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Zirui Shan, Vanessa Echeverria, Yuheng Li, Yi-Shan Tsai + 1 more
In today's data-driven world, students often struggle with interpreting visualisations due to limited visualisation literacy. Data comics have emerged as a promising medium to enhance engagement and understanding, but their educational value has seen little empirical examination, partly due to the effort required to…
Joohee Kim, Hyunwook Lee, Duc Minh Nguyen, Minjeong Shin + 3 more
Comics are a storytelling genre that presents stories with combinations of illustrations, text, and annotations on various layouts.Segel and Heer propose using comics for data-driven storytelling in their seminal work on narrative visualization . Data comics, an emerging medium of data-driven narrative visualization…
Ray LC, Zijing Song, Yating Sun, Cheng Yang
Climate change is difficult to connect with personally, because people only regard the phenomenon as important if it becomes a perceived threat to themselves. Arguments like statistics and policy debates are extrinsic motivators, which do not necessarily align people’s own intrinsic motives with those of climate…
Hikaru Ikuta, Leslie Wöhler, Kiyoharu Aizawa
Comics are a bimodal form of art involving a mixture of text and images. Since comics require a combination of various cognitive processes to comprehend their contents, the analysis of human comic reading behavior sheds light on how humans process such bimodal forms of media. In this paper, we particularly focus on the…
Gürkan Soykan, Deniz Yüret, Tevfik Metin Sezgin
This study focuses on improving the optical character recognition (OCR) data for panels in the COMICS dataset [21], the largest dataset containing text and images from comic books. To do this, we developed a pipeline for OCR processing and labeling of comic books and created the first text detection and recognition…
Emanuele Vivoli, Andrey Barsky, Mohamed Ali Souibgui, Artemis Llabrés + 2 more
Understanding Authors: ['Emanuele Vivoli' 'Andrey Barsky' 'Mohamed Ali Souibgui' 'Artemis Llabrés' 'Marco Bertini' 'Dìmosthenis Karatzas'] Abstract—Vision-language models have recently evolved into versatile systems capable of high performance across a range of tasks, such as document understanding, visual question…
Jason E. McDermott, Matthew Partridge, Yana Bromberg, Scott Markel
Institutions around the world are in a constant struggle to improve science communication. From calls for journal papers to be simpler and more accessible to encouraging scientists to take a more active role through community engagement, there is a drive to demystify and improve public understanding of and engagement…
Neil Cohn, Andrew T. Hendrickson, Bruno Cardoso, Bien Klomberg + 20 more
Panels are a fundamental unit of comics, yet basic data about their usage in comics from around the world has not been widely investigated. Here we analyze panel information in the TINTIN Corpus consisting of 1,030 comics from 144 countries-comprising over 14,000 pages with over 76,000 panels-all annotated using the…
Joel T. Nelson, Omar E. Cornejo
Identifying loci that are under selection versus those that are evolving neutrally is a common challenge in evolutionary genetics. Moreover, with the increase in sequence data, genomic studies have begun to incorporate the use of multiple methods to identify candidate loci under selection. Composite methods are usually…
Maud Rasamimanana, Raphaël Mizzi, Jean‐Baptiste Melmi, Sophie Saffi + 1 more
'Pascale Colé'] Title: Abstract Reading comprehension has been mostly studied using traditional texts and very little is known about reading comprehension in comics. We wanted to find out whether comics could enhance comprehension processes, compared to traditional text and what cognitive processes might be involved in…
Shelly Mahlab-Aviv, Nathan Linial, Michal Linial
Mature microRNAs (miRNAs) are small, non-coding RNA molecules that function by base-pairing with mRNAs. In multicellular organisms, miRNAs lead to mRNA destabilization and translation arrest. Importantly, the quantities and stichometry of miRNAs/mRNAs determine the miRNA regulation characteristics of specific cells. In…
Shelly Mahlab-Aviv, Nathan Linial, Michal Linial
Mature microRNAs (miRNAs) are non-coding RNA that regulate most human genes through base-pairing with their targets. Under a condition of transcriptional arrest, cells were manipulated by overexpressing miRNAs. We observed global time-dependent changes in mRNA retention which are not restricted to the overexpressed…