Good Photographs Research Articles

Albena Shkodrova. Communist Gourmet. The Curious Story of Food in the People’s Republic of Bulgaria

Albena Shkodrova. <i>Communist Gourmet. The Curious Story of Food in the People’s Republic of Bulgaria</i>

Beauty is in the eye of the machine.

Ansel Adams said, “There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.” Is it possible to predict our fickle and subjective appraisal of ‘aesthetically pleasing’ visual art? Iigaya et al. used an artificial intelligence approach to show how human aesthetic preference can be partially explained as an integration of hierarchical constituent image features.

Under the Same Sky: Children's Rights and the Environment

Review: Under the Same Sky: Children’s Rights and the Environment 117 Under the Same Sky: Children’s Rights and the Environment International Play Association, Children’s Parliament (Scotland), Children and Young People’s Commissioner (Scotland), and Terre des Hommes (2016) 59 Pages Available from http://ipaworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/TOOLKIT-FINALUNDER -THE-SKY-TOOLKIT-FINAL-2016-IPA-CP-CYPCS-TdH.pdf Under the Same Sky: Children’s Rights and the Environment is an easy-to-read toolkit containing information about children’s rights and the environment. It was developed by a group of organizations who came together around the common goal of supporting children from Australia, Brazil, Mozambique, Palestine, Scotland and Zimbabwe to describe environmental issues they face, in their respective countries, to contribute to the UNCRC Day of General Discussion 2016. The toolkit goes on to describe three projects undertaken by children in Scotland that adults may find useful to enable other children to share their views on what life is like for them in their communities. Further details about these projects are included in a newspaper-style supplement. Example projects contained in the toolkit are well-structured and comprehensively described. Each project description takes the reader on a journey from the aim, objectives and processes, through to outputs with accompanying pictures that make all activities easy to follow and replicate. The projects are: 1) building a 3D city model to inform town planning strategists and architects; 2) a collectively designed mural to highlight issues affecting communities that leave children feeling unhealthy, unhappy and unsafe; and 3) a mixed-media project about cultural identity and children’s sense of community belonging. The projects described are a great way to inform adults about how to engage children aged 8-12 years to think meaningfully about their rights in relation to the environments in which they live. The clear, lay language used in the Under the Same Sky toolkit is easy to follow and will enable adults, regardless of their knowledge of rights, to open up conversations with children. In this way, children can explore what works and what does not work in their communities and make suggestions on what they think could improve outcomes for children. As well as providing children with opportunities to think critically about their own environment, the activities in Under the Same Sky can also be applied in a broader context to help raise children’s awareness about environmental issues globally and the impact of these on specific groups of children, such as indigenous children, working children, and those living in conflict. The toolkit also includes tips about how to take good photographs and record projects, and provides external links to additional child-friendly materials and resources. The toolkit includes interactive strategies to use during consultations with children. For example, moving around the room to align oneself with whether you agree or disagree with statement, or constructing a model or map of your community, are excellent ways to assist children to visualize and verbalize what is happening in Book Review: Under the Same Sky: Children’s Rights and the Environment 118 their lives. The “did you know” fact box on page 15, is an efficient means to introduce quantifiable information about environmental issues and their effects. However, more of these peppered throughout the toolkit might have been useful to offer information on a wider range of environmental issues, such as health and illness, and natural disasters (flood, earthquake, hurricane, and food crises) that cause great damage or loss of life. One of the key aims of carrying out these participatory projects is to have adults hear directly from children about their views and have these taken into account by duty bearers. The toolkit describes organizing Celebration and Stakeholders events as a way to share children’s accomplishments with adults and key decision makers from their communities. However, we have no information as to whether these engagement activities informed actual change or directly influenced policy and practice. Additional dissemination strategies described—blogs, vlogs, filming, and photography—assume access to various resources. Children and supporting organizations in some countries or regions may lack resources such as money, equipment, and internet access, so one wonders...

Digital dental photography.

