Ideal Image Research Articles

Emphasised, feared, despised and hegemonic: images of femininity in the US far-right digital ecosystem on Telegram channels

In this article, we deliver an empirical analysis of far-right visualisations of womanhood on US Telegram channels. Previous studies show that the far right, which increasingly engages in misogynist, anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rhetoric, and opposition to feminism, is marked by the growing involvement of women in the roles of political leaders. Such engagement by women within the far right causes an ‘image problem’, as it makes the traditional gender image of wifely submission less convincing. Our analysis of images of womanhood shared on US far-right Telegram channels shows how far-right images of ‘approved’ performances of womanhood include transgressive gender performances of hegemonic femininity that are in conflict with conservative representations of womanhood in traditional nationalist ideology. Our findings also show how hateful images of liberal, non-binary and minority women serve as a tool for the construction of a variety of ‘approved’ far-right identity images of hegemonic femininity.

MosReformer: Reconstruction and Separation of Multiple Moving Targets for Staggered SAR Imaging

Maritime moving target imaging using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) demands high resolution and wide swath (HRWS). Using the variable pulse repetition interval (PRI), staggered SAR can achieve seamless HRWS imaging. The reconstruction should be performed since the variable PRI causes echo pulse loss and nonuniformly sampled signals in azimuth, both of which result in spectrum aliasing. The existing reconstruction methods are designed for stationary scenes and have achieved impressive results. However, for moving targets, these methods inevitably introduce reconstruction errors. The target motion coupled with non-uniform sampling aggravates the spectral aliasing and degrades the reconstruction performance. This phenomenon becomes more severe, particularly in scenes involving multiple moving targets, since the distinct motion parameter has its unique effect on spectrum aliasing, resulting in the overlapping of various aliasing effects. Consequently, it becomes difficult to reconstruct and separate the echoes of the multiple moving targets with high precision in staggered mode. To this end, motivated by deep learning, this paper proposes a novel Transformer-based algorithm to image multiple moving targets in a staggered SAR system. The reconstruction and the separation of the multiple moving targets are achieved through a proposed network named MosReFormer (Multiple moving target separation and reconstruction Transformer). Adopting a gated single-head Transformer network with convolution-augmented joint self-attention, the proposed MosReFormer network can mitigate the reconstruction errors and separate the signals of multiple moving targets simultaneously. Simulations and experiments on raw data show that the reconstructed and separated results are close to ideal imaging results which are sampled uniformly in azimuth with constant PRI, verifying the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

Art as an Image of The Shah

In 1566, after Sultan Suleiman’s death, Shah Tahmasp (r. 1524-1576) sent condolences and congratulations to Sultan Selim II (r. 1566-1574) along with several gifts, including a magnificent Quran and an exquisite illustrated Shahnama copy, noteworthy in Iranian art history. However, the letter accompanying these gifts has often been overlooked, perceived as containing mere courtesies. This letter marked a significant exchange between Safavid kings and Ottoman sultans, with participation from secretaries across Iran. Its authors aimed to portray an idealized king and their notable characteristics, demonstrating that the actions of these rulers (Sultan Suleiman, Sultan Selim, and particularly Shah Tahmasp) aligned with this ideal. Art-related activities were among these characteristics. The authors detailed the Safavid king’s palace, garden, and the artistic gifts to highlight their connection with the king’s ideal image. This article explores the letter as a literary and artistic medium, delving into its intricate rhetoric as a tool for representing royal authority. Additionally, it addresses how the authors’ descriptions of artworks as integral to the king’s image conveyed political meaning, illustrating how art reflected royal power in public and political spheres.

The effect Of vascular related CeRNA genes and corresponding imaging biomarkers on survival in lower grade glioma.

