CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES IN MODERN RUSSIA by R. M. Sadykov, N. L. Bolshakova

“…In general, the respondents have a positive image of charity in Russia. Most of the respondents in one way or another have ever taken part in charity and noted the possibility of participation in the future.…”
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MAP-ping Queerness? Street Art in Philadelphia by Lara Cox

“…Firstly, I consider how street art represents queer communities, drawing on human geographer Felix Driver’s paradigm of image-centred or “imaginative geography.” Based on a non-representational model of geography, I also reflect on how street art allows the queer community to constitute spaces for LGBTQIA+ people of colour. …”
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Biofilm architecture and dynamics of the oral ecosystem by Rina Rani Ray

“…Therefore, studying the architecture and dynamics of oral biofilms is essential and can be achieved through image analysis and modern technologies, such as AI-enabled technologies and surface topography-adaptive robotic superstructures.…”
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Bycie dziecka w Polsce „dobrej zmiany”– między Konwencją o Prawach Dziecka a rzeczywistością by Małgorzata Dagiel, Małgorzata Kowalik-Olubińska

“…The authors analysed a discourse of the Ombudsmen for Children’s interventions in order to reconstruct the image of being of the child in a new socio-political reality in Poland. …”
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SOCIOCULTURAL TRADITION AND DIGITAL SOCIETY: TWO STRATEGIC LANDMARKS OF THE CHINESE FORESIGHT TECHNOLOGY by M. Yu. Zakharov

“…To this end, the author considers the archetypal traces of the predictive activity of Ancient China, their interaction with modern predictive practice as an integral part of the design of the alleged digital image of the future. The paper determines theoretical and methodological foundations of modern Chinese foresight technology, initial basic methodological principles and technology of prospective step-by-step application of comprehensive foresight, including the method of scenario design. …”
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"...dans le milieu de la Ville qui fait face à la place, se trouvent tous les besoins publiques..." : remarques sur la notion de centralité urbanistique en Louisiane coloniale et à... by Gilles-Antoine Langlois

“….), are the "Vieux Carré" and Jackson Square itself, nothing but the image of a city, a frozen area in a touristy and gentrified historical landmark?…”
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Szkoła dla dziecka – cyfrowego tubylca. Postrzeganie szkoły przez uczniów edukacji wczesnoszkolnej – uczestników projektu „Wychować człowieka mądrego” by Adrianna Sarnat-Ciastko

“…This presentation is built upon two resources used by the contemporary Polish school – information and communication technologies and personalization of education. The presented image is based on data collected through on-line questionnaires from 1,772 pupils from Classes I–III at primary schools taking part in the project of implementing the method of tutoring “Raise a wise man”. …”
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Morphable 3D-Mosaics: A Hybrid Framework for Photorealistic Walkthroughs of Large Natural Environments by Nikos Komodakis, Georgios Tziritas

“…This paper presents a hybrid (geometry- & image-based) framework suitable for providing photorealistic walkthroughs of large, complex outdoor scenes at interactive frame rates. …”
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Weak gardens of Eden for 1-dimensional tessellation automata by Michael D. Taylor

“…If T is the parallel map associated with a 1-dimensional tessellation automaton, then we say a configuration f is a weak Garden of Eden for T if f has no pre-image under T other than a shift of itself. Let WG(T)= the set of weak Gardens of Eden for T and G(T)= the set of Gardens of Eden (i.e., the set of configurations not in the range of T). …”
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Development of digital marketing technologies for promoting educational services of Russian universities in the context of global transformations by V. A. Yudina, M. A. Tanina, V. V. Bondarenko

“…The concept of a marketing information campaign to promote educational services in foreign countries is proposed, which provides for the use of channels and means of interaction with target groups to form an attractive image of the higher education system and encourage foreign applicants to enroll in Russian universities. …”
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RESULTS OF THE STUDY OF THE ETHNIC IDENTITY OF SOUTH OSSETIANS by A. B. Gagloeva

