Series Of Pictures Research Articles

Small and Short-Range Radar Systems [Book Review

The initial pages of this book contain a series of color pictures. The average page contains multiple pictures or tables, compressing the text to a minimum and rendering the book pleasant to read. The first flip through the pages will captivate the readers and compel them to regard the short text under an interesting image, even though this may happen somewhere in the middle of the book on a completely random page. The author is maintaining a companion website where various demonstration videos related to the book chapters can be found, watched, enjoyed, and, in some cases, mimicked to help build one's own radar. Similarly, several MATLAB scripts are provided by the author on his website so that interested readers can try the radar processing algorithms and demonstrations outlined in the book. Following an introductory chapter on the general subject of radars, the book is divided into two main parts: Part I contains six chapters on short-range radar systems, and Part II is devoted to applications. Police Doppler radar and motion sensors, automotive radar, and through-wall radar are the applications covered in Part II.

Peningkatan Pembelajaran Keterampilan Berbicara Melalui Media Gambar Seri di Kelas III SDN 17 Batang Anai Kabupaten Padang Pariaman

Usually, students feel reluctant to speak in front of classroom. It is caused by learning Bahasa that only focus on reading and writing skill, but less on speaking skill. This research is aimed to improve speaking skill of elementary students grade III in SDN 17 Batang Anai Kabupaten Padang Pariaman by implementing serial pictures media. This is a class action research that consists of two cycles including four steps: planning, action, observation, and reflection. Data of research were obtained through observation, interview, and test. Obtained data were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. Learning output of students is improved in each cycle.In cycle I, the percentage of students’ speaking skill is 53.3%. Meanwhile in cycle II, the percentage of students’ speaking skill is 86%. Hence, it can be concluded that Bahasa learning that use serial pictures media can improve speaking skill of elementary students grade III.

Snow control on active layer thickness in steep alpine rock walls (Aiguille du Midi, 3842 m a.s.l., Mont Blanc massif)

Since the early 2000s, a remarkable amount of rockfalls has been observed in permafrost areas of the mid-latitude mountain ranges concurrently to hot summers. This study explores the seasonal thaw (ST) in permafrost rock walls of the Aiguille du Midi site (3842ma.s.l., Mont Blanc massif). We first analyse six years of temperature records in three 10m-deep boreholes against air temperature (AT) and a four-year time series of pictures showing the snow conditions on two rock faces. Then, we test the sensitivity of the active layer against eight snow fall scenarios using the 1-D surface energy balance and heat conduction model CryoGrid 3 forced by in-situ measurements from a vertical face. Snow falls occur all the year round at this elevation and play an important role for the active layer thickness (ALT), but the snow cover and its control are highly heterogeneous. A long-lasting of a snow cover during spring/early summer delays the ST and reduces the ALT. The thicker and the more spatially-continuous is the snow cover, the stronger are the delay and ALT reduction. Convective clouds could also reinforce this pattern. The summer AT and heat waves are the dominant controlling factors of the ALT. But summer snow falls can sometimes persist for several days on the rock surface and reduce the effect of the heat waves. Active layer can thicken during the early fall, except if the snow starts to accumulate on the rock surface and favours the refreezing. The timing of the snow fall is the most critical parameter to determine the snow effect on the ALT. This study suggests that the characteristics of the bedrock and snow accumulation (steepness, surface roughness, and sun-exposure) must be taken into account to better understand the formation and changes of the active layer and its possible implications for rockfall triggering.

Improving The Tenth Grade Students’ Writing Skill By Using Picture Series

AbstractAs a foreign language, English language is not easy to study by students in every grade. Many students cannot understand their materials because they have perception that studying English is very difficult for them. Writing is one of important components in language skills. On the other hand, it is considered difficult by learners including the students of SMA N 1 Sedayu especially class X IIS 3. The students’ writing achievement was still low. To solve this problem, the researcher did the classroom action research. The objectives of this research are describing the improvement of students’ writing skill through recount text using picture series, analyzing the students’ interests in writing skill through recount text using picture series, and finding out how far the improvement of the students using picture series in writing skill through recount text. This research involved 32 students from tenth grade of SMA N 1 Sedayu. In this research, to get the data researcher gave questionnaires, did observation, interview and tests. A classroom action research was used in this research to overcome student’s problem in writing skill. The mean in pre-test and post-test showed a different number. The mean of the pre-test was 61.7 which was still low score because the KKM is 75. Afterwards, the researcher conducted the next treatment, then did post-test and the mean of the students’ score was increased into 77,7. Besides, students also showed different interest in their learning English especially English writing skill.