To investigate the differential expression of vascular related ceRNA regulatory genes in LGG with different mutations of IDH1 and MGMT, and to verify imaging gene markers that can be closely associated with vascular related ceRNA regulatory genes. Five hundred fifteen patients with LGG were collected from TCGA database. CeRNA network analysis, GO analysis and Cox risk regression were used to find vascular ceRNA regulatory genes and their genetic markers related to survival. The preoperative MRI image data and postoperative tumor tissues of 14 patients with WHO grade III glioma were collected for full transcriptome analysis. The correlation between image characteristics of LGG and survival related vascular ceRNA regulatory genes was compared using nonparametric U test and Pearson correlation coefficient analysis. Vascular related genes ranked first in the functional enrichment analysis of differentially expressed genes in LGG. EPHA2, ETS1, YAP1 and MEIS1 could significantly affect the survival of patients in each group of LGG. The volume of enhanced region was negatively correlated with IDH1 (r = -0.622, P = 0.009) mutation and TMEM100 (r = -0.535, P = 0.024), and positively correlated with MEIS1 (r = 0.551, P = 0.021), rCBFmax value was negatively correlated with TMEM100 (r = -0.492, P = 0.037). Under different IDH1 mutations, lncRNA-dominated vascular-related ceRNA regulatory genes were the first differentially expressed subset of each group, and could be used as an effective risk factor affecting the survival of LGG. The image characteristics of LGG was an ideal image gene marker. It was a reliable imaging biological marker which can truly reflect the pathophysiological characteristics of glioma.

A framework for transforming the professional identity and brand image of All Nurses as Leaders

BackgroundThe professional identity and brand image of nurses as leaders have not kept pace with the roles and scope of contemporary nursing practice. PurposeTo provide a framework to transform the professional identity and brand image of nursing from a caring discipline to one of leaders. MethodsA Consensus Development Workgroup (CDW) design was used between the International Society for Professional Identity in Nursing (ISPIN) and the Institute for Brand Image of Nursing (IBIN) to advance the concept of All Nurses as Leaders across all settings and the public domain. DiscussionThe goal is to occupy a position in the minds of all stakeholders that differentiates nursing in a manner that is positive, relevant, accurate, desirable, and consistent over time. ConclusionCurrent outcomes are endorsements, evidence-based strategies, and a framework to deconstruct the current brand image and align it with the desired brand image of All Nurses as Leaders.

Stuck between the ideal worker and the bread winner: experiences of motherhood and work during the COVID-19 pandemic in India

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to study the experiences of middle-class working mothers from the ITES (Information Technology Enabled Service) sector in India during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their experiences of work from home are studied in the backdrop of the ideal worker model at work and the adult worker model at home. Further, the study aims to identify the need for sustainable, inclusive practices for working mothers in Indian organizations to break the male breadwinner model in middle-class households.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative approach to collect data from 39 middle-class mothers working in MNCs in four metro cities in India. The semi-structured, in-depth interviews focused on their experiences of motherhood, care and work before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.FindingsThe pandemic made it evident that the ideal worker model in organizations and the adult worker model at home were illusions for working mothers. The results indicate a continued obligation of the “ideal worker culture” at organizations, even during the health crisis. It made the working mothers realize that they were chasing both the (ideal worker and adult worker) norms but could never achieve them. Subsequently, the male breadwinner model was reinforced at home due to the matrix of motherhood, care and work during the pandemic. The study concludes by arguing the reconstruction of the ideal worker image to make workplaces more inclusive for working mothers.Originality/valueThe study is placed in the context of Indian middle-class motherhood during the pandemic, a demography less explored in the literature. The paper puts forth various myths constituting the gendered realities of Indian middle-class motherhood. It also discusses sustainable, inclusive workplace practices for mothers from their future workplaces' standpoint, especially in post-pandemic times.

Традиции русской и советской культуры в повести Лу Яо «Судьба»

The study aims to shed light on the peculiarities of interpretations of Russian and Soviet culture traditions in Lu Yao’s story “Life” (1982), which became a classic of the Chinese literature of the xúngēn movement in the last third of the XX century. It is the first time that this work by the Chinese prose writer has become the subject of a separate study, in addition, the paper defines the range of works by Russian writers and artists whose traditions are reflected in the story, reveals the role of images and motifs of Russian art in its ideological and artistic singularity, which accounts for the scientific originality of the study. The artistic images of Russian and Soviet art direct references to which are contained in Lu Yao’s work served as the subject of comparative analysis. As a result of the study, it was determined that Lu Yao uses a very wide context of Russian and Soviet culture, including novels by I. A. Goncharov, N. A. Ostrovsky, stories by Ch. T. Aitmatov, V. G. Rasputin, Soviet paintings, and demonstrates adherence to the principles of realistic aesthetics in the story “Life”. The images created by the Chinese author significantly complement the gallery of typological heroes of the Russian literature of the XIX-XX centuries (the hero of the time, the ideal female image, the wise old person), bringing new artistic interpretations in keeping with the Chinese national cultural and historical tradition.

