Search for dissertations about: "characters"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 303 swedish dissertations containing the word characters.
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1. Musicalized Characters : A study of music, multimodality, and the empiric child perspective on mainstream animation
Abstract : This thesis is an audience reception study of film music and animation film. It focuses on the musical construction of characters, looking at how music becomes meaningful in film and how this meaning becomes part of child audiences' interpretation of filmic characters. READ MORE
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2. "Honourable" or "Highly-sexed" : Adjectival Descriptions of Male and Female Characters in Victorian and Contemporary Children's Fiction
Abstract : This corpus-based study examines adjectives and adjectival expressions used to describe characters in British children’s fiction. The focus is on diachronic variation, by comparing Victorian (19th-century) and contemporary (late 20th-century) children’s fiction, and on gender variation, by comparing the descriptions of female and male characters. READ MORE
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3. Constructing Athenian Masculinities : Masculinities in Theophrastus' Characters and Menander's Comedies
Abstract : This study examines the construction of masculinities in Theophrastus’ Characters and Menander’s comedies. As these works were written in early Hellenistic Athens during a period of great political and social changes, there is reason to assume that also the construction of gender changed. READ MORE
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4. Steps Towards Creating Socially Competent Game Characters
Abstract : This thesis investigates and presents approaches towards creating more socially competent NPCs by means of natural language dialogues. The aim is to provide hands-on solutions for game developers who want to offer interactions with the NPCs in the game that are socially driven rather than functionally motivated and that encourage the player to build and maintain relationships between the character they control and the other game characters. READ MORE
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5. Recognition of printed Sinhala characters by direction fields
Abstract : Although substantial research has been carried out on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) where a printed or a handwritten document of script is read as an image and converted to the editable text format, for various languages during the last 30 years, majority of Brahmi descended south Asian scripts are yet to achieve a commercial OCR system.... READ MORE