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Evolution in isolation : the search for an island syndrome in plants
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ISBN: 1108390102 1108386504 1108379958 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Oceanic islands are storehouses for unique creatures. Zoologists have long been fascinated by island animals because they break all the rules. Speedy, nervous, little birds repeatedly evolve to become plump, tame and flightless on islands. Equally strange and wonderful plants have evolved on islands. However, plants are very poorly understood relatives to animals. Do plants repeatedly evolve similar patterns in dispersal ability, size and defence on islands? This volume answers this question for the first time using a modern quantitative approach. It not only reviews the literature on differences in defence, loss of dispersal, changes in size, alterations to breeding systems and the loss of fire adaptations, but also brings new data into focus to fill gaps in current understanding. By firmly establishing what is currently known about repeated patterns in the evolution of island plants, this book provides a roadmap for future research.

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Evolution in isolation : the search for an island syndrome in plants
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ISBN: 9781108422017 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Eastern philosophy : the greatest thinkers and sages from ancient to modern times
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ISBN: 1841931918 Year: 2004 Publisher: London Capella

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Genius born of anguish : the life & legacy of Henri Nouwen.
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ISBN: 9780809147854 9782896464722 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York Paulist Press

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Cross-Cultural Multimedia Computing : Semantic and Aesthetic Modeling
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ISBN: 3319428713 331942873X Year: 2016 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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The ability to communicate cultural codes in multimedia depends on their meaning and beauty, as perceived by different audiences around the globe. In this book, the ongoing research on computational modeling of visual, musical and textual contents is described in terms of identifying and mapping their semantic representations across different cultures. The underlying psychology of sense-making is quantified through analysis of aesthetics in terms of organizational and structural aspects of the contents that influence an audience’s formation of expectations for future signals, violations of these expectations, and explanations of their meaning. Complexity-accuracy tradeoffs in sound representation are further used to develop new computational methods that capture poietic and aesthetic aspects in music communication. Experimental studies are reported that try to characterize preferences for complexity in abstract, classical and traditional art and music across samples of Western and Far Eastern cultures. These experiments illustrate how aesthetics can be computed in terms of semantic and information measures, highlighting commonalities and uncovering differences in aesthetic preferences across cultures and individuals.


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The Structure of Style : Algorithmic Approaches to Understanding Manner and Meaning
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ISBN: 3642426921 3642123368 9786612981173 3642123376 128298117X Year: 2010 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,

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Style is a fundamental and ubiquitous aspect of the human experience: Everyone instantly and constantly assesses people and things according to their individual styles, academics establish careers by researching musical, artistic, or architectural styles, and entire industries maintain themselves by continuously creating and marketing new styles. Yet what exactly style is and how it works are elusive: We certainly know it when we see it, but there is no shared and clear understanding of the diverse phenomena that we call style. The Structure of Style explores this issue from a computational viewpoint, in terms of how information is represented, organized, and transformed in the production and perception of different styles. New computational techniques are now making it possible to model the role of style in the creation of and response to human artifacts—and therefore to develop software systems that directly make use of style in useful ways. Argamon, Burns, and Dubnov organize the research they have collected in this book according to the three roles that computation can play in stylistics. The first section of the book, Production, provides conceptual foundations by describing computer systems that create artifacts—musical pieces, texts, artworks—in different styles. The second section, Perception, explains methods for analyzing different styles and gleaning useful information, viewing style as a form of communication. The final section, Interaction, deals with reciprocal interaction between style producers and perceivers, in areas such as interactive media, improvised musical accompaniment, and game playing. The Structure of Style is written for researchers and practitioners in areas including information retrieval, computer art and music, digital humanities, computational linguistics, and artificial intelligence, who can all benefit from this comprehensive overview and in-depth description of current research in this active interdisciplinary field.

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Computer art. --- Computer music. --- Computer science. --- Language and languages -- Style. --- Natural language processing (Computer science). --- Computer science --- Computer art --- Computer music --- Natural language processing (Computer science) --- Language and languages --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Computer Science --- Style --- Style. --- Linguostylistics --- Stylistics --- NLP (Computer science) --- Electro-acoustic music --- Electroacoustic music --- Music, Computer --- Art, Computer --- Computer craft --- Digital art --- Informatics --- Arts. --- Information storage and retrieval. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Pattern recognition. --- Application software. --- Computer Science. --- Information Storage and Retrieval. --- Pattern Recognition. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities. --- Science --- Literary style --- Artificial intelligence --- Electronic data processing --- Human-computer interaction --- Semantic computing --- Music --- Electronic music --- New media art --- Information storage and retrieva. --- Optical pattern recognition. --- Information systems. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Optical data processing --- Pattern perception --- Perceptrons --- Visual discrimination --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Information storage and retrieval systems. --- Automatic data storage --- Automatic information retrieval --- Automation in documentation --- Computer-based information systems --- Data processing systems --- Data storage and retrieval systems --- Discovery systems, Information --- Information discovery systems --- Information processing systems --- Information retrieval systems --- Machine data storage and retrieval --- Mechanized information storage and retrieval systems --- Computer systems --- Electronic information resources --- Data libraries --- Digital libraries --- Information organization --- Information retrieval --- Design perception --- Pattern recognition --- Form perception --- Perception --- Figure-ground perception --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Arts, Primitive


