Journal articles: 'Exotic images'

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Bakker, Laurens. "Foreign images in Mentawai: Authenticity and the exotic." Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 163, no. 2-3 (2008): 263–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134379-90003686.

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Human cultures and groups, when defining themselves, compare themselves with others. Names used to denote other groups often refer to characteristics associated with these groups, frequently in a way that expresses the superiority of the naming group or the strangeness or even danger of the named group. Derogatory terms such as ‘barbarians’, ‘head-cutters’ or simply ‘edible ones’ are examples of names referring to dangerous traits. The number of groups in the world using a name for themselves that translates simply as ‘human’ to differentiate themselves from neighbouring groups is staggering.

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Prideaux *, Bruce, Jerome Agrusa, Jon G. Donlon, and Chris Curran. "Exotic or erotic – contrasting images for defining destinations." Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research 9, no. 1 (March 2004): 5–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1094166042000199594.

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Horányi, Lilla. "Les images de l’eau dans Long cours de Simenon." Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature 42, no. 3 (October 5, 2018): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2018.42.3.66.

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In this paper we examine the way Simenon uses violent images of water in Long cours (1936). This exotic novel tells the wanderings of Joseph Mittel who leaves France with Germaine, wanted for murder. Through the analysis of the incipit and the passage about the first days of Mittel as a stoker on the boat of a smuggler we show that Simenon creates a network of references in order to elucidate the failure of the exotic experience of the main character. This allows us to reflect on Simenon’s writing process as well.

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Kaur, Ravinder. "Post-exotic India: on remixed histories and smart images." Identities 23, no. 3 (May 19, 2015): 307–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1070289x.2015.1034134.

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Gorbunova, Anastasiya A., and Rimma A. Timofeeva. "COSTUMED IMAGES À LA TURQUE IN RUSSIAN PAINTING OF THE 18TH CENTURY." RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. Series Philosophy. Social Studies. Art Studies 1, no. 1 (2022): 116–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2073-6401-2022-1-116-142.

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The article considers a number of picturesque costumed images à la turque, which means in the oriental taste, created in Russia in the 18th century. The studied works are divided into the costumed and typical images of the inhabitants of the Muslim world and a costumed portrait à la turque. It is believed that the means of creating an “oriental” image in those works was a costumizing – dressing a model in an exotic outfit perceived as a national costume of the peoples from the Muslim Orient. The work studies the history of creating costumed images à la turque in Russian art of the 18th century. It also deals with the composition and specificity of exotic costumes, the artistic-stylistic and genre features of the works under study and, when possible, identifies their pictorial sources.

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Huang, Hyat, Jutta Kunz, and Deeshani Mitra. "Shadow images of compact objects in beyond Horndeski theory." Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2024, no. 05 (May 1, 2024): 007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2024/05/007.

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Abstract A beyond Horndeski theory is considered that admits wormholes, black holes and naked singularities. In this theory the shadow images of the black holes and the exotic compact objects (ECOs), illuminated by an optically and geometrically thin disk, are investigated. The results show that the three kinds of objects cast unlike shadow images, in particular, because the different objects possess a different number of light rings. The different boundaries of the accretion disk also affect the images. This may provide further insight into the nature of the shadow images of massive compact objects.

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Mitchell, Dolores. "Images of Exotic Women in Turn-of-the-Century Tobacco Art." Feminist Studies 18, no. 2 (1992): 327. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3178232.

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Ouzman, Sven. "Indigenous images of a colonial exotic: imaginings from Bushman southern Africa." Before Farming 2003, no. 1 (January 2003): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/bfarm.2003.1.6.

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Watson, O. Michael. "Images of the exotic other and reflections of the civilized self." Reviews in Anthropology 27, no. 2 (January 1998): 191–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00988157.1998.9978198.

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Bozza, Valerio. "Gravitational lensing by black holes and their alternatives." International Journal of Modern Physics D 26, no. 05 (April 2017): 1741013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218271817410139.

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Black holes have the ability to generate infinite number of images of any given source. These relativistic images are formed by light rays winding around the black hole several times. The phenomenology associated with these images is very rich, since these features are very sensitive to the metric structure of the black hole. Here, we review some aspects of gravitational lensing by black holes and consider some fundamental aspects related to alternative solutions, which do not reproduce Schwarzschild in the asymptotic limit and are supported by exotic matter.

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Virk, Hardev Singh. "Fabrication of Nanoflowers and other Exotic Patterns." Solid State Phenomena 201 (May 2013): 159–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/ssp.201.159.

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A wide variety of metallic and metal oxide nanoflowers and other exotic patterns have been fabricated using different techniques. We have created copper and cupric oxide nanoflowers using two different techniques: electro-deposition of copper in polymer and anodic alumina templates, and cytyltrimethal ammonium bromide (CTAB)-assisted hydrothermal method, respectively. Zinc oxide and manganese oxide nanoflowers have been synthesized by thermal treatment. Characterization of nanoflowers is done in the same way as for nanowires using XRD, SEM, TEM and FESEM. Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) images record some interesting morphologies of metallic copper nanoflowers. Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM) has been used to determine morphology and composition of copper oxide nanoflowers. X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern reveals the monoclinic phase of CuO in the crystallographic structure of copper oxide nanoflowers. Nanoflowers find interesting applications in industry. There is an element of random artistic design of nature, rather than science, in exotic patterns of nanoflowers fabricated in our laboratory.

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Jamil Bani-Khair, Baker Mohammad. "Diminution and Magnification: Gothic Images in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 8, no. 5 (November 2, 2017): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.8n.5p.25.

