Presents one (or more) cartoons or humorous images.

Previous research has shown that humor and self-presentation are linked in several ways. With regard to individual differences, it turned out that gelotophilia (the joy of being laughed at) and katagelasticism (the joy of laughing at others) are substantially associated with the histrionic self-presentation style that is characterized by performing explicit As-If-behaviors (e.g., irony, parodyi...

By collecting 100 cartoons related to the COVID-19 pandemic from whole world, this paper uses Yu Yanming’s theoretical framework of metaphorical representation perspective multimodal metaphors classify mappings these works. This also tries analyze political stances and attitudes towards displayed behind cartoons. attempts explore how topic is conveyed communicated via in aims show different met...

Audiovisual translation, the same as other forms of intercultural communication, tends to intervene with the original in order to comply with the norms of the receiving culture. Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the Iranian cinema has resorted to a conservative approach wherein the portrayal of the role of women, among other cultural issues, has been controlled to adapt to the Islamic thoug...

OBJECTIVE To examine the extent and types of cigarette advertising materials in stores and to assess tobacco company compliance with the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA). DESIGN A cross-sectional analysis of a random sample of 586 stores that sold cigarettes. SETTING US state of California. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Trained data collectors classified cigarette advertising materials by t...

I’m a regular guy. I like sports, particularly football. I enjoy action movies and silly sitcoms. Occasionally I watch cartoons, giggling like a kid at the antics of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Yosemite Sam. I’d like to posthumously punish whoever invented suits and ties. When I visit McDonald’s and Wendy’s, I don’t order the salads. If you give the remote to me, I won’t return it until I flip ...

We consider the important challenge of recognizing a variety of deformable objects in images. Of fundamental importance and particular difficulty in this setting is the problem of “outlining” an object, rather than simply deciding on its presence or absence. A major obstacle in learning a model that will allow us to address this task is the need for hand-segmented training images. In this paper...

Six million migrants from over 170 countries have resettled in Australia since 1945 ensuring religious diversity is now a hallmark of Australia's population. However, not all religious groups are perceived in the same way. In this paper, we explore how representational processes differentially essentialise religious groups, in particular how some groups are ascribed an underlying nature that ir...