Search for dissertations about: "Book illustration"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 94 swedish dissertations containing the words Book illustration.

2. 1. Natural Language Processing Methods for Automatic Illustration of Text

   Author : Richard Johansson; Institutionen för datavetenskap; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Natural language processing; semantic analysis; automatic illustration;

   Abstract : The thesis describes methods for automatic creation of illustrations of natural-language text. The main focus of the work is to convert texts that describe sequences of events in a physical world into animated images. This is what we call text-to-scene conversion. READ MORE

4. 2. Pictures and a Thousand Words : Learning Psychology through Visual Illustrations and Testing

   Author : Ann-Sofie Jägerskog; Fredrik Jönsson; Staffan Selander; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; learning; multimedia learning; retrieval practice; testing effect; visual illustration; learning styles; visualiser; verbaliser; Subject Learning and Teaching; ämnesdidaktik;

   Abstract : For teachers and students to be able to make informed decisions about how to best improve learning, it is important to compare learning strategies that are known to be effective. Both multimedia learning, based on the notion that individuals learn better from words and pictures presented together than from words alone, and retrieval practice, based on the idea that retrieving knowledge from the memory is an active process that has a beneficial impact on learning, have been found robust learning strategies in earlier research. READ MORE

5. 3. Dimensions and Experiences of Human Identity. An Analytical Toolkit and Empirical Illustration

   Author : Jonas Stier; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

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6. 4. Rendering the Sublime : A Reading of Marina Tsvetaeva's Fairy-Tale Poem The Swain

   Author : Tora Lane; Anna Ljunggren; Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback; Aleksander Dolinin; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Russian Literature; Modernism; Marina Tsvetaeva; Poetry; Molodets; Folkloric; Fairy Tale; Performance; Sublime; Presentation; Russian language; Ryska språket; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

   Abstract : The present study is a reading of the folkloric fairy-tale poem The Swain (Mólodets) (1924) by the Russian Modernist poet Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941).The poem represents a high point in Tsvetaeva’s experiments with Russian folk art, and it is thoroughly folkloric in its theme, forms of writing and poetic language. READ MORE

7. 5. Mediated Post-Soviet Nostalgia

   Author : Ekaterina Kalinina; Johan Fornäs; Staffan Ericsson; Vlad Strukov; Södertörns högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; structure of feeling; nostalgia; memory; past; Russia; Post-Soviet; mediation; television; fashion; internet; theatre; museums; restaurants.; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

   Abstract : Post-Soviet nostalgia, generally understood as a sentimental longing forthe Soviet past, has penetrated deep into many branches of Russian popular culture in the post-1989 period. The present study investigates how the Soviet past has been mediated in the period between 1991 and 2012 as one element of a prominent structure of feeling in present-day Russian culture. READ MORE