Photography has always been an integral part of dentistry. The journey goes back to the time when film photography was used only for documentation and referral purpose which has now evolved to digital photography. Its application in dental practice is simple, fast, and extremely useful in documenting procedures of work, education of patients, and pursuing clinical investigations, thus providing many benefits to the dentists and patients. The article describes the added benefits of digital dental photography over film photography, basic armamentarium for obtaining good photographs, and how digital dental photography is beneficial in the field of prosthodontics.

Parents and Adolescents Pattern of Interpersonal Communication in The Restriction of Smartphone Usage

Communication can be the media of proximity of parents and children. Parents will feel comfortable because they feel the child needs and love him. Conversely, the child will feel happy to get the attention of his parents. The development of communication technology led to a new style of communication style. Parent and child communication is no longer done face-to-face at the dinner table or in the living room. The role of interpersonal communication of parents and children began to shift since the presence of a smart tool that was created able to perform many activities.Communication patterns between adolescent boys and girls tend to be different Young men and women have different tendencies in smartphone use. Female teenagers are more dominant using social media to upload good photographs with friends or photos themselves. Young men use smartphones to play games, download songs, movies or video clips. Teenagers in Indonesia (40-50 percent) is a community of hp (smartphone) users. Teenagers use social media that includes instant messengers like LINE, Instagram, Twitter and other apps like Facebook, Youtube, Vlog and more. There are three patterns of communication that parents do in limiting the use of smartphones in adolescents. The patterns are Authoritarian communication patterns, Democratic communication patterns and Permissive Communication Patterns.Keywords: Communication Patterns, smartphones, restrictions

Comparative efficiency of photographs and videos for individual identification of the Andean bear (Tremarctos ornatus) in camera trapping

Identification of Andean bear (Tremarctos ornatus) specimens is essential for obtaining demographic estimates of their populations. Camera traps are a noninvasive tool that allows such identification. The efficiency of using photographic or video records for identifying specimens of this species in a wild population in Colombia was compared. A total of 18 camera traps were operated from November 2011 through November 2013; each sample station included a single camera at 0.6 m height, with a bait placed 2 m in front of it at 1.5 m height. Four key external morphological features were chosen for identifying the specimens: Presence, shape and colour of facial; presence, shape and colour of pectoral markings; estimated body size; and sex. For each recording event, a visual file (photograph or video) was scored as ¨good¨ if it showed at least three key identification features, thus allowing the correct identification of the specimen; or as ¨bad¨ if it showed fewer than three features, making identification impossible. Successful recording events were those that included at least one good visual file (photograph or video). A total of 4,588 visual files were obtained: 4,324 photographs in 325 recording events and 264 videos in 260 recording events. 5.25 % of the photographs and 53.03 % of the videos were scored as good files. 26.77 % of the photograph-based and 49.62 % of the video-based recording events were successful. There were statistically significant differences between the percentage of good photographs and good videos obtained every time a camera trap was activated in the presence of a bear (Mann-Whitney, P = 1.37E-11). The low percentage of successful recording events obtained with photographs (26.77 %) compared to that obtained with videos (50.38 %), is consistent with results previously reported for this same species in Ecuador using photographs (25 %). The higher percentage of good videos (53.03 %) compared to that of good photographs (5.25 %), is consistent with the statistically significant difference found between the percentage of good photos and good videos obtained every time a camera trap was activated in the presence of a bear (Mann-Whitney, P = 1.37E-11), and with results previously reported for the Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus, 70 %) using sample stations including a single camera trap with video format. The use of video for recording Andean bear specimens allows the observation of individuals from different viewpoints and distances, even with the use of sample stations including a single camera trap, thus minimizing the effect of light reflection on the recognition of key identification features. Additionally, the video format allowed recognition of particular physical conditions, such as limp or rigid limbs in some specimens, which cannot be recognized in photographs. In this study case, information obtained with video records provides a greater ability to recognize individual marks in the specimens and to identify them.