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This paper studies two significant techniques in Jonathon Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) which are diminution and magnification as influential devices which show gothic and supernatural images throughout the whole novel. The paper investigated and analyzed the supernatural images in terms of the gothic fantasy and its elements such as the ones that relate to the sublime, horror, and exotic images. The study concluded that the use of those two techniques of diminution and magnification tend to create several and various effects on the plot, characters, and the narrative development which increase the level of suspense in a critical framework.

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Ramos, Alcida R. "Reflecting on the Yanomami: Ethnographic Images and the Pursuit of the Exotic." Cultural Anthropology 2, no. 3 (August 1987): 284–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/can.1987.2.3.02a00020.

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Lerøy Sataøen, Hogne. "“Exotic, welcoming and fresh”: stereotypes in new Nordic branding." Journal of Place Management and Development 14, no. 3 (March 4, 2021): 331–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jpmd-12-2019-0107.

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Purpose Ideas related to “the Nordic” are important in the reconstruction of national identities in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, and these countries’ modern national narratives are structurally highly similar. At the same time, there are clear differences between the Nordic countries regarding their national images. The purpose of this study is to a examine the relationship between ideas of the Nordic and national images through a qualitative study of brand manifestations on Nordic web portals for foreign visitors. Design/methodology/approach The two guiding research questions are: How do Nordic branding strategies and national stereotypes impact on nation-branding content toward visitors in the Nordic region? What traces of the Nordic as a supranational concept can be found when the Nordic is translated into concrete national brand manifestations? The analysis focuses on brand manifestations such as brand visions, codes of expression, differentiation, narrative identity and ideologies. Findings The analysis shows that clichés about the nations prevail in contemporary brand material and that Nordic branding strategies impact on the portals in diffuse and implicit ways. There are, however, some important common denominators, pointing toward a new Nordic brand related to exotic, untouched yet easily accessible nature, with a focus on pure, fresh and clean food with new tastes, in combination with happy and welcoming people. Originality/value The results from the study contribute with insight in how ideas of the Nordic on a supranational level transform when used in concrete and practical branding material. Further, this paper proposes a new Nordic branding focus, which contests traditional Nordic ideas.

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Kolpakova, Yulia. "Bestiary of Pskov Chronicles Of XV–XVII Centuries: Images of People, Enemies, Wealth and Favorite Curses of Pskov Chroniclers." Metamorphoses of history, no. 29 (2023): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.37490/s241436770027150-5.

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The article deals with the meanings and contexts of animal name mentions in the allegorical way in the text of Pskov chronicles and narratives. Allegorical mentions of domestic, wild, and exotic animals, as well as the use of epithets associated with animals are analyzed. The sources of literary borrowings referring to exotic and mythical animals such as asp, crocodile, camel, are investigated. The author concludes that chronicles and literary texts are not sufficiently informative to identify historical realities of everyday life associated with animals. At the same time, the sources provide rich ground for the study of expressive expressions in Pskov political rhetoric, historical and moral literature, and vividly characterize the worldview and figurative world of the inhabitants of the borderlands.

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Chernoff, Donald A. "Atomic-force microscopy: Exotic invention or practical tool?" Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America 51 (August 1, 1993): 526–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424820100148460.

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The Scanning Tunneling and Atomic Force Microscopes are well-known due to their extraordinary capability of imaging atoms using a simple mechanism. However, atomic resolution is usually not needed to solve most problems in development and manufacturing. So, many scientists and engineers (mistakenly) regard these new microscopes as more “exotic” than practical.Both the AFM and the STM make 3-dimensional images of solid surfaces, but the AFM has much broader applications. The reason for this is that the AFM uses a universal sensing mechanism (repulsive and attractive mechanical forces), whereas the STM uses an electrical signal, which requires that the surface be at least somewhat conductive. Using the extraordinary height sensitivity and wide scan capability of the AFM, we easily answer simple (but important) questions about surfaces and surface features, including: -Is a contaminant present?-Is a feature a pit or a peak?-How tall is it?-What is the grain size of a coating?-How rough is the surface?

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Ehmer, Emily A., and Ammina Kothari. "Coverage of Burmese refugees in Indiana news media: An analysis of textual and visual frames." Journalism 19, no. 11 (October 6, 2016): 1552–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884916671896.

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This study investigates how Burmese refugees were framed by Fort Wayne’s The Journal Gazette located in one of Indiana’s cities where refugee resettlement has taken place over the last two decades. We analyzed 335 stories and 286 accompanying images to identify salient textual and visual frames. Results show that the human interest and attribution of responsibility were most salient textual frames, while the visual frame of exotic was dominant. Feature stories were more likely to have a human interest frame and, if an image is included, to reflect the visual frame of Burmese as being exotic. As a global refugee crisis continues to unfold, this study presents implications for how media coverage of future refugees in the United States will evolve based on public opinion.

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Temirbayeva, Kamshat, Aibyn Torekhanov, Ulzhan Nuralieva, Zhanar Sheralieva, and Adam Tofilski. "In Search of Apis mellifera pomonella in Kazakhstan." Life 13, no. 9 (September 3, 2023): 1860. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life13091860.

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Apis mellifera pomonella is one of two subspecies that represent the eastern limits of honey bee (Apis mellifera) distribution, and it is important to understand its biogeography and evolution. Despite this, A. m. pomonella was not investigated after its discovery 20 years ago. In particular, it is not known if it was hybridized or not with exotic subspecies introduced by beekeepers. In this study, we analysed the variation in honey bee forewing shape in Kazakhstan. Bees were collected from apiaries, where the origin of the queens was not controlled by beekeepers; they formed a group called “local bees”, and apiaries where queens declared as either A. m. carnica or A. m. mellifera were obtained from queen breeders. The two later groups were called “exotic bees”. We showed that local bees are still distinct from exotic ones. However, some samples showed signs of introgression with exotic subspecies from lineage C. In terms of wing shape, the local bees were most similar to lineage O. We concluded that the local bees most likely represented A. m. pomonella. We provided wing images and identification data, which can help to identify A. m. pomonella and protect it in the future. It is interesting that the nearby honey bee population sourced from China, which is not separated by any clear barrier to gene flow, belonged to lineage M.

