Illustrated type catalogue of marine Isopoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Brazil by Cristiana S. Serejo, Agatha C. S. Fernandes

“…Furthermore, this catalog is part of a larger project, in an effort to improve the curation and digitization of the museum´s type collection data. By photographing the specimens and digitizing the collection specimens´ labels, we expect to improve internal management and offer free access to the data, so as to preserve and promote the museum´s collections, which guard important and unique information on world biodiversity.…”
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Medical and Psychological Risk Factors for Incident Hypertension in Type 1 Diabetic African-Americans by Monique S. Roy, Malvin N. Janal, Alec Roy

“…Patients had a structured clinical interview, ocular examination, retinal photographs, and blood and urine assays and completed the Hostility and Direction of Hostility Questionnaire (HDHQ) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). …”
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Method of Quantifying Size of Retinal Hemorrhages in Eyes with Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion Using 14-Square Grid: Interrater and Intrarater Reliability by Yuko Takashima, Masahiko Sugimoto, Kumiko Kato, Maki Kozawa, Kengo Ikesugi, Hisashi Matsubara, Mineo Kondo

“…Thirty-five fundus photographs from 35 consecutive eyes with BRVO were studied. …”
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Validation of wing geometric morphometrics in Chrysodeixis spp. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) to support pest identification in invasive species survey programs by Allan H. Smith-Pardo, Karina M. Torres, Silvana V. Paula-Moraes

“…The cleaned wings of specimens with validated identification were photographed under a digital microscope, and seven venation landmarks were annotated from the images. …”
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An In Vitro Comparative Study of the Adaptation and Sealing Ability of Two Carrier-Based Root Canal Obturators by Ahmed Alkahtani, Sara Al-Subait, Sukumaran Anil

“…Specimens were examined under scanning electron microscope and digitally photographed. AutoCAD software was used to measure the gap between the canal surface and obturation material. …”
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Shaping Ability of Reciproc, UnicOne, and Protaper Universal in Simulated Root Canals by Etevaldo Matos Maia Filho, Cláudia de Castro Rizzi, Matheus Bandeca Coelho, Sara Freitas Santos, Luzia Mayanne Oliveira Costa, Ceci Nunes Carvalho, Rudys Rodolfo de Jesus Tavarez, Janir Alves Soares

“…Thirty resin blocks with simulated curved root canals were distributed into three groups (n=10), and prepared using Reciproc (RCp), UnicOne (UnO) and the Protaper Universal (PTu). Standardized photographs were taken before and after the instrumentation, after which they were superimposed. …”
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Corrosion Monitoring of Flexible Metallic Substrates for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Trystan Watson, Gavin Reynolds, David Wragg, Geraint Williams, David Worsley

“…Whilst the two methods provide very similar kinetic data on corrosion, the photographic method has the advantage that it can be used to image multiple samples in large arrays for rapid screening and is also relatively low cost. …”
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Self-Organized Crystallization Patterns from Evaporating Droplets of Common Wheat Grain Leakages as a Potential Tool for Quality Analysis by Maria Olga Kokornaczyk, Giovanni Dinelli, Ilaria Marotti, Stefano Benedettelli, Daniele Nani, Lucietta Betti

“…The patterns were observed and photographed using dark field microscopy in small magnifications. …”
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Wound Morphology and Topography in the Diabetic Foot: Hurdles in Implementing Angiosome-Guided Revascularization by Dimitri Aerden, Nathalie Denecker, Sarah Gallala, Erik Debing, Pierre Van den Brande

“…Data was retrieved from a registry of patients scheduled for below-the-knee (BTK) revascularization. Photographs of the foot and historic benchmark diagrams were used to assign wounds to their respective angiosomes. …”
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Two Cases of Lacaziosis in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Japan by Keiichi Ueda, Ayako Sano, Jyoji Yamate, Eiko Itano Nakagawa, Mitsuru Kuwamura, Takeshi Izawa, Miyuu Tanaka, Yuko Hasegawa, Hiroji Chibana, Yasuharu Izumisawa, Hirokazu Miyahara, Senzo Uchida

