Libertarian Perspectives on Social Change: The Overton Window and the Role of the State in Macedonian Society by Nikola Lj. Ilievski

“…To gather the necessary data, an online political quiz was created. The responses were analyzed using arithmetic means to determine public opinion’s central tendencies and position them within the Ideological Carreau. …”
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Application of remotely sensed image of SPOT5 to land use change survey by FENG Xiu-li, WANG Ke, LOU Li-ming

“…HIS (Hue, Intensity, Saturation) transform and Principal Components Analyse transform were applied to the test data, then visual interpretation and man-computer interactive interpretation methods were used to classify the fusion image. …”
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Descemet’s membrane endothelial keratoplasty in an eye with iridocorneal endothelial syndrome and rare association of corneal ectasia by Mohammad Saleki, Preston Lee, Caroline Thaung, Zahra Ashena

“…Best corrected visual acuity was 1.1 LogMar, with corneal stromal oedema. …”
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Le « coup d’œil » de l’éleveur est-il menacé par l’élevage de précision ? by Catherine Mougenot, Sandrine Petit, Claire Gaillard

“…Yet this “knowing how to see” is not only developed on farms, it is also shared with other actors in communities built around the Montbéliarde breed, showcased in livestock competitions and fairs: “to see” is also “to show”. The visual know-how of the farmer coexists with the data from the sensors placed on the animals, thus raising a key issue: is this skill under threat from the new technologies promoted by precision breeding?…”
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Facebook as a Peer-Assessment Platform: A Case Study in Art Teacher Education Context by Yasemin Ersöz, Süleyman Nihat Şad

“…This research intended to answer the question “IsPeer-Assessment on Facebook useful in visual art education?” in an intrinsiccase study. …”
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Should We Fear Wipe-Out in Glaucoma Surgery? by Marco Zeppieri, Ludovica Cannizzaro, Giuseppe Gagliano, Francesco Cappellani, Lorenzo Rapisarda, Alfonso Spinello, Antonio Longo, Andrea Russo, Alessandro Avitabile

“…Wipe-out is defined as a sudden, unexplained, and irreversible loss of residual central vision following glaucoma surgery, typically in eyes with advanced visual field damage and severely compromised optic nerves. …”
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Leveraging two-dimensional pre-trained vision transformers for three-dimensional model generation via masked autoencoders by Muhammad Sajid, Kaleem Razzaq Malik, Ateeq Ur Rehman, Tauqeer Safdar Malik, Masoud Alajmi, Ali Haider Khan, Amir Haider, Seada Hussen

“…For robust 2D representations, pre-training with large image data has become standard practice. On the other hand, the low availability of 3D datasets significantly impedes learning high-quality 3D features because of the high data processing cost. …”
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Empirical Analysis of Honeybees Acoustics as Biosensors Signals for Swarm Prediction in Beehives by Kainat Iqbal, Bayan Alabdullah, Naif Al Mudawi, Asaad Algarni, Ahmad Jalal, Jeongmin Park

“…In particular, SVM with Mel Spectrogram as input data, achieved an accuracy of around 97%. On the other hand, CNN outperformed all the models and achieved an accuracy of 99%, using MFCC features as input data. …”
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Development of a population of digital brain phantoms for radionuclide imaging research in Parkinson’s disease by Wenbo Huang, Han Jiang, Guang-Uei Hung, Yonghua Zhao, Ruibing Wang, Greta S. P. Mok

“…Results A population of 1000 normal and abnormal PD phantoms was generated for both tracers. Visual comparisons and quantitative analyses demonstrated that simulated data exhibited high similarity to clinical data. …”
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The difference in clinical characteristics between patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment during partial and complete lock-down periods related to COVID-19 pandemics 2-yea... by Mehmet Ozgur Zengin, Yusuf Ziya Güven, Mehmet Vural, Gozde Sahin Vural, Omer Karti, Eyyup Karahan

“…The demographic data of patients, the duration from the beginning of the visual symptoms to hospital admission, the status of lens, the anatomical quadrant of retinal break, best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) at presentation, the type of intraocular tamponade, and final BCVA were recorded. …”
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Assessment of Efficiency of Retrobulbar Infusion of Neurometabolic Preparations in Increase of Hemodynamic of Optic Nerve at Acute Ischemic Optic Neuropathy by V. V. Egorov, L. P. Emanova, L. P. Danilova, G. P. Smoliakova

