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Showing 1 to 20 of 120 for “"likeness"”.
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Using Protein-Likeness to Validate Conformational Alternatives
<p>Proteins are among the most complex entities known to science. Composed of just 20 fundamental building blocks arranged in simple linear strings, they nonetheless fold into a dizzying array of architectures that carry out the machinations of life at the molecular level.</p><p>Despite this …
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Unjoyful Laughter and the Non-Likeness of Photographic Portraiture
… portrait shifts register, becoming less a likeness of the sitter, rather a portrait of the viewer´s process of interpretation. As an extension of our understanding of the genre portraiture, I am using and testing the German term 'Bildnis', trying to find a clearer understanding of portraits …
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In Life's Likeness: Biomimicry and the Imitation of Nature
… the meaning of resemblance—i.e. of life’s likeness—is multiple and situated. Specifically, I discern three mimetic stances: the pragmatic, idealistic, & performative. I argue that this dissensus around valid imitations betrays the subsumption of biomimicry, and green design in general, by …
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Likeness in Utopia: Situation and Metaphor from Thomas More to Edward Bellamy
<p>As a literary genre, utopia is notably didactic. It seeks to teach desire and to educate hope. As such, utopia provides a unique site to examine the way metaphor and imagination enable one to be convinced, and the way those same elements facilitate misunderstanding. Following the theorization of …
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“If it’s in the game, it’s in the game” : Sondra Perry and technological likeness
… recent work, the question of how to think about likeness in relation to the abstraction of subjecthood comes to the fore. She works primarily in video, installation, and performance, and has frequently described her disenchantment with a politics prioritizing representation and visibility in …
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Exploring the degree of native-likeness in bilingual acquisition: second and heritage language acquisition of Korean case-ellipsis
The primary objective of this dissertation is to investigate how early and late bilinguals attain implicit knowledge of Korean case ellipsis (CE) that necessitates integration of multiple types of information and poses many learnability problems for the learners. The present research examines …
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Applied psychology in human-computer interaction: the social impact of a virtual assistant's gender and human-likeness in self-service
… of VAs is affected by its gender and human‐likeness. To this end, this thesis brings together two lines of research: <i>human-likeness</i> (in the human-computer interaction literature) and gender (in the psychology literature). Through four studies, it is demonstrated that a VA's …
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Researching and developing the impacts of virtual identity on computational learning environments
… vs. non-anthropomorphic avatars, user likeness vs. non-likeness avatars, and other conditions informed by insights from the learning sciences and sociology. Our studies have revealed that avatars can support, or harm, performance and engagement. Several notable trends are: 1) simple …
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A Predictive Model for Secondary RNA Structure Using Graph Theory and a Neural Network.
… correctly assigned a high probability of RNA-likeness to trees identified as RNA-like in the RAG database, and a low probability of RNA-likeness to those classified as not RNA-like in the RAG database. We then used the neural network to predict the RNA-likeness of all the trees of order 9. The …
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Dendrites or lambda-dendroids as generalized inverse limits
… indecomposability, hereditary unicoherence, arc-likeness, and tree-likeness. The theorems are illustrated by several examples"--Abstract, page iv.</p>
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Planejamento e síntese de derivados triazólicos de biofenol como candidatos a novos fármacos e agroquímicos
… molecular e do cálculo dos parâmetros de drug-likeness e agrochemical-likeness. Foram obtidos 15 derivados inéditos do Tirosol, devidamente caracterizados pelas técnicas de RMN de 1 H e 13 C. Os compostos da série foram posteriormente avaliados como inibidores da enzima acetilcolinesterase …
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Manifoldlike Causal Sets
… way to answer the important question of manifold likeness of causal sets. This problem has importance in the sense that in the continuum limit and in the case one finds a formalism for the sum over histories, the result requires to be embeddable in a manifold to be able to reproduce General …
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The Portrait Potential Gender, Identity, and Devotion in Manuscript Owner Portraits, 1230–1320
… Since the introduction of physiognomic likeness into the visual language of western portraiture in the midfourteenth century, this quality has come to exemplify the portrait’s capacity to represent an individual subject. Yet, although likeness and portrait have become synonymous in …
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The Uncanny Valley Effect
… to explore the relationship between the human-likeness of faces and emotional responses to them, to understand reactions to and descriptions of near-human faces, to explore aspects of how near-human faces are processed and to explore whether mismatched emotional expressions might contribute to …
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Framing Student-Athlete Compensation: A Thematic Analysis of California Senate Bill 206
… receive compensation for their name, image and likeness in the state of California, and has influenced other states to bring forth legislation of their own. The NCAA announced on October 29, 2019, that it would change its policies and bylaws to allow student-athletes to profit from their name, …
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The Social Uncanny Valley
… sense of competition toward AI when the human-likeness of those AI-generated products increased. Study 2 remedied some of the limitations of Study 1, and further supported our hypotheses. This means that people will have a stronger sense of creepiness toward AI and a more intense sense of …
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Appropriate comparator in national treatment under international investment law : relevance of GATT/WTO, EU and international human rights jurisprudences
… treatment, in particular the question of likeness. This thesis aims to develop the doctrinal understanding of the determination of appropriate comparator guided by the underlying philosophies, historical evolution and relevant investment decisions. The methods applied in this thesis are …
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Multi-Objective Bilevel Bayesian optimization for robot and behavior co-design
… robot arm placement problem by integrating human-likeness into objectives. To account for human likeness, we construct trajectory-based metrics to evaluate how well the robot arm follows the human motion trajectories extracted from the TUM Kitchen dataset and how similar the robot arm structure is …
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Making Faces
… rhythmic and figural repetition, presence and likeness, details, and brevity. The prose poems in <em>Making Faces</em> explore how written expressions of people might be built poetically through an examination of ideas and feelings.</p>
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