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Baldriga, I. "Before Disenchantment. Images of Exotic Animals and Plants in the Early Modern World." Journal of the History of Collections 22, no. 2 (January 13, 2010): 330–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhp053.

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Haywood, Mark. "Before Disenchantment: Images of Exotic Animals and Plants in the Early Modern World." Anthrozoös 24, no. 1 (March 2011): 107–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/175303711x12923300467609.

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Goodwin-Hawkins, Bryonny, and Hannah Gould. "Fieldwork at sunset." Focaal 2020, no. 86 (March 1, 2020): 97–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2020.860108.

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AbstractMost institutional anthropology departments have a website, to tout credentials, attract students, and offer information. These websites also take up the visual task of disciplinary representation, but their images have skipped the scrutiny that is necessary and overdue. This article analyzes online images of sociocultural anthropology across one hundred high-ranking universities worldwide. We show how, online, a discipline defined by diversity becomes readily reducible to “exotic” geographies and objectified “others.” While the urban serves as an unattractive foil, frequent images of children recall charity campaigns. Such visual tropes—which comprise a significant, public interface for anthropology—are not just awkwardly dated but also do disservice to ambitions for public anthropology. Change, we suggest, must begin at (the) home(page).

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Taroutina, Maria. "Exotic Aesthetics: Representations of Blackness in Nineteenth-Century Russian Painting." Slavic Review 80, no. 2 (2021): 267–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/slr.2021.81.

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This article focuses on a series of both iconic and little-known paintings, examining the diverse ways in which some of Russia's most prominent nineteenth-century artists such as Karl Briullov, Vasilii Polenov, and Il΄ia Repin depicted Black subjects. Through a combination of close formal readings and broader analyses of the specific contexts in which these images were produced, the article probes a number of complex and interconnected topics such as Russian exceptionalism, imperialist aesthetics, and nationalist versus cosmopolitan pictorial sensibilities. The article likewise pays close attention to the conceptual and material continuities and discontinuities between the first and second halves of the nineteenth century and considers how these paintings might have contributed to the evolving Russian discourses on race, nationality, and empire in the “long” nineteenth century.

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Park, Jin-Hyun, and Changgu Kang. "A Study on Enhancement of Fish Recognition Using Cumulative Mean of YOLO Network in Underwater Video Images." Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 8, no. 11 (November 22, 2020): 952. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jmse8110952.

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In the underwater environment, in order to preserve rare and endangered objects or to eliminate the exotic invasive species that can destroy the ecosystems, it is essential to classify objects and estimate their number. It is very difficult to classify objects and estimate their number. While YOLO shows excellent performance in object recognition, it recognizes objects by processing the images of each frame independently of each other. By accumulating the object classification results from the past frames to the current frame, we propose a method to accurately classify objects, and count their number in sequential video images. This has a high classification probability of 93.94% and 97.06% in the test videos of Bluegill and Largemouth bass, respectively. The proposed method shows very good classification performance in video images taken of the underwater environment.

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Dar, Zahoor A., Showket A. Dar, Jameel A. Khan, Ajaz A. Lone, Sapna Langyan, B. A. Lone, R. H. Kanth, et al. "Identification for surrogate drought tolerance in maize inbred lines utilizing high-throughput phenomics approach." PLOS ONE 16, no. 7 (July 27, 2021): e0254318. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254318.

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Screening for drought tolerance requires precise techniques like phonemics, which is an emerging science aimed at non-destructive methods allowing large-scale screening of genotypes. Large-scale screening complements genomic efforts to identify genes relevant for crop improvement. Thirty maize inbred lines from various sources (exotic and indigenous) maintained at Dryland Agriculture Research Station were used in the current study. In the automated plant transport and imaging systems (LemnaTec Scanalyzer system for large plants), top and side view images were taken of the VIS (visible) and NIR (near infrared) range of the light spectrum to capture phenes. All images were obtained with a thermal imager. All sensors were used to collect images one day after shifting the pots from the greenhouse for 11 days. Image processing was done using pre-processing, segmentation and flowered by features’ extraction. Different surrogate traits such as pixel area, plant aspect ratio, convex hull ratio and calliper length were estimated. A strong association was found between canopy temperature and above ground biomass under stress conditions. Promising lines in different surrogates will be utilized in breeding programmes to develop mapping populations for traits of interest related to drought resilience, in terms of improved tissue water status and mapping of genes/QTLs for drought traits.

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Govina, James Kudjo, Emmanuel Ebanyenle, Emmanuel Appiah-Kubi, Francis Wilson Owusu, James Korang, Haruna Seidu, Róbert Németh, Roland Walker Mensah, and Ruth Amuzu. "Tissue Proportion, Fibre, and Vessel Characteristics of Young Eucalyptus Hybrid Grown as Exotic Hardwood for Wood Utilization." Acta Silvatica et Lignaria Hungarica 17, no. 2 (2021): 121–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.37045/aslh-2021-0008.

