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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"External features"”.
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Disguising external features affects identification accuracy in video identification lineups
… hair and majority of the face. The presence of external features and maintaining the context in which a face was first seen have both been found to facilitate unfamiliar face recognition (Walker-Smith, 1978; Cutler, Penrod & Martens, 1987; Henderson, Bruce & Burton, 2001; O’Donnell & Bruce, …
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Effect of the Muslim Headscarf on Face Perception. A series of psychological experiments looking at how the Muslim headscarf influences the perception of (South Asian) faces.
The Muslim headscarf conceals the hair and other external features of a face. For this reason it may have implications for the recognition of such faces. The experiments reported in this thesis aimed to investigate anecdotal reports, which suggested that headscarf wearing females are more difficult …
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The origin, interrelationship and distribution of Southern African Rajidae (Chondrichthyes, Batoidei)
… advocate the use of characters, other than external features, the most reliable being the clasper anatomy, neurocranial structure and vertebral count, and these principles have been applied in the present revision.
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The Social Network and Attachment Bases of Loneliness
… and a separate portion is derived from the external features of one's social network integration.
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The Cape government's rule of Basutoland, 1871-1883
… were proving themselves adept at learning the external features of a different civilization while still aligning tenaciously to traditional ideas and forms. Watching over these two major participants was the British Colonial Office, balancing, often precariously, between two opposite policies – …
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Learning driver gaze
… this thesis, we 1) study the impact of various external features on driver attention, and 2) present a two-path deep-learning model that exploits both static and dynamic information for modeling driver gaze. Our model shows promising results against state-of-the-art saliency models, especially …
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The workhome... a new building type?
… social class, trends can be noted in the layout, external features and patterns of use. This suggests that it is possible to devise a new lexicon of such buildings.
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The Influence of the Observer-Actor Relationship on Causal Attributions for Behaviors
… positivity of behaviors were consistent, but to external features of the environment or to internal, variable actor characteristics when liking and behavior positivity were inconsistent. Participants wrote reactions to behaviors performed by an actor at one of 10 levels of acquaintance. …
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Systematics and taxonomy of polyclad flatworms with a special emphasis on the morphology of the nervous system
… USA. All taxonomic work was based on major external features and serial sagittal sections of the reproductive system. Finally, the central nervous systems (CNS) of 12 species of polyclad flatworms belonging to 11 families were examined using traditional light microscopic techniques. Even …
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Where is the mind of the media editor? An analysis of editors as intermediaries between technology and the cinematic experience
… on the location of the mind: internalism and externalism. In cinema, the role of editor as mediator between the cognitive activities of filmmakers, audiences and the editing equipment, makes their practice particularly suited for investigating these two seemingly incompatible views. When …
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Visualisation of Spatio-Temporal Information on the Flight Deck
… location awareness in areas with few salient external features. Flying accuracy showed no difference between with or without the extended reality support. An explorative data analysis of commercial flight trajectories revealed one metric with observable changes: The number of times pilots …
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Geospatial data obfuscation methods applied to agricultural data
… the surrounding environment, and the impact of external factors on region characteristics that can be used to breach privacy. Agricultural spatial data with unique characteristics that distinguish them from other spatial data, therefore, require different geoprivacy protection techniques. …
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Integration of geospatial and environmental data to support building renovation
… A prerequisite to determining the important external features is having a thorough understanding of the related concepts in the external domain. The primary objective of this dissertation is to develop such a knowledge framework to be used as a frame of reference for the experts and engineers …
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A Theory of the Animate Form of Literary Art: Kind-normativity, Criticism, and Axiology
… art bears an autonomy beyond such secondary, external ends; it exists first and foremost as an end-in-itself. As such an internally purposive end itself, it may well serve secondary functions, but these can only ever be secondary to that which makes it the kind of whole it is. So, I argue, we …