Analysis of Seed Vigor Using the Biospeckle Laser Technique by Roberto A. Braga, José Luís Contado, Karina Renostro Ducatti, Edvaldo A. Amaral da Silva

“…It delves into the experimental setup for seed illumination and discusses the associated image processing methods. Furthermore, the paper examines the numerical and graphical outcomes, underscoring the BSL technique’s ability to carry out seed analysis by addressing the limitations of traditional methods and enhancing efficiency in the agricultural sector.…”
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Optimized digital workflow for pathologist-grade evaluation in bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis mouse model by Toshiki Goto, Akira Sano, Shinichi Onishi, Natsuko Hada, Rui Kimata, Saori Matsuo, Sohei Oyama, Atsuhiko Kato, Hideaki Mizuno, Masaki Yamazaki

“…These models incorporate complex image patterns and qualitative factors, such as collagen texture and distribution, potentially identifying drug candidates overlooked in evaluations based solely on simple area extraction. …”
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Use of Landsat Land Surface Temperature and Vegetation Indices for Monitoring Drought in the Salt Lake Basin Area, Turkey by Osman Orhan, Semih Ekercin, Filiz Dadaser-Celik

“…The remotely sensed and treated satellite images and resulting thematic indices maps showed that dramatic land surface temperature changes occurred (about 2∘C) in the Salt Lake Basin area during the 28-year period (1984–2011). …”
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A new -means singular value decomposition method based on self-adaptive matching pursuit and its application in fault diagnosis of rolling bearing weak fault by Hongchao Wang, Wenliao Du

“…K -means singular value decomposition is a classical self-learning over-complete dictionary method and has been used in image processing, speech processing, and vibration signal processing. …”
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Developing Smart Measurement Device to Measure Kinetic Friction Coefficients of Bi-Tilt Isolator by Ming-Hsiang Shih, Wen-Pei Sung

“…The time history of the acceleration and displacement responses of test object movements in the sliding process were respectively, recorded and detected by this proposed smart measuring device and the digital image correlation method (DIC). Statistical analyses of all test responses were used to derive the relationship of velocity to kinetic friction coefficient. …”
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Semiotic knowledge about mass communication Umberto Eco and problems of comprehension of digital reality by T. Smirnova, I. Unzhakova

“…The results of the interpretation of the primary data of the sociological research project of the State University of Management have been presented, on the basis of which it can be concluded, that young people go beyond the important sociocultural norms of communication, which can cause distortion of signs and image codes of the virtual interlocutor and lead to a dangerous situation. …”
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Urinary Podocyte Excretion Predicts Urinary Protein Selectivity and Renal Prognosis by Makoto Abe, Akiko Kaiga, Takehiro Ohira, Toshihiko Ishimitsu, Akihiro Tojo

“…The amounts of protein bands, separated by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, were calculated using an image software program and the correlation with urinary podocytes was analyzed. …”
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CAPITAL WITHOUT STATEHOOD: EMPIRICAL STUDIES IN STARAYA LADOGA, KASIMOV AND MYSHKIN by I. Y. Okunev, D. V. Basova

“…Capitals are the idealized image of nation and national history, a sort of nation in miniature. …”
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Attention-Guided Shared Hybrid Network for Enhanced Land Cover Segmentation by Yinbing Jiang, Linfeng Shi, Xinyu Fan

“…Most existing remote sensing image segmentation models prioritize lightweight design, which often leads to difficulties in identifying small objects and edge information, as well as insufficient multi-scale capabilities. …”
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Multiview Shooting Geometry for Multiscopic Rendering with Controlled Distortion by J. Prévoteau, S. Chalençon-Piotin, D. Debons, L. Lucas, Y. Remion

“…A fundamental element of stereoscopic and/or autostereoscopic image production is the geometrical analysis of the shooting and viewing conditions in order to obtain a qualitative 3D perception experience. …”
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Convolutional Neural Network-Based Fish Posture Classification by Xin Li, Anzi Ding, Shaojie Mei, Wenjin Wu, Wenguang Hou

“…Before training the network, all sample images are preprocessed to make the fish be horizontal on the image according to the principal component analysis. …”
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A knowledge graph for crop diseases and pests in China by Rongen Yan, Ping An, Xianghao Meng, Yakun Li, Dongmei Li, Fu Xu, Depeng Dang

“…In this paper, we propose CropDP-KG, a knowledge graph for crop diseases and pests in China, which leverages natural language processing techniques to analyze data from the Chinese crop diseases and pests image-text database. CropDP-KG covers relevant information on crop diseases and pests in China, featuring 8 primary entities such as diseases, symptoms, and crops, and is organized into 7 relationships such as primary occurrence locations, affected parts and suitable temperature. …”
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Protocol for functional screening of CFTR-targeted genetic therapies in patient-derived organoids using DETECTOR deep-learning-based analysis by Mattijs Bulcaen, Ronald B. Liu, Kasper Gryspeert, Sam Thierie, Anabela S. Ramalho, François Vermeulen, Xavier Casadevall I Solvas, Marianne S. Carlon

“…We describe steps for wet-lab experiments, image acquisition, and CFTR function analysis by DETECTOR. …”
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Preparatory Switches of Auditory Spatial and Non-Spatial Attention Among Simultaneous Voices by Aureliu Lavric, Elisa Schmied

“…We displayed a word or image 50/800/1400 ms before the onset of two simultaneous dichotic (male and female) voices to indicate whether participants should classify as odd/even the number spoken by the voice on the left or on the right; in another condition, we used gender cues. …”
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Transformer-Based Model for Monocular Visual Odometry: A Video Understanding Approach by Andre O. Francani, Marcos R. O. A. Maximo

“…Estimating the camera’s pose given images from a single camera is a traditional task in mobile robots and autonomous vehicles. …”
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PROBLEM OF DEMOCRACY PROMOTION IN CONTEXT OF POSTCOLONIAL FEMINISM by V. A. Muzalevskiy

“…The author notes that the current strategy of democracy promotion, though being more complex, creates the effect of "double discrimination", when both the local people and local women (imposing image of "a free and independent Western woman") feel that they are "colonized". …”
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Cytotoxicity and Antibacterial Activity of Mineral Trioxide Aggregate Cement with Radiopacity Introduced by ZrO2 by Lidia Ciołek, Zbigniew Jaegermann, Ewa Zaczyńska, Anna Czarny, Monika Biernat, Arkadiusz Gąsiński, Agnieszka Jastrzębska, Michał Gloc, Andrzej Olszyna

“…The cements were evaluated via characterisation of setting time, compressive strength, as well as translucency on X-ray images, and bioactivity in the simulated body fluid (SBF). …”
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Negative effects of humor in marketing communications by Baltezarević Ivana, Baltezarević Radoslav

“…Clumsily created humorous content, on the other hand, is likely to produce consumer unhappiness and trigger negative electronic word of mouth (which is very difficult to control), causing significant damage to brand image and influencing purchasing decisions.…”
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Russian Bishop in Gilded Age America by V. V. Pechatnov, V. O. Pechatnov

“…Bishop Nickolay’s impressions of the United States constitute a revealing case study in how image of America as a constituent “the other”, the juxtaposition of the “Russian Idea” and the “American Dream” fitted into the Russian mentality.…”
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Innovative Technologies for Studying the Impact of Climate Change on River Basins in the Guba-Khachmaz Region of Azerbaijan by Huseynova Gumru, Valiyeva Asmar, Tahmezli Elvira, Surkhayli Sanan, Tahmezli Matanat

“…It is possible to prepare a large database for forecasting by integrating accurate results of spatial image analysis into the GIS database from time to time. …”
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