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Realism in Film: Less is More [PDF]
, 2017 What is realism in film? Focusing on a test case of HFR high-definition movies, I discuss in this article various types of realism as well as their interrelations.
Benovsky, Jiri
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Screen Tourism: Worlds Within the Screen, Moving the Economy
International Journal of Tourism Research, Volume 27, Issue 4, July/August 2025.ABSTRACT The number of tourists traveling to attractions and destinations they had seen on screen continues to increase. Screen tourism is a marketing tool that encourages tourism demand as well as promotes economic development, with governments and destination marketing organizations attracting tourists through conventional and digital media. However,
Yunkyoung Jo +3 more
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Fafnir, 2018 Characters are important for the audience reception of films, but little empirical research on actual audiences has been conducted on the topic of character reception. Are characters important for all audiences, and if not, what are the possible reasons
Tanja Välisalo
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Grasping Objects From the Floor in Assistive Robotics: Real World Implications and Lessons Learned
IEEE Access, 2019 This paper presents a system enabling a mobile robot to autonomously pick-up objects a human is pointing at from the floor. The system does not require object models and is designed to grasp unknown objects.
Paloma De La Puente +4 more
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Hobbits?...And what may they be? [PDF]
, 2017 Hobbits…And what may they be? This study considers the possible origin of the word ‘hobbit’ on the eightieth anniversary of the publication of the first edition of Tolkien’s book - The Hobbit.
Flowers, Michael
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Communicative dynamism and prosodic prominence in presentation sentences with initial rhematic subjects [PDF]
Linguistica Pragensia, 2017 Within the framework of the theory of functional sentence perspective (Firbas 1992), the distinction between presentation and quality scale sentences plays a vital role.
Martin Adam +1 more
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There and there again: Hydrothermal vent communities at Mokuyo Seamount, 30 years apart
Ecological Research, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 389-402, July 2025.Revisiting the little‐known deep‐sea hydrothermal vent field on Mokuyo Seamount, Izu‐Ogasawara Arc 30 years apart revealed decadal changes in venting activity and faunal distributions. We also update the species list of chemosynthetic ecosystem at Mokuyo from three to 18, a key baseline data for the management of this ecologically significant site ...
Chong Chen +4 more
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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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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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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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