“…Although the Japanese coast is not considered an endemic area, photographic records of lacaziosis-like skin lesions were found in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) that were migrating in the Goto Islands (Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan). …”
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Effect of Anatomical Customization of the Fiber Post on the Bond Strength of a Self-Adhesive Resin Cement by Adricyla Teixeira Rocha, Leticia Machado Gonçalves, Ana Júlia de Carvalho Vasconcelos, Etevaldo Matos Maia Filho, Ceci Nunes Carvalho, Rudys Rodolfo De Jesus Tavarez

“…The roots were sectioned into three slices, cervical, middle, and apical, and photographed with a digital camera attached to a stereomicroscopic loupe. …”
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Therapeutic Effect of Oral Bisphosphonates on Choroidal Neovascularization in the Human Eye by Shigeru Honda, Takayuki Nagai, Naoshi Kondo, Masahide Fukuda, Sentaro Kusuhara, Yasutomo Tsukahara, Akira Negi

“…The best-corrected visual-acuity (BCVA), the lesion size in fundus photographs and fluorescein angiography, foveal thickness and total macular volume in optical coherence tomography were compared between pre- and post-treatment. …”
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The Linguistic Landscape of Ulaanbaatar: what Signs and People tell about by Erzhen V. Khilkhanova

“…The method used include photographing linguistic landscape units in the center of Ulaanbaatar and surveying representatives of small businesses and ordinary urban dwellers. …”
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Ryuzo Mikimoto and the Ruskin ‘Relics’ Exhibitions of 1926, 1931 and 1933 by Haruka Miki

“…The exhibits included the first editions of The Seven Lamps of Architecture and The Stones of Venice, the Pre-Raphaelite journal The Germ, and Ruskin’s autograph manuscripts, drawings, photographs and letters Ryuzo collected in Britain in the 1920s, amounting to nearly 150 pieces in all. …”
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ALGORITHM OF PREPARATION OF THE TRAINING SAMPLE USING 3D-FACE MODELING by D. I. Samal, I. I. Frolov

“…The preparation and preliminary processing of images contains the following constituents like detection and localization of area of the person on the image, assessment of an angle of rotation and an inclination, extension of the range of brightness of pixels and an equalization of the histogram to smooth the brightness and contrast characteristics of the processed images, scaling of the localized and processed area of the person, creation of a vector of features of the scaled and processed image of the person by a Principal component analysis (algorithm NIPALS), training of the multiclass SVM-classifier.The provided algorithm of expansion of the training selection is oriented to be used in practice and allows to expand using 3D-models the processed range of 2D – photographs of persons that positively affects results of identification in system of face recognition. …”
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Assessment of the Geographical Factors Contributing to the Occurrence of the Flood and Flash Flood in Şanlıurfa on March 15, 2023 by Mustafa Recep İrcan, Neşe Duman

“…Within the scope of human factors, the effects of the stream beds in the basin on flood and flash flood generation were evaluated by photographing the field studies. According to the results, there is a topography where the elevation and slope decrease from north to south in the study area. …”
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Color Variability of Cosmopolitan Beetles in Mindanao, Philippines by Ernel Bagbag, Mark Anthony J. Torres, Cesar G. Demayo

“…Forty-eight specimens from Mindanao, Philippines, were collected and photographed under consistent conditions. Subsequently, the images were calibrated and processed in R software to calculate image distances through cluster analysis. …”
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She’s Such a Bitch! The Representation of Women as Bitches in Gender-Based Violence Campaigns by Irene López-Rodríguez

“…The project considers the linguistic, visual and acoustic representations of women as bitches given that several campaigns juxtapose photographs of battered women and real female dogs, characterize women as literal bitches by portraying them kneeling and with a leash around their necks held by a man and evoke the canine image through word play and onomatopoeia. …”
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The pedestrian in west Africa’s town, the poor parent of mobility in the Sahelian city of Ouaga-Dougou in Burkina Faso by Soma Assonsi, Yameogo Lassane

“…These concern the exploitation of administrative and scientific documents and the carrying out of a survey based on a questionnaire and semi-directive qualitative interviews with a sample of 115 people as well as field observations accompanied by the taking of photographs. It emerges that moving by foot every day in Ouagadougou is a major constraint for the wealthy or, above all, the poorest city dwellers. …”
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