“…It has been shown that the respondents’ ethnic identity is relevant and significant, which is accompanied by a positive value image of their ethnos and a positive attitude to its culture and history, which they try to preserve, traditions and norms of behavior adopted in it, as well as high satisfaction with membership in their ethno-cultural community with a pronounced need for identification with it and consolidation. …”
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Politicisation and the Rhetoric of Shanghai Urbanism by Non Arkaraprasertkul

“…Despite the spectacular contemporary metropolis image of Luijiazui, the new Central Business District (CBD) of Shanghai on the Pudong side of the Huangpu River, this paper discusses the ways Shanghai might be understood through the ‘reality’ of its urbanism. …”
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Dark Signals in the Choroidal Vasculature on Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography: An Artefact or Not? by Rui Hua, Hailin Wang

“…Optical phenomena and image processing algorithms may create imaging artefacts. …”
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AN ANALYSIS OF METAPHOR TRANSLATION IN THE SUBTITLE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES 2: A GAME OF SHADOWS (2011) MOVIE by Siegfrieda Alberti Shinta Mursita Putri, Martha Sie

“…The results indicate that analogy, personification, and image metaphors appear in the movie. The translator applies five of nine proposed strategies in this study. …”
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Creative industry and cultural tourism destination Lake Constance – a media discourse analysis by Lara Leuschen, Florian J. Eitzenberger, Tatjana Thimm

“…The results show that, besides event-relater reporting, there is currently no vibrant media discourse on the topics “creative industries” and “cultural tourism”. Even though the image of the Lake Constance region is heavily influenced by tourism, “cultural tourism” also plays a secondary role when it comes to regional news reporting. …”
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Do digital influencers successfully contribute to reducing the gap between customers and companies? by Isaac Moreira, Paulo Stenzel, João M. Lopes, José Oliveira

“…The results obtained demonstrate that companies’ hire digital influencers to publicize their products, create notoriety, build a trustworthy image, and increase sales. It was also found that the most used platform for digital strategies is Instagram, due to its ease of communication and number of active users. …”
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L’idéo-scénarisation sonore du paysage comme support métaphorique de sa médiation by Philippe Woloszyn

“…The user, invited to place sounds in the encompassing sphere of a panoramic image of his or her neighbourhood, recomposes the soundscapes experienced, and imagines ideal variations of them. …”
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Campo de lavanda by Adriana García García

“…Esta actividad primaria cuenta con gran demanda en sectores de farmacia y fitoterapia entre otros, pero también se está abriendo a las prácticas turísticas, con la oferta de rutas de la lavanda que atraen numerosos visitantes.   In the image there is a tractor plowing a lavender plot on the extensive Castilian grasslands. …”
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“A Made Up Thing” Full of Depth: The Queer Belonging of Robert Duncan and New Narrative by Robin Tremblay-McGaw

“…New Narrative writers turned from the mainstream’s devastating and violent image of gays and lesbians and the Language writers’ desire to jettison the subject from their own writing to Duncan and Jess [Collins] for the power and pleasures of the made up, fragmented, collaged – a material based relational art, a set of practices, performing queer belonging that looks back in order to move forward, that articulates “the history of our times” and the possibility of a future.…”
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Le Parc Méric à Montpellier : représentations sociales d’un parc public entre campagne, jardin et nature sauvage by Gaëlle Aggéri

“…Motivated by the desire to use ecological engineering methods and of offering city dwellers a variety of green spaces ranging from the traditional sophisticated garden to “wild” open spaces, the directors of municipal parks and green spaces have experimented with what is called in France “La gestion différenciée” or “the differentiated management” of green spaces.Parallel with this essentially technical approach, the evolution of the idea of “urban nature”, demanded by the directors of municipal parks and green spaces, brought about the creation of alternative public parks, whose image and use refer strongly to the pastoral and “the wild”.This study investigates the physical and symbolic construction of this new type of nature, in particular with the example of the design and the social representations of the “Parc Méric” in Montpellier, a former bourgeois rural estate. …”
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