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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"galatea"”.
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Galatea : personalized interaction with augmented objects
In Galatea, digitally augmented physical objects actively attract a person's attention to online information relevant to both the object and the person's interests. Galatea combines intelligent software agents and digitally augmented physical objects to uniquely bridge the gap between the two …
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The effects of expectations on performance: generalizing Galatea
The Galatea effect occurs when self-efficacy is intentionally raised yielding an increase in performance. The study focused on generalizing the Galatea effect to the historically under researched populations of Blacks in the workforce. To raise self-efficacy, the participants in the experimental …
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Collection
… said. "Desert Rose" defies the critical urges. "Galatea in Flames" explores sexuality and self-identity in a hostile environment.
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Spatial Computing Frameworks for Adaptive Disaster Response and Visual Place Recognition
… of the lunar surface, to create a model called Galatea. Galatea uses modified Sequential Delta Descriptors to ignore irrelevant parts of the image (i.e. the common background), while effectively capturing and describing important parts and their relationship within the scene (e.g. how many rocks …
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Stand Perfectly Still: Statues, Nudity, and the Pygmalion Myth in Victorian Theatre and Culture
… as presented in W. S. Gilbert’s Pygmalion and Galatea and George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. I argue that the image of the moving statue, especially in the melodramatic tradition of the pose plastique and tableau vivant, creates instability for the viewer by evoking notions of human mortality …
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Aspects of the biology of the receptacle weevil, Rhinocyllus conicus (Froehlich) relating to its role as a biocontrol agent of nodding thistle, Carduus nutans L.
… (nodding thistle) from Nov. 1988 to June 1990 at Galatea in the central Bay of Plenty and on the coast at Whakatane. The dates of first emergence of adults in the spring, disappearance of the last adults in early summer, reappearance of adults in mid -summer and disappearance of the last adults …
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Tudor women writers fashioning masculinity
… shows how the fabulous world of John Lyly’s *Galatea* consummates the Queen’s desire for the ideal male subject. The final chapter investigates the construction of martial manhood. It juxtaposes Mary Sidney’s *The Tragedy of Antonie* with William Shakespeare’s *Antony and Cleopatra* to …
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The woman in the moon : the moon as a dramatic character in the works of John Lyly and William Shakespeare
… of Lyly’s The Woman in the Moon (c. 1588), Galatea (c. 1584), and Endymion: the Man in the Moon (c. 1588), the thesis shows how Lyly expands upon the established theatrical figure of the moon-character to create a dramatic character that poses a range of resistances to hegemonic relational, …
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The media assemblage: the twentieth-century novel in dialogue with film, television, and new media
… novel from the mid-90s. Richard Powers’s Galatea 2.2 asks whether a computer can be trained to impersonate an English graduate student while Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl brings to life the monstrous female companion from Frankenstein as the hypertext novel itself. Both texts discuss …
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Solomon on Stage, Representations of Magic and the Occult in Early Modern English Drama
… Some of these responses retain his scepticism: *Galatea* (c.1584-5), *Doctor Faustus* (1588), and *2 Henry VI* (c.1590-1) all condemn the Solomonic magician by depicting his downfall, whether comic or tragic in proportion. Others, such as *Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay* (1589), *John a Kent John a …
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Propoetides
Propoetides by Dean Burry A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts Faculty of Music University of Toronto Abstract Propoetides is the prologue to the opera Il Giudizio di Pigmalione (The Judgment of Pygmalion) and was inspired by the following …
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English printed drama in collection before Jonson and Shakespeare
… and pro-ecclesiastical comedies, including Galatea, Midas, Campaspe, and Sapho and Phao. In this serial collection, the five playbooks celebrated the Children of Paul’s devotion to their queen and her church. In the final chapter, “Negotiating Alternative Principles of Authorial Collections: …