Digital image analysis of outcropping sediments: Comparison to photospectrometric data from Quaternary loess deposits at Şanoviţa (Romania) and Achenheim (France)

Abstract The possibility to use colour data, as extracted from two selected loess-paleosol sequences, is discussed here. Colour data are a fast and inexpensive method of proxy data generation. We compare the outcome from analysing outcrop images taken by digital cameras in the field and spectral colour data as determined under controlled laboratory conditions. By nature, differences can be expected due to variations in illumination, moisture, and sample preparation. Outcrop inclination may be an issue for photographs; correction for this is possible when marks can be used for rectification. In both cases the data extracted from the images match the visual impression of the photos well, and are useful for obtaining a more quantitative measure for field observations. Smoothness (as measured by autocorrelation) is high for an image from Achenheim/France, where an image with a width of ca. 1.1 m and a depth of 1.6 m was analysed. Data from a narrower image part from Sanoviţa/Romania are noisier. In both cases, a significant correlation between data extracted by digital image analysis and laboratory measurements could be established, suggesting that image analysis is a useful tool where outcrop- and light-conditions allow good photographs with similar illumination, especially where high resolution proxy data is required.

Generation Image: Why Photos Are Important in Explaining Your Research

Generation Image: Why Photos Are Important in Explaining Your Research

Clinical photography for periorbital and facial aesthetic practice

External cutaneous photography involves photographic documentation, which helps in treatment planning, documentation of facial features, teaching, publishing and pre- and post-procedural comparisons. The key is not simply documenting, but documenting it the right way and ensuring that photography is standardised and reproducible. In this review, basic photography techniques, standardised and reproducible angles such as frontal, oblique and lateral views and specific photographic angles for conditions such as facial rejuvenation are discussed. Use of photography accessories and a few tips on how to click good photographs in the examination room and how to achieve consistency in standardised photography are also presented. External photography in ophthalmic and facial plastic surgery like any other speciality too has standardised guidelines. Even small variations cause a drastic change in the photos and it's clinical and research value. Unless stringent criteria are met, the photographs lose their relevance and impact.

Minimizing digital data loss

Clinical photography has now reached all areas of dentistry, with camera equipment and photography skills being present in many practices. Whilst taking good photographs is just one part of improving record-keeping, the other part, which is arguably the more, important aspect, is to store securely this vast amount of data that is created. This article intends to explore the options available to practices to store the data securely and recommends the easiest and most effective ways available today. CPD/Clinical Relevance: With clinical photographs becoming ever more important in the field of dentistry, correct storage and use of camera equipment is important.

Review of Photogrammetry-Based Techniques for Characterization and Hazard Assessment of Rock Faces

Photogrammetry-based techniques offer a fast and inexpensive way to obtain data needed for geotechnical characterization and hazard assessment of steep rock faces. These techniques also mitigate fieldwork risks associated with conventional structural mapping methods. A camera can function as an accurate survey tool, in most cases as accurate as conventional laser-based survey equipment. Millions of 3D coordinates can be determined from only a few photographs. Mounting a camera on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) solves many of the challenges associated with measuring and mapping steep rock faces. Small low-cost UAVs offer operational flexibility and high quality images. With good photographs taken from appropriate locations, photogrammetry or structure from motion software can generate accurate point clouds, digital surface or terrain models, and orthophotos. With further analysis and interpretation, these can yield the geotechnical data needed to create realistic models in discrete element or finite element software to perform stability assessment.

Leonhardi Euleri Opera omnia: Editing the works and correspondence of Leonhard Euler

The paper gives an overview on the history and present state of the edition of the complete works of Leonhard Euler (1707–1783). After several failed initiatives in the 19th century, the project began in 1907 with the edition of Euler’s printed works. The works were divided into three series: I. Mathematics (29 volumes); II. Mechanics and Astronomy (31 volumes); and III. Physics and Miscellaneous (12 volumes). After several ups and downs due to two World Wars and economic problems, the publication of the printed works with a total of 72 volumes is nearly finished. Only two volumes on perturbation theory in astronomy are still missing. The publication of series IV (manuscripts and correspondence) started in 1967 as a joint project of the Swiss and the Soviet academies of sciences. The manuscript edition was postponed, and the project focussed on Euler’s correspondence which contains approximately 3000 letters, 1000 of them written by Euler. The correspondents include famous mathematicians of the 18th century like d’Alembert, Clairaut and the Bernoullis, but also many less-known people with whom Euler corresponded on a great variety of subjects. A major problem is to find and to finance appropriate editors who are able to read French, Latin, and the old German handwriting, and who are acquainted with history, culture and science of the 18th century. During the last 50 years, the editors gathered copies or scans of most of the preserved Euler’s letters. The original letters addressed to Euler were made available to the editorial group in Switzerland by the Russian Academy of Sciences before World War I, and before their restitution in 1947 the editors made fairly good photographs that are now an important part of the material basis of the edition. Each volume of the letter series (VIA) contains Euler’s correspondence with one or more of his contemporaries, presented in a chronological order. Up to the present day, four volumes of the correspondence have been published, in addition to an inventory of all known letters to and from Euler, including short summaries and useful information about the date, language and location of the existing copies, and former publication. Four more volumes are in progress and will be published in 2016 or 2017. The remaining letters that are not intended for publication in the printed volumes are planned to be made available in an online edition.

