BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the association between weight status and exposure to bullying among 11-, 13- and 15-year-old Danish school children. Furthermore, the purpose was to investigate the potentially mediating effect of body image. METHODS Data from the Danish contribution to the international cross-sectional research project Health Behaviour in School-aged Child...

It has commonly been assumed that the many separate areas of the visual system perform modular analyses, each restricted to a single attribute of the image. A recent paper advocates a radically different approach, where all areas in the hierarchy analyse all attributes of the image to extract perceptually relevant decisions.

resolutions (currently ~20-30μm) [5]. μMRI has the advantage of generating digitized 3D images, simplifying subsequent image analyses. More importantly, μMRI is non-destructive, provides excellent soft tissue contrast, preserves tissue and blood vessel architecture, and one can obtain μMRI images with various kinds of “physiological stains” or image contrast, e.g. diffusion-weighted μMRI to vis...

Image fusion is one of the important techniques to enhance image information of remote sensing. In order to adequately make use of all kinds of remote sensing images information such as Panchromatic and threeband multi-spectral images, a novel remote sensing image fusion scheme based on wavelet transform is proposed. The fusion of multispectral (MS) and panchromatic (PAN) images, with complemen...

In this paper, a new approach is presented for improving image quality. It provides a new outlook on how to apply the enhancment methods on images. Image enhancement techniques may deal with the  illumination, resolution, or distribution of pixels values. Issues such as the illumination of the scene and reflectance of objects affect on image captures. Generally, the pixels value of an image is ...

The image content detectability and image structure preservation are closely related concepts with undeniable role in image quality assessment. However, the most attention of image quality studies has been paid to image structure evaluation, few of them focused on image content detectability. Examining the image structure was firstly introduced and assessed in Structural SIMilarity (SSIM) measu...

transmission of blast waves is a complex phenomenon and the characteristics vary with blast design parameters and geo-technical properties of medium. frequency of vibration and triggering component for structural excitation generally quantifies safe vibration magnitude. at closer distance or higher elevations than the blast locations, vertical or transverse component will be the first arrival t...

introduction: insertion or deletion of a guanine in -1607 at promoter region of matrix metalloproteinase-1 enzyme creates two allelic types for this gene in the population: 2g and 1g, respectively. 2g allele contains an extra binding site for ets transcription factors that this may increase the level of gene expression. therefore, aim of this study was investigation of the single guanine insert...

There has been steady improvement in methods for capturing bioimages. However analysing these images still remains a challenge. The Python programming language provides a powerful and flexible environment for scientific computation. It has a wide range of supporting libraries for image processing but lacks native support for common bioimage formats, and requires specific code to be written to e...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between celebrity worship and body image within the theoretical perspective of intense para-social relationships with celebrities. DESIGN Correlation and multiple regression analyses were used to examine the relationships between celebrity worship and body image. METHOD Three samples, 229 (102 males and 127 females) ado...