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Story2Board: A Training‐Free Approach for Expressive Visual Storytelling

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract We present Story2Board, a training‐free framework for expressive storyboard generation from natural language. Existing methods narrowly focus on subject identity, overlooking key aspects of visual storytelling such as spatial composition, background evolution, and narrative pacing.
D. Dinkevich, M. Levy, O. Avrahami, D. Samuel, D. Lischinski   +4 more
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Reimagining the White Child as Other: Taika Waititi's Decolonial Play in James and the Giant Peach With Taika and Friends

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how James and the Giant Peach with Taika and Friends (JGPTF) (2020) challenges the colonial logics embedded in Roald Dahl's construction of the universal white child. Through collaborative digital play, humour and Māori relational epistemologies, Taika Waititi unsettles James's position as the normative child of futurity,
Diana Sandars
wiley   +1 more source

Health status and health behaviors among citizen endurance Nordic skiers in the United States

BMC Research Notes, 2017
Background More than two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese (69%) placing them at high risk for a wide array of chronic diseases. Physical activity anchors most approaches to obesity prevention and weight management, but physical activity levels
Paul J. Anderson, Ralph S. Bovard, Mohammad Hassan Murad, Timothy J. Beebe, Zhen Wang   +4 more
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Advancing Nurse Mentors' Development Through a Mentoring Intervention: A Mixed Methods Study

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Mentoring in nursing is crucial for supporting newly qualified nurses, enhancing retention and promoting professional development. Despite its significance, limited research has explored nurse mentors' perspectives and their own development through mentoring.
Stina Kallerhult Hermansson, Yvonne Hilli, Fredrik Norström, Rita Solbakken, Karin Bölenius   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Strategic Leaders Drive Firms in Ecosystems: Envisioning Value, Orchestrating Knowledge, and Shifting Roles

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Research on business ecosystems has illuminated how ecosystems emerge, evolve, and transform, revealing ecosystem‐level dynamics and the central actors that orchestrate them. Yet, it is individual firms that continuously attempt to establish and shift the roles they play within ecosystems through the vision and choices of their strategic ...
Paolo Aversa, Carmelo Cennamo, Ambra Mazzelli, Gianni Lorenzoni   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A simulation of cross-country skiing on varying terrain by using a mathematical power balance model

Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine, 2013
John F Moxnes,1 Øyvind Sandbakk,2 Kjell Hausken31Department for Protection, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Kjeller, Norway; 2Human Movement Science Program, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; 3Faculty of ...
Moxnes JF, Sandbakk Ø, Hausken K   +2 more
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Blankness in post‐post‐postmodern poetry

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Jameson's “myth” identifies reification as the leading cause of cultural change. The myth also adumbrates the semiotic form of post‐postmodernism and post‐post‐postmodernism, which Jameson himself did not explore. One of the most extreme varieties of post‐post‐postmodern verse is the would‐be blank poem, pursued by Russian Futurists, Lettrists,
Shawn Normandin
wiley   +1 more source

Identification of Cross-Country Skiing Movement Patterns Using Micro-Sensors

Sensors, 2012
This study investigated the potential of micro-sensors for use in the identification of the main movement patterns used in cross-country skiing. Data were collected from four elite international and four Australian athletes in Europe and in Australia ...
Dale Chapman, Colin Macintosh, Gordon Waddington, Judith Anson, Keith Lyons, Finn Marsland   +5 more
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Reimagining clinical psychology for a changing planet

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives The interconnected climate and ecological emergencies (CEE) are driving irreversible planetary changes with profound consequences for physical and mental health. Clinical psychology holds valuable skills for mitigating and adapting to these impacts, yet the profession lacks a coherent vision for its role.
Georgia King, Matthew Adams, Nick Maguire, Marc Williams   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

First Steps from Walking in Snow to Cross-Country Skiing

Akademisk Kvarter, 2019
This article investigates the ways in which a young child learns to sense and move through a transient environment while learning to walk on skis. Audiovisual recordings were made of a parent instructing a child on how to walk on snow and to start moving
Paul McIlvenny
doaj   +1 more source