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The Hobbit in prose and comics: exploring intersemiotic relations
Estudos SemióticosThis paper investigates the intersemiotic relations between J.R.R. Tolkien's prose novel The Hobbit (1937) and the homonym graphic novel by David Wenzel and Charles Dixon (1990).
Caio Henrique Medeiros Sousa +2 more
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Robotic mowing technology in turfgrass management: Past, present, and future
Crop Science, Volume 65, Issue 3, May/June 2025.Abstract Robotic mowing equipment has rapidly increased in availability worldwide, but the first developed concepts for automating the mowing process are nearly 100 years old. The first attempt to commercialize a robotic mower was in the 1950s, with continued attempts to launch commercial products over subsequent decades.
J. Scott McElroy +6 more
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Lexicalization patterns in Brazilian Portuguese
Signo, 2016 Neolatin languages belong to a lexicalization pattern in which the verbal root expresses semantic primitives of MOVE and PATH, leaving MANNER or CAUSE to be expressed by an adverb or the gerund form.
Dorival Gonçalves Santos Filho +1 more
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A Facial Motion Retargeting Pipeline for Appearance Agnostic 3D Characters
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, Volume 35, Issue 6, November/December 2024.We present a facial motion retargeting pipeline for plausible facial animation across diverse characters. The pipeline automatically translates mocap data to facial muscles' activation intensities and drives our muscle‐based transferrable face rig. A list of passive muscle actions during muscles' activation and a blendshape‐free quantitative evaluation
ChangAn Zhu, Chris Joslin
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The Homo floresiensis Controversy
Hayati Journal of Biosciences, 2007 A completely new and unexpected quasi human species, Homo floresiensis, nicknamed the Hobbit, was described in 2004 from Liang Bua, a cave in Flores. Like many important new contributions to the human fossil record in the past, many commentators refused ...
COLIN GROVES
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It Is a Man's World: Romantic Relief In The Hollywood Blockbuster
CINEJ Cinema Journal, 2014 The Hollywood action blockbuster has been known to benefit from conventions that assure its success at the box-office. Since these films are often identified with male genres, they feature male protagonists, causing them to mostly appeal to male ...
Esma Kartal
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Balancing quality with quantity: A case study of UK bread wheat
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 6, Issue 5, Page 1000-1013, September 2024.Increasing crop productivity is often proposed as a key goal for meeting the food security demands of a growing global population. However, achieving high crop yields alone without meeting end‐use quality requirements is counter to this objective and can lead to negative environmental and sustainability issues.
Nick S. Fradgley +4 more
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Clinical Psychology &Psychotherapy, Volume 31, Issue 4, July/August 2024.ABSTRACT Cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis (CBTp) should be offered to patients receiving psychiatric inpatient care, yet very little is known about patients' perspectives on this. The aim of this study was to examine patients' experiences of a CBTp‐informed intervention delivered in inpatient settings.
Lisa Wood +10 more
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Noûs, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 306-332, June 2024.Abstract Mathematical pluralism can take one of three forms: (1) every consistent mathematical theory consists of truths about its own domain of individuals and relations; (2) every mathematical theory, consistent or inconsistent, consists of truths about its own (possibly uninteresting) domain of individuals and relations; and (3) the principal ...
Edward N. Zalta
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The Art of Storytelling in Music: In Conversation with Composer Dean Burry
Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde AnglophoneDean Burry is a Canadian composer and librettist whose contemporary operas, especially those for young audiences, have been performed around the world, from Canada and the United States to Europe, China, and Brazil. Among his most acclaimed works are The
Marcin Stawiarski, Dean Burry
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