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Showing 1 to 20 of 4171 for “"picture"”.
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Picture This
Picture This is a collection of short stories featuring a series of strong female protagonists wrestling with questions of identity and belonging. This collection seeks to explore the tension between faith and doubt, illusion and reality, hope and despair—while providing social commentary regarding …
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Motion picture restoration
… moving video. In particular, line scratches and picture shake/roll. Line scratches cannot be detected successfully by the detectors presented and so cannot be removed efficiently. Suppressing shake and roll involves compensating the entire frame for motion and there is a need to separate global …
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tableau vivant [living picture]
<p>With an overwhelming concern for functionality, the design world and industrial production have moved far beyond the pure necessity of the handmade object. With the paper coffee cup, disposable utility is the primary goal; afterwards the service is performed and the thing is discarded. On the …
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A theory of pictures : investigating the mediating role of picture modality in children's understanding of the picture-creator and picture-referent relationships
… 3- to 8-year-old children construct a theory of pictures with a particular focus on how children prioritise appearance and intentional cues when decoding the picture-referent relationship, and whether picture modality mediates children’s understanding of how pictures relate to the world and their …
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unruly play in picture books
… The study examines a selection of children’s picture books that showcase a kind of play that defies normative narrative pacing, power dynamics, and narrative sequence. Future research is recommended to further interdisciplinary discourse on the complexity of imaginative play in children’s …
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Perceptual Precedence in Picture Processing
<p>One important assumption of information processing models of human perception is that such processing occurs as a sequence of events or stages which take place over time. Recent investigations (Navon 1977, 1981) have sug gested that the global aspects of a stimulus are perceived at an earlier …
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Picture Analysis by Graph Transformation
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T20:13:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7412101.pdf: 6076331 bytes, checksum: 4ce1e401e3c8759f36580e21a052bba6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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An interactive picture manipulation system.
Thesis. 1978. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF PICTURE-GENERATED STORIES
… story after having viewed a set of story-book pictures.</p><p>The stories were evaluated on several different dimensions which included: the thoughts, intentions and emotions of the characters, how single elements from the pictures were integrated together, the linguistic terms used to connect …
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DIGITAL PICTURE STORAGE FOR TELETEXT DECODING
… This type of memory can store a complete picture which allows a number of new features to be added to a television receiver. Teletext and still Video reception are such features and are the focus of this thesis. This thesis describes a low cost digital field memory to be used in …
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Elementary Writing Instruction Using Picture Books
… in a 5th grade classroom. The program uses picture books to teach each of the six traits of writing. The traits are: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency and conventions. The sample includes the classroom of the study and a control group. Both groups had twenty-four …
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Picture This: Black Girl Multilingual Magic
<p>As #blackgirlmagic continues to defy all odds and perceptions in sports, society, and other social spaces, Black girls have been rendered invisible in the expanding landscape for dual language education. This dissertation study employed visual participatory methods to center the narratives of …
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Picture Perfect: Predicting the Model Ex-Offender
The cost of imprisonment remains high. Budgetary constraints faced by most states have resulted in an increased interest in reducing prison populations while simultaneously reducing recidivism rates. The latter goal has encouraged a renewed interest in offender reentry and reintegration. There are …
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Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture
Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture is almost the first twenty thousand words of a novel. These five chapters detail Calvin Green's discovery that his dreams are being shown at the Aztec Theater in Denver, CO. Clearly, the novel has supernatural elements, and it offers a voice in the magical realism …
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The Blood Picture in Correlation with Bloat
… this seems to be as vital to the overall bloat picture as any. After choosing the toxic theory the assumption that the toxicity would be found in the blood was made. Carbon dioxide, pseudocholinesterase, and methemoglobin were choose are the compounds in the blood which might the greatest …
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Perceptual picture emphasis using texture power maps
Applying selective emphasis to photographs is a critical aspect of the visual design process. There is evidence from psychophysics that contrast in texture is a key contributor to saliency in an image, yet unlike other low-level perceptual features, texture cannot be directly modified with existing …
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Fast algorithms for vector quantization picture coding
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1984.
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