PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine the preferences of patients with cancer for viewing photographic art in an inpatient hospital setting and to evaluate the impact of viewing photographic art. DESIGN Quantitative, exploratory, single-group, post-test descriptive design incorporating qualitative survey questions. SETTING An academic medical center in the midwestern United States. SAMPLE 80 me...

The current study explores the appraisal and description of photography in Israeli archives in the light of paradigmatic changes in archival theory. The review of the field's literature focuses on current attitudes towards the appraisal and description of photography in archives. There has been significant criticism of the custodial, history-centric attitude of photography archivists. Alternati...

Signal acquisition is a noisy business. In photographic images, there is noise within the light intensity signal (e.g., photon noise), and additional noise can arise within the sensor (e.g., thermal noise in a CMOS chip), as well as in subsequent processing (e.g., quantization). Image noise can be quite noticeable, as in images captured by inexpensive cameras built into cellular telephones, or ...