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VISIONS: The VISTA Star Formation Atlas
(2023-05-31)VISIONS is an ESO public survey of five nearby (d < 500 pc) star-forming molecular cloud complexes that are canonically associated with the constellations of Chamaeleon, Corona Australis, Lupus, Ophiuchus, and Orion. The ... -
Visitor attractions and events : Responding to seasonality
(2015-02-28)Seasonality is a protracted problem for the tourism sector due to the uneven nature of demand and the relatively fixed nature of the supply of capacity and resources, particularly in the attraction sector. Managing the ... -
VISTA Milky Way Public Survey
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VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) : The public ESO near-IR variability survey of the Milky Way
(2010)We describe the public ESO near-IR variability survey (VVV) scanning the Milky Way bulge and an adjacent section of the mid-plane where star formation activity is high. The survey will take 1929 h of observations with the ... -
Visual and PCR assessment of light leaf spot (Pyrenopeziza brassicae) on winter oilseed rape (Brassica napus) cultivars
(2006-06)Methods to assess light leaf spot (Pyrenopeziza brassicae) on winter oilseed rape cultivars were compared in laboratory, controlled-environment and field experiments. In controlled-environment experiments with seedling ... -
A visual attention mechanism for autonomous robots controlled by sensorimotor contingencies
(2015-10-02)Robot control architectures that are based on learning the dependencies between robot's actions and the resulting change in sensory input face the fundamental problem that for high-dimensional action and/or sensor spaces, ... -
Visual communications – the Japanese experience
(2000)Visual communications are defined and illustrated in their contemporary operations management setting. They manifest four distinct advantages: assimilation, exposure, evoking and unifying. In Japan, they are related to ... -
Visual Culture and the Repertoire of a Popular East-End Theatre
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Visual discourses of the role of women in war commemoration : A multimodal analysis of British war monuments
(2011)Discourses of war are disseminated and legitimised not only through speeches and written texts, but through visual semiotic resources. One important vehicle for this has been the war monument. Evidence shows that from WW1 ... -
The Visual Effects Research Lab : Herding Cats to Infinity
(2011)In the paper I outline the current findings of the research undertaken at the VERL. The three-year project links the worlds of film, art, technology and computer science. In sharing methodologies and promoting cross, trans ... -
The Visual Effects Research Lab, 'Visual Effects For Artists' : [Series of four commissioned films: 'Olympia' (Wendy McMurdo), 5 minutes, 'Digital Cinema' (4K), 'Eagle' (Rory Middleton), 2 minutes Hi-Definition; 'Lolcats' (Rachel McLean)10 minutes Hi-Definition; 'Trail of Tears' (Reid and Roger),10 minutes Hi-Definition.]
(2011-11-23)VERL is a research project funded by a €5M European Union grant, which consolidates established world-class European research in video art, digital film and 3D computer visualisation especially at high resolutions. VERL ... -
A Visual History of The Future
(Government Office for Science, 2014-09-25)This paper is concerned with how future cities have been visualised between 1900 and 2014, what these projections sought to communicate and why. The paper is organised into eight sections. Each of the first seven sections ... -
Visual identities : choreographies of gaze, body movement and speech in mother-midwife interaction
(Routledge, 2011)This texts demonstrates the potential for the use of visual methods in psychology. The chapters discuss theoretical, methodological, and ethical themes which influence how visual qualitative research is conducted in ... -
Visual Imagination and the Mediation of Semiosis : Intertext and the Real in Thomas Hardy's 'Jude the Obscure'
(2012-09)The writing of Thomas Hardy cannot be readily defined as an embodiment of the Realistic tradition. His too-liminal status as the last Victorian novelist, regional writer, and a collector of English rustics, has been ... -
The Visual Institutionalization of Discourses in War Monuments
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Visual object processing in schizophrenia : evidence for an associative agnosic deficit
(2002)Early studies suggested visual form perception impairment in schizophrenia. To re-examine this claim and characterise the deficit neuropsychologically, 41 schizophrenic patients were administered tests sensitive to different ... -
Visual performance and ocular abnormalities in deaf children and young adults : a literature review
(2014-06)Visual defects are common in deaf individuals. Refractive error and ocular motor abnormalities are frequently reported, with hyperopia, myopia, astigmatism and anomalies of binocular vision, all showing a greater prevalence ... -
Visual performance and the use of colored filters in children who are deaf
(2015-06)PURPOSE: To assess visual performance and the effects of color overlays on reading in children who were deaf and children who could hear. METHODS: Thirty-one children who were deaf (mean [± SD] age, 14 [± 1.99] years) and ...