First record of two rare Agaricales (Basidiomycota) from Southeastern Brazil by Larissa Trierveiler-Pereira, Amanda Prado-Elias, Juliano M. Baltazar

“…Description and color photographs are presented for both species.…”
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Improving Regional Dynamic Downscaling with Multiple Linear Regression Model Using Components Principal Analysis: Precipitation over Amazon and Northeast Brazil by Aline Gomes da Silva, Claudio Moises Santos e Silva

“…Tests for the Amazon and Northeast region of Brazil (South America) showed that the method provided a more realistic prediction in terms of average daily rainfall for the analyzed period prescribed, after comparing with the prediction made by set through the arithmetic averages of the simulations. This method photographed the extreme events (outlier) that the prediction by averaging failed. …”
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دور مكتبة مصر العامة فى نشر الوعي السياحي بمحافظة الاقصر: دراسة حالة by منال غريب يسن المصرى المصرى

“…The most common source of awareness among the sample with percentage of 70% in the second place”The library provides me with the use of Egyptology hall in the library whether by viewing or photographing with a rate of 89%. Among the study’s recommendations is the need for coordination between the ministries of education and tourism in order to prepare simplified methods for young people and students of schools and universities to raise awareness of the importance of the tourism industry…”
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Exhibiting the West at the Paris Exposition of 1867: Towards a New American Aesthetic Identity? by François Brunet, Jessica Talley

“…The display of Western photographs inaugurated a trend that pushed geographical imageries, especially of so-called new lands, into greater visibility. …”
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Estimation du sexe fœtal à partir de l’ilium by Pascal Adalian, Sandrine Boutin-Forzano, Marie-Dominique Piercecchi-Marti, Yann Ardagna, Michel Signoli, Ferenc Kosa, Georges Leonetti, Olivier Dutour

“…During this research, we tested the different methods proposed for fetal iliac bones and adapted some others used particularly in the case of adults.For this reason, we set up and validated a protocol of taking photographs, as well as a measurement technique developed for numeric pictures with the help of a software program, Adobe Photoshop 6‚.During this study, we selected certain parameters, principally the ones taken on the great sciatic notch, which showed a strong correlation with sex, and we established a logistic regression for estimating the probability of belonging to one sex or the other.The weak percentage of sexual differentiation obtained by this formula led us to take into account age: we organised our sample in different age groups and established a formula that permits correct sex determination in more than 85% of cases (in our sample) for fetuses that are less than 24 gestational weeks old.…”
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The Experience of Emotional Distancing in the Management of Compulsive Hoarding: A Visual Methods Approach Using the “Hoard” Acronym Tool by Colin Jones, Satwant Singh

“…Participants were asked to take photographs which best reflected their hoarding problem, and reflect upon these using the “HOARD” acronym tool whilst in a neutral environment and then again in their own home.Results: The experiences of participants were captured using semi-structured interviews, which were digitally recorded and later transcribed verbatim. …”
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Improvement of Water Quality of Koranorya Water Supply System-Mbarara Municipality. by Nabaasa, Gorden

“…The laboratory water quality tests were conducted at the South Western Umbrella of Water and sanitation and the certificate has been included in this report In addition to the above, the photographs for some of the activities carried out within the course of this project have also been included in this report.…”
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Improvement of Water Quality of Koranorya Water Supply System-Mbarara Municipality. by Nabaasa, Gorden

“…The laboratory water quality tests were conducted at the South Western Umbrella of Water and sanitation and the certificate has been included in this report In addition to the above, the photographs for some of the activities carried out within the course of this project have also been included in this report.…”
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Molecular Phylogeny and Morphology Reveal Four New Species of <i>Conocybe</i> (Bolbitiaceae, Agaricales) from the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, China by Xi-Xi Han, Dorji Phurbu, Bin Cao, Jia-Xin Li, Xin-Yu Zhu, Lin-Hui Liu, Naritsada Thongklang, Kevin D. Hyde, Rui-Lin Zhao

“…Detailed descriptions, illustrations, photographs, line drawings, and comparisons with related species are provided for the new taxa. …”
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Effects of Multipolar Radiofrequency and Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Treatment for Face and Neck Rejuvenation by Thais Cristina Ferraz de Oliveira, Sheyla de Fatima Soares Rocha, Daniel Gontijo Ramos, Camila Gontijo Ramos, Michelle Vanessa dos Anjos Carvalho, Mariana Gontijo Ramos

“…Eleven patients with mild to moderate grades of photoaging underwent eight radiofrequency and pulsed electromagnetic field treatment sessions, once a week. Clinical photographs were taken before and a week after the end of the treatment, and improvement of facial skin parameters was evaluated by two different investigators. …”
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Remnants of the Dutch Infrastructure in Banda Aceh During the Independence Revolution by Muhjam Kamza, Farhan Fadillah, M Yusrizal

