A written character that evokes everything people in Japan were urged to avoid this year—crowds, confined spaces and close contact with others—was on Monday voted the country's top linguistic symbol of 2020.
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Dec 14, 2020
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More than eight out of ten parents believe schools should teach children character and values alongside academic study, a new survey has found.
Social Sciences
Sep 3, 2013
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Young children understand dinosaurs and The Wiggles are (or were!) real, and that fictional characters like Peter Pan and Spongebob are not real—but cultural figures like Santa or the Tooth Fairy occupy an ambiguous place ...
Social Sciences
Jun 17, 2020
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created the first integrated semantic search platform that integrates text, video and audio. The system can 'watch' films, 'listen' to audio and 'read' text to find relevant responses ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 30, 2009
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Despite growing concern about the effects of media violence on children, violent television shows and movies continue to be produced and marketed to them. An Indiana University research study concludes that violence doesn't ...
Social Sciences
May 24, 2011
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Harvard University scientists on Wednesday said they had created Smileys, Chinese characters and card-game symbols at scales of billionths of a metre using strands of DNA.
Bio & Medicine
May 30, 2012
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Virtual game characters can leap, roll and climb so realistically that simply watching them could seemingly exhaust a player. Generating the precise instructions that govern such characters in increasingly complex environments ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 26, 2016
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When you look at networks of people, whether it's architects or table tennis players or a regular bunch of Facebook friends, they will have certain similarities. They tend to confirm the "six degrees of separation" idea that ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 4, 2018
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Virtual humans are increasingly taking on roles that were once reserved for real humans. A study by researchers at the Indiana University School of Informatics at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis ...
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May 13, 2010
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(Phys.org)—CAPTCHAs by definition (stands for Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) are gotcha tools that are used to spot automated-attack attempts posing as people. CAPTCHA programs ...
