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Showing 1 to 20 of 364 for “"pictorial"”.
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Pictorial illustrations in dictionaries
… to a great extent, research has been done on pictorial illustrations in other text types, research into their use in dictionaries has been relatively limited. This study looks at the inclusion of pictorial illustrations in dictionaries with a special emphasis on African Language dictionaries. …
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The weight of pictorial space
… being the measure of perceptual weight that pictorial space has exerted on photographic picturemakers. Research results are used to propose a new understanding of abstraction/representation in photography. Correlations are drawn between historical trends in photographic art and present-day …
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Object recognition with pictorial structures
… recognition. The framework is motivated by the pictorial structure models introduced by Fischler and Elschlager nearly 30 years ago. The basic idea is to model an object by a collection of parts arranged in a deformable configuration. The appearance of each part is modeled separately, and the …
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Japonisme in Polish Pictorial Arts (1885 – 1939)
This thesis chronicles the development of Polish Japonisme between 1885 and 1939. It focuses mainly on painting and graphic arts, and selected aspects of photography, design and architecture. Appropriation from Japanese sources triggered the articulation of new visual and conceptual languages which …
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Some aspects of pictorial and photographic representation
… evolving towards accurate representation and 'pictorial truth'. The development of a scientific basis for image making with theories of perspective and the invention of photography are central to this process.
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The neuroanatomy of pictorial reasoning in autism
… and visuospatial skills in autistic cognition. A pictorial reasoning task, designed to manipulate the degree to which language vs. visuospatial abilities may be differentially engaged in solving picture puzzles, was administered under three conditions: visuospatial, semantic and a hybrid …
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Pictorial Map Effects on Learning How to Summarize
… passages. Visual instruction in the form of a pictorial map is one way to address this problem and to teach students how to properly restate source text. Sixty-six college students from two universities participated in a quasi-experimental study in which an experimental group used a pictorial …
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Initial validation of the pictorial interest profiler (PIP)
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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Usability of Pictorial Assembly Instructions for Young Children
… and Lincoln Log toys using the accompanying pictorial assembly instructions. Other research objectives included recommending key usability measures for instruction designers, developing a model of assembly self-efficacy, and evaluating traditional usability methods for use with children. Not …
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Camera Spatial Frequency Response Derived from Pictorial Natural Scenes
… that estimates the standard e-SFR directly from pictorial natural scenes. This methodology has the potential to produce scene dependant and real-time camera system performance measurements, opening new possibilities in imaging science and allowing live monitoring/calibration of systems for …
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Pictorial photography in South Africa: A select annotated bibliography
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Statistical analysis and transfer of coarse-grain pictorial style
… used to analyze and transfer simple notions of pictorial style of paintings and photographs. We characterize the frequency content of pictorial styles, such as multi-scale, spatial variations, and anisotropy properties, using a multi-scale and oriented decomposition, the steerable pyramid. We …
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Shape exploration in product design: assisting transformation in pictorial representations
The sketching of pictorial representations forms a key technique for professional designers in the generation and exploration of product shape. It allows ideas of shape to be externalised and communicated, but more importantly, sketched pictorial representations can operate to assist designers' …
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Cynosure: A theoretical grounding for pictorial language that grasps attention
This thesis proposes theoretical grounding for pictorial language that grasps attention in the field of homiletics. The research consists of two parts: theoretical and analytical. The theoretical framework integrates rhetorical, homiletical, and neuroscience theory to explain why pictorial language …
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Pictorial Primates: A Search for Iconic Abilities in Great Apes
… distinctions between different kinds of pictorial competence are made. The alternatives to viewing pictures as depictions, are to view them as the real world is viewed, in which case only realistic pictures evoke recognition, or to view them as a set of disjoint properties, in which case …
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