Hepatic macrophages in liver fibrosis: pathogenesis and potential therapeutic targets by Hai Li, Hong You, Jidong Jia, Xu Fan

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Analysis of Artificial Neural Network: Architecture, Types, and Forecasting Applications by Manogaran Madhiarasan, Mohamed Louzazni

“…Artificial neural networks resemble brain activities based on the acquired training samples used for various applications such as classification, regression, prediction, smart grid, natural language processing, image processing, medical diagnosis, and so on. This paper illustrates the different artificial neural network architectures, types, merits, demerits, and applications. …”
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Psychological factors of the effectiveness of competitive activity in professional skills by A. Yu. Tymchikov

“…The main psychological reasons for unsuccessful performances are identified - excessive independence with insufficient experience of psychological training; insufficient command of psychological technologies of self-action; low need for achievements, blurred fuzzy image of “I am the winner”; inadequate (overestimated and understated) self-esteem; unproductive reflection, low level of reflective culture; insufficient level of development of the main personal and professional qualities; uncertainty.…”
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Between Destructiveness and Vitalism: Simmel’s Sociology of Crowds by Christian Borch

“…The aim of the article is (1) to demonstrate the importance Simmel ascribed to the crowd topic, (2) to illustrate how his early view on crowds was inspired by the work of the major crowd theorists of his time, and (3) to reconstruct a vitalist image of crowds from Simmel’s later thought. The first part of the article portrays Simmel’s general perspective on the crowd as it appears in some of his key writings. …”
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A New Approach to Assessing the Accuracy of Forecasting of Emergencies with Environmental Consequences Based on the Theory of Fuzzy Logic by Eduard Tshovrebov, Vladimir Moshkov, Irina Oltyan and Filyuz Niyazgulov

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The possibilities of lung perfusion scintigraphy in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension by V.Yu. Kundin, M.V. Satyr, I.V. Noverko, A.V. Khokhlov

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Research on Fast Pedestrian Detection Algorithm Based on Autoencoding Neural Network and AdaBoost by Hongzhi Zhou, Gan Yu

“…Moreover, in view of the problem that the fusion video is not smoothly played, this paper considers the motion information of the video object, performs pixel interpolation by motion compensation, and restores the frame rate of the original video by reconstructing the dropped interframe image. Through experimental research, we can see that the algorithm constructed in this paper has a certain effect.…”
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IN SEARCH OF THE ORIGINS OF ISRAELITE ANICONISM by S I Kang

“…Aniconism refers to the absence or repudiation of divine images. Such a tradition was inconceivable to Israel’s neighbours, where the care, feeding, and clothing of a deity, represented in the form of a divine statue, played a central role in national cults (Jacobsen 1987:15-32; Berlejung 1997:45-72; Walker & Dick 2001; Roth 1992:113-147; Roth 1993:57-79). …”
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Chinese outbound tourism: between state control and autonomous individual travel. The case of honeymoons in France by Marine L’Hostis, Maxime Dejean

“…This strategy may work with developing countries – who are often islands and/or yet to develop their own tourism image – however, major international tourism destinations seem to be less receptive to this form of instrumentalization. …”
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Collaborative Documentary Photo Projects: from Techno-utopia to Imagined Community by Karine Chambefort-Kay

“…This article studies three collaborative documentary photographic projects, The Polling Place Photo Project, Mapping Main Street (United States, 2008 and 2009) and Simon Roberts’s Election Project (Great Britain, 2010), which operated with similar goals and modes—to re-engage the public and citizens by committing them to building an online archive of images. The features of the collaborative documentary mode are analysed as a number of strategies involving the authority of amateurs, forms of crowdsourcing and a new kind of agency as photographs are produced by multiple contributors and displayed online. …”
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PENGEMBANGAN BAHAN AJAR BIOLOGI SEL PADA PROGRAM STUDI PENDIDIKAN BIOLOGI UIN ALAUDDIN MAKASSAR by St. Muriati

“…Cell Biology purposes of teaching materials even this can help students to better understand the concept of Cell Biology abstract to concrete, because in Cell Biology teaching materials displayed image by using a reference cell that contains the results of research conducted by experts Cell BiologY. …”
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Quantitative Impact of Monthly Precipitation on Urban Vegetation, Surface Water and Potential Evapotranspiration in Baghdad Under Wet and Dry Conditions by Jamal S. Abd Al Rukabie, Salwa S. Naif and Monim H. Al-Jiboori

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South Sea Daggers and the Dead Man’s Eye: Foreign Invasion in Fin-de-Siècle Optogram Fiction by Andrea Goulet

“…This study looks at four fin-de-siècle texts that revolve around the central conceit of the ‘optogram,’ the photograph of a retinal image in a cadaver’s eye: Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s Claire Lenoir (1867–87), Rudyard Kipling’s ‘At the End of the Passage’ (1891), Jules Claretie’s L’Accusateur (1897), and Jules Verne’s Les Frères Kip (1902). …”
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Theatrical Tectonics: The Mediating Agent for a Contesting Practice by Gevork Hartoonian

“…The intention is to promote a discourse of criticality, the thematic of which is drawn from the symptoms that galvanise architecture’s rapport with the image-laden culture of late capitalism. In an attempt to log the thematic of a contested practice, this essay will re-map the recent history of contemporary architecture. …”
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Ripartire dai territori: il ruolo dell’artigianato artistico napoletano by Gianfranca Ranisio

“…Finally, the paper focuses the practices that aim on one hand to enhance and promote the productive resources in the area, on the other hand to build and redefine the image of the place and Neapolitan jewelry art. This can happen not by  preserving the old craft forms, but enabling the processes of revision and re-functionalization of the assets, in relation to the social and cultural context of the historical center. …”
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Better Than the Real Thing: Processed Reality in Victorian Art and Fiction by Béatrice Laurent

“…Various forms of aggregation, including juxtaposition and superimposition were used to create images that looked ‘real’. Thus, filtered and fictionalised reality came to replace the ocular experience in the interaction between the individual subject and the outside world, to the extent that novelists were impacted by this procedure. …”
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Prevalence of congenital defects of heart and large vessels in adults by I.G. Lebid

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¿Ha cambiado la protesta? La coyuntura actual de movilizaciones en Bolivia y Ecuador by Salvador Martí i Puig, Cristina Bastidas

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Emotional political advertising by Lynnette Fourie, Johannes Froneman

“… The real possibility exists that the overemphasis of a party’s image in advertisements could lead to the neglect of important political information for voters. …”
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An Improved Directed Crossover Genetic Algorithm Based on Multilayer Mutation by Feng Xie, Quansheng Sun, Yinfeng Zhao, Haibo Du

“…In order to solve the shortcomings of traditional genetic algorithms in image matching in terms of computational speed and matching accuracy, this paper proposes a directed crossover genetic matching algorithm (DCGA) based on multilayer variation. …”
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