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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Outfit"”.
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Coherent and controllable outfit generation
People often select outfits with a theme in mind. One might dress for a tropical getaway or to look good at a cocktail party. Existing outfit generation methods use item-wise or outfit-item compatibility tests, and lack an effective method to enforce a global constraint like style or occasion. We …
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Understanding the rich world of outfits: a study of fashion compatibility, latent style, and outfit behavior
… we demonstrate that our representation of outfits enables diverse, novel, and practically-useful visual search queries for the fashion domain, and results in semantically-meaningful style summaries with several directions for future work.
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Roles of Perceptions of Reference Groups, Clothing Symbolism, and Clothing Involvement in Female Adolescents' Clothing Purchase Intentions and Clothing Behavior
… self-concept and the perceived images of four outfits (i.e., actual self and clothing image congruity) and the degree of congruity between ideal self-concept and the perceived images of four outfits (i.e., ideal self and clothing image congruity). The third independent variable was clothing …
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Allusions to Samurai Culture in the Star Wars Universe, Especially in Jedi and Sith Characters
… of comparison are the principles, weapons, and outfit. This thesis also attempts to prove that George Lucas used numerous elements from the Japanese culture in the creation of the characters of Star Wars.
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Copy-and-Paste
… locations. The same urban grid, the same outfit, the same house, the same car appear everywhere; copies of each other pasted all around. Copy-and-Paste is there, unquestioned, and seem-to-be arbitrary. This thesis explores and experiments copy-and-paste as a design method, applied …
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An item evaluation of a newly–developed strength–based approach scale in a South African working population
… indices were acceptable. Mean infit and outfit indices for both person and item were acceptable. The seven-point frequency-based Likert scale worked satisfactorily overall, although categories 0, 1, and 2 were under-utilised. Finally, the infit and outfit statistics for all eight items …
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An observation and subjective overview of the artistic directors of Atlanta's three major not-for-profit regional theatres
… David Head, Artistic Director of the Theatrical Outfit; and Frank Wittow, Artistic Director of The Academy Theatre. Each chapter contains: (1) a brief history and description of each theatre company; (2) the mission statement of each theatre; (3) biographical information regarding each Artistic …
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Undressing an American icon: Addressing the representation of Calamity Jane through a critical study of her costume
… Jane, with focus on her apparel, the buckskin outfit of a scout. This thesis looks at Calamity Jane’s costume because it was so seminal to her emergence as an American frontier icon. Unlike one-off costumes such as Dorothy’s ruby slippers or Marilyn Monroe’s JFK birthday dress, Calamity Jane’s …
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Enabling type differentiated explainable queries across modalities for different fashion items
… type, products of different types, products and outfits, and products and their attributes. In this paper, we propose a system that models these relationships by: (i) building a robust visual representation of items that captures notions of similarity and compatibility between products, (ii) …
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Improving the parametric method of cost estimating relationships of naval ships
… paper will introduce electric power density and outfit density as additional variables to the parametric cost estimating equation and will show how this can improve the early stage cost estimating relationships of Navy ships.
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The Design of an Autonomous Vehicle Research Platform
… ground vehicle testing platform they can outfit with sensors and equipment to meet their specific research needs. The platform will give researchers the capabilities to test algorithms, new sensors, navigation, new technologies, etc. that they believe would help advance autonomous …
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Subsistence whaling in Alaska
… their high incomes able for the first time to outfit their own crews. The century-old traditions in whaling eroded as a result, and some Eskimo whaling became merely a form of sport. In 1977 the interference of powerful conservationist groups, alarmed by the increased number of animals wounded …
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Analysis of marketing strategies and advanced retail sales processes to improve Company A’s position in the segment
… should be prioritized by Company A, to outfit the company’s existing dealer channel with the right tools to combat Company B and other competitors in the U.S. small product market. Additionally new retail showroom technologies and strategies were based upon existing market research …
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Optical Properties of Individual Nano-Sized Gold Particle Pairs
… of known Raman signature. By manoeuvring this outfit MNP into the vicinity of an illuminated second MNP and by measuring the Raman signal intensity, a spatial mapping of the field enhancement was possible.
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Female Equestrian Culture in France, 1600-1715
… traces the emergence of a recognisable tailored outfit that represented the first sporting uniform for women. The conclusion outlines how, by the turn of the eighteenth century, the ‘Amazonian’ French horsewoman had been fashioned into a powerful and influential ideal of athletic femininity.
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The 1889 Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching and the recovery of the late homiletic of John Albert Broadus (1827-1895)
… from two Yale lectures, "The Young Preacher's Outfit" and "The Minister and His Bible." The substance of these addresses is distilled and surveyed for their contribution to Broadus's homiletic. Furthermore, each chapter contains a division of analysis and comparison with his homiletic text. …
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Clothing behavior of working women related to self-image/clothing- image congruity and achievement motivation
… Pearson correlations, for the business-like outfit, but not for the other costume images.
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Visualizing Ancient Empire in Tudor England: Imperial Monarchy, Reformation, and the Antique Soldier in the Title Page to Richard Grafton’s Large Chronicle (1569)
… classicism, the use of a ‘classicizing’ mode to outfit these ancient kings was not an arbitrary choice. Rather, this thesis argues that the title page’s designer made a deliberate, strategic decision to temporally distinguish those kings and link them to concepts of antiquity and authority by …
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Scottish style: the construction of Scottish identity amongst fashion and style influencers on Instagram.
… settings and landscapes as a backdrop for outfit posts; preference for autumn and winter styles; promotion of an outdoor lifestyle; production of a relatable and down-to-earth personality; and a relationship between place, mood and personal style.
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Performance portfolio : Matthew James McKay
… of a signature sound for the deep funk 1 outfit Speedometer.The second studio recording project is a suite that I commissioned, written bycomposer Rob Neild; this Suite for Flute entitled Meet at the Grey Horse exploresmany of the different tone colours available to the flautist. I also …
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