The Sarcophagus and the City: Reflections on Chernobyl and the Dystopian Imagination by Miles Orvell

“…Using photographic representation and other visual media, along with historical sources, this article explores Chernobyl (the old Sarcophagus, the New Arch, and the ruins of Pripyat) as a composite cultural symbol embodying the contradictions of utopia and dystopia and as a monument to the failures of authoritarian epistemology.…”
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Urban Inspirations: Crafting Unique Texture Patterns for Car Interiors by Prasanna Halbe

“…Interior surfaces with tactile and visual qualities contribute to customer experience. …”
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Physical Disabilities and Impediments to the Priesthood According to Orthodox Canon Law, with a Case Study of the Romanian Orthodox Church by Răzvan Perșa

“…The study critically examines historical and contemporary canonical attitudes towards candidates with hearing, speech, or visual impairments or with locomotor disability through the analysis of Apostolic canons, Canons of Ecumenical Councils, and later canonical sources. …”
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Toward a critical assessment of indoor environmental quality standards by Ardeshir Mahdavi, Christiane Berger

“…Moreover, they point to considerable gaps in the chain of evidence from standards' immediate content to the underlying factual sources.…”
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Quantum-enhanced imaging for characterizing anisotropic material by Meng-Yu Xie, Su-Jian Niu, Zhao-Qi-Zhi Han, Yin-Hai Li, Ren-Hui Chen, Xiao-Hua Wang, Ming-Yuan Gao, Li Chen, Yue-Wei Song, Zhi-Yuan Zhou, Bao-Sen Shi

“…In this study, we present a quantum polarimetric imaging system that integrates polarization-entangled photon pairs into a polarizer-sample-compensator-analyzer-typed polarimeter. Our system visualizes the birefringence properties of a periodical-distributed anisotropic material under decreasing illumination levels and diverse disturbing light sources. …”
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Relationship between online social support and problematic internet use: a three-level meta-analysis by Miao Chao, Yufeng Wang, Jie Liu, Lijia Gu

“…This approach can potentially mitigate reliance on virtual social interactions while reducing the likelihood of problematic internet usage.…”
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Validating sensory conflict theory and mitigating motion sickness in humans with galvanic vestibular stimulation by Aaron R. Allred, Aadhit R. Gopinath, Torin K. Clark

“…Using a computational methodology, equal and opposite GVS waveforms were designed to reduce (Beneficial) or increase (Detrimental) motion sickness while controlling all other sources of sensory information and central confounds. …”
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Semantic Transformations of Word <i>bomb</i> and Its Derivatives as a Reflection of Shifts in the Linguistic Picture of World by E. A. Kitanina, D. S. Trukhanova

“…The authors determine their values on the basis of the analysis of a wide range of lexicographic sources and the most frequency contexts for the use of the units in question, extracted from texts functioning in real and virtual communication. …”
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The Application of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Education: A Systematic Review by Cong Liu, Guang-Chao Wang, Hong-Feng Wang

“…Using VOSviewer, this paper analyzes the research hotspots of AI in engineering education, as well as the top ten organizations, countries, cited sources, and cited authors. Furthermore, the study categorizes the application of AI technologies in engineering education into seven distinct categories: Virtual Experiment Environments, Learning Prediction, Learning Analytics, Engineering Education Robots, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Automatic Evaluation, and Assisted Learning. …”
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Towards a spectrally multiplexed quantum repeater by Tanmoy Chakraborty, Antariksha Das, Hedser van Brug, Oriol Pietx-Casas, Peng-Cheng Wang, Gustavo Castro do Amaral, Anna L. Tchebotareva, Wolfgang Tittel

“…Many repeater architectures require multiplexed sources of entangled photon pairs, multiplexed quantum memories, and photon detection that distinguishes between the multiplexed modes. …”
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Transforming building retrofits: Linking energy, equity, and health insights from The World Avatar by Jiying Chen, Jiaru Bai, Jieyang Xu, Feroz Farazi, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, Markus Kraft

“…We apply a principled approach that leverages The World Avatar to create a virtual knowledge graph underpinned by machine-understandable data representations. …”
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A dataset of interprovincial food trade flows in China by Lan Luo, Zhencheng Xing, Yifan Liu, Xiang Liu, Lingling Jiang, Yi Peng, Haibo Zhang, Haikun Wang

“…However, as one of the world’s largest agricultural producers, there is a dearth of publicly available data sources pertaining to China’s interprovincial physical food trade. …”
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Image Logic and Semantics of User Motion Interaction Language Based on Deep Learning by Yanlan Liu, Yixi Zhai, Liqing Chu, Dandan Wang, Yufei Wu

“…When all the extended data sources were integrated, the model’s accuracy reached 92.31%, representing a 2.3% improvement over the original dataset. …”
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Sleep links hippocampal propensity for epileptiform activity to its viscerosensory inputs by Ekaterina Levichkina, Ekaterina Levichkina, David B. Grayden, David B. Grayden, Steven Petrou, Steven Petrou, Mark J. Cook, Mark J. Cook, Mark J. Cook, Trichur R. Vidyasagar, Trichur R. Vidyasagar

“…We suggest that, apart from the known exteroceptive sources of reflex epilepsy such as visual, auditory or olfactory signals, there is a range of interoceptive triggers, which are relevant for seizure development in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE). …”
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Open-air museums: modern approaches to preserving landscape and cultural memory by Shmeleva Olga A.

“…Based on the analysis of literature and open sources, the need for new design models that take into account the perception of space and its psychological comfort is substantiated.…”
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Efficacy and safety of stem cells in the treatment of glaucoma: systematic review and meta-analysis based on animal experiments by Danning Wu, Yanjing Liu, Xia Zhang, Ruixuan Zhang, Shaopeng Wang, Hui Lu, Tao Yue

“…While current therapies predominantly focus on lowering intraocular pressure (IOP), neuroprotective strategies to preserve visual function remain an unmet clinical need. Stem cells exhibit high proliferative capacity and multilineage differentiation potential, demonstrating notable efficacy in glaucoma treatment. …”
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A Study of the Reflection of Qur'anic Verses in Mihrab Carpets of the Safavid Period by Elaheh Panjahbashi, Rana Mohammadzadeh

“…And how do the inscriptions relate to the visual motifs and designs? Relying on library sources and image analysis, and using a historical-descriptive method, the research finds that the content of the inscriptions-such as specific verses and dhikr formulas-functions in harmony with the architectural and floral elements of the mihrab-shaped carpets. …”
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Quantifying Objective and Perceived Image Quality Through EEG and Eye-Tracking by Changhyun Lim, Hyun-Jun Jeon, Woojae Jung, Youngshin Kwak, Myong Young Lee, Jung Hyun Ham, Hyun Bin Joo, Oh-Sang Kwon, Dongil Chung

“…To date, user studies in focus groups and viewers&#x2019; self-reports have been the primary sources of feedback used as judgment criteria for the display quality. …”
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Diphtheria and the risk of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in low-resource settings by Gbadebo Collins Adeyanju, Sally Frampton, Constanze Hein

“…It then promotes the need for regionally based, interdisciplinary approaches with a focus on visual communication strategies, particularly in low-literacy settings. …”
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The «Allegory of the Five Senses» Series from the Prado: Allegory, Garland and Synesthesia in the Works of Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder by A. J. Hu

“…The research is based on iconographic and stylistic analysis and draws on lesser-known sources, including exhibition catalogues and materials from archives. …”
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