Application range of crosstalk-affected spatial demultiplexing for resolving separations between unbalanced sources

Super resolution is one of the key issues at the crossroads of contemporary quantum optics and metrology. Recently, it was shown that for an idealized case of two balanced sources, spatial mode demultiplexing (SPADE) achieves resolution better than direct imaging even in the presence of measurement crosstalk (Gessner et al 2020 Phys. Rev. Lett. 125 100501). In this work, we consider arbitrarily unbalanced sources and provide a systematic analysis of the impact of crosstalk on the resolution obtained from SPADE. As we dissect, in this generalized scenario, SPADE’s effectiveness depends non-trivially on the strength of crosstalk, relative brightness and the separation between the sources. In particular, for any source imbalance, SPADE performs worse than ideal direct imaging in the asymptotic limit of vanishing source separations. Nonetheless, for realistic values of crosstalk strength, SPADE is still the superior method for several orders of magnitude of source separations.

Provision planning at the end of life from a legal point of view

In the event of the loss of the ability to give consent and thus the possibility of legally validating one's own will, the law regularly provides for a mandatory third-party representation for the patient. However, their design can be influenced preventively, for which purpose those affected are given three options. These options are: patient's decree, health Power of Attorney, guardianship order. The patient's decree makes content related specifications as to which medical interventions are accepted or not accepted in which illnesses. Health Power of Attorney authorizes another person to make the necessary treatment decisions on behalf of the patient and guardianship order relates solely to the case of a possible guardianship appointment by the guardianship court. The written form of the advance directives forms an objective basis for mutual control of future decision-makers in the event of questions of interpretation. Absolute certainty that the current will of the patient corresponds to the future and that it is reliably determined and implemented in the decision-making situation is not possible. Nevertheless, the task is to come as close as possible to this ideal image in clinical reality.

Association between clinical manifestations of occlusal trauma and magnetic resonance imaging findings of periodontal ligament space.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between clinical manifestations of occlusal trauma of the teeth and maximum signal intensity of periodontal ligament space on MRI. 20 subjects (males: 9, females: 11, mean age: 35.9 ± 14.0 years, range: 22-65 years) participated in this study. Subjective symptoms of bruxism, tooth mobility, fremitus, occlusal contact area, occlusal force, widening of the periodontal ligament space, and thickening of the lamina dura were defined as clinical manifestations of occlusal trauma. The total number of clinical manifestations was used to evaluate the degree of clinical occlusal trauma, with a score of 7 indicating the highest degree of occlusal trauma. The maximum signal intensity in the periodontal ligament space was evaluated by a specific T2 weighted MRI sequence: IDEAL image. Spearman's rank correlation between the total clinical occlusal trauma score and maximum signal intensity in the periodontal ligament space was 0.529 for all teeth, 0.517 for anterior teeth, and 0.396 for molar teeth (p < 0.001 for all). A significant correlation between the degree of occlusal trauma and the signal intensity of the periodontal ligament space suggests a new potential MRI-based method for objectively determining occlusal trauma.

A neural marker of the human face identity familiarity effect

Human adults associate different views of an identity much better for familiar than for unfamiliar faces. However, a robust and consistent neural index of this behavioral face identity familiarity effect (FIFE)—not found in non-human primate species—is lacking. Here we provide such a neural FIFE index, measured implicitly and with one fixation per face. Fourteen participants viewed 70 s stimulation sequences of a large set (n = 40) of widely variable natural images of a face identity at a rate of 6 images/second (6 Hz). Different face identities appeared every 5th image (1.2 Hz). In a sequence, face images were either familiar (i.e., famous) or unfamiliar, participants performing a non-periodic task unrelated to face recognition. The face identity recognition response identified at 1.2 Hz over occipital-temporal regions in the frequency-domain electroencephalogram was 3.4 times larger for familiar than unfamiliar faces. The neural response to familiar faces—which emerged at about 180 ms following face onset—was significant in each individual but a case of prosopdysgnosia. Besides potential clinical and forensic applications to implicitly measure one’s knowledge of a face identity, these findings open new perspectives to clarify the neurofunctional source of the FIFE and understand the nature of human face identity recognition.

