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Showing 1 to 20 of 231 for “"vivid"”.
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Resynthesizing reality : driving vivid virtual environments from sensor networks
… freely exploring such environments, users gain a vivid, multi-modal, and experiential perspective into large, multi-dimensional datasets. We present a variety of approaches to manifesting data in "avatar landscape", including landscapes generated off live video, tinting frames in correspondence …
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Vivid: An Operating System Kernel for Radiation-Tolerant Flight Control Software
… processor. A new real-time operating system, Vivid, explores the use of redundant multithreading to protect critical software components from radiation errors, and offers new abstractions to reduce the number of single points of vulnerability in the system. It introduces a static component …
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'AS VIVID AS BLOOD IN A SINK': (RE)READING QUEERNESS AND REPRESSION IN TEJU COLE'S OPEN CITY
<p>Teju Cole’s <em>Open City </em>(2011) is an exemplar work of contemporary fiction. For its complex representation of subjectivity, hypnotic narrative tone, and global political scope, the novel<em> </em>has been praised by readers and critics alike. Julius, the text’s first-person narrator, …
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What is the experience of vivid dreaming and its impact on the dreamer’s life? A phenomenological inquiry
… aims to deepen our understanding of how vivid dreamers are affected upon awakening. Through structured existential analysis (SEA) with eleven purposefully selected participants aged between 22 and 45, their profound dreams were explored, revealing three temporal themes (Dreaming as Being, …
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The Autumn Leaves Swirl in Crisp October Wind
… and percussion; this segment represents the vivid color changing of leaves during the fall season. The second section, “Steady, Rhythmic”, expresses the excitement and fun of Halloween night, beginning with a layered percussion groove with more instruments adding in over time. The third …
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Some Major Figures of Speech in the "De Beata Vita” of St. Augustine
… of rhetoric on literature resulted in his use of vivid and picturesque modes of expression. |In the "De Beata Vita" this picturesqueness is attained partly by the use of diminutives, which suggest familiar things; partly by homely words which make vivid the daily life of his young pupils and by …
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The sun also rises
… a book into a screenplay. And so, Hemingway's vivid source material is transposed from its origin as a literary work into a pictorial outline of a film. An adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel. A screenplay by Kate Erwin.
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Hubungan motivasi penggunaan handphone dengan kontrol diri pada anak usia menengah akhir di Sekolah Dasar Negeri Sukun 1 Malang
INDONESIA: Kemajuan teknologi informasi khususnya handphone, semakin mendorong individu untuk terus memperbaharui pola hidup yang lama menjadi modern. Dorongan atau motivasi dalam penggunaan handphone tersebut membentuk suatu perilaku yang di dasari oleh kemampuan seseorang dalam mengendalikan dan …
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Police Use of Deadly Force: A Look at the Birmingham Police Department.
… news programs carry images of such violence in vivid color. Whether the force exhibited by police officers in the course of their work is excessive is a question for which an answer is sought in every phase of the political system. City commissioners try to maintain a good image of their city. …
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Volumetric cloud generation using a Chinese brush calligraphy style
… and illuminated features make the sky vivid and beautiful. However, these features increase both the complexity of real time rendering and modelling. It is difficult to design and build volumetric clouds in an easy and intuitive way, particularly if the interface is intended for artists …
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Weaving the Past into an Imagined Future: Episodic Future Thinking Relies on Working Memory as a Cognitive Interface with Episodic Memory
… bound item-location representations were less vivid than those imagined during low WM load control trials. Measures of functional and effective connectivity indicated that this behavioral effect corresponded with reduced coupling between the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex and right …
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Come to Light
… image in my work. To represent light, I use vivid images of shadows illuminating different values with the intention of setting particular moods and feelings. Light is an essential element for all life. It has a subliminal message of peace, life, clarification, illumination, beginnings and …
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Visualization in Geomechanics With an Application to Deep Excavations
… results. The visualization techniques present a vivid picture of the effect of excavation method selection on soil behavior and the development of a 3D arch for a square excavation.
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Junior High: An American Saga
… differently. You see it clearly. An event seems vivid right when it happens, but only time can show you what it meant and what it really taught you. Take junior high school. When you’re in it, you don’t care about learning—only surviving. The class bully wants a piece of you. You can’t hit a …
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Examining the impact of multisensory language on perception and imagination: how can botanic gardens use audio description to enhance access for blind and partially sighted visitors?
… as it may help listeners to generate more vivid sensory imagery due to the evidence for mental simulation, and the over-arching theory of grounded cognition. The secondary hypothesis is that metaphorical language might be more effective in helping listeners generate imagery due to the …
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A Possible Self Program for the Foreign Language Class
… students to explore and develop prominent and vivid mental representations (self-schemas) of their L2 possible selves (L2 referring to foreign, second language) using guided mental simulation, also called task-guided imagery. The desired aim of this intervention is to help activate students’ …
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The Hat
… of Christmas, supposedly a happy time, and the vivid memories of a stalker boyfriend who disappeared about a year ago. Allison's past includes troubled family relationships, an ex-husband, and earlier affairs of an often destructive nature. She struggles with memories of her troubled …
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A Pragmatic Experiment of Rural Construction Movement: The Self-Government of Wanxi in Southwestern Henan, 1930 -1940
… history study. First, it could be regarded as a vivid case of Guomindanga??s failure in extending the state power to the rural society. Second, the local self-government of Wanxi was one successful rural reconstruction experiment in the 1930s.
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Atlas: a collection of poems on moving to the Wild West
<p>Atlas, by William A. White is a vivid collection prose and poems, read as snapshots on life for a young, black, queer, male moving from small town Applalachia to what seemed like an open and lawless western city near the Rockies; a journey of finding self, and of home.</p> <p>Atlas is a …
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Essays on Strategies for Increasing Repayment Rates of Digital Microloans
… from psychology and consumer behavior to develop vivid repayment reminders. This study found that vivid reminders had limited effectiveness for increasing loan repayment and reducing loan duration. Taken together, these three studies propose new avenues for digital lenders to reduce default rates. …
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