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Rhetorical shadows: The conceptual representation of incongruent shadows [PDF]
Spatial Cognition and Computation, 2018 This article addresses the topic of conceptual representation of shadows. We analyze several examples of contemporary imagery, taken from advertising and cartooning, to shed light on the way shadow depictions are used as rhetorical devices. Instead of being inserted as a natural phenomenon, rhetorical shadows invite the construction of meaning, and ...
Joost Schilperoord
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The influence of illumination and cast shadows on prey detectability by predators [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceMany species use camouflage to dissimulate their true form and avoid detection or recognition. In natural habitats, the three-dimensional structure of an organism’s body can present challenges for camouflage, as overhead illumination creates luminance ...
Lou Cauchi +3 more
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Proiezioni. Traiettorie delle immagini [PDF]
Laboratorio dell'ISPF, 2020 There is a path stretching over two thousand years, from the awareness of shadows projected onto the back of a cave through to cinematic images. They are "real images", those that concentrate light energy and can be captured on a screen.
Alessandro Stile
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From Shadow Generation to Shadow Removal [PDF]
2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021 Accepted by ...
Zhihao Liu +5 more
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Clinical description of rare phenomenology of obsessive–Compulsive disorder
Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2022 Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is marked by intrusive thoughts, images, and impulses which are recurrent in nature, disturbing, and senseless. Typical anxiety provoking and distressing themes of the disorder include various forms such as repeated ...
Sambhu Prasad, Chayan Manna
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Shadow Images of a Rotating Dyonic Black Hole with a Global Monopole Surrounded by Perfect Fluid
Universe, 2020 In this paper, we revisit the rotating global monopole metric and extend the metric to a rotating dyonic global monopole in the presence of a perfect fluid. We then show that the surface topology at the event horizon, related to the metric computed, is a
Sumarna Haroon +2 more
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Remote Sensing, 2022 The shadow-height method has been extensively used to extract the heights of buildings from the shadows they cast in non-stereo (single view) aerial and satellite imagery.
Camilo Andrés Rada Giacaman
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Calculation of the Shading Factors for Solar Modules with MATLAB
Energies, 2021 Shadows severely affect the performance of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. A proper description of this effect is useful for sizing and simulating PV systems when shadows cannot be avoided.
Martín Silva +2 more
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Humanities, 2016 Alexander von Humboldt was internationally known as a world traveler, having collected data and analyzed samples from five of the world’s seven continents.
James F. Howell
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Ombres et clartés dans les Mille et Une Nuits de Galland
Fééries, 2021 The Thousand and One Nights, as translated and fashioned by Antoine Galland, from one of the best manuscript of the first part of the work, depict various worlds, but pay little attention to colours, except with dramatic meaning, or to suggest a world of
Jean-Paul Sermain
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