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  2. Open text - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, a closed text leads the reader to one intended interpretation. The concept of the "open text" comes from Umberto Eco 's collection of essays The Role of the Reader , [ 1 ] but it is also derivative of Roland Barthes 's distinction between 'readerly' ( lisible ) and 'writerly' ( scriptible ) texts as set out in his 1968 essay " The ...

  3. Visual semiotics - Wikipedia

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    A sign can be a word, sound, a touch or visual image. Saussure divides a sign into two components: the signifier, which is the sound, image, or word, and the signified, which is the concept or meaning the signifier represents. For Saussure, the relation between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary and conventional.

  4. List of visual mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    A Russian mnemonic is that the waxing moon is right part of letter 'Р', which is the first letter of word растущая (growing), and the waning moon looks like 'C' which is first letter of the word стареющая (getting old). A Norwegian mnemonic is "When it looks like a comma, it's coming!"

  5. Flicker fusion threshold - Wikipedia

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    For the purposes of presenting moving images, the human flicker fusion threshold is usually taken between 60 and 90 Hz, though in certain cases it can be higher by an order of magnitude. [5] In practice, movies since the silent era are recorded at 24 frames per second and displayed by interrupting each frame two or three times for a flicker of ...

  6. Flicker (screen) - Wikipedia

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    Software can cause flicker effects by directly displaying an unintended intermediate image for a short time. For example, drawing a page of text by blanking the area to white first in the frame buffer, then drawing 'on top' of it, makes it possible for the blank region to appear momentarily onscreen. Usually this is much faster and easier to ...

  7. Content analysis - Wikipedia

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    Content analysis is research using the categorization and classification of speech, written text, interviews, images, or other forms of communication. In its beginnings, using the first newspapers at the end of the 19th century, analysis was done manually by measuring the number of columns given a subject.

  8. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    For example, if a passage has two contrasting nominalizing suffixes under discussion, ɣiŋ and jolqəl, they may be glossed GN and JQ, with the glosses explained in the text. [7] This is also seen when the meaning of a morpheme is debated, and glossing it one way or another would prejudice the discussion.

  9. Explicit semantic analysis - Wikipedia

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    Specifically, in ESA, a word is represented as a column vector in the tf–idf matrix of the text corpus and a document (string of words) is represented as the centroid of the vectors representing its words. Typically, the text corpus is English Wikipedia, though other corpora including the Open Directory Project have been used. [1]