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Showing 1 to 20 of 183 for “"animate"”.
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Using rigging and transfer to animate 3D characters
Transferring a mesh or skeletal animation onto a new mesh currently requires significant manual effort. For skeletal animations, this involves rigging the character, by specifying how the skeleton is positioned relative to the character and how posing the skeleton drives the character's shape. …
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Out with the Anthropocene: Art for an Animate Earth
Ensnared in but fed up with the inanity of late capitalism and environmental ruin, this thesis examines the ways in which contemporary artists are working against the grain of the dominant anthropocentric Western culture to seek new pathways out of the so-called Anthropocene. The artists under …
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The Art of Walking with the Animate Earth: A Heuristic Inquiry
This thesis is a qualitative, phenomenological, arts and nature-based study of living as an artist amid a social and ecological emergency. By taking up a method of heuristic inquiry, which utilizes personal knowledge and experience as a foundation for exploring phenomena, this research was …
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Animate Structures: The Compositions and Improvisations of the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra
… it develops a concept of compositions as animated and animating objects in performance, tools and materials that participate in the creative interactive process of improvised performance rather than textual representations of 'the music itself'. I substantiate this theory with detailed …
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A Theory of the Animate Form of Literary Art: Kind-normativity, Criticism, and Axiology
… literary art as an internally purposive, animate whole. And as such a whole, some key forms of inner normativity or “for its own sake” conditions bear necessarily on the activity of reader and literary work. Chapter 3 explores one version of this concept of literary art as an internally …
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How some so-called "thematic roles" that select animate arguments are generated, and how these roles inform control
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1994.
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Canada’s Cultural Property Export Controls: An Analysis of the Colonial and Heritage Discourses that Animate the Cultural Property Export and Import Act
This thesis critiques Canada’s Cultural Property Export and Import Act (CPEIA) and its framing as a legal instrument intended to protect and preserve Canada’s cultural heritage. It focuses on the export provisions of the Act and the related experts and administrative bodies who oversee disputes …
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ADAPTIVE MEMORY: ANIMACY AND THE METHOD OF LOCI
… high fitness value is things that are alive and animate (Nairne, VanArsdall, Pandeirada, Cogdill, & LeBreton, 2013). The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the effects of using an ancient mnemonic – the method of loci – to examine memory for animate objects. Across four experiments, …
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The concept of animacy versus the object bias principle in 18-month-olds' word learning
… in the context of a novel object displaying an animate or an inanimate motion. To address this issue, 18-month-old infants were presented with an animate object, engaged in an animate motion and an inanimate object engaged in an inanimate motion. A novel label was paired with each of these …
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Young Infants' Knowledge About Self -Propelled Objects
… suggesting that young children distinguish animate from inanimate objects and reason about animate objects in terms of their psychological and biological properties. Future research can further examine how infants' concept of self-propelled objects relates to young children's concept of …
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Processing of English relative clauses by adult L2 learners
… complexity of the former, (ii) that ORs with inanimate head nouns (i.e., objects) and animate subjects are easier to comprehend then those with animate head nouns and inanimate subjects, reflecting the role of canonical noun animacy-grammatical role associations (i.e., animate nouns are …
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The Genitive Ratio and its Applications
… (GR) is a novel method of classifying nouns as animate, concrete or abstract. English has two genitive (possessive) constructions: possessive-s (the boy's head) and possessive-of (the head of the boy). There is compelling evidence that preference for possessive-s is strongly influenced by the …
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(Re-)conceptualisation in autism spectrum disorders
… separate abilities, or investigate whether the animate or inanimate nature of the concepts/objects affects these abilities. Further, very few switching tasks have investigated the autistic spectrum as a whole, with most studies focusing on severely autistic individuals.Aims: The aim of this …
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Investigating the relationship between religious motives and rhetorical activism : an ethnographic study of the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty.
… and When present, how do religious motives animate rhetorical social action? After determining whether the staff articulated religious motivations for their work, I sought to understand how, if present, those religious commitments might animate the organization's specific rhetorical …
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The effects of word order, noun animacy, and verb reversibility on the syllogistic processing of children and adults
… and Noun-Noun-Verb; two levels of noun animacy, Animate-Inanimate (AI) and Animate-Animate (AnAn), and two levels of verb reversibility, nonreversible (NR) and reversible (R). These 24 syllogisms in written form bound in a test booklet were presented to individual subjects tested as a group. Each …
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The biomechanics of human locomotion
… references. The thesis on CD-ROM includes Animate, GaitBib, GaitBook and GaitLab, four quick time movies which focus on the functional understanding of human gait. The CD-ROM is available at the Health Sciences Library.
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Social predispositions and underlying neural mechanisms in chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus)
The detection of animate creatures, being social companions, preys or predators, is fundamental for survival and social interaction among vertebrates. Social predispositions are a set of unlearnt rudimental knowledge about animate beings, helping animals to structure sensory experience immediately …
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Sentence processing in Spanish as a second language: A study of context, background knowledge and word order
… when the first noun of an utterance is inanimate and the second noun is animate, Italian speakers tend to prefer a lexical semantic (animacy) strategy over a word-order (first noun) strategy (Bates and MacWhinney, 1984). These speakers tend to identify the animate second noun as the …
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