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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"motion events"”.
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Describing and Remembering Motion Events in British Sign Language
Motion events are ubiquitous in conversation, from describing a tiresome commute to recounting a burglary. These situations, where an entity changes location, consist of four main semantic components: Motion (the movement), Figure (the entity moving), Ground (the object or objects with respect to …
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L2 Effect on Bilingual Spanish/English Encoding of Motion Events: Does Manner Salience Transfer?
… language (L2) on first language (L1) encoding of motion events. The domain of interest is MANNER and the goal is to investigate if the degree of <em>manner salience</em> can be restructured under the effect of a L2. Slobin (2004, 2006) proposes an expansion of Talmy’s (1985, 1991, 2000) binary …
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Acquisition of Causative Directed Manner of Motion by English-speaking Learners of Chinese
… learners of Chinese acquire directed manner of motion. The thesis consists of six chapters with three major parts: firstly, a linguistic analysis to account for the Chinese-English differences in licensing causative directed manner of motion events; secondly, a second language acquisition study …
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Using Computer -Based Laboratories to Teach Graphing Concepts and the Derivative at the College Level
… in their ability to interpret line graphs of motion events. The graph production showed substantial improvement in ability to draw velocity graphs. Interview subjects identified many pre-test answers as guesses, or explained them as coming from incorrect reasoning, whereas the reasoning used …
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Static and Dynamic Human Analysis in Images and Videos
… selection, human tracking in videos, human motion event classification in videos, and multimedia video retrievals. The key theme of this dissertation is the word search. We search for novel features for detection, recognition, tracking and motion events. We search for efficient ways to …
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Language Typology and Sentence Frame Effects on Motion Verb Interpretation in Grade Schoolers
<p>Most English descriptions of motion events express manner in the main verb and path in a prepositional phrase, as in “She <em>skips</em> out of the house”. However, the same event <em>can</em> be described differently if a different syntactic frame is used: “She <em>exits</em> the house”. While …
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Detecting and Quantifying Damage in Buildings Using Earthquake Response Data and Capacity Curves
… behavior to occur in extreme strong ground motion events. Structural engineers rely on idealized mathematical models of the structural systems and nonlinear analysis methods to estimate the capacity of a building to resist the demand of strong earthquake ground motions. Compared to estimates …
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Development of an Automated Image Processing Method for the Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Movements in Videos of People Under Microgravity Conditions
… complicating traditional pose estimation and motion tracking. This thesis develops an automated, markerless video processing tool to both qualitatively and quantitatively detect motion in such environments. The system leverages advanced computer vision techniques and deep learning models to …
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Motion in Language and Experience : Actual and Non-actual motion in Swedish, French and Thai
This thesis deals with motion in language and non-linguistic experience, distinguishing between actual motion (AM) and non-actual motion (NAM). AM is the experience of continuous change in an object’s position, expressed in sentences such as 'The man runs through the forest' and 'The woman is …
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Design-Space Exploration of Biologically-Inspired SNN Models for Application-Specific Many-Core Systems
… objects and monitoring environments for motion events, once the spiking camera is triggered, and sends information to the core algorithm, after that the detection class first interprets the incoming data and analyzes the object using transfer learning (i.e., pre-trained CNN weights to …
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Improving Health and Safety at Surface and Underground Mines by Implementing Emerging Technologies Coupled With Geotechnical and Climatic Modeling
… event-based back analyses, which utilizes prior events to create much more accurate models while eliminating large modeling time because the models are optimized from previous events. The completed analyses supply a more detailed insight of the potential dangers at Round Mountain as well as …
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Les verbes de mouvement et l’expression du lieu en kirundi (bantou, JD62) : une étude linguistique basée sur un corpus
… This PhD thesis, written in French, is entitled ‘Motion Verbs and the Expression of Place in Kirundi (Bantu, JD62): A Corpus-based Linguistic Study’. The general goal of the PhD thesis is to provide, on the basis of the Kirundi text corpus developed by the BantUGent research centre, a systematic …