Context sensitivity in the detection of changes in facial emotion.

In social contexts, reading subtle changes in others’ facial expressions is a crucial communication skill. To measure this ability, we developed an expression-change detection task, wherein a series of pictures of changes in an individual’s facial expressions within contextual scenes were presented. The results demonstrated that the detection of subtle changes was highly sensitive to contextual stimuli. That is, participants identified the direction of facial-expression changes more accurately and more quickly when they were ‘appropriate’—consistent with the valence of the contextual stimulus change—than when they were ‘inappropriate’. Moreover, individual differences in sensitivity to contextual stimuli were correlated with scores on the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, a commonly used measure of alexithymia tendencies. These results suggest that the current behavioural task might facilitate investigations of the role of context in human social cognition.

Mental time travel in foresight processes—Cases and applications

Mental time travel can be described as a method of guiding the participants of a workshop into a picture or a whole series of pictures of the future. This should be thought of as a movie rather than static images and includes emotions. Mental time travel is still a new method in foresight processes, in generating futures, futures research or future-oriented technology analysis (FTA) in general, and is only rarely used to open up the minds of participants at the beginning of workshops so that their thinking does not remain fixed in the past or the present. Time travelling can be applied to different cases and at different stages of a foresight process (phases of strategic intelligence gathering, sense-making or even implementation), e.g. participants are also able to think disruptively in new pictures instead of just extrapolating from the past.Clinical and psychological studies do not yet exist for this kind of time travel, but first experiences from very different foresight processes are available. This paper presents the experiences gained from six national and international foresight cases, in which time travel was applied. Different ways of performing it are reported and set in the context of the specific foresight process concepts. Experiences are shared by examining the lessons learned and the pros and cons of this new method, so that the organizers of foresight processes can better assess how the method could fit their specific context, objectives, method mix and participants.

The Use of Visual Media in Teaching Writing

Writing is the difficult skill in learning English. To make students get the idea in writing easily the teacher should be creative and innovative. The Application of visual media can help students get idea easily. This research aimed at knowing the application of visual media and the students’ responses in teaching writing to eleventh grade students of SMAMuhammadiyah Kediri.This qualitative research took place in SMAMuhammadiyah Kediri. The subject of this research was the eleventh grade students that consist of 17 male and 15 female students. In order to collect the data , observation, interview, questionnaire and the documentation were used. The application of visual media helped the students write easily. The teacher applied visual media to help the students write good sentences.The theme of the material is narrative text and the teacher applied picture series. The activity was devided into three steps (pre,whilst,post) start from make a simple sentence based on the picture series then compose a paragraph based on the simple sentences. By using visual media application in teaching writing the students gave good responses. They paid attention to the teacher’s explanation very well anddidthe task one by one. The students got more vocabulary, creativity in writing process. It deals with 67.76% students answered yes and 32.24% students answered no. It can be concluded that visual media application in teaching writing helps the students write easily as it helps the students to be more creative in finding the ideas and developing vocabulary. So it is suggested to the English teacher to improve the material, use this media in teaching other skills and. For the further researcher it is hoped that this research can give more information and contribution in conducting similar topic of discussion.

Motion Blur-Based State Estimation

Motion measurement increasingly deploys image sensors such as charge-coupled device and CMOS arrays, driven by their ever-improving resolution, response time, noise level, and cost. The typical usage is to operate an image sensor and the associated optics as a sampler, by taking a series of high-speed sharp pictures to infer motion. Image blur is treated as an undesirable artifact, to be removed using shorter exposure times or image processing techniques such as deblurring. We have previously shown that dynamic information embedded in image blur may be exploited for model identification in frequency ranges well beyond the Nyquist frequency. In this brief, we investigate the state estimation problem using motion blur. We pose the problem as a minimization, estimating the state at the start of each (slow) sampling period based on the observed motion blur. We show that the local convexity of the minimization corresponds to a generalized observability criterion. This method is compared with other techniques, including the conventional centroid-based method, and that based on the use of multiple image moments. The simulation and experimental results demonstrate the fast response and robustness of the proposed scheme in the presence of synthetic stray light.

Thinking about a limited future enhances the positivity of younger and older adults' recall: Support for socioemotional selectivity theory.

