Although many animation, deformation and metamorphosis techniques have been proposed, the simultaneous combination of those three transformations has never been addressed for three dimensional objects so far. This paper presents a framework for controlling metamorphosis between two animated implicit models built from skeletal elements. It relies on the animated BlobTree model that encompasses t...

The present paper examines the translatability of English metaphoric neologisms into Armenian in COVID discourse and investigates certain translation strategies used to deal with problem, which, if not solved, will result unexpressive translations leading inefficient communication. research focuses on peculiarities new concepts (often expressed metaphorically) which form a layer medical disease...

From early 20th century headlines to presidential tweets, immigration is described frequently in terms of waves, floods, and tides. Although usage this inundation metaphor has been widely documented, its potential influence on attitudes not assessed empirically. Building from conceptual theory’s claim that abstract ideas can be grounded simpler, conc...

This research extends previous studies regarding the metaphoric competence of autistic and learning disable children on different measures of visual and verbal non-literal language comprehension, as well as cognitive abilities that include semantic knowledge, executive functions, similarities, and reading fluency. Thirty seven children with autism (ASD), 20 children with learning disabilities (...

Metaphor identification in text is an open problem in natural language processing. In this paper, we present a new, supervised learning approach called MIL (Metaphor Identification by Learning), for identifying three major types of metaphoric expressions without using any knowledge resources or handcrafted rules. We derive a set of statistical features from a corpus representing a given domain ...

The idea that the conceptual system draws on sensory and motor systems has received considerable experimental support in recent years. Whether the tight coupling between sensory-motor and conceptual systems is modulated by factors such as context or task demands is a matter of controversy. Here, we tested the context sensitivity of this coupling by using action verbs in three different types of...

Marine invertebrates commonly have a biphasic life cycle in which the metamorphic transition from a pelagic larva to a benthic post-larva is mediated by the nitric oxide signalling pathway. Nitric oxide (NO) is synthesised by nitric oxide synthase (NOS), which is a client protein of the molecular chaperon heat shock protein 90 (HSP90). It is notable, then, that both NO and HSP90 have been impli...

This is a study of the English writing of metamorphosis from the Reformation to the late seventeenth century. It asks what work is done by the imagining of transformation in this period and explores events and creatures which may seem to us fantastic: animated stones, werewolves, wild children. Looking at a range of writing in English from literary texts to court records, Writing Metamorphosis ...

*Correspondence: Sandie M. Degnan, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia e-mail: [email protected] †Present address: Nobuo Ueda, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tuebingen, Germany Nitric oxide (NO) is a second messenger molecule synthesized by the enzyme nitric oxide synthase (NOS) that requires the molecular chaperone ...