The present study investigates the central concerns of the use of visuals within the four EFL textbooks taught at Iranian high schools which have been prescribed by the Ministry of Education. To do this, the four EFL textbooks were evaluated and analyzed. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze data quantitatively. The analysis indicated that over the four textbooks, 95.71 percent of all vi...

The question of whether animals perceive pictures as representation of real objects remains still unsolved. Object-picture perception is generally studied requiring animals to learn some information about real objects and transfer that knowledge to the pictorial domain, or vice versa. Here, we tackle the issue of object-picture perception from a different perspective, examining visual explorati...

BACKGROUND Still picture transmission was performed using a telemedicine system in an Emergency Medical Service (EMS) during a prospective, controlled trial. In this ancillary, retrospective study the quality and content of the transmitted pictures and the possible influences of this application on prehospital time requirements were investigated. METHODS A digital camera was used with a telem...

Emotional reactivity and the time taken to recover, particularly from negative, stressful, events, are inextricably linked, and both are crucial for maintaining well-being. It is unclear, however, to what extent emotional reactivity during stimulus onset predicts the time course of recovery after stimulus offset. To address this question, 25 participants viewed arousing (negative and positive) ...

Uncertainty about the emotional content of an upcoming event has found to modulate neural activity to the event before its occurrence. However, it is still under debate whether the uncertainty effects occur after the occurrence of the event. To address this issue, participants were asked to view emotional pictures that were shortly after a cue, which either indicated a certain emotion of the pi...

In restorative picture transforming, picture denoising has turn into an exceptionally vital practice all through the diagnose. Lessening commotion from the restorative pictures, a satellite picture and so on is a test for the analysts in advanced picture transforming. A few methodologies are there for clamour decrease. By and large dot clamour is generally found in manufactured opening radar pi...

This paper proposes the use of unequally protected key pictures to prevent temporal error propagation in error-prone video communications. The key picture may either be an intra-coded picture or a picture using a long-term motion compensation reference picture through reference picture selection. The inter-coded key picture uses previous key pictures as motion compensation reference. Key pictur...

The goal of this study was to detect the level of arousal induced by pictures of negative, positive and neutral affective valence by measuring the pupil dilation of 4 subjects. In order to detect arousal from pupil dilation data, it was necessary to reduce the effect of luminance. This required comparing the picture luminance measures to the collected pupil dilation data, and applying additiona...

In error prone environments not all the picture data can be received correctly during video transmission. Error propagation introduced by employing predictive coding may degrade the sequence quality severely. A novel method, called spare pictures, is proposed to indicate the similarity between a reference picture and other pictures. With the help of the signaled spare pictures information, rece...