Recent Developments in Investigating and Understanding Impact Sound Annoyance—A Literature Review by Martina Marija Vrhovnik, Rok Prislan

“…Furthermore, it has been shown that the consideration of non-acoustic factors such as noise sensitivity and visual features are important for the assessment. …”
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Le corps du joueur et l’écran traversé : récurrences et circulation d’un motif. by Sonny Walbrou

“…The video game player appears in close proximity with what Georges Vigarello has called an “informational body”, that is, the individual’s capacity to react and to adapt to the screen’s flow of information. The screen crossing topos betrays a confused situation, one of a body which is neither truly in front of the screen nor truly within it. …”
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Soviet Socio-Cultural Practices from Perspective of Genres in <i>Pioneer</i> Magazine by T. V. Dubrovskaya

“…At the same time, the magazine adapts the representations of Soviet values for adolescents through the use of everyday language and visual images of routine life.…”
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Dual-Path Beat Tracking: Combining Temporal Convolutional Networks and Transformers in Parallel by Nikhil Thapa, Joonwhoan Lee

“…The Transformer, a deep learning architecture, has shown exceptional adaptability across fields, including music information retrieval (MIR). …”
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Analyzing the Improvement of Students’ Public Speaking Skills Through Interactive Live Audience Feedback Strategies by Silvia Djonnaidi, Difiani Apriyanti, Fitri Handayani

“…Practically, the LAF model offers an adaptable strategy for improving communication competence in a variety of educational and professional contexts.…”
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Torsion-Induced Traumatic Optic Neuropathy (TITON): A physiologically relevant animal model of traumatic optic neuropathy. by Annie K Ryan, Brooke I Asemota, Tyler Heisler-Taylor, Claire Mello, Luis Rodriguez, William E Sponsel, Julie Racine, Tonia S Rex, Randolph D Glickman, Matthew A Reilly

“…The photopic negative response (PhNR) of the light adapted full field electroretinogram (LA ffERG) was significantly altered following injury. …”
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Representing canonical texts in the digital age: the case of the estonian national epic Kalevipoeg by Marin Laak, Piret Viires

“…The aim of the work during the CULTOS project was to visualize the intertextual relations between the texts of contemporary culture and the source text, the epic Kalevipoeg. …”
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Artificial intelligence: a new grammar or the end of knowledge? Lessons for historians of education by Sjaak Braster

“…Our findings reveal the following: (a) AI will not alter the existing «grammar of schooling» if teachers fail to adapt how they students are assessed. Systemic changes are required first for personalized learning to become a possibility; (b) AI can be a valuable tool for acquiring knowledge about the history of education, although it is essential to balance its inductive reasoning with a hypothetical-deductive approach, engage students in critical analysis and continue to seek out primary sources; (c) AI-powered image creators can be used in history of education workshops to enhance the understanding of both AI and educational history as generated through images; (d) Image creators can be used for denotation and connation, as well as to visualize individual school memories or collaboratively construct historical school realities, thus fostering a «living past». …”
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From Kitsch and Carnivalesque to Cultural Appropriations: Liminal Representations of Post-Apartheid White Identity in Die Antwoord’s Music Videos by Tomasz Dobrogoszcz

“…This paper discusses discursive and visual strategies employed in selected Die Antwoord music videos, demonstrating how their use of kitsch aesthetics and carnivalesque elements allows them to render the liminality of contemporary white Afrikaans experience. …”
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Illustration image style transfer method design based on improved cyclic consistent adversarial network. by Xiaojun Wang, Jing Jiang

“…The model comprehensively utilizes the image restoration and style transfer capabilities of the attention mechanism and the cycle consistency adversarial network, and introduces an improved attention module, which can adaptively highlight the key visual elements in the illustration, thereby maintaining artistic integrity during the style transfer process. …”
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A Hybrid Algorithm for Contour Thinning in Image Processing by Mamatov Narzullo, Niyozmatova Nilufar, Jalelova Malika, Samijonov Abdurashid, Samijonov Boymirzo

“…Visual data processing is a rapidly expanding field, with image processing aimed at enhancing image features for object recognition. …”
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Beyond the Cover: An In-Depth Analysis of the Practicality of an English Textbook by the Indonesian Government Post Pandemic Covid-19 by Diyah Nur Hidayati, Eny Kusumawati

“…Moreover, the study highlights the need for textbooks to adapt to the new normal of remote learning.…”
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Les pratiques populaires à la rescousse de la salubrité urbaine : la précollecte, un service alternatif aux insuffisances du système formel de gestion des déchets à Yaoundé by Jules Raymond Ngambi

“…In areas covered by the pre-collection service, there is a reduction of odour (86%) and visual pollution (90%). In addition, there is a decrease of wild dumping (97%), open-air cremation (83%) and an improvement in the cleanliness of the area (96%). …”
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COMMUNICATION TOPICS AND STRATEGIES IN E-MAIL CONSULTATION: COMPARISON BETWEEN AMERICAN AND INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS by Sigrun Biesenbach-Lucas

“…Findings also show that messages from both groups of students contained substantial relational communication, perhaps in an attempt to compensate for the lack of visual and paralinguistic clues in the e-mail medium.…”
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Election Satire: The Evolution of <i>The Daily Show</i> as a Cultural Artifact Reflecting Democratic Processes by Najla Lilya Jaballah

“…It decodes how news satire along with visuals reflect political and cultural moments, and the way social and political representations are depicted in this show. …”
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Character Education Analysis of Empathy, Creativity, and Independence in The Film Totto-Chan : A Semiotic Study by Siti Difa Dilfayanti Azzahra, Khusniyati Masykuroh

“…Data collection was conducted through comprehensive documentation of the film, focusing on dialogue, scenes, character expressions, and visual contexts. The findings of this research indicate that character formation occurs through a holistic educational approach implemented by educators and parents. …”
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Więcej niż obraz – metody dokumentacji zabytków architektury z wykorzystaniem HBIM. Przykład siedziby Instytutu Historycznego Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego by Urszula Kwast-Kotlarek, Agnieszka Seidel-Grzesińska

“…This renovation, which adapted the buildings to the needs of a police headquarters, was intended to erase the traces of the complex’s older, historical functions. …”
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The Intelligent Work of Art: How the Narcissus Theme Echoes in New Media Art by Daniel Becker

“…This paper will deal with the mythological figure of Narcissus in new media art. In visual arts in general, this myth is usually used to reflect on the relationship between the artist and his actual work. …”
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Enhancing Skin Cancer Diagnosis Through Fine-Tuning of Pretrained Models: A Two-Phase Transfer Learning Approach by Entesar Hamed I. Eliwa

“…Traditional diagnostic methods, often reliant on visual examination and manual evaluation, can be subjective and time-consuming, leading to variability in accuracy. …”
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Non-customized data asset evaluation based on knowledge graph and value entropy. by Wei Zhang, Yan Gong, Zhinan Li, Yuefeng Xu

“…Additionally, knowledge graph techniques are used to organize and visualize relationships among the indicators, providing a comprehensive evaluation view. …”
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