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This study sought to determine selected anatomical properties of young Eucalyptus hybrid species (E. grandis x E. urophylla) grown in Ghana. Images of fibres from macerated wood, and micro–sections produced with microtome were analysed using a compound digital microscope associated with Motic Image Plus Software (MIPS), version 2.0, installed on a computer. Images were initially processed using ImageJ software. Study data were analysed using an R statistical package. The overall mean value for fibre length was 907.67 µm, whereas double fibre wall thickness was 7.76 µm. Both variables had higher mean values in sapwood than in heartwood. Nevertheless, the found values decreased from the butt to the top portion. Statistically, axial and radial positions had no influence on fibre characteristics. In a 1 mm2 of the cross-section, the proportion of fibres was 38%, vessels were 19%, axial parenchyma were 22%, and radial parenchyma were 21% on average. Again, the radial and axial positions had no statistical influence on tissue proportion traits for the young eucalyptus wood. Mean value for vessel area was 9462.04 µm2 , whereas vessel frequency per mm2 was about 14. Vessels were significantly larger in area (range 9982.50 – 13544.41 µm2 ), yet reduced in frequency (range 6 – 17 per mm2 ) for sapwood. In heartwood, vessel area was comparatively smaller (range 6321.15 – 7816.69 µm2 ), whereas their frequency was high (range 15 – 18 vessels per mm2 ). Axial and radial position had statistical influence on vessel frequency and area for the young Eucalyptus grown in a plantation in Ghana.

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CHUNG, K. W., and B. N. WANG. "AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF AESTHETIC PATTERNS ON APERIODIC TILINGS BY MEANS OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS." International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 14, no. 09 (September 2004): 3249–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218127404011314.

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A new and fast algorithm is presented in this paper for the automatic generation of aesthetic patterns on aperiodic tilings by means of dynamical systems. The Penrose tilings are used as illustration of which invariant mappings are constructed for the creation of striking patterns. A modified convergence time scheme is described to enhance the artistic appeal of generated images. This algorithm can be used to create a great variety of exotic patterns with various aperiodicities.

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Kilarski, Marcin, and Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk. "On extremes in linguistic complexity." Historiographia Linguistica 39, no. 2-3 (November 23, 2012): 279–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.39.2-3.05kil.

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Summary This article examines common motifs in the accounts of the sound systems of Iroquoian, Polynesian and Khoesan languages as the most well-known cases of extremes in phonetic complexity. On the basis of examples from European and American scholarship between the 17th and early 20th century, we investigate continuities in the description of their seemingly ‘exotic’ inventories and phonotactic structures when viewed from the perspective of European languages. We also demonstrate the influence of phonetic accounts on the interpretation of other components of language and their role in the construction of biased images of the languages and their speakers. Finally, we show that controversies in descriptions of ‘exotic’ languages concern issues that remain relevant in modern phonetic research, in particular complexity of phonological systems, while notions which were conceived as ‘misconceptions’ have re-emerged as unresolved research questions, e.g., the status of clicks and small and large consonant inventories.

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Yang, Lianghai, Jing Yan, Huiru Li, Xinyue Cao, Binjie Ge, Zhechen Qi, and Xiaoling Yan. "Real-Time Classification of Invasive Plant Seeds Based on Improved YOLOv5 with Attention Mechanism." Diversity 14, no. 4 (March 29, 2022): 254. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d14040254.

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Seeds of exotic plants transported with imported goods pose a risk of alien species invasion in cross-border transportation and logistics. It is critical to develop stringent inspection and quarantine protocols with active management to control the import and export accompanied by exotic seeds. As a result, a method for promptly identifying exotic plant seeds is urgently needed. In this study, we built a database containing 3000 images of seeds of 12 invasive plants and proposed an improved YOLOv5 target detection algorithm that incorporates a channel attention mechanism. Given that certain seeds in the same family and genus are very similar in appearance and are thus difficult to differentiate, we improved the size model of the initial anchor box to converge better; moreover, we introduce three attention modules, SENet, CBAM, and ECA-Net, to enhance the extraction of globally important features while suppressing the weakening of irrelevant features, thereby effectively solving the problem of automated inspection of similar species. Experiments on an invasive alien plant seed data set reveal that the improved network model fused with ECA-Net requires only a small increase in parameters when compared to the original YOLOv5 network model and achieved greater classification and detection accuracy without affecting detection speed.

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Caiyan, Zhong. "O exotismo na literatura orientalista portuguesa." Orientes do Português, no. 4 (2022): 163–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.21747/27073130/ori4a7.

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This paper results from an investigation with the theme of Chinese images in Portuguese literary Orientalism. The study will show the situation of Portugal in the period, which reveals the double axis (Western and national) of the critique of Orientalism Portuguese. We will look for the oriental representations in the works of the authors of the Generation of 1870, whose works renew Portuguese literature with orientalist tendencies. Next, we will develop a reading of the images of Macau in authors of the territory, which configure the symbolism in Portuguese. In addition, oriental exoticism is highlighted in Chinese female images in the works of Wenceslau de Moraes (1854-1929) and Maria Ondina Braga (1932-2003). The analysis of the female images will show the observation of the Portuguese authors about the Eastern Other. The three facets of reading will facilitate the understanding of the double axis of criticism and the perception of the construction of the Lusitanian identity with the literary imaginary of the exotic East.

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Manning, Paul. "Once Upon a Time, There Was Sex in Georgia." Slavic Review 73, no. 2 (2014): 265–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5612/slavicreview.73.2.265.