Intellectual activism and pivotal paradigms in casting the model woman of the early Turkish Republic: the voices of Şükûfe Nihal and Nezihe Muhittin

ABSTRACT Feminist historiography on the late Ottoman and early Turkish Republican era treats female women’s rights advocates typically as merely activists or literary figures and rarely focuses on their intellectual property, which constitutes the origin of their theoretical contribution to and active struggle for women’s equality. The academic corpus on the two prominent figures of the era, Şükûfe Nihal and Nezihe Muhittin, follows this pattern and concentrates predominantly on their literary works or activism, leaving their intellectualism overshadowed. This article employs an innovative perspective and argues that they were genuine intellectuals first. The article uncovers the intellectual lenses behind their discourses and claims their views were embedded in the premises of Enlightenment thought, positivism and nationalism, which constituted the building blocks of their paradigms on feminism, gender equality and womanhood. Unearthing their ideal woman image in the early Turkish Republic rests on the methods of contextual deconstruction and textual analysis.

Technical and Clinical Differences Between Transgender and Cisgender Females Undergoing Breast Augmentation.

Gender-affirming surgery is a quickly expanding field. However, it is facing a shortage of specialized surgeons for a population exceeding 1.4 million individuals. Many studies comparing outcomes between cisgender and transgender patients fail to describe the technical differences of the operation. Breast augmentation in the transgender female patient involves important anatomical, technical, and clinical features that differ from the cisgender female. In this study, we aimed to describe and compare these characteristics between these 2 groups to better inform the new generation of gender-affirming surgeons. A retrospective cohort study of patients who underwent primary breast augmentation between 2009 and 2019 at a specialized tertiary center for transgender care was performed. Mastopexy, secondary augmentation, and reconstructive procedures were excluded. Demographic, operative, and clinical data were collected from medical records. All patients had a minimum of 1 year of follow-up after the initial surgery. Bivariate analysis was performed. A total of 250 cisgender females and 153 transgender females were included. The transgender group showed higher rates of smoking ( P < 0.0001), immunosuppression ( P < 0.0001), obesity ( P < 0.0001), mental health disorders ( P < 0.0001), and hypertension ( P = 0.002). Median base width ( P < 0.0001), sternal notch to nipple distance ( P < 0.0001), and implant size (500 mL [interquartile range, 425-600 mL] vs 350 mL [interquartile range, 325-385 mL]; P < 0.0001) were larger in transgender patients. Transgender patients also demonstrated a stronger correlation between implant size and body surface area ( r = 0.71, P < 0.0001). Readmission, reoperation, and complication rates were similar between the groups; however, transgender females had a higher incidence of surgical site infections (3.9% vs 0.4%, P < 0.013). Capsular contracture was the most common complication and indication for reoperation in both groups. There are important anatomical, clinical, and technical differences between reconstructive gender-affirming breast augmentation in transgender female patients and cosmetic breast augmentation in the cisgender female. The gender-affirming surgeon must know these differences to provide the best quality of care and help patients achieve better congruence between their gender identity and body image.

PET imaging with [68Ga]-labeled TGFβ-targeting peptide in a mouse PANC-1 tumor model.

Transforming growth factor β (TGFβ) is upregulated in many types of tumors and plays important roles in tumor microenvironment construction, immune escape, invasion, and metastasis. The therapeutic effect of antibodies and nuclide-conjugated drugs targeting TGFβ has not been ideal. Targeting TGFβ with small-molecule or peptide carriers labeled with diagnostic/therapeutic nuclides is a new development direction. This study aimed to explore and confirm the imaging diagnostic efficiency of TGFβ-targeting peptide P144 coupled with [68Ga] in a PANC-1 tumor model. TGFβ-targeting inhibitory peptide P144 with stable activity was prepared through peptide synthesis and screening, and P144 was coupled with biological chelator DOTA and labeled with radionuclide [68Ga] to achieve a stable TGFβ-targeting tracer [68Ga]Ga-P144. This tracer was first used for positron emission tomography (PET) molecular imaging study of pancreatic cancer in a mouse PANC-1 tumor model. [68Ga]Ga-P144 had a high targeted uptake and relatively long uptake retention time in tumors and lower uptakes in non-target organs and backgrounds. Target pre-blocking experiment with the cold drug P144-DOTA demonstrated that the radioactive uptake with [68Ga]Ga-P144 PET in vivo, especially in tumor tissue, had a high TGFβ-targeting specificity. [68Ga]Ga-P144 PET had ideal imaging efficiency in PANC-1 tumor-bearing mice, with high specificity in vivo and good tumor-targeting effect. [68Ga]Ga-P144 has relatively high specificity and tumor-targeted uptake and may be developed as a promising diagnostic tool for TGFβ-positive malignancies.

