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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Local color"”.
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Comparative analysis of image search algorithm using average RGB, local color histogram, global color histogram and color moment HSV
… which are the Average of Red, Green and Blue Color Channels (Average RGB), Local Color Histogram (LCH), Global Color Histogram (GCH) and Color Moment of Hue, Saturation and Brightness Value (HSV) to retrieve relevant images based on colour. These techniques are applied on the collection of …
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The dead rise the dead and walk among the living: An examination of the haunting South, queerness, and grotesqueries in Truman Capote's "Other Voices, Other Rooms" and "Local Color"
… of Truman Capote’s Other Voices, Other Rooms and Local Color I want to think through the ways in which images and moments in the text can be queer and grotesque while also lending themselves to the images and eruptions that make up the haunting South. My reading of grotesqueries and the haunting …
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Private Voices Teaching Public Values in the Fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Wilkins Freeman, and Sarah Orne Jewett
… the purpose and value of New England women's local color fiction, asserting that local color functions as the groundwork on which the standards and practices of literary realism are based and as the way that nineteenth-century women writers could promote their domestic ministry. Furthermore, …
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A Precision Measurement of the Neutron d2: Probing the Color Force
… correlations and a path to access the confining local color force a struck quark experiences just as it is hit by the virtual photon due to the remnant di-quark. The quantity d2, a measure of this local color force, has its information encoded in an x2 weighted integral of a linear combination of …
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Developments in Viennese operetta in Johann Strauss, Franz Lehár, and Robert Stolz.
… of the genre, namely the waltz, exoticism, and local color, and compared how each composer used these common building blocks in their most successful operettas.
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Spinsters, cowboys, and cosmopolites: Short story representations of America in late-Victorian periodicals
… considered distinctly American: native humor, local color, and dialect. The resulting construct contributed to England's imperialist self-presentation by implying that the United States, though independent, was still little more than a colonial outpost--a provincial wilderness peopled by the …
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Realism, sentimentalism, and popular fiction
… (1887) and A New England Nun (1891). American local color literature is often described as a nostalgic response to rapid social change. A second critical trope about this regional literature dominated by the presence of women authors is that it often fails because it cloaks itself in the guise …
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Learning to handle occlusion for motion analysis and view synthesis
… We propose an inpainting method that leverages local color and depth context for novel view synthesis. We validate the proposed inpainting approach with a series of quantitative and qualitative experiments, and demonstrate promising results in predicting plausible content in occluded regions.
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Segment-based image matting using inpainting to resolve ambiguities
… proposes the following idea: The degree of local smoothness enforced in the alpha matte should depend on the local color distribution; the more similar the local foreground and background color distributions are, the greater the amount of smoothness enforced.
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American Women Writers, Visual Vocabularies, and the Lives of Literary Regionalism
… using visual vocabularies of the "sketch" or "local color," later books of regionalism simply brim with visual vocabularies, when characters are seeking the lives of others or filling in the blanks of their own. The writers in my dissertation--Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, and Ann …
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Country of Illusion: Imagined Geographies and Transnational Connections in F. Scott Fitzgerald's America
… and transnational significance in his “local color” fictions, using US place to address sociopolitical topics. When Fitzgerald wrote about his native Midwest, he contrasted its pastoral past with its rapidly urbanizing present; in taking up this theme, he linked his works with a body of …
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Bluegrass, Bildung, and Blueprints: The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come as an Appalachian Bildungsroman
… how The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, Fox's local-color narrative, in its focus on the growth of the protagonist, Chad, as an allegory of the development of an Appalachian identity during the Progressive Era, might usefully be understood as an Appalachian Bildungsroman. While Chad, ultimately …
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Wallace Stegner's Wolf Willow and 1960s Critical Essays: Renarrativizing Western American Literature for the West and for America
… who diminished western American literature to local color writing. In Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier (1962), Stegner uses fiction, history, and memoir to engage the mythic West's silencing of his family's failed homesteading experiences in a specific …
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The Dyer bill in Congress : a history of the first major attempt to curb lynching in the United States by federal legislation
… definite attempt has been made to provide local color and to give the reader a glimpse of the attitudes of the day. For this reason, quotations have been used freely from Congressional source. One thing was certainly impressed upon the writer's mind and that was the general culture and …
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Perancangan pusat kreativitas budaya Kabupaten Ende (NTT): Tema extending tradition
… grows rapidly has inevitably given influences on local cultures of nation. Such world culture also gives impact on the growth of science and technology. Thus, in turn the so-called growth slowly changes people’s paradigm over the world. As a result, people unintentionally approves of it. We, …
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From quarks to cold atoms: the phases of strongly-interacting systems
… for a smooth crossover between hadronic and color superconducting matter. Finally, we investigate the impact of a local color neutrality constraint on phases of asymmetric quark pairing. While the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) continues to probe the QCD phase diagram at ever-higher …
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John Fox Jr.'s Commentary on the Roles of Women in the Progressive Era.
<p>John Fox, Jr. provides commentary on the changing roles of Progressive Era women in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, “A Cumberland Vendetta,” and “The Pardon of Becky Day.” Fox’s portrayals provide evidence that although he recognized the changes in his …