Digital-Networked Images as Personal Acts of Political Expression: New Categories for Meaning Formation

on the comparison of keyword and semantic-context methods of learning new vocabulary meaning

the rationale behind the present study is that particular learning strategies produce more effective results when applied together. the present study tried to investigate the efficiency of the semantic-context strategy alone with a technique called, keyword method. to clarify the point, the current study seeked to find answer to the following question: are the keyword and semantic-context metho...

digital subtraction of radiographic images with personal computer and usual software specific for scanners

the aim of digital subtraction of radiographic images is eliminating the additional shades to increase the resolution and quality of the images. in dentistry, digital subtraction technique can be used for diagnosis of progressive periodontal diseases or evaluation of the amount of jaw bone repair or destruction. in this study, the possibility of digital subtraction with non-expensive techniques...

Meaning and Speech Acts

Meaning and compositionality as statistical induction of categories and constraints

What do words and phrases mean? How do we infer their meaning in a given context? How do we know which sets of words have sensible meanings when combined, as opposed to being nonsense? As language learners and speakers, we can solve these problems starting at a young age, but as scientists, our understanding of these processes is limited. This thesis seeks to address these questions using a com...

Clipart Images as Common Sense Categories

Clipart is the visual representation of commonsense categories and stereotypes—of social representations, in the sense of Moscovici. As indexed and displayed on line for downloading on Microsoft's Design Gallery and Art Today's clipart.com, the clips exhibit strong threads of continuity with earlier popular illustration and rhetorical manuals of gesture. At the same time, they also register dif...