Characterization of Vegetation Changes in Jiangsu Coastal Wetlands and Analysis of Their Causes by LYU Lin, YU Lingcheng, QIAN Linfeng, CHEN Yanyan, ZHANG Ke, GU Rong, ZHANG Dong

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In and Out of the Frame: The Construction of Meaning in Henry Peacham’s Minerva Britanna (1612) by Cezara Bobeica

“…The emblem is a space where various sources from different eras and, at times, geographical areas, collide and coalesce in order to convey meaning. The reader needs to step out of the tripartite frame as the emblem calls upon other texts and images that have to be reassembled. …”
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O sujeito reconstruído: sobre algumas imagens mallarmaicas na obra de Alejandra Pizarnik by Sérgio Bento

“…The analysis of Alejandra Pizarnik ́s poetry displays (to an attentive reader) a tangle of images that refer to one of the icons of Modern Poetry, the french writer Stéphane Mallarmé. …”
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Fetiches do desejo e da morte: sobre a literatura de Valêncio Xavier by Ângela Maria Dias

“…The allegorical format of the narratives invites the reader to the uncertain task of interpr etation, always intercepted by the nonsense effect caused by the mixture between sensationalism and melancholy. …”
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"You are my rock and fortress". Refuge metaphors in Psalm 31. A perspective from cognitive metaphor theory by A. Basson

“…Psalm 31 is no exception. The competent reader will identify various refuge metaphors being employed by the psalmist. …”
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Des vitrines sur le roman : les couvertures de Madame Bovary et Salammbô by Bruna Donatelli

“…Images on book covers put the reader at the center of an experience that is both cultural and emotional, whose intensity varies according to the objective. …”
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A Night at the Pictures : A Christmas Carol et la séduction du simulacra by Florent Christol

“…But A Christmas Carol, as a ghost story, unashamedly belongs to the popular tradition of romance, a genre known to foster pathos and lull the reader into an intellectual slumber through exotic images of far-away lands and heroic adventures. …”
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Delving into the Magdalene’s vase by Vicki-Marie Petrick

“…Other iconographic studies of Mary Magdalene mention her ointment jar, but while images may be brought before the reader, the vase is generally mentioned as the object that permits the author to name the figure and little more. …”
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Le Bestiaire d’amour de Gustave Flaubert (1) by Loïc Windels

“…These observations and other similar ones have already been made, and there is no doubt that the reader who loves the dense and suggestive prose that is The Legend of Saint Julian is familiar with them. …”
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Ventricular function assessment using an ultrafast spoiled gradient echo sequence with an intravascular blood pool contrast agent in pediatric patients. by Tayaba Miah, Rithvik Gunda, Gerald Greil, Mohammad Hussain, Qing Zou

“…Last, two expert readers provided a subjective analysis of image quality. …”
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A Sense of Time(ly) Seeing in DeLillo’s Later Novels by Stefania Iliescu

“…Unlike his novels published before 2000, where the presence of images leads to a phenomenon of hyperreality, DeLillo’s later fiction develops a rhetoric of seeing which gives rise to a reading experience that has the power to reveal the present to the readers. …”
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Mužnost jako ctnost uvědomělého homosexuála ve třicátých letech by Jan Seidl

“…The journalism was adding the public image of the homosexual with other characteristics, supporting and nourishing a wide- spread notion of the homosexual as an effeminated, depraved and criminal being. …”
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Figures de l’aventurière dans The Eustace Diamonds, d’Anthony Trollope (1873) : le refoulement d’un retour by Jacqueline Fromonot

“…And yet, contrary to Thackeray, Trollope abstains from building a fascinating character for the reader, as evidenced by the scarcer use of images and the narrator’s bluntly calling the adventuress a “liar”, which amounts to depriving her of any potential aura.This strategy of constant disqualification allows for the emergence of a clear-cut ethical position, which seems absent from Vanity Fair. …”
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Photon-counting detector CTA to assess intracranial stents and flow diverters: an in vivo study with ultrahigh-resolution spectral reconstructions by Frederic De Beukelaer, Sophie De Beukelaer, Laura L. Wuyts, Omid Nikoubashman, Mohammed El Halal, Iliana Kantzeli, Martin Wiesmann, Hani Ridwan, Charlotte S. Weyland

“…In terms of quantitative image quality, sharper kernels as Bv64 and Bv72 yielded increased image noise and decreased signal-to-noise and contrast-to-noise ratios compared to the smoothest kernel Bv48 (p = 0.001). …”
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Meta-Analysis of Integrated Therapeutic Methods in Noninvasive Lower Back Pain Therapy (LBP): The Role of Interdisciplinary Functional Diagnostics by Aleksandra Bitenc-Jasiejko, Krzysztof Konior, Danuta Lietz-Kijak

“…The aim of the article is to provide the reader with comprehensive knowledge about treating LBP using noninterventional methods. …”
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Reproducibility of Scleral Spur Identification and Angle Measurements Using Fourier Domain Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography by Ricardo J. Cumba, Sunita Radhakrishnan, Nicholas P. Bell, Kundandeep S. Nagi, Alice Z. Chuang, Shan C. Lin, Kimberly A. Mankiewicz, Robert M. Feldman

“…A third independent reader, NPB, adjudicated SSL placement if identifications differed by more than 80 μm. …”
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THE HEROIC FEMALE CHARACTER IN FAIRY TALES AND EPICS OF SOME ETHNIC MINORITIES IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS by Thi Tham Dam

“…In particular, the heroic female character represents the matriarchy’s authority and the village’s wish for wealth and happiness. Through the image of the heroine, readers will understand more about the regional culture, including customs, habits, lessons about humanity, and beautiful features in the beliefs of ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands.…”
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O a(u)tor e suas "interversões" em Retrato desnatural, de Evando Nascimento by Fabíola Padilha

“…Singular snapshots showing us, readers/spectators, their only pos- sible face: an unnatural portrait.…”
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Changing Medium: The Contemporary Reception of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in Two Graphic Novels by Nathalie Martinière

“…A number of contemporary authors/artists have chosen not to “write back” vehemently to what they find problematic in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, but to resort to a different medium and “rewrite” or adapt the novella as a graphic novel, as if the power of images could clarify the text for 21st-century readers. …”
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