A Simple, Effective, and Inexpensive Method for Backlighting Retinal Hemorrhages

Adequate photographic documentation of important autopsy findings, both positive and negative, is vital for serving as a record of the pathologist's examination, as well as for a tool in the courtroom, for consultations, or for educational endeavors. Examination of the eye, especially the retina, is an important part of the investigation of suspicious infant deaths; however, obtaining good photographs can be difficult due to many factors. The method described herein allows for the development of a cost-effective, technically simple, and mobile way to take outstanding photographs of the retina.

Briefing notes on maritime teledermatology.

All coastal states must provide telemedical assistance services (TMAS) 24 h a day free of charge to all ships. Skin lesions account for many urgent TMAS consultations, but may be difficult to describe for seafarers without much medical training - and even for medical personnel on cruise ships. By following simple instructions provided in this article, good photographs - taken by digital cameras or smart phones and transmitted by e-mail to TMAS - can compensate for imprecise descriptions. The on-line TMAS physician can then easily consult with a dermatologist if necessary. Highly specialised teledermatology services are commercially available for cruise companies. Their ship's doctors thereby get prompt access to expert medical opinion without the time, logistical issues and costs associated with seeking dermatologic care ashore. Teledermatology allows cruise medical staff to effectively manage skin conditions aboard and limits unnecessary dermatology clinic referrals. For the ships' medical staff the teledermatology service is also an opportunity for continuous education which may benefit skin patients aboard in the future.

Precaval Right Renal Arteries with Circum-aortic Left Renal Vein.

