Rethinking Map Legends with Visualization

This design paper presents new guidance for creating map legends in a dynamic environment. Our contribution is a set of guidelines for legend design in a visualization context and a series of illustrative themes through which they may be expressed. These are demonstrated in an applications context through interactive software prototypes. The guidelines are derived from cartographic literature and in liaison with EDINA who provide digital mapping services for UK tertiary education. They enhance approaches to legend design that have evolved for static media with visualization by considering: selection, layout, symbols, position, dynamism and design and process. Broad visualization legend themes include: The Ground Truth Legend, The Legend as Statistical Graphic and The Map is the Legend. Together, these concepts enable us to augment legends with dynamic properties that address specific needs, rethink their nature and role and contribute to a wider re-evaluation of maps as artifacts of usage rather than statements of fact. EDINA has acquired funding to enhance their clients with visualization legends that use these concepts as a consequence of this work. The guidance applies to the design of a wide range of legends and keys used in cartography and information visualization

MOBILE LEGEND PLAYERS' UNDERSTANDING OF REGISTER VOCABULARY IN MOBILE LEGENDS GAME AND STRATEGY

Online games manifest the development of modern technology in this world. One such MOBA game is Mobile Legends Bang Bang. This game is played by controlling one of the so-called characters' heroes from the list of heroes they already have. Teamwork is a key in this game. Every hero has different skills from each other. In this study, the researcher tends to investigate different findings. One thing distinguishing this study from previous research is the different scope in the games analyzed. In this study, the researcher focused on the perceptions of online gamers in understanding registers in mobile legends games. The purpose of this study was to find out how far do mobile legends players understand the register and the strategies for understanding the register in the mobile legend game. In addition, Preliminary data evidence this problem, showing that only about 10% of mobile legends players understand what register means and what it means, and how to use it. Meanwhile, nine other people (90%) did not know this. Besides, they have never studied the meaning behind the word register in the mobile legend. Most try to imitate but do not know the meaning and use the registered word in the conversation. In this study, the researcher conducted qualitative method. n this qualitative method, researchers employ questionnaire and interview techniques. The result of questioner, the researcher found that out of 100 respondents, 44.95% answered Yes (knows), and 55.05% answered No (do not know). The results of interviews, the researcher also succeeded in finding solutions and strategies used by the respondents in understanding the register vocabulary in the Mobile Legends game. The first solutions and strategies are they try to find the meaning and correct spelling of the sentence on Google translates. Second, they usually ask other players when there is registered vocabulary they do not know. Third, they also sometimes watch pro player videos on YouTube

An exploration of language identification techniques for the Dutch folktale database

The Dutch Folktale Database contains fairy tales, traditional legends, urban legends, and jokes written in a large variety and combination of languages including (Middle and 17th century) Dutch, Frisian and a number of Dutch dialects. In this work we compare a number of approaches to automatic language identification for this collection. We show that in comparison to typical language identification tasks, classification performance for highly similar languages with little training data is low. The studied dataset consisting of over 39,000 documents in 16 languages and dialects is available on request for followup research

American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales: An Encyclopedia of American Folklore

Folklore has been a part of American culture for as long as humans have inhabited North America, and increasingly formed an intrinsic part of American culture as diverse peoples from Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania arrived. In modern times, folklore and tall tales experienced a rejuvenation with the emergence of urban legends and the growing popularity of science fiction and conspiracy theories, with mass media such as comic books, television, and films contributing to the retelling of old myths. This multi-volume encyclopedia will teach readers the central myths and legends that have formed American culture since its earliest years of settlement. Its entries provide a fascinating glimpse into the collective American imagination over the past 400 years through the stories that have shaped it. [From the Publisher]https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/books/1095/thumbnail.jp

[Review of] Patricia A. Turner. I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African American Culture

Patricia A. Turner, associate professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California at Davis, published Ceramic Uncles & Celluloid Mammies: Black Images and Their Influence on Culture earlier in 1994. Now she has made another valuable contribution to the study of African American culture with I Heard It Through the Grapevine; and in addition, has added to the understanding of how urban legends start and continue to persist. Just as Jan Harold Brunvand\u27s Vanishing Hitchhiker made the general public aware of these legends, Turner\u27s study makes both Black and White readers aware of the significance of rumor and urban legends in Black culture

Finite Temperature QCD on Anisotropic Lattices

We present results for mesonic propagators in temporal and spatial direction and for topological properties at T below and above the deconfining transition in quenched QCD. We use anisotropic lattices and Wilson fermions.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures, Talk given at 16th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (LATTICE 98(hightemp)) , Boulder, CO, 13-18 Jul 1998. (Replaced: Fig.4 corrected, further minor modifications in legends and text.

Selected Elements of Animated Nature Associated with the Birth of Jesus in the Bulgarian Oral Culture and Apocryphal Narratives

Translated by Katarzyna GucioThe article attempts to extract textual and extratextual planes on which representatives of fauna made their mark in the folklore of the South Slavs, mainly Bulgarians; in their oral literature, rituals, and beliefs, juxtaposed with selected Apocrypha, primarily from the Protoevangelium of James, confronted with the Scripture. The analysed texts (legends, folk tales, ritual songs performed during Christmas) relate to the birth of Christ in Bethlehem and placing him in a manger – the events of Night of Bethlehem and the flight of the Holy Family to Egypt. The excerpted texts of fairy tales and legends marginalise the theme of the Divine Birth, focusing on the figure of the Mother of God and her actions: meeting with St. Tryphon, rejecting the child, receiving lessons on motherhood from the frog, escaping with the Child to Egypt. The birth of Jesus is used as an excuse to tell a story of an etiological character (theme cursing animal or plant), often based on ritual custom and referring to it, such as clipping vines. Just as in the case of fairy tales and legends, folk song uses the birth of Jesus to explain the genesis of some of the characteristics and phenomena of nature. Presentation of animals in ritual songs occasionally refers to the economic sphere (the shepherds slept, and their flock wandered away), while wild animals are the object of punishment or reward. The Apocrypha known among the South Slavs mention animals in situations encountered also in the Bulgarian oral literature – the cosmic silence when fauna and flora freezes in anticipation of the birth of the Young God. The quoted texts of the Bulgarian oral culture referring to the theme of the Nativity of the Lord, the Gospel inspiration or even interaction with the apocryphal text fades into the background. The content of the stories and folk songs seems to be primordial in relation to the processed content of the Gospel; biblical characters and situations are introduced to oral stories already in circulation, creating texts that are testament of the so-called folk Christianity