Compared with younger adults, older adults have a relative preference to attend to and remember positive over negative information. This is known as the "positivity effect," and researchers have typically evoked socioemotional selectivity theory to explain it. According to socioemotional selectivity theory, as people get older they begin to perceive their time left in life as more limited. These reduced time horizons prompt older adults to prioritize achieving emotional gratification and thus exhibit increased positivity in attention and recall. Although this is the most commonly cited explanation of the positivity effect, there is currently a lack of clear experimental evidence demonstrating a link between time horizons and positivity. The goal of the current research was to address this issue. In two separate experiments, we asked participants to complete a writing activity, which directed them to think of time as being either limited or expansive (Experiments 1 and 2) or did not orient them to think about time in a particular manner (Experiment 2). Participants were then shown a series of emotional pictures, which they subsequently tried to recall. Results from both studies showed that regardless of chronological age, thinking about a limited future enhanced the relative positivity of participants' recall. Furthermore, the results of Experiment 2 showed that this effect was not driven by changes in mood. Thus, the fact that older adults' recall is typically more positive than younger adults' recall may index naturally shifting time horizons and goals with age.

Approach and avoidance towards aggressive stimuli and its relation to reactive and proactive aggression

This study assessed the association between indirectly measured behavioural approach- and avoidance-related tendencies on the one hand, and reactive versus proactive aggression on the other hand. Reactive aggression (i.e. the impulsive, anger-driven aggression expressed in response to threatening stimuli) was differentiated from proactive aggression (i.e. the more controlled aggression motivated towards obtaining specific goals). A mixed sample of 118 patients and healthy controls filled out a self-report measure to assess their degree of reactive and proactive aggression, and then performed an Approach Avoidance Task in which they were asked to pull or push a joystick in response to a format-feature of a series of pictures, irrespective of their contents. The pictorial stimuli used in this task included attack-related scenes and angry faces, along with neutral, positive and negative control stimuli. The results were controlled for the level of personality disorder pathology, gender, and age. The findings indicated that reactive but not proactive aggression was related to the relative behavioural tendency to approach attack-related scenes, along with positive stimuli. These findings reflect the hyper-reactivity of the approach-related reward system in reactive aggression, and further our knowledge into the distinct correlates and precursors of reactive and proactive aggression.

Adquisición de las construcciones medias en español como segunda lengua

Este artículo estudia la adquisición de la voz media en español como segunda lengua, centrándose en el uso del pronombre se como estrategia para expresar anticausatividad. La investigación se lleva a cabo con seis hablantes de español como segunda lengua, tres de ellos con instrucción formal universitaria en español como segunda lengua y tres de ellos sin estudios formales en esta lengua pero que han vivido en Costa Rica al menos por tres años. Para efectuar el estudio, se les solicita a los participantes que respondan la pregunta ¿Qué le pasó a...? de acuerdo con una serie de ilustraciones, con el fin de determinar el uso de la estructura. Finalmente, sus respuestas son analizadas y comparadas.

Penggunaan Gambar Berseri sebagai Media untuk Meningkatkan Ketrampilan Menulis Teks Prosedur pada Siswa S1 Keperawatan STIKes Patria Husada Blitar

English become the most important things in facing the issue of Asean Economic Community (AEC) especially in the health sector since English is one of the international language use in asean. So, preparing medical employees with English become a great issue to be solved. This study was intended to apply picture Series as the media to improve students writing skill. The research design used was collaborative Classroom Action Research. The collaboration was done with three English teachers in STIKes Patria Husada Blitar. This Classroom Action Research was implemented in one cycle only which involved four stages namely planning, implementation, observation, and reflection. The researcher gained the data in the form of students’ involvement during teaching learning activity and the writing product. To get those data, the researcher used several instruments; those were students writing product and field notes. The finding of this study showed that by using picture series as the media, the students could write procedure text much better than they were taught using traditional grammar translation method. In terms of the students’ individual writing product, in preliminary study, the number of students who passed the minimum passing grade (64) was only 2 students (9.1%). On the other hand, in Cycle 1, all of the 22 students (100%) could pass the minimum passing grade (64). The improvement of students’ writing skill was due to the use of picture series as the media in teaching writing which consisted of several activities for the students so that they were enthusiastic in joining the class. In addition, it was suggested for the lecturers and/ or teacher to apply and modify this technique in their classes.

Evaluation of a digital food photography atlas used as portion size measurement aid in dietary surveys in Greece.

