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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Caricature"”.
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Caricature generator
… of faces which may be metrically very similar. caricature is a graphical coding of facial features which seeks to be more like the face than the face itself: selected information is exaggerated, noise is reduced, and the processes involved in recognition are exploited. After studying the methods …
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Propagation Failure in Discrete Inhomogeneous Medium Using a Caricature of the Cubic
Spatially discrete Nagumo equations have widespread physical applications, including modeling electrical impulses traveling through a demyelinated axon, an environment typical in multiple scle- rosis. We construct steady-state, single front solutions by employing a piecewise linear reaction term. …
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"""To take for truth the test of ridicule"": Public perceptions, political controversy, and English political caricature, 1815-1821"
… structure of the country. The contemporary caricatures which satirically and sometimes savagely attacked the government, however, indicate that a variety of beliefs and traditional concepts helped to form public perceptions about the causes and implications of large-scale domestic …
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Face Verification with Veridical and Caricatured Images using Prominent Attributes
Caricatures, with their exaggerated features, offer a surprisingly efficient means for individuals to recognize each other compared to veridical (real) images. However, it is still a difficult task in machine learning to match veridical images to caricatures. This is due to the poor quality of …
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By the Same Spirit: Edwardsean Pneumatology in the Younger Edwards
… abstractions. Accordingly, this received caricature describes Edwards Jr. as distorting the Edwardsean legacy. This negative caricature of Edwards Jr was produced by the early liberalism of the civil war era and has stuck to Edwards Jr. for nearly two hundred years. This thesis provides a …
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Looking for a Simplicity Principle in the Perception of Human Walking Motion
… link this finding to perception we turn to the caricature effect that subjects can identify caricatures of familiar stimuli more accurately than veridicals. Our design was to compare walker caricatures generated in our two schemes in the hope of finding that one gives caricatures that benefit …
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La figurine cisanthrope - Humanité liminale et contagion affective dans le cinéma d'animation
… is able to call upon the array of studies on caricature perception to build a new understanding of animated character design, summed up into a type of character called cisanthropic figurine.
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Face Value
… sculptural ceramic work I use the human face in caricature to playfully parody both the contradictions between literal and ambiguous interpretations of terms in the English language, and how we function in society surrounded by human stereotypes and the language generated by those stereotypes. I …
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Pictures in the substantiation of organisation: a study of radiology
… seen on the radiograph is based on the notion of caricature. This implies that the person who can interpret a radiograph is able to “see” in it the embodiment of some image which may be completely obscure to the uninitiated. Caricature interpretation is fundamental to constituting the …
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The "Aesthetic" of the Blues Aesthetic
… the often-counterintuitive influence of racial caricature on the verse practices of black writers and performance artists in the blues tradition. Chapter 4, which builds on these insights, reassesses the formal practices of blues poets. Chiastic polyrhythms, blues-sonnet hybrids, and …
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Mimosmluvní instituty užití autorského díla: výjimky, omezení, public domain a související problematika generativní AI
… (TDM), and pastiche as part of the licence for caricature, parody or pastiche. Generative AI is discussed mainly in connection with the TDM statutory licence, and the legal nature of AI-generated outputs is also analysed. The thesis employs descriptive and analytical methods and draws on Czech …
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Nuclear nightmares: representations of nuclear anxiety in American Cold War visual culture
… game series Fallout can be seen to create a caricature of government propaganda seen during the Cold War and eventually move away from the contextually representative norms of previous nuclear apocalyptic culture. This work's contribution to knowledge in the subject of history is the study of …
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Rhetorical gestures in British elocutionism
… Austin and others, the gesture exceeds its caricature in histories of rhetoric: an ancillary, if “detached” mechanism for the coercion of audience. Instead, the gesture produces meaning as it promotes appeal. It recommends presence as an inventional resource, and moving-with as a means to …
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Criticism and censorship in the South African "alternative" Press with particular reference to the cartoons of Bauer and Zapiro (1985-1990)
… practice whose genealogy can be traced back to caricature. This paper does not concern itself with the diversity that can be found in the cartoons of Derek Bauer and Jonathan Shapiro (Zapiro), but rather chooses to focus on the potential of cartooning as a critical art practice. Given that the …
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New races, new media : the struggle for a modern American art, 1890-1925
… even improvements in the graphic reproduction of caricature in newspapers - provoked uncertainty in the art world. This dissertation explores the intersections of these two trajectories in period artworks and debates about artistic medium, examining how notions of America as a diverse nation …
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Girl of Color-Power: Resisting the Neoliberal Girl Power Agent
… phrase, a motto: girl power is a representative caricature of evolving conceptualizations of girlhood. This dissertation is critical of the homogeneity implicit in girl power as its hailing disproportionately centers white, middle and upper class girls. As such, this project examines the myriad …
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Monstrous 'Others': The Legacy of Race, Hybridity, and Intersectionality in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
… are more than just flat stereotypes or mere caricature. Instead, they are so complex, so compelling, so nuanced, that they demand reinterpretation. The final chapter will explore three twentieth- and twenty-first-century texts that have adapted and updated the characters: Victor LaValle’s …
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Does democracy deliver? : an analysis of the debate on the relationship between development and democracy
… that African scholars have created a contestable caricature of the Western canon which denies the possibility that African scholars and Western theorists have much in common. However, African scholars do not attempt to contribute to the evolution of the analysis on the relationship between …
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A CRITICAL OLD-SPELLING EDITION OF APHRA BEHN'S "THE CITY HEIRESS"
… most noted for its satire of the Whigs and its caricature of The Earl of Shaftesbury, but more important as Behn's most definitive statement about women. In this play, employing what Laura Brown calls "dramatic social satire," Behn reverses the comic resolution one usually finds in Restoration …
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Decadent Sociability and Material Culture at the Fin de Siècle: 'A Genius for Friendship'
… process can be seen in the exchange of decadent caricature as part of the fin-de-siècle gift economy. Finally, the thesis examines publishers and the business side of decadent publishing as vital and revealing components of decadent sociability. Rather than viewing publishers as purely commercial …
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