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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Inanimate objects."”.
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Lovable lamps and sad umbrellas : empathizing with inanimate objects in animated films.
… human beings? What causes viewers to perceive inanimate objects as people, such as the hopping lamp in Pixar's Luxo Jr.? These questions are under-researched in scholarly literature. Thus, this study used an original, animated video as a stimulus to explore the relationship between …
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The Diagnostic Drawing Series of Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa
… pictures one and three, and also tended to use Inanimate Objects in picture three. Additional findings, not identified in previous studies, are noted as possible findings to pilot future studies. In Picture one of the Anorexia Nervosa group the elements No Blending, Line Only, No Groundline, …
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Young Infants' Knowledge About Self -Propelled Objects
… that young children distinguish animate from inanimate objects and reason about animate objects in terms of their psychological and biological properties. Future research can further examine how infants' concept of self-propelled objects relates to young children's concept of animate entities, …
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Tracing language variation in Spanish: A multidisciplinary approach
… marker that marks some but not all direct objects based on hierarchies such as animacy or referentiality (Aissen, 2008). In Spanish, the language that is the subject of this dissertation, animate and specific objects are marked with DOM, as in Juan ve a María ‘Juan sees DOM María’. However, …
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Gender in English pronouns : myth and reality
… pronouns (primarily he and him) to refer to inanimate objects such as a tree or a watch: "I can't climb him" or "He's a good watch". <br> Background analyses include an overview of the history of gender in English as well as sketches of the investigated dialects. The core of the study …
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THE UN-STILL LIFE
… of still life painting as a grouping of inanimate objects, I want my still life paintings to be full of life. I have always been intrigued by the numerous approaches and different mediums used by artists for still life arrangements. I want the objects I paint to appear three dimensional. …
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ERP correlates of the interactions between top-down and bottom-up processes in visual object categorization
… category differences between animate and inanimate objects in the early visual ERP components. However, contradictory explanations have been suggested for the underlying processes of such category differences. Both low-level physical differences and higher-level category-specific processes …
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Synchronized exchange of material and information
… has created a stronger, automatic link between inanimate objects and computers. This thesis completes the information exchange, or feedback loop, which makes commerce possible. Specifically, it identifies a framework for information exchange alongside material exchange using Savant-to-Savant …
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These Are The Rules
… with moments written from the point of view of inanimate objects. Existing within the literary speculative fiction and magical realism genres, the narrative's eclectic framework and use of language combines prose and poetry and the inorganic with the organic, to emphasize the miraculous …
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ADAPTIVE MEMORY: ANIMACY AND THE METHOD OF LOCI
… method of loci – to examine memory for animate objects. Across four experiments, subjects used the method of loci to remember a list of animate or inanimate objects. I manipulated animacy by using animate or inanimate words (Experiments 1 and 4) or by using animate or inanimate images …
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Mounting Sex Pheromone: A Novel Pheromone Responsible for Mate Recognition in the Ixodidae
… of female ticks as well as transferred to inanimate objects without the loss of male responsiveness. Cuticular ridges, present on the female cuticle were shown to be unimportant as a sex recognition cue. The size of the female was also shown to be not of primary importance in assisting the …
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Making space: photographic traces of absence, stillness and the in-between in public spaces
… spaces, non-places, liminal spaces and ordinary, inanimate objects. In the first section, Situating my Practice, I contextualise my practice within the broader context of photography and architecture, looking specifically at the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape …
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Egocentric Categorization: Self as a Reference Category in Product Judgment and Consumer Choice
… consumers are predisposed to approach appealing objects. However, rules of modern society restrict consumers from touching or taking objects based on a mere desire to do so. Instead, consumers must have a legal connection to an object---ownership---in order to have mastery over it. What are the …
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Nothing Remains Still: Stories and a Novella
… of matter and how the study of physics situates inanimate objects. I had my narrator apply this conceit to people, as well, and to situate human bodies as also being physical objects subject to the same physical laws. The quote is meant to signal that the narrator's journey is in constant flux -- …
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Prevalence and Characterization of Staphylococcus Species, Including MRSA, in the Home Environment
… community. MRSA can be spread from contaminated inanimate objects known as fomites. Many hard surfaces serve as good reservoirs for MRSA, including door knobs and hand rails. In this study, we assessed the prevalence of MRSA and other staphylococcal species in 76 homes across the central Texas …
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Bittersweet
… and forming bonds with people rather than objects. However as adults, we still attribute power, emotional significance and even life to inanimate objects because of the association we have for them. They become precious reliquaries in our minds because they relate to our positive …
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Concealment and revelation: Surrealism's contribution to 20th century portraiture
… of an alter-ego. Brilliant's assertion that inanimate objects have no position in portraiture is also explored through specific examples of surrealist portraiture. By considering specific examples of surrealist portraiture the thesis questions such conventional definitions as those proposed …
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Evidence for the Sensory Receptor(s) of the Mounting Sex Pheromone in Two Species of Ixodid Ticks, <i>Dermacentor variabilis</i> (Say) and <i>Dermacentor andersoni</i> Stiles
… only the MSP, cholesteryl oleate, was applied to inanimate objects (beads), demonstrated that male ticks responded only to the pheromone and mating behavior could be regulated by covering or uncovering the foreleg claw sensilla with gelatin. The significance of these findings for an understanding …
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Principles governing the large-scale organization of object selectivity in ventral visual cortex
… functions. An example of such a region is the objectselective ventral visual cortex (VVC) in humans. This region, which is involved in the high-level task of object recognition, is comprised of several functionally defined, category-selective subregions that are laid out with remarkable …
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Postmortem Economies in Art: The Carceral Value and Unrested Labour of Ensouled Museum Collections
… (referred to as remains, artifacts, and objects by Western definition) and the labours they produce in their afterlives. Such carceral labours by ancestors inevitably extend into an afterlife of capital, where the unrested labours of these ancestors continue to be extracted beyond their …
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