Sir, I have read with interest, the article which is entitled, “A Right Ectopic Kidney with Bilateral Multiple Anomalies of the Renal vasculature – A Case Report” by Krishnaveni C and Roopa Kulkarni, which appeared in the year 2013, Volume 7, Issue 1, pages 150-153 of your journal [1]. The authors have described a case of unilateral right renal ectopia with bilateral multiple renal arteries, 5 on the right side and 2 on the left side. The renal veins were 3 on the right side and 2 on the left side, with retroaortic left renal vein in a male cadaver and their observations were supported with good photographs. I wish to draw the attention of readers to the following additional variations which were observed, which have not caught the attention of the authors, probably due to lack of awareness of such variations. The authors have reported the presence of 5 renal arteries which supplied an ectopic right kidney, with the hilum facing anteriorly. Though the authors described the origins of all five right renal arteries, they did not mention the abnormal course of all five arteries which passed anterior to inferior vena cava, to reach the renal hilum. This course is clearly seen in the [Table/Fig-1] which was published. [Table/Fig-1]: Right renal arteries (RRA1 – RRA4) having a precaval course crossing anterior to IVC are marked * Normally, right renal artery passes posterior to inferior vena cava to reach the renal hilum, but right renal arteries which have an anomalous anterior course are referred to as precaval right renal arteries. The incidence of precaval right renal arteries which has been reported in the literature variesfrom 5.0%- 9.17% [2–4]. Rameshbabu et al in a MDCT angiographic study, reported a prevalence of 8.88 % [5]. A majority of precaval right renal arteries are accessory inferior polar or accessory hilar arteries. All right renal arteries, main and accessory, which have a precaval course are very rare. Precaval right renal artery may be one of the causes of obstruction of ureteropelvic junction, which causes hydronephrosis and clinical symptoms and may be injured in endopyelotomy procedures and may be confused with other vessels such as mesenteric or gonadal arteries during laparoscopic and other surgical procedures. Though much attention has been paid to the numerical variations and prehilar branching patterns of the renal arteries, anomalous precaval course of the right renal artery has drawn very little attention and it has been reported only sporadically in the literature. The authors have also reported the presence of two left renal veins, one main (LRV 1) and the other, accessory renal vein (Acc RV) as seen in [Table/Fig-2]. The accessory left renal vein extended behind the aorta as the retro-aortic renal vein and it drained into the inferior vena cava. In discussion, the authors have given the embryological explanation that the persistence of the posteriorm part of the renal collar gave rise to the retro-aortic renal vein. But the authors have failed to emphasize that the main left renal vein had a normal preaortic course which crossed anterior to aorta, just below the level of origin of superior mesenteric artery. Presence of two left renal veins, one passing anterior and another posterior to aorta, is called as circumaortic left renal vein or renal venous collar, whatever the level of crossing is, but the authors have not mentioned it. This developmental anomaly occurs due to the persistence of both ventral and dorsal limbs of intersubcardinal anastomosis around the dorsal aorta. Normally, the ventral limb persists as the left renal vein and the dorsal limb disappears. Persistence of the dorsal limb alone gives rise to retroaortic left renal vein. Approximate prevalence of circumaortic left renal vein is 0.3 – 3.7 % [6]. Aljabri et al., [7], after analyzing 1788 cases reported a prevalence of circumaortic left renal vein in 1.62 %. cases and emphasized the importance of left renal vein anomalies in aortoiliac surgeries. The retroaortic segment may be compressed between aorta and vertebral column, resulting in posterior nutcracker phenomenon. This case report under discussion, actually depicts the presence of circumaortic left renal vein, associated with multiple precaval right renal arteries supplying an ectopic malrotated right kidney. Knowledge on the variations is very important for proper appreciation of them. I have tried to add some observations for the benefit of the readers. The suggested references may enrich the knowledge of readers about the renal vascular anomalies and their clinical importance.Thanks to the authors and the journal for publishing such a rare association of renal anomalies, which was supported by excellent photographs, which clearly depicted the vascular anomalies. [Table/Fig-2]: Circumaortic left renal vein with the Main Left renal vein (LRV) having a normal preaortic course and an accessory LRV having a retroaortic course are marked *

Photodocumentation in rhinoplasty surgery

High-quality documentary photo series have a special place in rhinoplasty. The exact photographic reproduction of the nasal contours is an essential part of surgical planning, documentation and follow-up of one’s own work. Good photographs can only be achieved using suitable technology and with a good knowledge of photography. Standard operating procedures are also necessary. The photographic equipment should consist of a digital single-lens reflex camera, studio flash equipment and a suitable room for photography with a suitable backdrop. The high standards required cannot be achieved with simple photographic equipment. The most important part of the equipment is the optics. Fixed focal length lenses with a focal length of about 105 mm are especially suited to this type of work. Nowadays, even a surgeon without any photographic training is in a position to produce a complete series of clinical images. With digital technology, any of us can take good photographs. The correct exposure, the right depth of focus for the key areas of the nose and the right camera angle are the decisive factors in a good image series. Up to six standard images are recommended in the literature for the proper documentation of nasal surgery. The most important are frontal, three quarters and profile views. In special cases, close-up images may also be necessary. Preparing a professional image series is labour-intensive and very expensive. Large hospitals no longer employ professional photographers. Despite this, we must strive to maintain a high standard of photodocumenation for publications and to ensure that cases can be compared at congresses.

The Role of Photography in Dermatology Research

This article discusses the role of clinical photography in dermatology research and the value of healthcare professionals engaging with clinical photographers when planning and undertaking clinical photography. It is not always feasible to use a clinical photographer, or clinicians may not have access to such a service, but with advice, support and training from clinical photographers, clinicians can take good clinical photographs with easy-to-use low cost equipment. This article provides an exemplar where good quality clinical photographs have been obtained of congenital erythropoietic porphyria (CEP) patients for dermatology research. The images have been taken by a dermatologist, with guidance from trained clinical photographers. The photographs played a valuable role in providing a visual, comparative and comprehensive description of this extremely rare multi-system disease.

