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A Facial Motion Retargeting Pipeline for Appearance Agnostic 3D Characters

open access: yesComputer 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Commercialization of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit in Its Film Adaptations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Tato bakalářská práce pojednává o různých případech nadměrné komercializace ve filmových adaptacích J. R. R. Tolkienova románu Hobit. Práce zkoumá změny, které byly provedeny během procesu adaptace tohoto známého románu na filmovou trilogii od Petera ...
Šťastný, Michal
core   +1 more source

The Hobbit in prose and comics: exploring intersemiotic relations

open access: yesEstudos Semióticos
This 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
doaj   +1 more source

Balancing quality with quantity: A case study of UK bread wheat

open access: yesPLANTS, 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
wiley   +1 more source

La traducción de elementos ficticios en «The Hobbit» (1937) de J. R. R. Tolkien [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
RESUMEN: Entre los rasgos que permiten considerar la literatura fantástica como un género diferenciado, se encuentra la presencia de elementos sobrenaturales que aluden a referencias ficticias, también conocidos como «irrealia».
Moreno Paz, María Del Carmen
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Lexicalization patterns in Brazilian Portuguese

open access: yesSigno, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Patient's Experiences of a Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Informed Crisis Intervention for Psychosis Delivered in Inpatient Settings: A Qualitative Exploration

open access: yesClinical 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Homo floresiensis Controversy

open access: yesHayati 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
doaj   +3 more sources

It Is a Man's World: Romantic Relief In The Hollywood Blockbuster

open access: yesCINEJ 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
doaj   +1 more source

Mathematical pluralism

open access: yesNoûs, 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
wiley   +1 more source

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