Psychological factors of the effectiveness of competitive activity in professional skills by A. Yu. Tymchikov

“…The main psychological reasons for unsuccessful performances are identified - excessive independence with insufficient experience of psychological training; insufficient command of psychological technologies of self-action; low need for achievements, blurred fuzzy image of “I am the winner”; inadequate (overestimated and understated) self-esteem; unproductive reflection, low level of reflective culture; insufficient level of development of the main personal and professional qualities; uncertainty.…”
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Gender and socio-economic differencesin South African consumers’ sentimentstoward marketing practices by Thérèse Roux

“…The fi nding can guide the marketing industry to advance its image by adjusting its practices and coordinating with the government and other stakeholders to collaborate.…”
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Between Destructiveness and Vitalism: Simmel’s Sociology of Crowds by Christian Borch

“…The aim of the article is (1) to demonstrate the importance Simmel ascribed to the crowd topic, (2) to illustrate how his early view on crowds was inspired by the work of the major crowd theorists of his time, and (3) to reconstruct a vitalist image of crowds from Simmel’s later thought. The first part of the article portrays Simmel’s general perspective on the crowd as it appears in some of his key writings. …”
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A NOVEL APPROACH FOR SHIPPING CONTAINER CODE RECOGNITION by Lê Hoàng Thanh

“…Optical character recognition is the mechanical or electronic conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded texts, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene-photo or from subtitle text superimposed on an image. …”
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Active phase compensation technique for buried target extraction by Y.‐S. Cho, S. Jung, Y.‐S. Chung

“…The range migration algorithm (RMA) is the conventional method for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image reconstruction, but if targets exist in different media, identification of the target can be difficult because of losses and the significant reflection from the boundary face. …”
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TriangularSORT: A Deep Learning Approach for Ship Wake Detection and Tracking by Chengcheng Yu, Yanmei Zhang

“…This mechanism guides the model’s focus to key areas of the image by defining triangular points on the feature map, thereby enhancing the model’s ability to recognize and analyze local features in visual tasks. …”
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Research on Fast Pedestrian Detection Algorithm Based on Autoencoding Neural Network and AdaBoost by Hongzhi Zhou, Gan Yu

“…Moreover, in view of the problem that the fusion video is not smoothly played, this paper considers the motion information of the video object, performs pixel interpolation by motion compensation, and restores the frame rate of the original video by reconstructing the dropped interframe image. Through experimental research, we can see that the algorithm constructed in this paper has a certain effect.…”
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THE HEROIC FEMALE CHARACTER IN FAIRY TALES AND EPICS OF SOME ETHNIC MINORITIES IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS by Thi Tham Dam

“…In particular, the heroic female character represents the matriarchy’s authority and the village’s wish for wealth and happiness. Through the image of the heroine, readers will understand more about the regional culture, including customs, habits, lessons about humanity, and beautiful features in the beliefs of ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands.…”
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Chinese outbound tourism: between state control and autonomous individual travel. The case of honeymoons in France by Marine L’Hostis, Maxime Dejean

“…This strategy may work with developing countries – who are often islands and/or yet to develop their own tourism image – however, major international tourism destinations seem to be less receptive to this form of instrumentalization. …”
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COMPOSITE MODEL ERROR SOURCES IN DISCRETE CHANNELS OF DATA CONVERSION by Yu. D. Ivanov, B. V. Lozka, Е. O. Kozljuk

“…Designed component model of the source of errors in real discrete channels of data conversion, based on the joint use of the channel within dependent generalized errors and channel with correlated errors pack image on the background of independent errors. Organization of burst errors in a channel based on the generalized implementation of the principle of compression of individual sections of the background in dependent error that causes the formation of plots, completely free of errors. …”
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Public politicians electoral potential in social media by N. A. Yushkina

“…According to the results of the study, the author concluded that the creation of a full-fledged feedback channel with a potential electorate positively affects the image of a public politician, allows reducing the feedback amount with negative comments, is a successful interaction form between a politician and the electorate and increases his electoral potential. …”
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Evidências de Patrocínio em Bestiários Medievais by Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva

“…Based on the theories of the relationship between text-image and hierarchy of images, addressed by several authors, the study here draws a comparative parallel between the two bestiaries mentioned above with six other manuscripts and identifies that there is a difference besides the stylistic in the illuminations. …”
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PENGEMBANGAN BAHAN AJAR BIOLOGI SEL PADA PROGRAM STUDI PENDIDIKAN BIOLOGI UIN ALAUDDIN MAKASSAR by St. Muriati

“…Cell Biology purposes of teaching materials even this can help students to better understand the concept of Cell Biology abstract to concrete, because in Cell Biology teaching materials displayed image by using a reference cell that contains the results of research conducted by experts Cell BiologY. …”
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„I Siegfried cítí zimu a vši…“ aneb Obrazy spojenců a nepřátel v paměti vojáků druhého čs. zahraničního odboje by Pavel Mücke

“…In this case he tries to describe symbolic „image“ of war allies and war enemies as place of memory and everyday life. …”
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South Sea Daggers and the Dead Man’s Eye: Foreign Invasion in Fin-de-Siècle Optogram Fiction by Andrea Goulet

“…This study looks at four fin-de-siècle texts that revolve around the central conceit of the ‘optogram,’ the photograph of a retinal image in a cadaver’s eye: Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s Claire Lenoir (1867–87), Rudyard Kipling’s ‘At the End of the Passage’ (1891), Jules Claretie’s L’Accusateur (1897), and Jules Verne’s Les Frères Kip (1902). …”
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Theatrical Tectonics: The Mediating Agent for a Contesting Practice by Gevork Hartoonian

“…The intention is to promote a discourse of criticality, the thematic of which is drawn from the symptoms that galvanise architecture’s rapport with the image-laden culture of late capitalism. In an attempt to log the thematic of a contested practice, this essay will re-map the recent history of contemporary architecture. …”
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Floating Knee Injury Associated with Patellar Tendon Rupture: A Case Report and Review of Literature by Singaravadivelu Vaidyanathan, Jagannath Panchanathan Ganesan, Mugundhan Moongilpatti Sengodan

“…DCS fixation by bridge plating technique for the distal femur and lateral buttress plating by MIPO technique for proximal tibia were planned and executed under spinal anesthesia with image intensifier. In addition, there were patellar tendon rupture along with avulsion of VMO from the medial border of patella and torn MPFL, which we have missed initially. …”
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Ripartire dai territori: il ruolo dell’artigianato artistico napoletano by Gianfranca Ranisio

“…Finally, the paper focuses the practices that aim on one hand to enhance and promote the productive resources in the area, on the other hand to build and redefine the image of the place and Neapolitan jewelry art. This can happen not by  preserving the old craft forms, but enabling the processes of revision and re-functionalization of the assets, in relation to the social and cultural context of the historical center. …”
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Characterising cheerfulness as a value for young people by A. M. Lesin

“…The article suggests a hypothesis, that the image of a reliable person is negatively associated with emotionality and a positive attitude to life, and positively – with the manifestation of seriousness and will. …”
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Emotional political advertising by Lynnette Fourie, Johannes Froneman

“… The real possibility exists that the overemphasis of a party’s image in advertisements could lead to the neglect of important political information for voters. …”
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