Truck-Lifting Prevention System Based on Vision Tracking for Container-Lifting Operation by Qingfeng Huang, Yage Huang, Zhiwei Zhang, Yujie Zhang, Weijian Mi, Chao Mi

“…The accident detection algorithm combines convolutional neural network detection, traditional image processing, and a multitarget tracking algorithm to calculate the displacement and posture information of the truck during the operation. …”
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Positioning of the Moving and Static Contacts of the Switch Machine Based on Double-Layer Mask R-CNN by Jiacheng Yin, Zhaomin Lv, Xingjie Chen, Kun Yang

“…The accuracy and robustness of the proposed DLM are verified by the internal image of the switch machine.…”
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Ironies of Christian Presencein Southern Africa by Sibusiso Masondo

“…It was meant to ‘make’or ‘create’the colonized in the image of the colonizer. The irony of this situation is that, among other things, it created conditions for the desire among the colonized to be free; it contributed to the emergence of African Nationalism through notions like ‘brotherhood’and‘oneness in Christ’. …”
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Sensitivity and Resolution Capacity of Electrode Configurations by Cyril Chibueze Okpoli

“…Hence, a 3D interpretation model should give more accurate results, because of the increase in the reliability of inversion images and complete elimination of spurious features. …”
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Facial Expression Recognition Using a Novel Modeling of Combined Gray Local Binary Pattern by An H. Ton-That, Nhan T. Cao

“…The work included the main steps such as the technique of cropping an input face image from a camera or dataset, the approach of dividing face images into nonoverlap regions for extracting LBP features, applying the fresh modeling of Combined Gray Local Binary Pattern (CGLBP) for extracting features, using uniform feature to reduce the lengths of descriptors, and finally using Support Vector Machine (SVM) for emotion classification. …”
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The Happy Warrior: Winston Churchill and the Representation of War, 1895–1901 by Antoine Capet

“…In all this, Churchill’s sense for self-publicity, which necessitated a glorification of war (no danger—no merit—no glory), seems to have projected a very misleading image of war as it really was at the turn of the century—his later description of these wars as “cruel and magnificent”, as opposed to the “cruel and squalid” war of 1914–1918 appears to belong with the celebrated “Churchill rhetoric”, in tune with the jingoistic atmosphere of the times, rather than historical fact.…”
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Contaminantes en el Medio Ambiente Urbano: Los Perfluoroalquilos by Ignacio A. Rodriguez-Jorquera, Gurpal S. Toor

“…Toor, and published by the UF Department of Soil and Water Science, July 2015. Feature image credit: iStock/Thinkstock.com (non-stick pan, waterproof fabric, and fire fighting foam)/Digital Vision/Thinkstock.com (fast food) SL418-Span/SS644: Contaminantes en el Medio Ambiente Urbano: Los Perfluoroalquilos (ufl.edu) …”
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Study of the Importance of Lighting in Promoting Nightlife of Urban Spaces Case Study : Traditional neighborhood of Maghsoudieh Tabriz by saeedeh feizi, mostafa basiri

“…The research is a survey in which, for data gathering, a questionnaire with different images of the study area has been distributed among the selected statistical population. …”
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On The Gradability of Metaphor by Bierwiaczonek Bogusław

“…Some of the crucial aspects of syntaphors are highlighted when they are compared with image metaphors. The most important implications of the study for the theory of metaphor are presented in Conclusions.…”
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Functionality of the Search and Rescue Transponder (SART) in Maritime Search and Rescue Actions by Marzena Malyszko, Miroslaw Wielgosz, Brunon Rzepka

“…The experiment consisted of multiple trials to detect, locate, and track the device, as well as to assess the radar image features. Four scenarios were developed, considering different distances and radar settings. …”
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Challenges and Prospects of Deploying AI and Machine Learning for Clinical Diagnosis in African Healthcare by Edmund Terem Ugar

“…For example, ML-driven image recognition has demonstrated remarkable efficacy, prompting clinicians to rely increasingly on these technologies for “accurate” medical diagnoses and prognoses of diseases. …”
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Quantification of the Transparency of the Transparent Soil in Geotechnical Modeling by Li-Da Yi, Hua-Bin Lv, Tian Ye, Yi-Ping Zhang

“…An indispensable process of geotechnical modeling with transparent soils involves capturing and analyzing images, in which favorable transparency is required for optical measurements. …”
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Tanto malvagio da essere d’esempio. I clerici anglo-normanni e la descrizione di Guglielmo II Rufo, disgraziatamente re d’Inghilterra by Fabrizio De Falco

“…He did not show nor gracefulness nor justice nor capability of government. His memorial image was created by ecclesiasticals that well remembered and abhorred his behavior towards the Church. …”
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An Efficient Hierarchical Video Coding Scheme Combining Visual Perception Characteristics by Pengyu Liu, Kebin Jia

“…Compared with H.264/AVC (JM17.0), the proposed scheme reduces 80% video coding time approximately and maintains a good video image quality as well. It improves video coding performance significantly.…”
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Association of Chronic Pancreatitis and Malignant Main Duct IPMN: A Rare but Difficult Clinical Problem by Zoltán Berger, Hernán De La Fuente, Manuel Meneses, Fernanda Matamala, Makarena Sepúlveda, Claudia Rojas

“…Surgery and histology confirmed malignant IPMN with the typical image of chronic pancreatitis and intraductal stones in the vicinity. …”
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Emergent online discourses and the (re)framing of women’s identity by Sibongile Mpofu

“…The article concludes that digital media, particularly blogs, can be used as sites of resistance to power by bringing to the fore counter narratives that have been obscured from mainstream discourse, and at the same time affording women direct influence over their public image. …”
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Optimized deep learning model with integrated spectrum focus transformer for pavement distress recognition and classification by Wenlin Wu, Fenghua Zhu, Zheng Li, Xue Li, Xiaowei Li, Jinwen Wang

“…Subsequently, frequency information and images are learned and weighted in the frequency domain, thereby enhancing the capability to capture pavement distress regions. …”
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Attitudes towards attractive and credible celebrities in advertisements by De la Rey van der Waldt, N de Beer N de Beer, N du Plessis N du Plessis

“…The use of celebrity endorsers is a fairly common practice in many organisations in supporting their corporate or brand image. This article focuses on both the attractiveness and also the credibility of celebrities in advertisements. …”
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Gender differences in the recognition of emotional faces: are men less efficient? by Ana Ruiz-Ibáñez, José T. Boyano

“…The main objective of our research consists of analyzing the differences in image recognition using faces with emotional facial expressions between two groups composed by university students aged 18-30. …”
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Voyage à travers un baril de poudre : Guerre et imaginaire touristique à Sarajevo by Patrick Naef

“…De plus, certaines productions cinématographiques tendent à créer une image romantique et orientaliste de cette région, l’assimilant en grande partie au feu et au sang. …”
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