Unsupervised design for broadband multispectral and polarization filter array patterns.

Imaging multiple wavelength and polarization components is problematic due to the complexity of equipment and the increase in the number of imaging shots, so imaging using filter arrays with various patterns has been widely reported from elemental research to practical applications. Most of them use bandpass filters with different center wavelengths for each pixel. Recently, however, filter arrays with multimodal transmission characteristics have been proposed using photonic crystals or Fabry-Perot filters. In any of these methods, the design of the filter array arrangement pattern is important to improve the quality of the captured image, as well as the improvement of the demosaicking algorithm. One way to design a filter array pattern is to minimize the mean squared error (MSE) between the ideal image and the demosaicked image. However, the more multidimensional the imaging components, the more difficult it becomes to collect training data. In such cases, it is necessary to empirically determine candidate transmission characteristics and patterns of filter arrays. In this study, we propose a method for evaluating filter array patterns without using any training data in the design of filter arrays for multispectral and polarization imaging. The proposed method estimates the MSE by approximating the autocorrelation matrix without using image data by expressing the imaging model as a linear forward problem and the demosaicking as a linear inverse problem. Since this method can be applied not only to ideal bandpass filter arrangements, but also to multispectral filter arrays with multimodal spectral transmission characteristics and even multispectral polarization filter arrays with different extinction ratios at different wavelengths, we will show that image quality can be improved over empirical arrangements by evaluating these patterns and by testing examples of optimal designs using genetic algorithms.

Hairstyle transfer via manipulating decoupled latent codes of StyleGAN2

Hairstyle transfer aims to combine the hairstyle attributes of the reference images with the face and background of the identity image into one realistic image. This is challenging due to the differences in semantic structure between reference images and identity image, as well as the tangled hairstyle attributes. Existing GAN-based methods tend to simply combine image patches of hair, face, and background, which leads to discordant semantic structures and obvious artifacts in the results. And the GAN inversion-based methods require elaborate orthogonalization of loss gradients with additional calculations to alleviate the entanglement between the complex hairstyle attributes. To address these limitations, we propose a novel framework for hairstyle transfer based on StyleGAN inversion. Specifically, instead of simply combining the image patches, we use StyleGAN’s generative power to get more reasonable target semantic masks. During the alignment with the target masks, background inpainting is performed by StyleGAN rather than auxiliary models, which makes the results more realistic. Furthermore, our method decomposes hairstyle into three attributes: structure, texture, and color to better control the hairstyle transfer process. Besides, we observe that the spatial scales of these attributes match those of the StyleGAN’s latent codes. Then, we decouple the latent code in the hierarchical dimension and use different layers of the latent code to complete the transfer of different hair attributes, which reduces the entanglement between attributes without extra calculations. Correspondingly, our method divides hairstyle transfer into three steps, making the transfer process more controllable. By comparing with state-of-the-art methods, we verify the effectiveness of our method.

PROFESSIONAL PERSONALITY IDENTITY: THEORETICAL REVIEW OF MODERN RESEARCH

The development of professional identity should take into account self-development, which is directly related to professional development. Self-esteem is self-understanding and conscious assessment of one's own personality qualities, thoughts, words, and actions. Thus, self-esteem affects the effectiveness of one's own activities and the activities of other people, as well as overcoming difficulties in solving the set tasks. Mastering the structure of students' professional motivation and perception of motivation allows you to reasonably solve promotion problems, correctly navigate the choice of specialty, build a professional career, study remotely, and obtain the necessary knowledge for future work. In conditions of instability, this significantly affects the responsibility and desire to acquire education. The purpose of the article is to conduct a theoretical and methodological review of the state of development of the problem of the professional identity of personality. The phenomenon of "professional identity" is quite new in psychology, its purposeful study began at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, when it became a question of a person's professional self-determination and the aspect of the attitude of the greatest was aimed at abilities, and not at the acquisition of knowledge. The personality goes through many stages of development and, accordingly, changes, both physiological and valuable, understands his abilities and chooses his profession more than once, which enables the personality to develop throughout his life. Each of these stages of personality development brings its own skills and understanding, forming a stable image of professional identity, i.e. the individual identifies himself with the future professional activity, sometimes changing the chosen profession radically, and this leads to the acquisition of new skills, but the process itself knowledge of personality, in our opinion, the most important process, especially in the current difficult time, almost every person is faced with a radical review of both his life and his professional activity.