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Georgians have long found in the remote mountainous regions of Georgia, Pshavi and Khevsureti, a fragmentary ethnographic image of a romantic and exotic “once upon a time” version of Georgia. Georgians have been particularly tantalized by images of the strange sexual practices of these mountains (called ts‘ats’loba), which represent a kind of paradoxical “sex without sex,” a seeming inversion of normative Georgian sexuality, belonging at the same time to the most “Georgian” part of Georgia. Fragmentary images of this “Georgian ancestral sex” circulate in a complex, multigenred interdiscursive space of citationality, becoming, in this recirculation, a haunting absent presence, representations of a sexual alterity shot through with lacunae and absences, which become full of virtual potentiality as these gaps and absences are filled in with one's own imagination and desire. This article ethnographically traces the citational connections between these fragmentary images of sexuality.

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Stashko, O. S., and V. I. Zhdanov. "Black Hole Mimickers in Astrophysical Configurations with Scalar Fields." Ukrainian Journal of Physics 64, no. 11 (November 25, 2019): 1078. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/ujpe64.11.1078.

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We study static spherically symmetric configurations of General Relativity in the presence of one scalar field (SF). For a monomial SF potential, the solutions of the Einstein SF equations are obtained numerically; then we get distributions of stable circular orbits around the configuration and build images of the corresponding “accretion disks” from the perspective of a distant observer. We discuss also a similar problem in the case of analytic solution with a specially selected SF potential that allows the existence of a black hole. We show that the images are similar in many cases to the case of ordinary Schwarzschild black hole with a luminous ring and a dark spot at the center. On the other hand, a certain selection of model parameters leads to specific features in these images that may help to exclude some exotic models.

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Grama, Cornelia, Nicolae Grama, Ioan Zamfirescu, and Horia Hulubei. "Exotic Resonant States for One-Dimensional Twin Complex Square Potentials." Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A 68, no. 10-11 (November 1, 2013): 587–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.5560/zna.2013-0049.

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The natural modes for one-dimensional (1D) twin square potentials of complex strength g are studied. A global analysis of the natural modes based on the construction of the Riemann surfaces RIg and RII g of the multiple valued function k = k(g), where k(g) defines the poles of the transmission coefficient, is done. To each nonradiative or radiative mode a sheet of the Riemann surface is associated. All the natural modes of the system are identified and treated in a unified way. New classes of resonant state poles with exotic properties are identified on the k-plane images of the sheets of RIg and RIIg and the properties of the exotic modes are studied. The traversal time through the 1D twin square potentials is analysed. Subluminal and superluminal traversal times are evidenced. An approximate formula for the frequencies k for which the maximal superluminal velocities are gained as a function of the potential parameters is given.

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Sema, Daniel. "GERAKAN IMPRESIONISME, DEBUSSY DAN “CLAIR DE LUNE”: SEBUAH REFLEKSI TERHADAP PERUBAHAN." Jurnal Abdiel: Khazanah Pemikiran Teologi, Pendidikan Agama Kristen, dan Musik Gereja 2, no. 1 (April 12, 2018): 61–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.37368/ja.v2i1.61.

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Impressionism derives its source of inspiration from external, even exotic sources; its literature, art and music are easily projected outside; the recipient of its colorful images has the means of comparing photoreality with the artist’s experience of it. This impressionism movement starts from painting, then penetrated into other arts fields. Impressionism has changed the way people view art. It has been considered the setting stone of Modern Art. In general, impressionism has changed the perspective of art, itself.

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Bezzubikova, M. V., and Sh Piavrai. "Linguistic images in A.S. Pushkin’s travelogue «Journey to Arzrum»." Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology 28, no. 2 (July 14, 2022): 116–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.18287/2542-0445-2022-28-2-116-123.

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The discursive-cognitive nature of the linguistic image includes: (a) a subject-sensory representation (the cognitive substrate of the phenomenon), (b) a figurative word acting as its verbal exponent (c) a discursive-associative architectonics of the communicative-event meanings of the concept projecting the corresponding linguistic image. Narrative discourse plays a special role in creating a linguistic image. In this speech-thinking environment, an image-generating context is formed with the effect of the presence of the narrator. The main idea is that narrative discourse provides the ability to convey a subjective vision of the experienced fragments of a communicative event with the help of a linguistic image. Discursive expansion fills symbolic concepts with autochthonous images and reveals in travel essays a rich and multifaceted palette of the eastern worldview. The extraction of ethno-cultural meanings is based on the selected components of the linguistic image. Ethnocultural meanings serve to create a picturesque exotic flavor in A.S. Pushkins travelogue Journey to Arzrum.

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Saissi, Mohammed. "The Mysteriousness of The Cultural Space in Peter Mayne’s A Year in Marrakesh." Arab World English Journal For Translation and Literary Studies 6, no. 1 (February 24, 2022): 104–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol6no1.8.

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Peter Mayne’s A Year in Marrakesh (1953) places itself as one of the eminent Western travel narratives where the cultural space is constructed through a set of implications that glorify Western Orientalist ideology towards the Orient. Western travel narratives on this region of the world have always been loaded with tremendous representations where the constructed exotic plays a focal role. In his turn, Mayne declares his loyalty to this Western tradition given that his construction of the cultural space in Morocco is totally based on a strand of mysterious and exotic images. Therefore, this paper aims to locate the sites where the cultural space is mysteriously constructed within A Year in Marrakesh providing reasonable interpretations of such embodiment of the exotic. The main question here revolves around the assumption that the cultural space is taken by Mayne as one of the props on which the cultural otherness is contextualized for the sake of constructing the mysteriousness of Morocco. The qualitative methodology is used in this study as long as the ultimate aim is to deeply assess the extent to which the concept of Orientalism appears as a paradigm by which such construction takes place in the novel. The results of this paper highlight an Orientalist manipulation within A Year in Marrakesh by which Peter Mayne misrepresents the cultural privacy of spaces in terms of Hammam and Jamaa el-Fnaa.

