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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Positive Discipline: Behavioral Management Skills for Parents and Teachers Part 2—General Approaches to Managing Behavior by Victor Harris, Whitney Fung, Sarah Ellis, Alison Schmeer

“…(Photo Credit: Thinkstock.com/Jupiterimages/Creatas Images) FCS3329/FY1459: Positive Discipline: Behavioral Management Skills for Parents and Teachers—Part 2: General Approaches to Managing Behavior (ufl.edu) …”
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Effect of Isopropyl Alcohol Concentration and Etching Time on Wet Chemical Anisotropic Etching of Low-Resistivity Crystalline Silicon Wafer by Eyad Abdur-Rahman, Ibrahim Alghoraibi, Hassan Alkurdi

“…The surface morphology of the wafer was analyzed by optical microscopy and atomic force microscopy (AFM). The AFM images confirmed a well-uniform pyramidal structure with various average pyramid sizes ranging from 1 to 1.6 μm. …”
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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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Design and Monitoring Automatization Of Exhaust Fan Through Smartphone at PT Semen Tonasa by Pance Asyik, Eko Hadi Nugroho

“…The results of this study are to use the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system and RS link to produce images and exhaust fan automation to prevent coal feeder trip pfister due to high temperatures is to monitor via a smartphone to monitor the function of existing tools.…”
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A Translation and Literary Analysis of Adebayo Faleti’s Poem: Ojo Ilayefun” by Ayodele Solomon Oyewale

“…The essay concludes that the Yoruba indigenous system, through several notions and metaphorical expressions about mental malady socially stigmatizes people suffering from such ailment. Mental pictures/images of incurability being rammed the native sub-consciousness, orthodox medicine has proved that it could be managed, suggesting that a lunatic could eventually be reformed, rehabilitated, and re-absorbed into the functionality of society. …”
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Insurance sector readiness for digital transformation: Empirical evidence from Jordan by Mohammad O. Al-Smadi

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Rare Suprasellar Chordoid Meningioma with INI1 Gene Mutation by Imad Fadl-Elmula, Rania Giha, Sawsan AH Deaf, Lamyaa Ahmed El Hassan, Ahmed M. Hassan, Mohamed AR Arbab

“…Cranial magnetic resonance (MR) images demonstrated a 28x15 mm mass in the sellar region, which showed iso-to low intensity that enhanced vividly after gadolinium with upwards displacement of the Optic chiasm. …”
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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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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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Development of a Reference Method and Materials for Quantitative Measurement of UV-Induced DNA Damage in Mammalian Cells: Comparison of Comet Assay and Cell Viability by Donald H. Atha, Alessandro Tona, Vytas Reipa

“…We found that the comet images became diffused and the viability of the cells decreased substantially (>20%) as the UVA dose and benzo [a] pyrene (BaP) concentration exceeded 6.3 J/cm2 and 10−6 mol/L BaP. …”
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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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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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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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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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Ascending to descending aortic prosthesis with reimplantation of brachiocephalic vessels in aneurysm of the arch and descending aorta for hypoplasia of the arch and coarctation of... by B.M. Todurov, O.V. Zelenchuk, S.M. Sudakevych, A.Yu. Shkandala, N.S. Gnoyanko

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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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Positive Discipline: Behavioral Management Skills for Parents and Teachers Part 2—General Approaches to Managing Behavior by Victor Harris, Whitney Fung, Sarah Ellis, Alison Schmeer

“…(Photo Credit: Thinkstock.com/Jupiterimages/Creatas Images) FCS3329/FY1459: Positive Discipline: Behavioral Management Skills for Parents and Teachers—Part 2: General Approaches to Managing Behavior (ufl.edu) …”
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