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The structure of style: algorithmic approaches to understanding manner and meaning
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ISBN: 9783642123368 9783642123375 9783642426926 9783642123382 Year: 2010 Publisher: Heidelberg Springer

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Style is a fundamental and ubiquitous aspect of the human experience: Everyone instantly and constantly assesses people and things according to their individual styles, academics establish careers by researching musical, artistic, or architectural styles, and entire industries maintain themselves by continuously creating and marketing new styles. Yet what exactly style is and how it works are elusive: We certainly know it when we see it, but there is no shared and clear understanding of the diverse phenomena that we call style. The Structure of Style explores this issue from a computational viewpoint, in terms of how information is represented, organized, and transformed in the production and perception of different styles. New computational techniques are now making it possible to model the role of style in the creation of and response to human artifacts—and therefore to develop software systems that directly make use of style in useful ways. Argamon, Burns, and Dubnov organize the research they have collected in this book according to the three roles that computation can play in stylistics. The first section of the book, Production, provides conceptual foundations by describing computer systems that create artifacts—musical pieces, texts, artworks—in different styles. The second section, Perception, explains methods for analyzing different styles and gleaning useful information, viewing style as a form of communication. The final section, Interaction, deals with reciprocal interaction between style producers and perceivers, in areas such as interactive media, improvised musical accompaniment, and game playing. The Structure of Style is written for researchers and practitioners in areas including information retrieval, computer art and music, digital humanities, computational linguistics, and artificial intelligence, who can all benefit from this comprehensive overview and in-depth description of current research in this active interdisciplinary field.

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Stilistics


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Cross-Cultural Multimedia Computing : Semantic and Aesthetic Modeling
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ISBN: 9783319428734 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing

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The ability to communicate cultural codes in multimedia depends on their meaning and beauty, as perceived by different audiences around the globe. In this book, the ongoing research on computational modeling of visual, musical and textual contents is described in terms of identifying and mapping their semantic representations across different cultures. The underlying psychology of sense-making is quantified through analysis of aesthetics in terms of organizational and structural aspects of the contents that influence an audience’s formation of expectations for future signals, violations of these expectations, and explanations of their meaning. Complexity-accuracy tradeoffs in sound representation are further used to develop new computational methods that capture poietic and aesthetic aspects in music communication. Experimental studies are reported that try to characterize preferences for complexity in abstract, classical and traditional art and music across samples of Western and Far Eastern cultures. These experiments illustrate how aesthetics can be computed in terms of semantic and information measures, highlighting commonalities and uncovering differences in aesthetic preferences across cultures and individuals.


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20th century fox: the first 50 years DVD
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Year: 1997 Publisher: Etats-Unis, Foxstar Productions,

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Le studio historique célèbre son anniversaire d'or avec une rétrospective de ses meilleurs moments à l'écran...

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Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed DVD
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Year: 2007 Publisher: Etats-unis, Prometheus Entertainment, Lucasfilm,

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Star wars, dont le premier épisode est sorti en 1977, n'a pas, depuis, quitté l'espace interstellaire. Partout dans le monde, des foules de téléspectateurs continuent de se passionner pour les aventures d'Anakin Skywalker, de son fils Luke et des compagnons de route qui les entourent. Pourquoi un tel succès et une telle longévité ? Entre mythologie grecque et esprit contestataire Kevin Burns se penche sur les influences qui ont fait de Star wars une histoire universelle. Le personnage de Luke, par exemple, s'enracine dans la mythologie grecque, les légendes des chevaliers de la Table ronde et Le seigneur des anneaux. Pour opérer ce syncrétisme, le réalisateur George Lucas, qui a puisé ses valeurs politiques et spirituelles au cours des contestatrices années 1960, s'est plongé dans les travaux de l'anthropologue Joseph Campbell. Ce documentaire s'appuie notamment sur des extraits de la saga et des témoignages de réalisateurs, dont J. J. Abrams, aux manettes pour le septième épisode de Star wars, qui sortira en décembre 2015.

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