“That’ll Teach Them”: Investigating the Soft Power Conversion Model through the Case of Russian Higher Education by A. Crowley-Vigneau, A. A. Baykov, E. Kalyuzhnova

“…Higher education has been repurposed as a tool to achieve foreign policy goals, with many states embracing the international norm on world-class universities in an attempt to improve their international competitiveness and their image abroad. This paper considers the soft power conversion model of higher education and attempts to determine its effectiveness through a case study devoted to Russian Higher Education. …”
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Feature-Level vs. Score-Level Fusion in the Human Identification System by Rabab A. Rasool

“…The comparison takes into consideration the image quality for the six combination datasets as well as the type of the applied feature extraction method. …”
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O mercado audiovisual brasileiro, o circuito alternativo de exibição, as mostras e festivais de cinema na Bahia contemporânea by Mariella Pitombo Vieira, Milene de Cássia Silveira Gusmão

“…Its relationship with shopping malls, as will be seen, was a fundamental condition for its expansion and commercial success and, at least discursively, in the construction of a self-image as a cultural equipment.…”
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Russian Universities as Actors of Arctic Science Diplomacy by M Y. Gutenev, M. L Lagutina, A. A. Sergunin

“…According to authors, in the current geopolitical conditions Russian universities are significant ASD actors which perform a number of important functions for the organization of international scientific cooperation with foreign countries and making a positive image of Russia in the world. The paper uses a systemic approach to identify Russian universities’ contribution to the ASD development through various mechanisms: joint research projects and publications with foreign partners, the organization of international events on the Arctic issues and participation in prestigious international conferences on the Arctic research area, joint polar expeditions (land and maritime), and participation of Russian scientists in international Arctic scientific organizations, etc. …”
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Robert Duncan, Kabbalah, and “The Dominion of the Poetic Mind” by Norman Finkelstein

“…Book, seeks to take us to a place “where the image becomes informed, from above or below, and takes over as an entity in itself, a messenger from a higher real.” …”
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Comparative Analysis of Gulen Movement and Muhammadiyah: Their Internationalization Strategies and Integration with Governmental Systems by Audi Izzat Muttaqien, Surwandono Surwandono

“…Muhammadiyah had a significant role in providing an excellent image for the Indonesian government. Meanwhile, despite the dispute and the Gulen movement’s independence, the public has viewed the movement as identical to a representative of the Turkish government with its international role and media use. …”
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The impact of branding on the efficiency of the process of attracting and retaining talented employees by Sančanin Branislav

“…Despite the fact that communication made on social media, with the goal to build a positive image and reputation, is less susceptible to control than traditional media, the process of creating a positive perception of the brand leads to companies using mediums which enable a real and interactive contact with target audience. …”
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Comparing the “value of information services” for providers and vulnerable patrons: a mixed-methods study with academic libraries and students with disabilities by Devendra Potnis, Kevin Mallary

“…., self-esteem, self-efficacy, and self-image) of students with disabilities. Conclusion. …”
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Waterloo in Vanity Fair or the Art of not Representing War by Marianne Camus

“…But more often he prefers the indirect or refracted manner (to use the mirror image he liked so much). He shows, for example, the impossibility, to write the history of war, by giving us all the different versions of it: rumour, newspapers, official history books with their biases and contradictions. …”
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Between giants and windmills: Lulismo in the presidential elections of 2018 by Mércia Alves, Joyce Miranda Leão Martins

“…Lulismo, as a broad phenomenon of adhesion to the political figure of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is also based on the approval of the image of “man of the people,” which was mobilized in the 2002 elections and continuously evoked against the Brazilian Social Democratic Party. …”
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Extraction of Fetal Electrocardiogram by Combining Deep Learning and SVD-ICA-NMF Methods by Said Ziani, Yousef Farhaoui, Mohammed Moutaib

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Representation of Fictional Characters with Disabilities in Selected Crime Novels of Oͅládèͅjoͅ Òkédìjí by Oͅlálérè Adéyeͅmí

“…The paper concluded that the message of the novelist about people with disabilities is that disability is not an element of inability; there is ability in disability if society projects a positive image of people with disabilities.                 …”
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MSK Ultrasound - An IJSPT Perspective by Phil Page, Robert C Manske, Michael Voight, Chris Wolfe

“…MSK ultrasound is a valuable imaging technique which has become increasingly popular in recent years. …”
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Performance Modeling for FPGAs: Extending the Roofline Model with High-Level Synthesis Tools by Bruno da Silva, An Braeken, Erik H. D’Hollander, Abdellah Touhafi

“…The proposed model is applied to optimize the design exploration of a class of window-based image processing applications using two different HLS tools. …”
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A systematic review of deep learning techniques for apple leaf diseases classification and detection by Assad Souleyman Doutoum, Bulent Tugrul

“…They can provide accurate disease detection and classification through massive image datasets. This research analyzes and evaluates datasets, deep learning methods and frameworks built for apple leaf disease detection and classification. …”
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Music of Festive Days in 18th Century Český Krumlov. Depiction of Festivities in an 18th Century Monastic Chronicle by Markéta Králová

“…To get a comprehensive image of noble musical activities, this research also draws on preserved Schwarzenberg personal correspondence. …”
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Consumption Reduction Solution of TV News Broadcast System Based on Wireless Communication Network by Haifeng Qiang

“…Hardware codec technology significantly reduces the consumption of system resources; H.264 high-compression algorithm can reduce network bandwidth by 50% compared with MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 without a significant change in image quality. At the same time, the use of mobile video acquisition terminals in the system not only solves the problem that satellite broadcast vehicles cannot reach the site due to the lack of roads but also greatly reduces the cost of early deployment and late maintenance of the news broadcast system. …”
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Pulmonary tuberculosis in a patient with the tennis racket sign. A case report by Irene Estefania Delgado Pérez, Marileydis Almaguel García, José Sánchez Prieto

“…The extended cavitary radiographic image, also known as the tennis racket or arrowhead sign, is rarely seen at diagnosis in the community.…”
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Fault Detection Method Based on Improved Faster R-CNN: Take ResNet-50 as an Example by Xie Renjun, Yuan Junliang, Wu Yi, Shu Mengcheng

“…In view of the low accuracy of existing tomographic detection methods, in order to improve the accuracy of tomographic detection, a tomographic detection method based on residual network and Faster R-CNN is proposed. First, input the image into the ResNet-50 feature extraction network to obtain the corresponding feature map, then use the RPN structure to generate the candidate frame, and project the candidate frame generated by the RPN to the feature map to obtain the corresponding feature matrix, and finally, through the ROI pooling layer, each of the feature matrix is scaled to a fixed-size feature map, and then the feature map is flattened through a series of fully connected layers to obtain the prediction result. …”
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VIDEO LECTURE AS A UNIVERSITY TEACHER’S SELF-REPRESENTATION IN THE CONDITIONS ELECTRONIC EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IMPLEMENTATION by A. A. Kuznetsova, V. B. Nikishina

“…All the components of pedagogical mastery are integrated in selfpresentation and create the whole teacher’s image, which helps him (her) to realize the pedagogical goals. …”
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