imposed by a youthful misunderstanding, and Sara finds herself returning home, driven by curiosity and guilt. Embarking on a road trip from Bosnia to Vienna in search of Lejla's exiled brother Armin, the two travel down the rabbit hole of their shared past and question how they've arrived at their present, disparate realities.As their journey takes them further from their homeland, Sara realizes that she can never truly escape her past or Lejla—the two are intrinsically linked, but perpetually on opposite sides of the looking glass. As they approach their final destination, Sara contends with the chaos of their relationship. Lejla's conflicting memories of their past, further complicated by the divisions brought on by the dissolution of Yugoslavia during their childhoods, forces Sara to reckon with her own perceived reality. Like Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend, Catch the Rabbit lays bare the intricacies of female friendship and all the ways in which two people can hurt, love, disappoint, and misunderstand one another.

Long-term continuous datasets that record fishery catch are key to predicting and managing changes in fisheries. Unfortunately, long-term datasets are rare for recreational fisheries, which hinders our ability to understand long-term changes within these fisheries. Here we use several unconventional long-term datasets, including tournament and tagging program data, to assess changes in catch composition over time in the Australian east coast marlin fishery. We found significant changes to the species and size composition of species within the fishery over time. In the 1930s, catch was solely comprised of striped (Kajikia audax) and black (Istiompax indica) marlin. Black marlin proportionally dominated the fishery in the 1940s to 1980s, but the proportions of blue (Makaira nigricans) and striped marlin increased significantly from the 1980s until present. Currently, the fishery is comprised of primarily striped and black, and to a lesser extent blue marlin. Declines in the mean weight of black and striped marlin were also evident from the 1930s to 1980s. Technological advances improving offshore access may have driven changes in species composition. Our results demonstrate a potential change in technology and gear reshaping species composition within a fishery. This highlights how recreational fisheries, particularly those offshore, have changed with the technology over time, and the potential for future technological to dramatically alter recreational fisheries globally.Graphic abstract: