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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Multimodal analysis"”.
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Multimodal Analysis of Functional Reach to Grasp for Telerehabilitation
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ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE: CANCER-RELATED STROKE AND MULTIMODAL ANALYSIS OF THROMBI.
… AIS is crucial for secondary prevention. Thrombi analysis provides a unique window into stroke biology. This thesis investigates (1) clinical features and outcomes of AIS in patients with active cancer (AC) and (2) histopathological and multi-omics profiles of retrieved thrombi from AIS patients …
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MacVisSTA: A System for Multimodal Analysis of Human Communication and Interaction
… presents the data collection, annotation, and analysis for multiple participants engaged in planning meetings. In support of the analysis tasks, this thesis presents the multimedia Visualization for Situated Temporal Analysis for Macintosh (MacVisSTA) system. It supports the analysis of …
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A multimodal analysis of selected National Lovelife HIV/AIDS prevention campaign texts
… The aim is to evaluate and analyse the effect of multimodal texts used in HIV/AIDS campaigns on the understanding and interpretation by the target group, and thus gauge their effectiveness. Using a text-based multimodal approach (Kress and van Leeuwen, 1996/2006; Martin and Rose, 2004), the study …
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Multimodal analysis of instructional materials and vocabulary learning in EFL and CLIL instruction
… objective. The first study has focused on an analysis of instructional materials in an EFL subject and a CLIL science subject. Quantitative and qualitative research has been conducted in the identification of types, tokens, word families and presence of multimodality (visual and linguistic …
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Writing under the gun : a multimodal analysis of technical trouble tickets as an itext genre
Based on a multimodal approach combining elements of ethnographic participant/observer methodology, rhetorical genre analysis, and corpus analysis, this study examines trouble ticket discourse as a genre of digital communication (IText), interpreting the findings through the lens of 18 months the …
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typefaces beyond words: a framework for the multimodal analysis of typeface design as typographetic resource
… design, expanding the framework to include multimodal expressivity along the main categories of Semantic Differential scales (Osgood & al. 1957). Following the logic of the typeface designer and not only that of the reader, it considers shapes and connotations as continuums rather than …
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A multimodal analysis of the rhetorical devices used for meaning-making and humour in Saudi media cartoons
… It is further a contribution to the growing multimodal research on non-interactional humour in the media that benefits from the traditional theories of verbal humour. The study analysed the ways visual and verbal modes interact, highlighting the multimodal manifestations of the rhetorical …
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A multimodal analysis of unusual copper-containing blue and green pigments in the early modern painter’s palette
… optical and electron microscopy and elemental analysis were used to determine the identity and origin of copper-containing pigments. Several samples exhibited unusual or ambiguous morphology and chemistry, precluding identification as blue verditer or azurite. X-ray powder micro-diffraction and …
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Integrated Multimodal Analysis: Evaluating the Impacts of Chemotherapy and Electroporation-Based Therapy on Lymphatic and Blood Microvasculature in Cancer
… tumor draining lymph node (TDLN) using multiple analysis methods. This occurred through three main methods 1) identification of oxidative stress effects of chemotherapeutic application of carboplatin on lymphatic endothelial cells in vitro, 2) characterization of lymphatic and blood microvascular …
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The Zimbabwean threat: media representations of immigrants in the South African media
This thesis is a multimodal discourse analysis of the media representations of Zimbabwean immigrants in the South African media. The aim of the investigation is to illustrate how Zimbabwean immigration and Zimbabwean immigrants are portrayed in the print media in South Africa. For the theoretical …
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Muslim women in Australia and the Netherlands: A multimodal enquiry into television documentary representations
… and the Netherlands. This research used multimodality as an overarching research methodology, supported by a mixed method approach. Firstly, a social semiotic multimodal analysis of the two television documentary series was undertaken. This provided important insights and understandings …
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Frequent or freakish? Framing bushfires in the context of climate change
… and persuasive effects. Qualitative framing analysis is used to identify key shifts and frame adaptations influencing public perceptions about solving bushfire risks and dealing with climate change. Multimodal analysis provides examples of how variations in each frame category were crafted …
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Multimodal Recognition of Social Behaviors and Personality Traits in Small Group Interaction
In recent years, the automatic analysis of human behaviour has been attracting an increasing amount of attention from researchers because of its important applicative aspects and its intrinsic scientific interest. In many technological fields (pervasive and ubiquitous computing, multimodal …
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The Third Story: An Exploration of Intergrating Ironic Counterpoint into the Multimodal Text-image Relationship of Children's Picturebooks
This research investigates the intricate multimodal interactions between text and image in children's picturebooks, with a particular emphasis on the implementation of "ironic counterpoint" as a narrative device. Recognizing the complexity inherent in multimodal narratives, this study aims to …
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Multimodal Non-Contact Sensing of Neonatal Vital Signs Using Radar and Video
… This thesis establishes the foundation for a multimodal device designed for noncontact monitoring of neonates in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) that integrates a video camera and a radar. The device is used to estimate vital signs such as respiratory rate (RR), using both unimodal …
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The transformations of the expression of humour in audiovisual translation /
… humour is often limited to linguistic analysis ignoring oral and visual elements of audiovisual text, their possible interaction or influence on the process of subtitling. Having assessed the complexity of humour classification and humour definition, stylistic devices which convey …
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Sociocultural understandings of technology-mediated educational practices: improvable objects and meaning-making trajectories in the ICT-literate classroom
… Findings are based on sociocultural discourse analysis (Mercer, 2004), multimodal analysis (Jewitt, 2009; Kress & van Leeuwen, 2001) and thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006) of these data. With implications for both theory and practice, analysis shows how the IWB was used in innovative ways …
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IMAGING THE GLUTAMATERGIC SYSTEM WITH GLUCEST MRI: CYTOARCHITECTURE, AGING, AND INTERVENTION
… four interconnected studies. First, we use multimodal analysis to reveal that cortical GluCEST correlates with normative glutamatergic receptor density maps derived from positron emission tomography and with glutamate-related gene expression levels derived from the Allen Human Brain Atlas. …
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