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Animated Landscapes: History, Form and Function, edited by Chris Pallant

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2017
Animation is pervasive. As Suzanne Buchan has observed, “[i]t is transforming cinema, is the basis for computer games, is used throughout the web, and advertising and propaganda learned early on its power to astonish, influence and coerce” (1).
Yuanyuan Chen
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Black Holes and the loss landscape in machine learning

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023
Understanding the loss landscape is an important problem in machine learning. One key feature of the loss function, common to many neural network architectures, is the presence of exponentially many low lying local minima.
Pranav Kumar, Taniya Mandal, Swapnamay Mondal   +2 more
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Urban Landscape: Function and Idea

Geographical Environment and Living Systems, 2023
Aim. We present an analysis of the correlation of functional and ideological components in the formation and development of the urban landscape.Methodology. Use is made of the landscape-cultural approach (the study of the associativity of the urban landscape, its understanding as the arena of life and activity of the creators of culture and the ...
T. E. Isachenko, G. I. Isachenko
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Preserving geodiversity in Mexican hyper urban conflict zones: A geo-aesthetic approach

International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks, 2023
This article explains the epistemic function of images in geological research and in the preservation of geodiversity in hyper urbanized regions in Mexico.
Peter Krieger
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Discovering How Heme Controls Genome Function Through Heme-omics

Cell Reports, 2020
Summary: Protein ensembles control genome function by establishing, maintaining, and deconstructing cell-type-specific chromosomal landscapes. A plethora of small molecules orchestrate cellular functions and therefore may link physiological processes ...
Ruiqi Liao, Ye Zheng, Xin Liu, Yuannyu Zhang, Gretchen Seim, Nobuyuki Tanimura, Gary M. Wilson, Peiman Hematti, Joshua J. Coon, Jing Fan, Jian Xu, Sunduz Keles, Emery H. Bresnick   +12 more
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The Effects of Terrain Factors and Cultural Landscapes on Plateau Forest Distribution in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, China

Land, 2021
The Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is a typical Tibetan plateau area, and its ecological environment is very fragile. It is necessary to explore the terrain and cultural factors for the protection of the local ecological environment.
Naixin Cui, Huiting Zou, Moshi Zhang, Luo Guo   +3 more
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Targeting Conservation Investments in Heterogeneous Landscapes: A distance function approach and application to watershed management [PDF]

, 2003
To achieve a given level of an environmental amenity at least cost, decision-makers must integrate information about spatially variable biophysical and economic conditions. Although the biophysical attributes that contribute to supplying an environmental
Allen A.W., Allen A.W., Borcherding K., Carter M.F., DeZyane J., Gardner K.V., Hermans L.M., Hruby T., Keeney R.L., Lovell C.A.K., Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), Division of Watershed Management, Myers S., National Research Council (NRC), Committee to Review the New York City Watershed Management Strategy, Olson D.M., Rowles J.L., Shephard R.W., Terrell J.W., U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Farm Service Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Voogd H.   +19 more
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Epigenomes in Cardiovascular Disease. [PDF]

, 2018
If unifying principles could be revealed for how the same genome encodes different eukaryotic cells and for how genetic variability and environmental input are integrated to impact cardiovascular health, grand challenges in basic cell biology and ...
McKinsey TA, Morimoto T, Poller W, Turner BM, Wang Y   +4 more
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Case investigation on the construction mode of rural landscapes in the Qinghai Tibet Plateau, Mengda National Nature Reserve

Heliyon
It is vital and challenging to coordinate the protection of natural reserves with rural construction. The rural structure and function were divided during the creation of natural reserves on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau (QTP), throwing the rural structure ...
Yuan Kang, Chen Chen
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Evolution of oil droplets in a chemorobotic platform [PDF]

, 2014
Evolution, once the preserve of biology, has been widely emulated in software, while physically embodied systems that can evolve have been limited to electronic and robotic devices and have never been artificially implemented in populations of physically
Cronin, Leroy, Hinkley, Trevor, Parrilla-Gutierrez, Juan Manuel, Taylor, James Ward, Yanev, Kliment   +4 more
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