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Kusukawa, Sachiko. "Patron's review. The role of images in the development of Renaissance natural history." Archives of Natural History 38, no. 2 (October 2011): 189–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2011.0028.

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This review surveys recent scholarship on the history of natural history with special attention to the role of images in the Renaissance. It discusses how classicism, collecting and printing were important catalysts for the Renaissance study of nature. Classicism provided inspiration of how to study and what kind of object to examine in nature, and several images from the period can be shown to reflect these classical values. The development of the passion for collecting and the rise of commerce in nature's commodities led to the circulation of a large number of exotic flora and fauna. Pictures enabled scholars to access unobtainable objects, build up knowledge of rare objects over time, and study them long after the live specimens had died away. Printing replicated pictures alongside texts and enabled scholars to share and accumulate knowledge. Images, alongside objects and text, were an important means of studying nature. Naturalists' images, in turn, became part of a larger visual culture in which nature was regarded as a beautiful and fascinating object of admiration.

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Kodi Ramanah, Doogesh, Nikki Arendse, and Radosław Wojtak. "AI-driven spatio-temporal engine for finding gravitationally lensed type Ia supernovae." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 512, no. 4 (March 25, 2022): 5404–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac838.

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ABSTRACT We present a spatio-temporal AI framework that concurrently exploits both the spatial and time-variable features of gravitationally lensed supernovae in optical images to ultimately aid in future discoveries of such exotic transients in wide-field surveys. Our spatio-temporal engine is designed using recurrent convolutional layers, while drawing from recent advances in variational inference to quantify approximate Bayesian uncertainties via a confidence score. Using simulated Young Supernova Experiment (YSE) images of lensed and non-lensed supernovae as a showcase, we find that the use of time-series images adds relevant information from time variability of spatial light distribution of partially blended images of lensed supernova, yielding a substantial gain of around 20 per cent in classification accuracy over single-epoch observations. Preliminary application of our network to mock observations from the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) results in detections with accuracy reaching around 99 per cent. Our innovative deep learning machinery is versatile and can be employed to search for any class of sources that exhibit variability both in flux and spatial distribution of light.

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Martynuska, Małgorzata. "The Exotic Other: Representations of Latina tropicalism in U.S. popular culture." Journal of Language and Cultural Education 4, no. 2 (May 1, 2016): 73–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jolace-2016-0017.

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Abstract U.S. Latina/o identity is a complex and panethnic construction. One of the most enduring tropes surrounding Latina women in US culture is that of tropicalism, which by erasing ethnic specificity helps construct homogenous stereotypes such as bright colours, rhythmic music, and brown skin that are represented in visual texts. Tropicalization helps position the Latina body as oversexed as well as sexually available; all that is identified with seductive clothing, curvaceous hips and breasts, long brunette hair or extravagant jewellery. The article concerns Latina images in US media and popular culture and focuses on such stars as Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek in order to explore the gendered signifiers surrounding Latinidad and Latina iconicity. The female ethnicity is depicted as other through its categorization and marginalization in relation to dominant constructions of Whiteness and femininity. The article bridges the approaches of gender studies and Latina/o studies with recent research on hybridity and transnational identities.

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OGDEN, REBECCA. "Instagram Photography of Havana: Nostalgia, Digital Imperialism and the Tourist Gaze." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 98, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 87–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2021.6.

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This article proposes to add Instagram photography to a historical visual mapping of Havana during a period of renewed visibility. Further enabled by the features of Instagram’s format to ‘age’ photos and highlight specific textures and colours, These images draw on and contribute to a nostalgic vision of an exotic, underdeveloped Havana. Instagram photography emerges as an important touristic mode of imagining and experiencing the city. Yet despite the aesthetic overdetermination of these images, their captions and hashtags often stymie any suggestion of political meaning. Nevertheless, the networked image, organized and anchored by metadata such as the geotag and hashtag, further cements the signifier ‘Havana’ to the photographic image, and confirms the city as worthy of the gaze. Lastly, the paper reflects on the broader profile of those creating and circulating Instagram images of the city, arguing that a relative lack of access to digital technologies in Cuba has resulted in a strongly asymmetric gaze from the outside in.

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Ignatius Xavier, Agnes Pristy, Francis Gracy Arockiaraj, Shivasubramanian Gopinath, Aravind Simon John Francis Rajeswary, Andra Naresh Kumar Reddy, Rashid A. Ganeev, M. Scott Arockia Singh, S. D. Milling Tania, and Vijayakumar Anand. "Single-Shot 3D Incoherent Imaging Using Deterministic and Random Optical Fields with Lucy–Richardson–Rosen Algorithm." Photonics 10, no. 9 (August 30, 2023): 987. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/photonics10090987.

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Coded aperture 3D imaging techniques have been rapidly evolving in recent years. The two main directions of evolution are in aperture engineering to generate the optimal optical field and in the development of a computational reconstruction method to reconstruct the object’s image from the intensity distribution with minimal noise. The goal is to find the ideal aperture–reconstruction method pair, and if not that, to optimize one to match the other for designing an imaging system with the required 3D imaging characteristics. The Lucy–Richardson–Rosen algorithm (LR2A), a recently developed computational reconstruction method, was found to perform better than its predecessors, such as matched filter, inverse filter, phase-only filter, Lucy–Richardson algorithm, and non-linear reconstruction (NLR), for certain apertures when the point spread function (PSF) is a real and symmetric function. For other cases of PSF, NLR performed better than the rest of the methods. In this tutorial, LR2A has been presented as a generalized approach for any optical field when the PSF is known along with MATLAB codes for reconstruction. The common problems and pitfalls in using LR2A have been discussed. Simulation and experimental studies for common optical fields such as spherical, Bessel, vortex beams, and exotic optical fields such as Airy, scattered, and self-rotating beams have been presented. From this study, it can be seen that it is possible to transfer the 3D imaging characteristics from non-imaging-type exotic fields to indirect imaging systems faithfully using LR2A. The application of LR2A to medical images such as colonoscopy images and cone beam computed tomography images with synthetic PSF has been demonstrated. We believe that the tutorial will provide a deeper understanding of computational reconstruction using LR2A.

