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Showing 1 to 20 of 3771 for “"characters"”.
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Disembodied characters
… for the creation of expressive synthetic characters that may become important incremental stepping stones on the way to complex artificial intelligence. In order to explore the space between metaphors - the human mind as a collection of interconnected mindless agents, and the superorganism …
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Affective synthetic characters
… architecture for modeling interactive synthetic characters. The other is a practical one: to build believable synthetic characters that we can interact with, utilizing our best understanding of animal behavior in creating characters that are perceived as sympathetic and empathetic to humans. We …
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Glyph based segmentation of Chinese calligraphy characters in the "Collected Characters" stele.
… the bounding box position of individual characters within a written text document image. The character segmentation problem remains extremely difficult for ancient Chinese calligraphy documents. This paper examines a glyph-based segmentation technique for segmenting Chinese Calligraphy …
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Cast of Civic Characters
The Cast of Civic Characters is a civic complex for Houston that couples municipal service counters with other public amenities including an auditorium, dining hall, outreach center, gym, and pool. Each program is housed in a separate small building that takes on the likeness of an animate …
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A study on wool characters
… Intensive measurement should be done on all characters of wool of all rams. If two ewes produce equal amounts of grease fleece, and equal length of staple, the older one should be culled.
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The unnamed characters in Shakespeare's plays
… purpose of this thesis to group the unnamed characters in Shakespeare's plays and to determine the several kinds of dramatic function they fulfill."
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Treatment of foreign characters in Thackeray
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1918. ; Includes bibliographical references.
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Predatory sequence learning for synthetic characters
… relevant to the goal of designing synthetic characters that can quickly and easily learn complicated and interesting behavior. We propose a number of principles for designing such learning systems, inspired by a targeted review of animal developmental phenomena, with particular emphasis on …
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Imaginative play with blended reality characters
… persistence and continuity of blended reality characters. Furthermore, we found that children are more deeply engaged with blended reality characters and are more fully immersed in blended reality play as co-protagonists in the experience, in comparison to interactions with strictly …
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Steps Towards Creating Socially Competent Game Characters
… the character they control and the other game characters. By means of gameplay design patterns (GDPs), i.e. a semi-formal means of describing, sharing and expanding knowledge about game design, a selection of games have been analysed in order to identify existing and hypothetical GDPs for game …
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The "unlikely female" characters of the Mabinogi
The female characters of the Mabinogi represent divergent views on medieval gender roles. Some characters are depicted in stereotypical ways — defined in dichotomy, as either Mary or Eve. Other female characters are different, for they portray women who act outside of social norms. These are the …
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Emotional Awareness of Kate Chopin's Male Characters
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On Projective Characters of Rotation Sub- Group
… [9] . In particular, formulae giving irreducible characters of these representations are explicitly determined in each case. Our object here is to apply the fore-going results to Rotation subgroups of Weyl groups of types Dg and D-, that o is, those groups which have Schur multiplier (Z0) 0 Z_. f. …
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