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Story2Board: A Training‐Free Approach for Expressive Visual Storytelling

open access: yesComputer 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   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pilgrims' books

open access: yes, 2020
This chapter explores reading and writing on the move, through the transnational medium of pilgrims' books. I consider evidence of pilgrims reading and drafting during their travels and using reading and writing materials during and after their journeys.
Bale, Anthony
core   +1 more source

Larval character evolution in Holometabola (Insecta)

open access: yesCladistics, EarlyView.
Abstract Larvae, a novel type of immature stage, are a crucial innovation of the Holometabola. Larval features therefore provide key evidence for reconstructing evolutionary transformations in this megadiverse group. Here we present the first formal reconstruction of larval character evolution, using maximum parsimony and Bayesian ancestral‐state ...
Rolf Georg Beutel, Jakub Goczał, Di Li
wiley   +1 more source

Influenza vaccination among Australian Hajj pilgrims: uptake, attitudes, and barriers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Background: Hajj is the largest annual mass gathering where the risk of respiratory infection is high. Although the Saudi Arabian authority recommends influenza vaccination for Hajj pilgrims, the uptake is variable.
Rashid, Harunor   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Toward an Ecumenical Metaphysics? A Response to Reviewers of Christ the Logos of Creation

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract After a series of promising ecumenical meetings in 1929 and 1931 with the Jesuit Erich Przywara, who advocated an analogical understanding of the relationship between God and world – doing so in part to ward off the danger posed by modern forms of pantheism – Karl Barth abruptly threw down the gauntlet and presented a serious obstacle to ...
John R. Betz
wiley   +1 more source

Immunization Coverage and Barriers among Hajj and Umrah Pilgrims: Insights into Vaccine Uptake and Compliance

open access: yesJournal of Epidemiology and Global Health
Background The Hajj pilgrimage poses significant public health challenges due to the risk of infectious disease transmission. Despite mandatory vaccination policies, barriers such as hesitancy, logistical issues, and vaccine availability persist ...
Adeeb A. Bulkhi   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Promising Market: An Exploratory Study of the Factors Influencing Pilgrims’ Adoption of Cooling Ihram [PDF]

open access: yesالمجلة العربية للإدارة
Major health issues arise during Al-Hajj season due to the high temperatures during summer, which can cause sunstroke or even death for pilgrims. Saudi Arabia has formulated several solutions for this issue based on the recommendations of Saudi Vision ...
Hawazin Alzubaidi, Khulud Alyafie
doaj   +1 more source

‘Let's Go to the Land Instead’: Indigenous Perspectives on Biodiversity and the Possibilities of Regenerative Capital

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The land has been a source of capital accumulation since colonization through extractive activities like mining and industrial agriculture. Indigenous peoples have profoundly different relationships with the land, which are more relational than extractive. However, their knowledge has been subjugated by and systematically excluded from Western
Diane‐Laure Arjaliès   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pilgrims Praying at Fatima

open access: yes, 1955
Pilgrims praying at Fatima.https://ecommons.udayton.edu/imri_photos/1216/thumbnail ...

core   +1 more source

Meningococcal Vaccine for Hajj Pilgrims: Compliance, Predictors, and Barriers

open access: yesTropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2019
Background: Major intercontinental outbreaks of invasive meningococcal disease associated with the Hajj occurred in 1987, 2000, and 2001. Mandatory meningococcal vaccination for all pilgrims against serogroups A and C and, subsequently, A, C, W, and Y ...
Al-Mamoon Badahdah   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

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