An overview of medical image processing methods

Since human life is worthier than all things, efforts on virtual animation and visualization of human body’s viscera, without surgical interference to diagnose a disease is very important. Recently, modern medical instruments are able to produce views which can be used for better diagnoses and accurate treatment. Various standards were formed regarding these instruments and end products that are being used more frequently everyday. Personal computers (PCs) have reached a significant level in image processing, carried analysis and visualization processes which could be done with expensive hardware on doctors’ desktops. The next step is to try to find out proper solutions by software developers andengineers that help doctors to make decision by combining opportunities in these two scientific areas. The objective of the present study is to construct 3D models and present it to users on screen in personal computers by using data acquired from tomography and magnetic resonance instruments. In order to realize this objective, developing software is aimed. In the second and third sections, the datastructures and processing of 3D volumetric data in digital format, 3D visualization techniques and theoretical subjects about methods and algorithms used are explained. In the forth section, explanations on developing a software package for the realization of the objective of the study, its usage and information about software development tools used are given. In the last section, the determinations made at the end of trials in this study, difficulties met and recommendations obtained in the light of the trial results are presented

Typy ekwiwalencji i ich relewancja dla relacji pomiędzy językiem wyjściowym a językiem docelowym w kontekście tłumaczenia tekstów (fachowych)

In the article there are introduced several types of lingual equivalence and their relevance for the relations between source language and target language. Different types of equivalence, e.g. denotative, connotative, text-normative, pragmatic and formal equivalence, are demonstrated and analysed. There are also provided examples in various languages for each of the aforementioned equivalence types. Furthermore, the text contains the review and explication of selected methods used by translators to cover the lack of (appropriate) equivalents between two languages, like adaptation, paraphrase, using an expression with similar meaning, loan translation etc

Notes on a Genre to Come: Screenwriting and the 'Thesis-film'

This piece draws together two areas: screenwriting and film or video works (to be jointly referred to as ‘films’) that explicitly try to undertake a conceptual practice. Conceptual practice is to be understood here not within the exclusive framework of conceptual or abstract art, but of acts and interventions in theory of the kind that crossover between the academy and the broader culture. Interventions of this kind have (especially in the form of the essay film, and films by humanities academics) been a part of Australian screen culture since at least the 1980s. While these interventions may not appear to be central to much cultural studies work, I want to suggest that cultural studies is intertwined with them in at least three ways

Differences in demographic development of the Town of Imotski and surrounding municipalities after 1971

Rad se bavi usporedbom demografskog razvoja Grada Imotskog i okolnih općina od 1971. godine do danas. Analizirani su ključni demografski pokazatelji te mogućnosti za demografski oporavak ovoga kraja. Usporedbom demografskih pokazatelja Grada Imotskog i okolnih općina uočeni su izraženi procesi emigracije, deruralizacije i smanjenja broja stanovnika, s time da su navedeni procesi u manjoj mjeri izraženi u Gradu Imotskom, a u puno većoj u općinama iako i među njima postoje određene razlike. Neke od mogućnosti stabiliziranja negativnih demografskih trendova Imotske krajine su provođenje pronatalitetne politike te otvaranje radnih mjesta u ruralnom turizmu i planiranoj budućoj industrijskoj zoni.This paper deals with the demographic development of the Town of Imotski and the surrounding municipalities from 1971 to the present. Key demographic indicators and opportunities for demographic recovery in this region have been analyzed. Comparison of the demographic indicators of the Town of Imotski and the surrounding municipalities shows processes of emigration, deruralization and population decline, with the fact that these processes are less expressed in the Town of Imotski and much larger in the municipalities, although there are some differences between them. Some of the possibilities of stabilizing the negative demographic trends of the Imotski region are the implementation of a pro-natal policy and establishing job opportunities in rural tourism and planned future industrial zone

Associations between teachers’ personality, psychological well-being, and the quality of their cocaring relationships

Social and Behavioral SciencesRecent research has explored the conceptual similarities between coparenting relationships and parent-teacher, or cocaring relationships, in infant and toddler classrooms (Lang, 2015). Cocaring is defined as the relationship between a parent and his or her child’s early childhood educator. Due to the novelty of this cocaring concept, this study aims to fill the gaps by including an observational understanding of how cocaring dimensions are enacted in daily exchanges between parents and teachers. This study will also examine how anxiety, depression, and personality traits impact the quality of the cocaring relationship. Parents and teachers of approximately 30 infants and toddlers, between 6-36 months of age, will be videotaped during pick-up and/or drop-off times in their childcare center classroom. This sample comes from 7 full-time, licensed childcare centers in Central Ohio. Additionally, each participant will fill out several scales including the Cocaring Relationship Questionnaire (Lang et. al, 2014), the Center Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (Radloff, 1977), the Spielberg State-Trait Anxiety Scale (Marteau & Bekker, 1992), and the NEO – Five Factor Inventory -3, a measure of personality (Costa & Roberts, 2010). By analyzing self-report data and observing teachers’ cocaring interactions in the classroom setting, this study will further our understanding of predictors of cocaring relationship functioning, including anxiety, depression, and specific personality traits. The information gained from this study will prove to be valuable for furthering the field’s theoretical understanding of parent-teacher relationships for very young children, especially when it comes to the overall functioning of cocaring relationships. The observational component of this study can also serve as the foundation for future intervention strategies, bringing the field one step closer towards improving cocaring relationships, and ultimately, positively impacting the development of young children in childcare.Research Scholar AwardURO Summer Research FellowshipASC Research ScholarshipAcademic Major: Psycholog

Fotografija djece

Fotografija djece spada u specifično područje portretne fotografije. Iziskuje tehničke kao i kompozicijske zahtjeve koji su vezani uz rakurs snimanja. Ta vrsta fotografije zauzima posebno mjesto u umjetničkoj fotografiji, a za njom ne zaostaje ni značaj reklamne fotografije. Fotografiranje djece zahtjeva mnogo strpljivosti te se pri fotografiranju uvelike obraća pažnja na svjetlost i sjene. Kod male djece se koriste isključivo prirodna i blaga svjetla te se isključuje snimanje sa bljeskalicom. Kod samog snimanja se svakom djetetu pristupa različito zbog individualnih karaktera, ali se svima maksimalno prilagode uvjeti kako bi snimanje bilo što opuštenije i uspješnije. Kroz završni rad se teoretski razrađuju pristupi fotografije djece, kako s tehničkog, tako i sa sintaktičkog aspekta. Temeljem teoretskih razmatranja u praktičnom se dijelu rade, snimaju i analiziraju autorske fotografije djece