To evaluate how well respondents perceive digital images of food portions commonly consumed in Greece. The picture series was defined on the basis of usual dietary intakes assessed in earlier large-scale studies in Greece. The evaluation included 2218 pre-weighed actual portions shown to participants, who were subsequently asked to link each portion to a food picture. Mean differences between picture numbers selected and portions actually shown were compared using the Wilcoxon paired signed-rank test. The effect of personal characteristics on participants' selections was evaluated through unpaired t tests (sex and school years) or through Tukey-Kramer pairwise comparisons (age and food groups). Testing of participants' perception of digital food images used in the Greek national nutrition survey. Individuals (n 103, 61 % females) aged 12 years and over, selected on the basis of the target population of the Greek nutrition survey using convenience sampling. Individuals selected the correct or adjacent image in about 90 % of the assessments and tended to overestimate small and underestimate large quantities. Photographs of Greek traditional pies and meat-based pastry dishes led participants to perceive the amounts in the photos larger than they actually were. Adolescents were more prone to underestimating food quantities through the pictures. The digital food atlas appears generally suitable to be used for the estimation of average food intakes in large-scale dietary surveys in Greece. However, individuals who consistently consume only small or only large food portions may have biased perceptions in relation to others.

Improving the Second Year Students Ability in Writing Narrative Paragraphs by Using Picture Series

This collaborative classroom action research was directed to obtain information about how the second grade students ability in writing a narrative paragraph improved by using picture series. Specifically, it was intended to develop the strategy of using picture series to improve the students ability in writing narrative paragraphs. The result shows that the appropriate model of using picture series in the teaching of writing narrative paragraphs contains some procedures and has some strengths in improving the students ability in writing narrative paragraphs. The improvements resulted from the use of series of pictures in the form of cartoon and series of questions related to the pictures.

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PICTURE SERIES AND GRAPHIC ORGANIZER ON STUDENTS WITH HIGH AND LOW MOTIVATION IN COMPREHENDING NARRATIVE TEXTS

This study investigates whether picture series can be used effectively on high and low motivated students in comprehending narrative texts, how students who were trained by picture series differ significantly from those who were trained by GO, and whether there is an interaction among strategy, motivation, and reading achievement. The subjects of the study were the tenth grader of SMA Negeri 1 Salem in the Academic Year 2014/2015. Two of fourclasses were selected as the sample of the research.The experiment was set up according to a pre-test and post-test for both groups. The writer used an experimental research with factorial design 2 x 2 by technique of multifactor analysis of variance (ANOVA).The findings of this study indicate picture series is more effective than the GO. It can be seen from the results of the scores of the post test in experimental groupwere significantly different comparing to the post test scores in the control one.In addition, They regarded it very helpful for them of developing their reading skill. A good commitment and careful implementation that fulfill the requirements suggested in picture series influence on the success of the teaching reading comprehension of narrative texts.

Interim results of neuropsychological analysis of the development of children with perinatal risks

This article presents a brief description of the normative mental development of the elder preschool children: features hemispheric interaction between the cerebral hemispheres, dynamic, spatial and motor praxis, memory, visual-objective, visual-spatial and acoustic-verbal gnosis and originality of speech, thought and attention. Besides, this article illuminates analysis of the interim data obtained in the course of neuropsychological investigation of cerebral organization of mental functions among preschoolers whose mothers have an anamnesis of various risk factors of perinatal pathology of the fetus. The analysis of the data illustrates that very often agenda had difficulties in carrying out tests for visual gnosis, audio-verbal memory, dynamic and spatial praxis. Also it was hard for children to compile stories for narrative paintings and series of narrative pictures. Besides, it was recorded that the majority of children have shown attention fatigue and instability of attention and the high level of exhaustion. So the interim results received on this level of experimental research illustrate the existence of tendency of defection in the process of formation of high psychic functions among children with different risk of development of perinatal pathology in their anamnesis. But in the cause of the insufficiency of experimental data it is to early to make strict conclusions concerning the concrete consequences of the different perinatal risks for brain organization of child’s psychic activity.

Rosas e espinhos. Representações das mulheres na arte colombiana 1868-1910

The principal aim of this article is to expose the principal approaches and conclusions of the investigation "Visible Women/Invisible Women. Representations of the women in the Colombian art 1868-1910". The analysis of paintings, drawings and lithographic series of pictures of customs during the select period shows how the representations of the women were legitimized by models differentiated for the different social sectors. The used methodology is proper of the Cultural History that studies the representations and the diffusion and circulation of the cultural productions. As categories of analysis, Pierre Bordieu's concepts were used: Field, Distinction and Habitus that were applied specifically to the studied epoch and allowed to determine the influence that the elites had both in the production of the works of art, and in the creation of practices that, associated with the manuals and the press dedicated to women defined forms of behavior that attributed these specific moral and Christian characteristics. The study concludes how a great part of the feminine selected portraits defined an idealized model of woman that added to the strategies of diffusion established by the groups of elite.

