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Showing 1 to 20 of 270 for “"Resemblance"”.
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Resemblance-oriented communication strategies: Understanding the role of resemblance in signed and spoken languages
<p>The goal of this thesis is to propose that resemblance plays an important role in human communication. Saussure proposed a characteristic principle of the linguistic sign: that connections between linguistic codes and the objects they signify are arbitrary; however, I intend to show that …
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Striking Resemblance: Kentucky, Tennessee, Black Codes and Readjustment, 1865-1866
<p>To date, the scholarship covering the Black Codes has centered on these laws' role as the predecessor of Jim Crow. Little study has been given to the laws as a whole--the one encompassing work being Theodore Wilson's Black Codes of the South. Other studies have examined the Black Codes' effect …
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The Effects of Facial Cues on Consumer Judgment and Decision-Making
… examines the effect of facial structural resemblance, facial expressions, and other perceptual cues—in both individual and group settings—on consumer judgment and decision-making. Essay 1 examines the influence of facial resemblance on consumers* product purchase likelihood. This effect is …
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A study and development of Bayesian exemplar based models
… a new model, called FReBE, that uses Family Resemblance andBayesian networks for developing an Exemplar based model.In the thesis, the broad area of research is stated and the areas ofbackground work to be studied are identified and reviewed. An exemplar basedmodel based on family …
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Test Task and Item Similarity Factors Affect Memory and Eye Movements During Picture Recognition
… reorientations of input photographs).</p><p>"Resemblance" and "Discrimination" test conditions were used in this study. Under Resemblance test instruc tions, subjects were instructed to identify both Same Photo and Related items as "old," and Lures as "new." Under Discrimination test …
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Experience and Pictorial Representation: Wollheim's Seeing-in and Merleau-Ponty's Perceptual Phenomenology
… One explains pictorial representation by way of resemblance or experienced resemblance between the picture and what it represents. A second employs interpretation: the spectator looks at a picture and interprets conventionally determined symbols found therein to mean what it represents. The third …
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Mestizaje Ideology as Color-Blind Racism: Students' discourses of colorism and racism in Mexico
… <p>mestizos of a lighter skin color have more resemblance to being of white Spanish descent</p> <p>and therefore are accepted over mestizos of darker skin color, who have a resemblance to</p> <p>indigenous people. Racism is scarcely documented in Mexico. It is systematically</p> <p>embedded in …
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Characterization of a black coating overlying rock paintings found in Little Lost River Cave, Idaho using THM-GC-MS
… a synthetic or natural melanin and bears little resemblance to the cooking residues. The coating bears most resemblance to humic acid standards, indicating an environmental origin.</p>
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Making probabilistic relational categories learnable
… categories with a probabilistic (i.e., family resemblance) structure. In Experiment 1, we investigated interventions hypothesized to facilitate learning family-resemblance relational categories. Changing the description of the task from learning about categories to choosing the “winning” object …
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Trypophobia: An investigation of clinical features
… and investigated whether it showed more resemblance to a specific phobia or to obsessive-compulsive disorder. METHODS: An online survey was conducted to gather information on sociodemographic variables, course and duration, severity, associated features, comorbid psychiatric diagnoses and …
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The Preparation of ß-[5-(p-Hydroxyphenyl)-Cyclohexahediohe-1,3]-Alanine
… which have resemblance to compounds of physiological importance.|The above mentioned cyclohexanedione compound was first synthesized by Papadakis in 1945 to be used as a possible stepping stone for synthesis of compounds which are similar in structure and …
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Some Results on the Congruential and Gap -Theoretic Study of Partition Functions
… with parts in the gaps"" bear a striking resemblance to certain weighted partition identities that also arise from the gaps of partitions. In this thesis, we provide combinatorial proofs of several results from the literature involving partitions with parts in the gaps, and in doing so, we …
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Symbolic Understanding of Pictures in Low-functioning Children with Autism and Typically Developing Children.
… artists' communicative intentions and perceptual resemblance to children's mapping of word-picture and picture-object relations, and study five examines whether representational status (as determined by artists' intentions) influences children's naming and reproduction of ambiguous shapes. The …
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Nathaniel Hawthorne as Revealed Through His French and Italian Notebooks
… to the vast majority of his readers to bear a resemblance to his ghostly characters, or, to use the words of his friend, James T. Fields, "to rest in the twilight of impersonality", rather than to possess the flesh and blood which made up the man whom many critics now name America's greatest …
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The Scavenger's daughter
… builds and sells automatons which bear a close resemblance to the mythical Golem. He sells one of his automatons to a group of shepherds. When the "body" breaks a conflict begins between the shepherds and the merchant sparking a comedy of errors with the body. The play draws heavily on …
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Playing with Aesthetics in Art Museums
… visitors. Built upon a substantiated family resemblance between art and play experiences, the study synthesizes a typology of aesthetic theories, ten germane tenets of game design, and a psychographic portrait of the "archetypal" museum visitor to create a practical framework for delivering …
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Authenticity and the problem of human augmentation
… based on Wittgenstein's concept of family resemblance and use it to evaluate whether particular augmentation procedures are authentic, inauthentic, or entirely neutral.
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Scanning tunneling microscopy of III-V semiconductors
… more complex than the c(8x2) and bears little resemblance to either the c(2x8) or c(8x2) reconstructions.
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A study of defibrillator waveforms, vectors, and therapies Kevin Anthony Michael.
… were performed in a porcine model given its resemblance to the human heart and its resilience to repeated ventricular fibrillation inductions (VF) and defibrillations. A novel sequential preshock waveform was assessed in a prototype serial capacitance device. Single and multi-electrode …
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The man in the room : an anthology of short stories
… and the product of the author's imagination. Any resemblance of any character to any actual person, whether living or dead, is purely coincidental. Please note an excerpt of The Beauty of the Nigerians has been published in the literary journal, Type/Cast.
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