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Hundorova, Tamara. "ROMA AS A MATRIX OF THE ‘OTHER’IN THE PROJECTION OF ORIENTALISM, RACE, AND NATION IN THE WORKS BY OLHA KOBYLIANSKA." Слово і Час, no. 6 (December 13, 2023): 3–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.33608/0236-1477.2023.06.3-19.

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The paper analyzes the images of Romani in the works by Olha Kobylianska against the background of the multiethnic situation in Bukovyna, and traces the influence of the anthropological interpretation of the Gypsies as a race and a pre-modern people on the representation of Romani in the literature of the Romanticism period and the 2nd half of the 19th century. Kobylianska treats the Gypsies not only as an exotic ‘other’ but also as an integral part of the cultural and ethnic identity of Ukrainian society and analyzes the relationship between Romani as monads and settled peasants, as well as the processes of assimilation and integration of Gypsies into the Ukrainian environment. By depicting the colourful images of the Roma in her works, Kobylianska unfolds conflict situations related to the struggle for land and the participation of ‘outsiders’ in them. The Gypsy is a figure of the stranger who serves as a matrix of ‘otherness’ for her and functions in various semantic projections. Such a matrix is projected onto the life of Hutsuls as children of nature; it correlates with the situation of reversed gender, in particular feminine identity; it serves as an attribute of exotic and oriental racial otherness. Adopting romantic oriental stereotypes about Gypsies, Kobylianska, in accordance with the anthropology of the time, marks them racially (through the signification of the ‘black’ body) and geographically (through their belonging to the Oriental world). At the same time, she brings these images closer to Ukrainian life and everyday routine and doesn’t ignore the assimilation and relations between Ukrainians and Gypsies. Settled and nomadic peoples, insiders and outsiders become the backdrop against which Kobylianska unfolds the drama of shaping the modern Ukrainian nation.

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Song, Jun-Young. "Introductory Study on Jeju-do's Tourist Images from 1960s to 1980s: Focusing on Changes in Visual Images in Tourist Photo Albums." Society for Jeju Studies 58 (August 31, 2022): 343–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.47520/jjs.2022.58.343.

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lbums and Jeju-do’s tourist brochures issued from 1960s to 1980s. It, therefore, examines how the visual typicality of Jeju-do has been created. The period suggested by this study was an inflection point in which the economy and culture of it were changed and the government-led tourist policy for transforming Jeju-do into a destination which is attractive enough to be called the ‘Oriental Hawaii’ was developed. The tourist image produced in the period was successful in promoting Jeju-do as an exotic island. The most prominent characteristics of such tourist photos, however, is that they continuously and repeatedly use the same material. Such images have formed the typicality of Jeju-do, as they have been actively used until a recent time in explaining Jeju-do. In conclusion, it would show how Jeju-do is visually perceived, as the tourist industry is changed, by analyzing the stereotyped tourist images of Jeju-do by each period, which are printed in Jeju-do’s tourist brochures and tourist photo albums. It aims to describe them as a field in which images can be exchanged, beyond visual materials for tourism.

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Boev, Zlatozar. "Bird images in the mosaics of Late Antique basilicas in the town of Sandanski (Blagoevgrad Region, SW Bulgaria)." Historia naturalis bulgarica 41, no. 2 (January 3, 2020): 13–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.48027/hnb.41.02001.

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This paper presents and analyses for the first time all data on bird images of two Late Antique basilicas of the Roman period (5th-6th c. AD) in the town of Sandanski (SW Bulgaria). A total of eight species have been recognised on the floor mosaics of both basilicas: Anas platyrhynchos, Bucephala clangula, Dendrocygna viduata, Nettapus coromandelianus, Marmaronetta angustirostris, Porphyrio porphyrio, Psittacula krameri, and Sypheotides indicus. Exotic birds of Palaeotropic (Ethiopian) and Indomalayan (Oriental) distribution confirm once again the active ancient Roman contacts with East and Trans-Saharan Africa and the Hindustan Peninsula.

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Theodorsen, Cathrine. "Political realism and the fantastic romantic German liberal discourse and the Sámi in Theodor Mügge’s novel Afraja (1854)." Nordlit 12, no. 1 (February 1, 2008): 355. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.1350.

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The novel Afraja, written by the German author and liberal Theodor Mügge and published in 1854 provides an opportunity to explore connections between travel writing and adventure stories from the perspective of one of Germany's most popular writers of the nineteenth century. The focus of my discussion in this paper is to explore the implications of the meeting between a fictional Sámi, living in the exotic North and a Danish aristocratic adventurer whose attitudes reflect the discourse of Mügge's politically liberal views. Additionally, Mügges fiction sketches out different images of the Sámi.

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CHUNG, K. W., and B. N. WANG. "TESSELLATIONS WITH SYMMETRIES OF THE TRIANGLE GROUPS FROM DYNAMICS." International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 13, no. 11 (November 2003): 3505–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218127403008624.

