Are anti-vibration gloves the solution to the problem of hand-arm vibration?Vibrations from hand-held machinery are a major problem in the Swedish labour force. In 2009, 14% of men and 3% of women of employed in Sweden reported exposure to hand-arm vibration at least a quarter of their working time according to the Swedish Work Environment Authority (Arbetsmiljöverket 2010). It is tempting to imag

In the ancient corpus of Aesopic fables gods and semi-gods from Greek and Roman mythology often appear. Most commonly Zeus is called upon by fable characters such as the donkey, the snake, and the turtle, all of them pleading for a better destiny. Frequent main characters, rather often promoting their own interests in the fable fictions, are also Hera, Herakles, Apollo, and Hermes. The high esteem

Contents: Ingmar Bergman as "Ingmar Bergman" (Jan Holmberg), THX 1138: A Portrait of the Artist as an Angry Young Man (Andrew Gordon), Shamans, Sex Beasts and Abuse: Mother-Son Relationships in Popular and Cult Cinema (Charles Jason lee), Neo-Splatter: Bride of Chucky and the Horror of Heteronormative (Judith Halberstam), The Irrational Enlargement of Queen Kong (IQ Hunter), Pictures of the Lands

Contents: Editorial (Michael Tapper), Errol Morris' Forms of Control (Ira Jaffe), Masao Adachi: Portrait of a Radical in Cinema and Politics (Johannes Schönherr), Paranoia Pictures Presents... (Michael Coyne), The Heroism of Disobediance and Deceit: Where Is the Friend's Home? (Robin Wood). Reviews: books, dvds, film festivals.

Contents: Women, Religion and the Video Film in Nigeria (Onookome Okome), Craig Baldwin: A Visual Essay (Patrik Sjöberg), Revenge Is Sweet: The Bitterness of Audition (Robin Wood), British Film Noir: Dark Shadows Around Pinewood and Ealing (Robert Murphy), Heroes: Otto Preminger (Tag Gallagher). Reviews: books, dvds.

Bark beetles face challenges and trade-offs during host selection, imposed by lethal tree defences, lower nutrition and higher competition in less well-defended trees, scarcity and ephemeral distribution of susceptible hosts, limitation of suitable hosts to one beetle generation, and relatively short lifespan and vulnerability of adults during host searching. Beetles contend with these challenges

Contents: Editorial (Michael Tapper), The Corporation: Interview with the Filmmakers (Eija Niskanen), Claire Denis: Cinema of Transgression 1:2 (Robin Wood), Fueled by Enthusiasm: Interview with V.F. Perkins (Jeffrey Crouse), Taiwanese Triads: Mahjong and Goodbye, South, Goodbye (Gina Marchetti). Reviews: books, dvds, films.

Contents: Larry Cohen: Film Crazy - An Interview (Patrick McGilligan), Fucking Monsters: Post-Apocalyptic Desire in Tim Roths The War Zone (Charles Jason Lee), Only (Dis)Connect and never Relaxez-Vous Or, I Can't Sleep: Claire Denis - Cinema of Transgressiom 2:2 (Robin Wood), I Bollywood an Imitation of Hollywood?: Western Media Influence on The Indian Movie Industry (Soo Ye Hoo), Shakespeare in T

Contents: Planet Osaka: Independent Japanese Film (Johannes Schönherr), Interview with Walter Hill: Last Man Standing (Patrick McGilligan), False Criticism: Cinema and the Conservative Critique of Bourgeois Society (Christopher Sharrett), Hollywood/Taiwan: Connections, Countercurrents and Ang Lee's Hulk (Gina Marchetti), Louise Brooks: The Martyrdom of Lulu (Dan Callahan). Reviews: film festivals.

Contents: Editorial (Michael Tapper), The Landscape of Memories in the Films of the Kaurismäki Bros (Tytti Soila), Futurist Fears of the Machine (Daniel Lindvall), The War Game - The Controversy (Patrick Murphy), Interview with Lloyd Kaufman (Xavier Mendik), William Gibson and the "Garage Kubrick" (John Baxter). Reviews: books, films.

Affective forecasting is an ability that allows the prediction of the hedonic outcome of never-before experienced situations, by mentally recombining elements of prior experiences into possible scenarios, and pre-experiencing what these might feel like. It has been hypothesised that this ability is uniquely human. For example, given prior experience with the ingredients, but in the absence of dire

Contents: Against and for Irreversible (Robin Wood), War and Images: 9-11 (Evans Chan), Interview with Alvin Sargent: Pursuit and Destination (Patrick McGilligan), Lettin His Wish Provide the Occasion: Fred Astaire in Top Hat (Jeffrey Crouse), Samuel Fuller (Tag Gallagher). Reviews: books, dvds, films.

Contents: Editorial (Michael Tapper), Ingmar Bergman's Writings and Films (Maaret Koskinen), The Perfect Money Machine(s): George Lucas and Steven Spielberg (Jon Lewis), Genre Films and Cultural Myth (Barry Keith Grant), Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder and Postwar American Cinema (William Rothman), Peter Watkins: Culloden x 2 (Nicholas J Cull/John R Cook). Reviews: books, films.

Special issue on crime fiction film & tv. Contents: Editorial (Michael Tapper), Not "Another Bloody Cop Show": Life on Mars and British Television Drama (James Chapman), Clowns, Crimes and Capital: Popular Crime-Comedies in Post-Crisis Korea (Jinying Li), "It's a Fine Line Between Safety and Terror": Crime and Anxiety Re-Drawn in Spooks (Paul Cobley), Buddies, Bitches, Broad: The British Femal

The release of toxic gases due to natural/industrial accidents or terrorist attacks in populated areas can have tragic consequences. To prevent and evaluate the effects of these disasters different approaches and modelling tools have been introduced in the literature. These instruments are valuable tools for risk managers doing risk assessment of threatened areas. Despite the significant improveme