Seeds of Amazonian plants

Seeds of Amazonian plants

Raṇasiṃha Revisited: A New Copper-plate Inscription of the Candrāvatī Paramāra Dynasty

This copperplate charter of Raṇasiṃha came to my attention in the spring of 2008 when I was asked to study and translate the inscription. The plates are presently in a private collection and the direct study of the inscription has not been possible. Nonetheless, good quality digital photographs of the plates were made available to me and these form the basis of the present article.

Nothing & Everything: The Influence of Buddhism on the American Avant-Garde 1942 - 1962, by Ellen Pearlman.

Nothing & Everything: The Influence of Buddhism on the American Avant-Garde 1942 - 1962. By Ellen Pearlman. Berkeley: Evolver Editions, 2012, 264 pages, ISBN 978-1583943632 (paperback), $21.95.Reviewed by Marc OlmstedEllen Pearlman does a pretty bang-up job in a too slim volume on the subject of Buddhism's effect on the American avant-garde from 1942 to 1962. Because of the specificity of the time line, this is mostly the influence of Zen Buddhism as popularized by the writings of premier Zen scholar D.T. Suzuki.The early chapter on D.T. Suzuki himself may be the gem of the entire book. We have an intimate portrait of a man often seen as basically an academic more than a practitioner of Zen. Here the whole person emerges, and we see how special (and brilliant) he was, and the depth of his actual practice, which includes a description of his kensho or flash of enlightenment.The chapter on John Cage that follows this one is also exceptional, with a similar portrait to Suzuki's of both the man and his music. For those unfamiliar with Cage, his concerts were playful and maddening, using randomness, instruments that could include household items, and even the shifts of the uncomfortable audience in their seats to suggest an almost enforced Zen sitting confrontation with boredom and inattentiveness.The book ends very nicely with a dovetailing account of Beats Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky meeting D.T. Suzuki in 1957. It is a story that has been told elsewhere, but here we also get the memories of Suzuki's then-secretary Mihoko Okamura and her own account of Suzuki's positive summation of the Beats, even as he understood the discipline that was still absent.As Pearlman gets into considerably denser material with Suzuki's influence beyond and through Cage, it is hard not to sense a need to hurry things up in the limited time she has left. Descriptions of the Fluxus group that came out of Cage, and the influence of Zen on Abstract Expressionist painters such as Jackson Pollock becomes increasingly a laundry list and brief catalog sketch. There is still room to discuss the pre-surrealist movement Dada and the strangely Western karma of Zen-influenced art on a newly secular postwar Japanese avant-garde. There is the intuited if unintentional Zen of presenting a urinal as art (with Marcel Duchamp signing it R. Mutt) as a natural progression that would eventually yield Andy Warhol's soup cans, both artists likely without awareness of Zen theory of the ordinary and the boring. Besides a secondary influence of Buddhists such as Cage on an artist like Warhol, one might also consider artists naturally arriving (as perhaps Duchamp did) at some of the same empiric conclusions about mind itself in efforts to deconstruct concept and perception.By the time we reach the New York collaboration between Saburo Hasegawa, the first Japanese abstract painter, the Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi, and Franz Kline the European-American painter, the absence of good photographs becomes somewhat like listening to a restaurant menu. It is fascinating, important, but very hard to grasp without previous knowledge.The tidy thesis of Suzuki as prime source works well for the most part, except with its lack of influence on Kerouac, who found his Buddhism elsewhere in the public library and was drawn to different elements closer to Theravada and (at least in spirit) Pure Land Schools of China and Japan, the latter mostly because of his Catholic background and propensity for religious devotion. Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen were clearly influenced by D.T. Suzuki, but Ginsberg's Buddhism is owed primarily to Kerouac, and doesn't really even begin to blossom until his trip to India in 1962, even if he had read D.T. Suzuki prior even to hearing about Buddhism from Kerouac. Kerouac in his book Dharma Bums shows he is not all that interested in Zen specifically, even after meeting Snyder and Whalen. …