A new method to assess lumbar vertebral body rotation on simple radiographs by Suk-Joong Lee, Sanghyun Joung, Sungmin Kim, Hyun-Joo Lee, Maria Florencia Deslivia

“…The device rotated the model vertebra by 1°. Fluoroscopic images were obtained for each pose. We developed a customized program to calculate the indices automatically. …”
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CHRISTIAN SELF-FORMATION: AN AUGUSTINIAN CONTRIBUTION by F. England

“…By referring to the Trinitarian images in De Trinitate and recurring to Augustine’s self-searching mode in the Confessiones (AD 397-401), his quest may be said to inspire a mode of Christian self-formation that, sub specie humanitatis, rejects the “discovery” of one’s “true self” – the sense that one really does possess a stable authentic core self, and that one can find it by following some process of interior self-scrutiny. …”
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Serum Creatinine in Patients with Advanced Liver Disease Is of Limited Value for Identification of Moderate Renal Dysfunction: Are the Equations for Estimating Renal Function Bette... by Jillian MacAulay, Kara Thompson, Bryce A Kiberd, David C Barnes, Kevork M Peltekian

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Numerical Simulation of Sea Breeze Convergence over Antarctic Peninsula by Alcimoni Nelci Comin, Otávio Costa Acevedo

“…The convergence zone induced by sea breeze systems over Antarctic Peninsula is analyzed for the summer season of 2013–2015. 59 days, selected by satellite images for the absence of major synoptic forcing, are simulated using the WRF model. …”
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Investigation of glenoid fossa roof thickness in patients with and without TMJ disorders in a Turkish Subpopulation by Oguzhan Altun, Elif Sobi, Numan Dedeoglu

“…The aim of this study was to evaluate the minimum thickness of the glenoid fossa (GFMT), the discontinuity of the roof of the glenoid fossa, and degenerative bone changes (DBC) using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), and to compare these findings between the patients with temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMD) and patients witout TMD. CBCT images of 72 patients with TMD and 72 patients with non-TMD were evaluated for DBC and GMFC in the TMJ. …”
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Naissance de la pensée symbolique chez l’Homme : étude des bases neurales de la perception des gravures paléolithiques abstraites et des visages culturalisés en neuroimagerie fonct... by Mathilde Salagnon

“…We used functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging to record participants' brain activity when we presented them with stimuli from potentially symbolic cultural innovations. …”
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Gastric Pneumatosis in the Setting of Diabetic Ketoacidosis by Mohammed Rifat Shaik, Chet Ranabhat, Nishat Anjum Shaik, Akshay Duddu, Zaid Bilgrami, Guofeng Xie

“…Initial evaluation revealed elevated blood glucose levels, an anion gap metabolic acidosis, and evidence of gastric pneumatosis on imaging. The patient was managed with aggressive fluid resuscitation and intravenous insulin therapy per diabetic ketoacidosis protocol. …”
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Marked Improvement in Refractory TTP Directly after H. pylori Eradication Therapy by Irina Gringauz, Narin Nard Carmel-Neiderman, Tobin Mangel, Orith Portnoy, Gad Segal, Idan Goren

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Социально-политический портрет лидеров объединенного дворянства by Е.П. Баринова, И.О. Трубицын

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Towards a throughput-optimal routing algorithm for data collection on satellite networks by Jianzhou Chen, Lixiang Liu, Xiaohui Hu

“…To perform Earth observation, more and more satellites are equipped with high-resolution sensors like hyperspectral imagers, which generate data at tens of Gbps. Researchers aim to maximize the volume of data available for use on the ground in near-real time. …”
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Posterior Chamber Hemorrhage during Fluorescein Angiography by Manuel A. P. Vilela

“…Difficulty was experienced in obtaining the images owing to a progressive reduction in the transparency of the media. …”
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Performance Improvement for Single-Photon LiDAR with Dead Time Selection by Lei Feng, Fenglin Wang, Meng An, Qiang Zhang

“…Compared with the impulse LiDAR, the single-photon LiDAR has higher measurement sensitivity in the prominent feature, especially for space-based long-distance imaging. The distance measurement and the detection probability are the critical performance for LiDAR. …”
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Photopsias during Systemic Bevacizumab Therapy by Heather Leisy, Meleha Ahmad, R. Theodore Smith

“…Ophthalmic examination, including dilated fundus exam, spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) of the optic nerve head, and enhanced depth imaging SD-OCT of the macula, revealed no significant abnormalities. …”
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Precomputed Clustering for Movie Recommendation System in Real Time by Bo Li, Yibin Liao, Zheng Qin

“…A recommendation system delivers customized data (articles, news, images, music, movies, etc.) to its users. As the interest of recommendation systems grows, we started working on the movie recommendation systems. …”
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Systemic Steroid Treatment for Severe Expanding Pneumococcal Pneumonia by Eran Lavi, David Shoseyov, Natalia Simanovsky, Rebecca Brooks

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Simultaneous Coexistence of Thyrotropin-Prolactin-Secreting Adenoma and Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma by Somaya Safi, Yousra Benabdelfedil, Sara Derrou, Faycal El Guendouz

“…After eliminating noncompliance, interfering medicines, and thyroid malabsorption, a pituitary adenoma (12 mm) was documented at magnetic resonance imaging. The patient has had transsphenoidal pituitary adenomectomy with histology confirming a thyrotropin-prolactin-secreting adenoma. …”
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The silent menace: Worm bezoar causing acute intestinal obstruction by Shiva Shiva, Sahil Kumar, Pankaj Singh, Sanjeev Kumar, Suresh Kumar

“…The patient exhibited classical symptoms of intestinal obstruction, including abdominal pain, distension, and vomiting. Imaging studies revealed multiple air–fluid levels, suggesting a small bowel obstruction. …”
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A Sense of Time(ly) Seeing in DeLillo’s Later Novels by Stefania Iliescu

“…Unlike his novels published before 2000, where the presence of images leads to a phenomenon of hyperreality, DeLillo’s later fiction develops a rhetoric of seeing which gives rise to a reading experience that has the power to reveal the present to the readers. …”
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Clinical case of the postinfarction ventricular septum defect successful closure with occluder at the 4th day of the disease by B.М. Todurov, М.F. Rotar, А.V. Khokhlov, К.S. Boiko, Yu.V. Hutsuliak

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In the Eyes of the Beholder: Towards Depicting the Dog in the Nineteenth Century by Beryl Gray

“…Tristram pointed out, ‘the dog is mentioned nearly forty times in Scripture, [but] there is scarcely a single instance in which it is not spoken of with more or less of contempt or aversion’. I draw on texts and images to support my belief that in late medieval and early modern England the stance towards the dog was markedly unbiblical, while the authoritatively expressed ‘contempt or aversion’ made familiar through the Geneva Bible significantly influenced society’s attitudes to dogs in Protestant Britain. …”
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