“…The historical research method is emphasized on utilizing primary sources in the form essays compiled by historical actors and witnesses who lived during the independence revolution, as well as Dutch documents in the form of photographs and maps. According to the result, the Dutch heritage infrastructure in Banda Aceh during the independence revolution did not find any damage caused by war and was used for various revolutionary purposes. …”
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Victim Verification with the Use of Deep Metric Learning in DVI System Supported by Mobile Application by Zbigniew Piotrowski, Marta Bistroń, Gabriel Jekateryńczuk, Paweł Kaczmarek, Dymitr Pietrow

“…Postmortem data include photographs of victims while antemortem data consist of pre-disaster photos of potential victims. …”
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A Quantitative Study of Gully Erosion Based on Object-Oriented Analysis Techniques: A Case Study in Beiyanzikou Catchment of Qixia, Shandong, China by Tao Wang, Fuhong He, Anding Zhang, Lijuan Gu, Yangmao Wen, Weiguo Jiang, Hongbo Shao

“…This paper took a subregion in a small watershed gully system at Beiyanzikou catchment of Qixia, China, as a study and, using object-orientated image analysis (OBIA), extracted shoulder line of gullies from high spatial resolution digital orthophoto map (DOM) aerial photographs. Next, it proposed an accuracy assessment method based on the adjacent distance between the boundary classified by remote sensing and points measured by RTK-GPS along the shoulder line of gullies. …”
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Multimodal Image Analysis in Acquired Vitelliform Lesions and Adult-Onset Foveomacular Vitelliform Dystrophy by Ricardo Rocha Bastos, Carla Sofia Ferreira, Elisete Brandão, Fernando Falcão-Reis, Ângela M. Carneiro

“…They were evaluated by color fundus photographs, fundus autofluorescence (FAF), fluorescein angiography (FA), and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). …”
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The journal «Bulletin of the Police» as a source for studying the history of crime in Russian Empire during the First World War by E. E. Shumilova

“…From the standpoint of the theory of historical everyday life, it is argued that the distinctive features of the journal «Bulletin of the Police» are the regularity of coverage of criminal crime on the pages of the publication, a wide geographical coverage and a detailed description of events, as well as the publication of court photographs. At the same time, from a source point of view, this publication has a number of drawbacks, among which there is a onesided positive coverage of the work of the police in the fight against crime, the bureaucratic style of presentation of many published articles, as well as the silencing of many problematic issues in the field of studying crime during the war period and measures to combat it. …”
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Species delimitation of newly collected spiders of the genus Pseudopoda (Araneae, Sparassidae) from Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China: An integrated morpholog... by Jianshuang Zhang, Tianqin Pan, He Zhang, Yuanqian Xing, Hao Yu, Yang Zhong

“…Detailed descriptions, diagnoses, photographs of the six species, and a distribution map for all 13 Pseudopoda species in Honghe Prefecture are provided. …”
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Visible Fat Content of Hotpot Beef Acceptability by New Zealand Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Consumers by M. M. Farouk, M. Staincliffe, D. L. Hopkins, G. Wu, C. Che, A. E. D. Bekhit, M. J. Y. Yoo, A. Horita, G. Urquiola, C. Craigie, K. Taukiri, R. Zhang, H. Ho, M. J. Challies

“…Hotpot beef with six visible fat levels (11%–35%) was produced and digitally photographed, and the images were ranked by panels of New Zealand Chinese (110), Japanese (145), and Korean (118) consumers. …”
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Historic Sites during the World War II in South Konawe, Southeast Sulawesi as a Source of Historiography by Syahrun Syahrun, Rahmat Sewa Suraya, Sandy Suseno

“…This research utilized archives and aerial photographs during the World War II combined with direct observation at the site and reconstruction efforts using excavated data. …”
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An Experimental Study on Cracking Behavior of Precracked Sandstone Specimens under Seepage Pressure by Qibin Lin, Ping Cao, Hua Wang, Rihong Cao

“…Combined with axial stress-strain curves, photographic monitoring results and the output of AE counts and rock failure process can be generally divided into four stages: microcrack closure, elastic deformation, crack growth and propagation, and final failure. …”
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Semantic information boosts the acquisition of a novel grammatical system in different presentation formats by Katharina Wendebourg, Birgit Öttl, Detmar Meurers, Barbara Kaup

“…In Experiment 1, we presented semantic information in the form of naturalistic photographs, whereas in Experiment 2, the semantic information was implemented by quasi-translations. …”
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