Multiscale Deep Network with Centerness-Aware Loss for Salient Object Detection by Liangliang Duan

“…Deep encoder-decoder networks have been adopted for saliency detection and achieved state-of-the-art performance. However, most existing saliency models usually fail to detect very small salient objects. …”
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Archaeological exploration of fortresses and Cossack settlements of the Lower Don, Turkish Azak of the 17th - 18th centuries: a brief historiographical sketch by Klimova K.I.

“…Monuments of fortification art and weapons are the subject of special archaeological explorations. …”
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Curar estereotipos. Institucionalidad, turismo e imagen digital en El artista y la fotografía de Joan Fontcuberta by Cristian Soler Reyes

“…En la segunda parte considero cómo estas exposiciones transforman el arte de algunos artistas de origen catalán en el arte de toda una nación. …”
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Tendencias gastronómicas predominantes en la producción de revistas científicas de Iberoamérica by César Hernández Heredia, Ana Leticia Tamayo Salcedo, Diana Castro Ricalde, Irma Muñoz Muñoz

“…Se discute si la gastronomía es una ciencia, arte o disciplina, la tendenciapredominante en México y qué se debería investigar, en términos prospectivos, en elámbito gastronómico.…”
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Vernon Lee’s travel essays and the “confusion” of optical and temporal lines by Claire McKEOWN

“…This article builds on the idea of impressionist confusion in Vernon Lee’s travel writing, placing her comments on visual art in parallel with her treatment of place. I attempt to identify the intermedial effects and types of confusion in her texts, which are both optical— mirroring visual art—, and emotional— focusing on her subjective impressions. …”
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A Novel Compressed Sensing Method for Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Exponential Wavelet Iterative Shrinkage-Thresholding Algorithm with Random Shift by Yudong Zhang, Jiquan Yang, Jianfei Yang, Aijun Liu, Ping Sun

“…EWISTARS is superior to state-of-the-art approaches.…”
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L’anomalia Verdi, ovvero la resa del professore: il pensiero di Cesare Lombroso sulla musica by Pierangelo Gentile

“…In 1894, Cesare Lombroso became the spokesman of a new way of understanding music: no longer as an art “inspired by feeling(s)”, but as a renewed discipline, entering a “totally scientific phase”. …”
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Landscape Design: Drawing a Planting Plan by Gail Hansen

“…Selecting and placing plants in the landscape is the art and science of arranging plant material to make a healthy, functional, and beautiful yard. …”
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Special Care Dentistry in a Patient with Prader–Willi Syndrome through the Use of Atraumatic Restorative Treatment under General Anesthesia by Caio Vinícius Gonçalves Roman-Torres, Sérgio Takashi Kussaba, Yasmin Comoti Vita Bantim, Roberta de Barros Antunes Almeida de Oliveira

“…A dental treatment under general anesthesia was defined, allowing an oral adequation in a single section, in which it was planned the extraction of the element 74 and atraumatic restorative treatment (ART) technique in the other teeth. The precocious intervention in this 3-year-old patient by the therapy realized with ART under general anesthesia was done with success, avoiding unnecessary extractions, preserving dental elements, and maintaining the oral cavity in adequate function.…”
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Louise Jopling, esthète réticente, féministe convaincue by Laurent Bury

“…Le cas de Louise Jopling (1843-1933) illustre à merveille les pressions qui pesaient sur les peintres victoriennes dès lors qu’elles tentaient de s’imposer sur le marché de l’art. Très liée personnellement aux piliers du mouvement esthète, elle fut sensible à l’influence du japonisme et on lui doit l’une des plus belles toiles reflétant l’engouement pour la porcelaine chinoise. …”
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La feuille bulozienne by Philippe Dufour

“…L’amoralisme se révèle encore dans le style même : l’art pour l’art est un art sans l’homme. Tel est le scénario d’auteur cohérent que la Revue des Deux Mondes construit au fil des ans et au gré des contributeurs.…”
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O conflito apocalíptico em Assunção de Salviano, de Antonio Callado by Geam Karlo-Gomes

“…¿Cuál es el papel del arte en la formación de lo imaginario? Una certeza indudable es el hecho de que en él se pueden vislumbrar las nuevas imágenes, potencialmente instauradoras de la renovación de los arquetipos inconscientes. …”
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La ciencia perspectiva (1684-1687), de G.W. Leibniz by Ricardo Rodríguez Hurtado

“…La ciencia perspectiva es, de acuerdo con él, el arte de exhibir en la Tabula la apariencia del objetivo y, en dicho arte, el análisis geométrico de la intersección resulta central para el descubrimiento de la regla universal de la representación. …”
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“Interested parties” versus unlawful State aid. State of play in CJEU’s caselaw by Agata Jurkowska-Gomulka, Artur Salbert

“… In case of unlawful State aid, Art. 24(2) of Regulation 2015/1589 guarantees the possibility to submit a complaint to “any interested party”. …”
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Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Enzyme Activity on the Cell Surface: In Vitro and In Vivo Monitoring of ADP-Ribosyltransferase 2 on T Cells by Peter Bannas, Oliver Graumann, Philipp Balcerak, Kersten Peldschus, Michael Gerhard Kaul, Heinrich Hohenberg, Friedrich Haag, Gerhard Adam, Harald Ittrich, Friedrich Koch-Nolte

“…Increases in R2 and R2* determined by magnetic resonance relaxometry correlated linearly with the expression level of ART2 and the concentration of the ART2 substrate etheno-NAD. …”
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Deep Joint Demosaicking and Super-Resolution for Spectral Filter Array Images by Abdelhamid N. Fsian, Jean-Baptiste Thomas, Jon Y. Hardeberg, Pierre Gouton

“…Our experimental results underscore the efficacy of the proposed network, showcasing an improvement of performance both qualitatively and quantitatively when compared to the sequential combination of state-of-the-art demosaicking and super resolution. With our proposed method, we obtained on the ARAD-1K dataset an average PSNR of 48.02 (dB) for domosaicking only, equivalent to the best method of the state-of-the-art. …”
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Image Evolution Using 2D Power Spectra by Michael Gircys, Brian J. Ross

“…Procedurally generated images and textures have been widely explored in evolutionary art. One active research direction in the field is the discovery of suitable heuristics for measuring perceived characteristics of evolved images. …”
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Livres muets by Martine Créac’h

“…In the history of art, the book is often presented as a writing medium offered for reading. …”
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"Antes que a Bala Perdida me Ache": Saúde Mental da População Negra e Violência Policial by Geovana Afonso do Nascimento, Ana Paula Medeiros

“…Como método, numa perspectiva qualitativa, utilizou-se a revisão narrativa de inspiração cartográfica, que consistiu na utilização de fontes de informações bibliográficas para fundamentar teoricamente o trabalho, de forma a possibilitar a compreensão do "estado da arte" do objeto estudado. A arte, sobretudo as letras de rap, auxiliaram nesse processo de apreensão do fenômeno. …”
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The Reserve of Poetry by Geneviève Cohen-Cheminet

“…I hypothesize that aesthetic catagories of art, non-art and anti-art, help account for the way an ordinary commonplace object —an anonymous readymade that is industrially produced in series—is turned into a poetical artefact through a process of de-aestheticization then of re-aestheticization that conspicuously maintains the constraints of poetry. …”
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