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Showing 1 to 20 of 970 for “"Pictures"”.
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The process of remembering pictures
… estimated the capacity of memory for pictures or specified the nature of its encoding processes. A new recognition paradigm, the exclusion set method, was developed in order to measure the accuracy of the subject's memory for representational drawings. It was used to refute two …
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The process of remembering pictures
… estimated the capacity of memory for pictures or specified the nature of its encoding processes. A new recognition paradigm, the exclusion set method, was developed in order to measure the accuracy of the subject's memory for representational drawings. It was used to refute two …
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Influence of Pictures on Word Recognition
… predominant explanation for this effect is that pictures are encoded more effectively than words, and are therefore able to be better remembered. Research has demonstrated the benefit that pictures provide for remembering words. However, little work has been to done to examine any negative and/or …
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Photomosaics : putting pictures in their place
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1996.
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Reproducing pictures with non-reproducible colors
Thesis. 1978. Elec.E.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Understanding Pictures as Representations: 9-Month-Old Infants' Manual Investigation of Pictures as a Function of Referent Characteristics
Pictures are both objects in their own right and symbols of whatever they depict. Their resemblance to what they represent has led to the assumption that the symbolic nature of pictures is easily understood, even by young infants. In a series of previous studies, 9-month-old infants' have manually …
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Pictures, Words, And Synonymy: Representations And Processes
A series of four experiments are presented which contrast the hypothesis that synonymy is semantically represented with the hypothesis that synonymy is lexically represented. They also stress the importance of task focal information in the interpretation of experimental results. Current mental …
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Copyright in motion pictures : the digital era
My thesis specifically deals with copyright and its role within the film industry. Chapter 1 starts off by dealing with how the concept of film grew from a series of photographs to the concept of a film per se, gaining its own individual right to legal protection. It then goes on to analyse what …
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Motion(less) pictures: the cinema of stasis
<p>Since cinema's inception, there has been much disagreement among film theorists about the role of movement in cinema's ontology. For example, while Rudolf Arnheim has argued that motion is a <i> sine qua non </i> of cinema, Roland Barthes has insisted that motion is not as central to cinema's …
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Developing Concepts Through the Use of Pictures
One of the purposes of this study was to show how concepts could be strengthened through the use of slides and accompanying discussion questions which were aimed at developing a child's thinking. The questions would be directed toward the development of three levels of thinking: concrete, abstract …
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Pictures and Information Theory in Consumer Research
… the model is understood to require the text and pictures of consumer messages be reduced to their information content through a methodical identification. Once identified, information is processed in a mechanistic manner that does not accurately reflect the consumer communication process. …
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The automated reproduction of pictures with nonreproducible colors
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1984.
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An investigation into the coding of halftone pictures
Thesis (Sc.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1982.
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Generating pictures from waves : aspects of image formation
The research communities, technologies, and tools for image formation are diverse. On the one hand, computer vision and graphics researchers analyze incoherent light using coarse geometric approximations from optics. On the other hand, array signal processing and acoustics researchers analyze …
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Design of an interactive system for processing pictures.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Thesis. 1974. M.S.
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Sony Pictures and the U.S. Federal Government: A Case Study Analysis of the Sony Pictures Entertainment Hack Crisis Using Normal Accidents Theory
… 2014 North Korean computer database hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), a serious national security crisis of cyberterrorism. I utilize Normal Accidents theory as a lens, to help explain how the accident within one system (SPE) and later crisis lead to the interaction with a second system …
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DUALISM VS. MATERIALISM; TWO INADEQUATE PICTURES OF HUMAN NATURE
This discussion aims to demonstrate how the project of identifying the nature of humanity is ongoing. The dominant models have their own flaws to contend with, and in the end we are still left uncertain of what constitutes our nature. Of the two views vying for prominence (dualism vs. materialism) …
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Pictures of Rustic Customs and Manners in Colombian Literature
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