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Physically Based Neural BRDF: A Framework for Physically Correct Material Reconstruction, Generation and Editing

open access: yesComputer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
We introduce the physically based neural BRDF, a novel continuous representation for material appearance based on neural fields. Our model accurately performs real‐world material reconstruction, generation and editing, while uniquely enhancing the physical accuracy of neural BRDFs via three key aspects: energy conservation, Helmholtz reciprocity and ...
C. Zhou   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Magical Realist Hauntings in Children's Everyday Encounters With Death, or, How to Believe in Impossible Things

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern deaths have become reiterations. That is, despite exhibiting a seemingly high‐level of diversity in death's representations in everyday lives, death suffers from a particular onto‐epistemological poverty that prevents it from being imagined otherwise.
Zhaoxi Zheng   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving the use of expert opinion in disease risk analysis for conservation translocations

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Conservation translocations are subject to considerable uncertainty and risk, of which disease is one of the most recognized. To address disease risks, several protocols for qualitative disease risk analysis (qDRA) exist and are used for responsible conservation translocation planning.
John G. Ewen   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of Information Technologies on the Bankruptcy Decision

open access: yesFinancial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Exploiting the staggered adoptions of electronic systems across 70 bankruptcy courts in the United States, I investigate the impacts of digital transformation on bankruptcy behavior. The digital transformation in bankruptcy courts significantly lowered the cost of filing by enabling debtors to file for bankruptcy online, yet empirical tests ...
Jeyul Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Postaci disneyowskie we włoskich komiksach dla dorosłych a disneyizacja — przypadki Zerocalcare i Dr. Piry

open access: yesZagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich
In this article, I analyze the use of characters from Disney comics and films for children in contemporary Italian comics for the adult public by two authors: Zerocalcare and Dr. Pira. I aim to describe the purposes of the use of these characters and to
Aneta Wielgosz
doaj   +1 more source

Ambiguitas yang Mencerminkan Rasisme dalam Film The Princess and The Frog

open access: yesParadigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya, 2014
Princess fairy tales have made the Disney Corporation so famous. At fi rst, Disney princesses were white skinned. As time goes by, Disney started fi lming animated movies with colored princesses.
Rizki Nurmaya Oktarina
doaj   +1 more source

Studio Pedagogy in Transition: Lecturers' Reflections on Creative Arts Education in a Post‐COVID World

open access: yesInternational Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper presents findings from interviews with creative arts academics examining how the COVID‐19 disruption reshaped studio‐based teaching practices and informed future pedagogical thinking. Participants described the disruption as a period that compelled rapid adaptation and created opportunities to experiment, review and reflect on their
Tara Winters, Nick Konings
wiley   +1 more source

Somebody Knows Something: Managerial Ability, Product Development, and Return‐on‐Investment in a Hit‐Driven Industry

open access: yesJournal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In hit‐driven industries, product development is associated with a right‐skewed unconditional distribution of performance, and products in the right tail have outsized impacts. Understanding how exceptional performance is generated can improve resource allocation, but the literature advances two different narratives: one emphasizes postrelease
Darren Filson
wiley   +1 more source

100 years of Disney

open access: yesAlphaville: journal of film and screen media
In 2023, a major Hollywood film company celebrated its 100th birthday, and almost no one blinked an eye. That studio was Warner Brothers, which was founded on 4 April 1923 by brothers Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner. But on 16 October 2023, another major Hollywood film company—the Walt Disney Company, founded on 16 October 1923 by brothers Walt and
Helen Haswell, Amy M. Davis
openaire   +2 more sources

Product Positioning and Incentives to Innovate

open access: yesJournal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper shows that product positioning affects the incentives to invest in process innovation. The result is found using a model of price competition with three firms under horizontal product differentiation—and then extended to a more general Bertrand triopoly.
Emanuele Bacchiega, Paolo G. Garella
wiley   +1 more source

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