Processing of data from innovative parabolic strip telescope.

This paper presents an innovative telescope design based on the usage of a parabolic strip fulfilling the function of an objective. Isaac Newton was the first to solve the problem of chromatic aberration, which is caused by a difference in the refractive index of lenses. This problem was solved by a new kind of telescope with a mirror used as an objective. There are many different kinds of telescopes. The most basic one is the lens telescope. This type of a telescope uses a set of lenses. Another type is the mirror telescope, which employs the concave mirror, spherical parabolic mirror or hyperbolically shaped mirror as its objective. The lens speed depends directly on the surface of a mirror. Both types can be combined to form a telescope composed of at least two mirrors and a set of lenses. The light is reflected from the primary mirror to the secondary one and then to the lens system. This type is smaller-sized, with a respectively reduced lens speed. The telescope design presented in this paper uses a parabolic strip fulfilling the function of an objective. Observed objects are projected as lines in a picture plane. Each of the lines of a size equal to the size of the strip corresponds to the sum of intensities of the light coming perpendicular to the objective from an observed object. A series of pictures taken with a different rotation and processed by a special reconstruction algorithm is needed to get 2D pictures. The telescope can also be used for fast detection of objects. In this mode, the rotation and multiple pictures are not needed, just one picture in the focus of a mirror is required to be taken.

The Multilingual Inner Discourse of Vietnamese-Hungarian Bilinguals in Solving an L3 Problem-Solution Task: An Exploratory Study

This small scale exploratory study looks at the ways in which individuals who know and use more than two languages in their daily communication employ these languages in their inner discourse when they solve a linguistic task in their third language. Research into monolingual and bilingual inner discourse has revealed that societal speech is the prime mover of inner discourse and that the languages we use in social interactions are found in our inner discourse too (Barber, 1980; Bedford, 1985; Chapman Parr & Krashen, 1986; Honeycutt, 2010; Krashen, 1983). However, we know little about how this works in the case of those who organize more than two languages in their linguistic repertoire. Ten proficient bilingual Vietnamese-Hungarian secondary school students were therefore invited to provide a story in English to a series of wordless pictures. All ten participants were learning English as a first foreign language in an academic environment where the medium of instruction was Hungarian. The study used the concurrent think-aloud method to gather data. Transcribed verbal data were processed using the standards of private speech coding and analysis. The participants employed with great flexibility the languages at their disposal; however Vietnamese, the participants’ first language, had a meagre presence in the whole of the gathered data. This seems to indicate that language reliance in non-native languages is largely guided by efficiency: languages are relied on depending on their contribution to the successful completion of the task. Insertion and language alternance were the main patterns identified of L2-L3 coupling. Although the study provides data about a small group of multiple language users, it may be informative to educators engaged in the teaching multilingual learners. Further investigations are needed to reveal how the bilingual hierarchical model of language storage and processing may be extended to map the storage and processing of three languages.

Morphologie, transformation et traductibilité Le concept de mise en série chez Cassirer, Wind et Lévi-Strauss

The confrontation of Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of the symbolic forms and Levi-Strauss’ structural anthropology makes necessary to clear their definitions of morphology transformation traductibility. We will expose the morphological field where Cassirer’s aesthetics grows by placing him in relation with Goethe, who represents as for Levi-Strauss himself an important source. Defining the concept of transformation supposes to follow how he modifies the key ideas of the German poet and biologist, by taking account of the new point of view provided by the theory of groups of transformation which the mathematician Felix Klein developed into the “circle of Erlangen”. Then we will give an idea of the manner by which Edgar Wind, a brilliant student of Cassirer, invents a morphological aesthetics to provide art history with a methodology, and we will give some examples of the application of the concept of building series of pictures into the field of art history. We will interrogate the global functioning of the tables of Aby Warburg’s Atlas Mnemosyne, Erwin Panofsky’s well-known iconological interpretation of the Melencolia I of Durer and then, by contrast, the creation of a virtual and “then” real series of masks through a ruled imaginative variation, which Levi-Strauss creates to give sense to a particular Amerindian mask which he finds during his investigations. To conclude, we will interrogate the problems appearing by the definition of transformation as traductibility in both Cassirers’ and Levi-Strauss’ semiologies. We will ask for the use both make of the model of translation in linguistics so as to compare different forms of structural homologies.