Importance of TEM sample thickness for measuring strain fields

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has emerged as a valuable tool for assessing and mapping strain fields within materials. By directly analyzing local atomic spacing variations, TEM enables the precise measurement of local strain with high spatial resolution. However, it is standard practice to use thin specimens in TEM analysis to ensure electron transparency and minimize issues such as projection artifacts and contributions from multiple scattering. This raises an important question regarding the extent of structural modification, such as strain relaxation, induced in thin samples due to the increased surface-to-volume ratio and the thinning process. In this study, we conducted a systematic investigation to quantify the influence of TEM sample thickness on the residual strain field using deformed Fe-based and Zr-based metallic glasses as model systems. The samples were gradually thinned from 300 nm to 70 nm, and the same area was examined using 4D-STEM with identical imaging settings. Our results demonstrate that thinning the sample affects the atomic configuration at both the short-range (SR) and medium-range (MR) scales. Consequently, when the sample is thinned too much, it no longer preserves the native deformation structure. These findings highlight the critical importance of maintaining sufficient TEM sample thickness for obtaining meaningful and accurate strain measurements.

A Primer for Research Scientists on Assessing Mouse Gross and Histopathology Images in the Biomedical Literature.

Advances in genomic technologies have enabled the development of abundant mouse models of human disease, requiring accurate phenotyping to elucidate the consequences of genetic manipulation. Anatomic pathology, an important component of the mouse phenotyping pipeline, is ideally performed by human or veterinary pathologists; however, due to insufficient numbers of pathologists qualified to assess these mouse models morphologically, research scientists may perform "do-it-yourself" pathology, resulting in diagnostic error. In the biomedical literature, pathology data is commonly presented as images of tissue sections, stained with either hematoxylin and eosin or antibodies via immunohistochemistry, accompanied by a figure legend. Data presented in such images and figure legends may contain inaccuracies. Furthermore, there is limited guidance for non-pathologist research scientists concerning the elements required in an ideal pathology image and figure legend in a research publication. In this overview, the components of an ideal pathology image and figure legend are outlined and comprise image quality, image composition, and image interpretation. Background knowledge is important for producing accurate pathology images and critically assessing these images in the literature. This foundational knowledge includes understanding relevant human and mouse anatomy and histology and, for cancer researchers, an understanding of human and mouse tumor classification and morphology, mouse stain background lesions, and tissue processing artifacts. Accurate interpretation of immunohistochemistry is also vitally important and is detailed with emphasis on the requirement for tissue controls and the distribution, intensity, and intracellular location of staining. Common pitfalls in immunohistochemistry interpretation are outlined, and a checklist of questions is provided by which any pathology image may be critically examined. Collaboration with pathologist colleagues is encouraged. This overview aims to equip researchers to critically assess the quality and accuracy of pathology images in the literature to improve the reliability and reproducibility of published pathology data. © 2023 The Authors. Current Protocols published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.

Horse-Rider Pairing Perception by Dressage Judges and Equestrian Coaches.

The ideal equestrian body image (BI) is a smaller physique and riders feel body shape (BS) influences subjective judge scoring within dressage competitions. The aims were to identify perceptions of equestrian coaches and dressage judges of rider body shape (BS), identify perceptions of appropriate horse-rider matching and establish the impact of BS on perceived rider ability. An online survey (GoogleFormsTM) was shared, respondents (n=265, coaches=174 judges=91) viewed images of twelve riders of different BS (Ectomorph, Mesomorph, and Endomorph) mounted on three horses of different breeds/types and asked to indicate the best horse-rider match. Judges were asked if body shape or inappropriate horse-rider matching influenced scores given, this was used to identify any bias from judges. A significant perception for horse rider matching identified the cob as the most appropriate for the Endomorph physique (P < .001). Ectomorph was the most chosen as the ideal BS on all horses. Both coaches and judges identified the ideal physique as a smaller image from the BI scale. Both coaches and judges individually perceive that BS impacts rider ability (P < .001). These findings of BS perceived as linked to rider skill potentially identifies an issue and may correspond to the smaller physique being idealistic. Future research into physique related bias from judges is required to further identify the impact of BS on subjective judging within equestrian sport.