La Vision artistique de la montagne : panorama, pli ou plongée ? by Marie-Madeleine Martinet

“…Lastly, the vertical dimension, angled views and peaks, brought a new approach to perspective and the corresponding optical illusions.Mountains, a strange world, brought about inverted visual effects with the most irregular shapes prevailing over landscapes; and they were first studied in distant countries where their unusual appearance seemed less unexpected, before being discovered at home as an artistic subject…”
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Public and Private Costs of the Clusterization Process by P. V. Tereliansky, S. Y. Soboleva, A. V. Sobolev

“…The authors focus on the irrational behavior of market participants due to cognitive illusions and resulting variances in economic decision-making, leading to forced and unforced errors. …”
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The backpackers' “round the world” trip, standardised journey? by Brenda Le Bigot

“…At times portrayed as a dissenter against mass tourism, the backpacker is at the same time described as being bound to his own illusions of freedom and reduced to use pre-determined routes and accommodation. …”
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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Presenting with Alveolar Hemorrhage by Omar Tolaymat, Florentina Berianu

“…The diagnosis of SLE is illusive when DAH is the presenting symptom. Since early diagnosis and appropriate institution of treatment improve outcome, it is important to keep lupus in mind as an etiology of alveolar hemorrhage. …”
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New Book: Ideas and Actionable Steps for Scaling Africa’s Blue Economy Strategy by Francis Onditi, Douglas Yates, Narnia Bohler-Muller

“… Illusions of Location Theory: Consequences for Blue Economy in Africa, a new book edited by Dr. …”
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Development of a Dynamic Virtual Reality Model of the Inner Ear Sensory System as a Learning and Demonstrating Tool by P. Selva, J. Morlier, Y. Gourinat

“…It can be used as a learning and demonstrating tool either in the medicine field—to understand the behavior of the sensors during any kind of motion—or in the aeronautical field to relate the inner ear functioning to some sensory illusions.…”
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The Executive Control of Face Memory by Steven Z. Rapcsak, Emily C. Edmonds

“…In particular, we suggest that due to the breakdown of strategic memory retrieval, monitoring, and decision operations, individuals with frontal lobe impairment caused by focal damage or age-related functional decline do not have a reliable mechanism for attributing the experience of familiarity to the correct context or source. Memory illusions are mostly apparent under conditions of uncertainty when the face cue does not directly elicit relevant identity-specific contextual information, leaving the source of familiarity unspecified or ambiguous. …”
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The Question of Baltic States in the Policy of the Great Westem Powers in 1944-1945 by Ramojus Kraujelis

“…Considering that in the Teheran conference (1943), Western states accorded the two of the Baltic states to Soviet interest sphere, the U.S. and Britain entered the Yalta conference (1945) with no illusions as to the fate of the Baltic States in particular and Eastern Europe in general.   …”
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Le « tour du monde » des backpagers, voyage normalisé ? by Brenda Le Bigot

“…Tantôt présenté comme un contestataire du tourisme de masse, le backpacker est dans le même temps décrit comme aliéné à ses propres illusions de liberté et réduit à des itinéraires et hébergements balisés. …”
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Impact of Focal Muscle Vibration on Flaccid Upper Limb Motor Paralysis following Acute Brain Disease: A Case Study by Hirotaka Saito, Haruka Kobayashi, Kodai Oba, Yosuke Hamaya

“…By applying vibrations to muscles, FMV stimulates sensory fibers to induce cortical activity and kinesthetic illusions. While initial studies have highlighted FMV’s role in reducing spasticity, recent evidence points to its potential in treating motor paralysis. …”
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The mirror preference test: A reverse translational approach to study anomalous subjective experience in rats by Daria Chestnykh, Liubov S. Kalinichenko, Stephan von Hörsten, Johannes Kornhuber, Christian P. Müller

“…We propose that limited visual perception that meets brain monoamine sensitization may trigger visual illusions as part of a psychotic-like state in rats. …”
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The Pollyanna Effect: The role of positive personal and group identity defense mechanisms by T.A. Nestik

“…At the individual level, the Pollyanna effect is supported by patterns of perception of positive and negative information, emotion counter-regulation, coping mechanisms, and positive illusions that protect the positive identity of the individual. …”
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Pimavanserin Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease Psychosis in Clinical Practice by Khashayar Dashtipour, Fiona Gupta, Robert A. Hauser, Cherian A. Karunapuzha, John C. Morgan

“…Characteristic symptoms of PDP include illusions; visual, auditory, tactile, and olfactory hallucinations; and delusions. …”
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ANAPUS GYVENIMO IR MIRTIES DUALIZMO: BUDISTINĖ EGZISTENCIJOS INTERPRETACIJA by Agnė Budriūnaitė

“…The buddhism offers another way of thinking by equalizing life and death and showing the illusiveness of ‘Self’. The buddhist term suunyataa may seem identical to Nothingness in existentialist philosophy, but it is not. …”
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Ten Years of the Global Reform of Financial Regulation: What is ahead? by L. S. Khudyakova

“…So the threat to fragmentation of the international financial markets and revision of already agreed regulatory standards became not illusive.Special attention in the article was paid to analysis of the problem of regulating the shadow banking or non-bank financial intermediation (NBFI), which are till now largely outside of the regulatory mandate of the governance bodies. …”
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