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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Deadpan"”.
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At Face Value: Investigating Perception Through Photographs
… people process their perception in imagery. The Deadpan Aesthetic, photographic truth and American identity are discussed, as well as the amount of influence a photographer has in his work. Since perception is defined as an understanding of setting via the senses, I hope to challenge viewers by …
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Irony in a second language: exploring the comprehension of Japanese speakers of English
… ‘basic’ (a kind of default, unmarked tone), ‘deadpan’ (with a narrower pitch range), and ‘exaggerated’ (with a wider pitch range). The results indicated that Japanese participants could perceive English prosodic structure in similar ways to native speakers and were affected by prosodic …
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Investigating the roles of Hes and Sox genes during embryogenesis of the spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum
… cascade in Drosophila melanogaster, whereas deadpan and Sox21B acts in the regulation of the neurogenic precursors in the same species. To broaden our understanding of the evolution and function of these genes, for this project, I studied them in the commonhouse spider P. tepidariorum: an …
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Making space: photographic traces of absence, stillness and the in-between in public spaces
… built structures. The visual language of the deadpan aesthetic is an important aspect of my work, and I elaborate on and explore “neutral” and “objective” ways of seeing. I consider a selection of photographers to establish various ways in which imagemakers use a formalistic photographic …
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The perception of expressive movement in music performance
… between different expressive manners (deadpan, projected, and exaggerated) and that the movement stimulus provides information equivalent to sound. Systematic reduction of the amount of point-light information shows certain body joints to be more significant than others in conveying …
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Towards an understanding of the role of Ca2+ signalling in neural stem cell activation
… NSCs as some of them expressed the NSC marker, deadpan. In rodents, adult NSCs are astrocytes that can be triggered into proliferation by brain hyperactivation. I have found that hyperactivation of astrocytes, but not neurons, triggers cell cycle re-entry in the adult Drosophila brain. The cells …
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Jokes from the Gallows
<p>The following story and introduction focus on compassion. I explore this theme through comedy, specifically dark humor, as a way of talking about some of the darkest times a person can experience and how compassion from others can help in those moments. The main character of the story works as a …