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Lacking data? No worries! How synthetic images can alleviate image scarcity in wildlife surveys: A case study with muskox (Ovibos moschatus)

open access: yesRemote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
This study investigates the integration of synthetic imagery, created with diffusion‐based models, to supplement limited training data and improve muskox (Ovibos moschatus) detection in zero‐shot (ZS) and few‐shot (FS) settings. ZS models detected more than 80% of muskoxen in real images, confirming the potential of synthetic data as a substitute for ...
Simon Durand   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The torment of exile and the aesthetics of nostalgia : transnational Chinese neo-romanticism in Xu Xu’s post-war fiction

open access: yes, 2018
Physical exile certainly was a painful reality for Xu Xu. Restorative nostalgia might to some extent have informed his literary activity in those years. However, nostalgia in Xu Xu’s postwar fiction, I will argue in this paper, constitutes above all the ...
GREEN, Frederik H.
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Narrative and Belonging: The Politics of Ambiguity, The Jewish State, and the Thought of Edward Said and Hannah Arendt [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
At the core of this thesis, I examine the difficulties of giving an account of oneself in modern associational life. By integrating the theory and political activism of both Edward Said and Hannah Arendt, I follow the Zionist response to European ...
Bessen, Jacob, Bessen, Jacob A
core   +1 more source

Designing “Korean” Kimchi: Speculative Configuration of Distance and Commodity Value in the Chinese Kimchi Industry

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the Chinese kimchi industry, manufacturers employ product names, photographs, and logistical strategies to promote their kimchi's “Koreanness.” So, what makes their kimchi “Korean,” and how does its Koreanness formulate kimchi's commodity value?
Heangjin Park
wiley   +1 more source

Exile, exilic consciousness and the poetic imagination in Tanure Ojaide’s poetry

open access: yesTydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2017
As a thematic trajectory, exile constitutes a visible presence in the Nigerian poetic afflatus and imagination. This is sometimes not adequately or sufficiently acknowledged.
James Tar Tsaaior
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Beggars as Rational Choosers

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT American municipalities increasingly regulate panhandling. That regulation is controversial. The determinants of panhandling activeness are unknown, and it is doubted whether panhandling activity responds rationally to incentives. To shed light on these issues, we collect data on hundreds of panhandlers and the passersby they solicit at ...
Peter T. Leeson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recycling End‐of‐Life Solid Oxide Cell Interconnect Assemblies into Commercial‐Grade AISI 304 Stainless Steels

open access: yessteel research international, EarlyView.
This study validates a recycling pathway for converting interconnect assemblies from end‐of‐life SOC stacks into commercial‐grade AISI 304 steels. Using scrap‐based steelmaking operations, austenitic cast steels with <4.0% δ‐ferrite are successfully produced.
Jeraldine Lastam   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Menorah Review (No. 41, Fall, 1997) [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
The Jewish Image in American Fiction -- An Endless Journey?

core   +1 more source

Josef Fares’ Zozo as accented cinema [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In 2005, the Lebanese-Swedish filmmaker Josef Fares, who had attained recognition in Sweden through the immigrant comedies Jalla! Jalla! (2000) and Kopps (2003), presented his third feature film and first drama, Zozo, inspired by Fares’s own migration to
Alexander, Elizabeth Lindsay
core   +1 more source

“All Native Speakers” at Singapore's ESL Schools: Implications for TESOL Communities in the Pursuit of Diversity‐Based Professionalism

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores an understudied question of who teaches English in the Singaporean English language teaching (ELT) industry. Study 1 analyzed the website contents of ESL schools, and Study 2 conducted questionnaire surveys and interviews with three schools.
Yoko Kobayashi
wiley   +1 more source

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