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A new and fast algorithm is presented in this paper for the automatic generation of aesthetic patterns with symmetries of the triangle groups T(p, q, r) by means of dynamical systems. Equivariant mappings with such symmetries are constructed. A modified convergence time scheme is described, which reflects the rate of convergence of various orbits and, at the same time, enhances the artistic appeal of generated images. Symmetrical chaotic attractors are generated by using a random iteration scheme. This method can be used to create a great variety of exotic symmetrical patterns.

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Lawrence, Natalie. "Exotic origins: the emblematic biogeographies of early modern scaly mammals." Itinerario 39, no. 1 (April 2015): 17–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s016511531500011x.

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Exotic natural objects brought to Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were mutable and malleable things. They were constructed and assimilated into European world-views in a reciprocal process of change as they moved around early modern Europe. In particular, the provenance of natural objects and the associated rich symbolic resonances were central to their natural histories. The distinctions between Orient and Occident had divided the world since antiquity and were given a range of new senses in this period. The location of these two ‘Indies’, and their relationship to one another, were neither static nor always geographically defined. This article focuses on two rich examples of this natural historical construction in relation to images of the Indies: the Old World pangolin, or scaly anteater, and its New World counterpart, the armadillo. Initially, pangolins were understood as East Indian ‘scaly lizards’, armadillos as West Indian. But from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, their geographical identities and symbolic associations were entangled as these creatures came to embody colonial anxieties and resonances. The ‘India’ of the scaly lizard became the ‘Indies’ of the scaled mammals, both East and West. Examining the reception and treatment of examples such as these in European cabinets and natural histories, offers new insights into European relationships with regions of the world seen as distant and wonderfully bountiful.

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Su, Ruowei. "The localization of exotic Buddhism——Forms of Hunping (Soul Jar) and its animals and Buddhist images." SHS Web of Conferences 180 (2023): 01010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202318001010.

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The hunping is an unusual shape of the buried Ming’s vessels. The characteristics of its shape originated from the realization of people’s concepts of life, death and funeral in ancient times, which has a strong local color and carries a variety of research values such as artistic decoration, living customs and religious myths at the same time. This paper will sort out the morphological changes of hunping in different periods, including how it evolved from the wulianguan to hunping, and analyze the reasons why wulianguan & hunping are mostly found in the South in relation to the areas where they were excavated. Then, this paper will discuss and conjecture around the funerary concepts and Buddhist connotations reflected in the Buddha statues and other decorations on hunping. The Buddhist elements on hunping aren’t an indication that Buddhism was widely spread and deeply rooted in people’s minds at that time, but only vaguely existed as part of the idea of the Divine Immortal’s formula.

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Donoso, Isaac. "Orientalisme i certesa d'Andorra: Aproximació als Haikús d'Arinsal d'Agustí Bartra." Zeitschrift für Katalanistik 35 (July 1, 2022): 393–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.46586/zfk.2022.393-400.

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Summary: Andorra appears, among some romantic images historically evoked, as the spiritual reservoir of the Pyrenees. The literary constitution of this ‘Andorran myth’ certainly represents an exercise towards orientalization, the Exotic within the verydomain of Catalan literature (balanced in some way with other traditions such as Alpinist literature). Agustí Bartra’s latest collection of poems subsumed in sixty poems the spirit of the myth through an Oriental genre (the haiku) and phenomenology. In this note we study the literary and philosophical keys to better understand this gigantic poetic exercise that gave to Andorra one of its immortal masterpieces.Keywords: Agustí Bartra, Andorra, haikus, orientalism, phenomenology

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Galdames, F., P. González, F. Magni-Pérez, S. M. Funk, F. Lepín, R. Saavedra, and H. J. Hernández. "CLASSIFICATION OF TREES IN HYPERSPECTRAL CANOPY DATA USING MACHINE LEARNING: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FOREST STRUCTURE COMPLEXITY." International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLVIII-1/W2-2023 (December 14, 2023): 1737–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlviii-1-w2-2023-1737-2023.

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Abstract. The classification of tree species by remote sensing is an important task with a broad range of applications, including forest management, environmental monitoring, and climate change studies. Hyperspectral imaging has proven to be a valuable tool for this classification. Additionally, deep learning techniques have obtained outstanding results in hyperspectral classification. In this study, we apply a neural network to the classification of aerial hyperspectral images of trees. The study was conducted at a research station in southern Chile with 32 tree species. Our database has 3080 tree canopies that have been manually segmented and classified. The goal of the work was to study the correlation between forest structure complexity and classification performance across three different forest conditions: native forest, plantation of native species, and plantation of exotic species. The results show that classification performance is higher when forest structure and composition are simpler. We used a ResNet neural network as classifier and compared its performance with support vector machine and random forest. The best performance was obtained using ResNet in exotic plantations, the forest condition with the simplest structure, achieving an F1-score of 85.23%.

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HACKETT, HELEN. "DREAMS OR DESIGNS, CULTS OR CONSTRUCTIONS? THE STUDY OF IMAGES OF MONARCHS." Historical Journal 44, no. 3 (September 2001): 811–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x01002023.

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This historiographical review surveys studies by cultural historians of images of monarchs, including Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, Charles I, and Victoria. These are not biographies, but analyses of the diverse and often contradictory representations of monarchs in their own times and afterwards. The review considers the variety of approaches in the field, from iconographical decoding to political history to the application of psychoanalysis to a national culture. It discusses the extent to which queens tend to be conflated to an enduring model of idealized femininity; how seriously we should take representations of monarchs as sacred; and the incorporation of sexuality in the royal image. It considers resistance as well as assent to the royal image, and how far the royal image as art object can become detached from the ideology which produced it. It concludes by observing our mixed motivations for interest in past ‘cults’ of monarchs, seeking in them at once the exotic difference of the past and comparisons with public figures of our own time.

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