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ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 Posters, 2010 Facial animation is difficult to do convincingly. The movements of the face are complex and subtle, and we are innately attuned to faces. It is particularly difficult and labor-intensive to accurately synchronize faces with speech. A technology-based solution to this problem is automated facial animation.
Michael Berger +2 more
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Impact of a large-scale event on SARS-CoV-2 cases and hospitalizations in the Netherlands, carnival seasons 2022 and 2023 [PDF]
Public Health in PracticeObjectives: The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the importance of understanding facilitators for disease transmission. Events such as Carnival, characterized by large gatherings and extensive social interactions, have the potential to become ‘super ...
Koen M.F. Gorgels +5 more
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The Impact of the Patras Carnival on the Course of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Outbreak of Influenza A: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study [PDF]
Vaccines, 2022 Background: We investigated the impact of the indoor mass gathering of young people during the Patras Carnival in Greece on the course of the COVID-19 pandemic and the influenza A epidemic.
Christos Sotiropoulos +8 more
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Social Sciences, Humanities and Education Journal, 2021 Theatre and its appurtenances can project events, problems and issues of society. Its hegemony consists in performances and varied possibilities of expression with great propensity to awaken social consciousness stimulate emotions, and provide certain ...
Affiong Effiom
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Journal of Festive Studies, 2021 The carnival of 2021 of Rio de Janeiro was unprecedently cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the city administration knew it would have to enforce the decision and convince residents to avoid celebrating despite the restrictions.
Andrew Snyder
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Inkanyiso, 2020 There has over the decades been a recrudescence of francophobia in many francophone African countries. This has attracted the attention of scholars across the world and has fuelled a discourse which has myopically constructed francophone Africans ...
Floribert P.C. Endong
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BMC Public Health, 2020 Background To evaluate the association between crowding and transmission of viral respiratory infectious diseases, we investigated the change in transmission patterns of influenza and COVID-19 before and after a mass gathering event (i.e., carnival) in ...
LUMC-COVID-19 Research Group +5 more
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The Bakhtinian Carnival in Chicano Novels by Rolando Hinojosa [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2021 The article discusses Rolando Hinojosa’s novels Klail City and The Valley about the 20 th century Chicano community. The analysis bears on the carnival theory by Mikhail Bakhtin. Carnivalesque images and literary devices examined in the novels create the
Marina K. Bronich, Maria I. Baranova
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Twenty-First-Century Reinvention of Carnival Rituals in Paris and Cherbourg
Journal of Festive Studies, 2020 Carnival as a research object has been studied from a multiplicity of perspectives: folklore studies, European ethnology, social and cultural anthropology, history, sociology, etc.
Monika Salzbrunn
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Carnival against the Capital of Capital
Journal of Festive Studies, 2020 The medieval carnival, according to Russian literary scholar Mikhail Bakhtin, was a public festivity of excess in which people were free to violate social norms and subvert prevailing authority.
John L. Hammond
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