“…Besides the functional results (visual acuity, visual field), the diagnosis AION was based on indicators of ophthalmologic and angiographic researches of ON. …”
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Amazonian manatee critical habitat revealed by artificial intelligence‐based passive acoustic techniques by Florence Erbs, Mike van derSchaar, Miriam Marmontel, Marina Gaona, Emiliano Ramalho, Michel André

“…Abstract For many species at risk, monitoring challenges related to low visual detectability and elusive behavior limit the use of traditional visual surveys to collect critical information, hindering the development of sound conservation strategies. …”
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Project-based learning (PjBL) strategies with gamification by Putri Fadilla Azzahra Fazarini, Yerry Soepriyanto, Henry Praherdhiono

“…Construction is carried out sequentially according to the plans that have been made. Research data was obtained from validation by learning design experts, observations during learning, and student learning outcomes. …”
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Defining Seropositivity Thresholds for Use in Trachoma Elimination Studies. by Stephanie J Migchelsen, Diana L Martin, Khamphoua Southisombath, Patrick Turyaguma, Anne Heggen, Peter Paul Rubangakene, Hassan Joof, Pateh Makalo, Gretchen Cooley, Sarah Gwyn, Anthony W Solomon, Martin J Holland, Paul Courtright, Rebecca Willis, Neal D E Alexander, David C W Mabey, Chrissy H Roberts

“…Anti-Pgp3 antibodies were detected by ELISA. A number of visual and statistical analytical approaches for defining serological status were compared.…”
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The Relationship Between Preferred Learning Styles and Academic Achievement of Undergraduate Health Sciences Students Compared to Other Disciplines at a Middle Eastern University U... by Gangadharan S, Al Mezeini K, Gnanamuthu SS, Al Marshoudi KA

“…Visual learners prefer observing; Aural learners favor listening to lectures; Reading/Writing learners engage through texts and notes; Kinesthetic learners benefit from tactile activities.Purpose: To compare learning style preferences of undergraduate health sciences students with other disciplines and examine the relationship between VARK scores and academic performance.Methods: A cross-sectional study of 347 undergraduate students recorded demographic data and responses to the Arabic version of the VARK questionnaire. …”
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Tetranucleotide frequencies differentiate genomic boundaries and metabolic strategies across environmental microbiomes by Matthew Kellom, Maureen Berg, I-Min A. Chen, Ken Chu, Alicia Clum, Marcel Huntemann, Natalia N. Ivanova, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Supratim Mukherjee, T. B. K. Reddy, Simon Roux, Rekha Seshadri, Gitta Szabo, Neha J. Varghese, Tanja Woyke, Emiley A. Eloe-Fadrosh

“…We plan for annual updates to the metagenome stability diagram in IMG/M with new data, allowing for refinement of the ecosystem classifications delineated here. …”
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Cellular Nanointerface of Vertical Nanostructures: Impact of Size‐Modulated Nanopillar Arrays on Neuronal Morphology, Maturation, and Synapse Formation by Younghak Cho, Suyeon Kim, Hui Jae Cho, Hyunju Ham, Kyung Eun Lee, Hyun Wook Kang, Young Woo Jeong, Jae‐Hyuk Ahn, Nakwon Choi, Joon Ho Kang, Aram J. Chung, Hyejeong Seong

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CLUSTERING ON DISSIMILARITY REPRESENTATIONS FOR DETECTING MISLABELLED SEISMIC SIGNALS AT NEVADO DEL RUIZ VOLCANO by Castellanos-Domínguez César Germán, Alzate Mauricio Orozco

“…Our experiments,<br />performed on re-analyzed seismic signals, show a significant improvement respect to recognition accuracies for the original data sets.…”
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Elucidating postoperative dynamics in tractional retinal detachment: a systematic review and meta-analysis of structural and functional outcomes following diabetic vitrectomy, incl... by Miguel A. Quiroz-Reyes, Erick A. Quiroz-Gonzalez, Miguel A. Quiroz-Gonzalez, Virgilio Lima-Gomez

“…The meta-analysis included data from 1,844 eyes across 30 studies. The pooled mean difference (MD) in visual acuity following diabetic vitrectomy was 0.80 logMAR (95% CI: 0.58–1.01, p < 0.0001), with significant heterogeneity (I² = 95%). …”
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EFFECT OF FILTER DIGIT CAPACITY LIMITATION ON THE GRAYSCALE IMAGE WAVELET-PROCESSING QUALITY by Nikolay Ivanovich Chervyakov, Pavel Alekseyevich Lyakhov, Diana Ivanovna Kalita, Kirill Sergeyvich Shulzhenko

“…In this paper we investigated the problem of the bit data decrease effect for the problems of grayscale image processing. …”
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