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the Mediterranean have also fallen by 99.99 per cent compared with previous numbers. For the rest of the top 20 predators, records were not comprehensive enough to plot a trend, though declines were evident. That may be because their decline began even earlier, when records were even more sparse, the researchers believe. “This study will hopefully contribute to a greater threat status for hamme...

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The aim of this work is to improve the digital images quality, in particular those relating to the Turin Shroud. ù The problem with Shroud images is that they are characterised by very low variations of the luminance of the various pixels. These almost unperceptible variations, cause great difficulty in analysing the images with the naked eye. Therefore some kind of elaboration becomes necessar...

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First Prize

This work shows the RGB chromatic differences of the bloodstains of the Shroud of Turin according to the chromatic relations which distinguish them, to the histograms of the brightness, to their shapes and their positions; the results obtained consider also the geometry of the body and the position of the sheet. The analysis through G/R and B/R chromatic ratios compare revealed effective: it ha...