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The fiesta as a key concept of Spanish linguistic culture
The author examines the image of Spain through the megaconcept of fiesta, which determines many aspects of the national and cultural mentality. This concept reflects various vectors of quotidian life, religious and popular holidays with their complicated
E. V. Astakhova
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A systematic review of clinical practice guidelines for childhood glaucoma
Objective To conduct a systematic review to identify and critically appraise clinical practice guidelines on the assessment, diagnosis and management of childhood glaucoma.Methods and analysis A systematic literature search of databases and professional ...
Sahil Thakur +5 more
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Colour vision in ants (Formicidae, Hymenoptera)
Ants are ecologically one of the most important groups of insects and exhibit impressive capabilities for visual learning and orientation. Studies on numerous ant species demonstrate that ants can learn to discriminate between different colours ...
Ayse Yilmaz, J. Spaethe
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The Whole World in Your Hand: Active and Interactive Segmentation [PDF]
Object segmentation is a fundamental problem in computer vision and a powerful resource for development. This paper presents three embodied approaches to the visual segmentation of objects. Each approach to segmentation is aided by the presence of a hand
Arsenio, Artur +3 more
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Understanding 3D vision as a policy network
It is often assumed that the brain builds 3D coordinate frames, in retinal coordinates (with binocular disparity giving the third dimension), head-centred, body-centred and world-centred coordinates.
A. Glennerster
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The Verriest Lecture: Color vision in an uncertain world.
The natural world is optically unconstrained. Surface properties may vary from one point to another, and reflected light may vary from one instant to the next.
D. Foster
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Teacher Professional Development @scale: Achieving Quality and Sustainability in Zambia
This paper presents a conceptual model which explains the challenges of providing high quality sustainable, teacher professional development at scale. It provides a framework to support holistic thinking at a systemic level, applicable across different ...
Dr Kris Stutchbury +4 more
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Perception of Motion and Architectural Form: Computational Relationships between Optical Flow and Perspective [PDF]
Perceptual geometry refers to the interdisciplinary research whose objectives focuses on study of geometry from the perspective of visual perception, and in turn, applies such geometric findings to the ecological study of vision.
Assadi, Amir H. +2 more
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In this contribution, I analyze the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights from a rhetorical and genetic perspective. Starting from the summary reports of the Declaration Drafting Committee, I try to show that what lies at the background of ...
Emmanuel de Jonge
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Sprach- und Weltbild. Seine Wiedergabe in einem literarischen Text und einem Fachtext
The focus of this paper is the relationship between language and the “worldview“ described through language and generated in the recipient through linguistic means as well as the reproduction of this view in another language in the translation pro- cess.
Mariola Smolińska
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