Artefact‐free image stitching via a better normed seam‐cutting energy function by Xiangyan Qiu, Qiaoliang Li

“…Image stitching techniques are generally decomposed into two phases: image alignment, which aligns target images with the reference images; and image composition, which fixes ghosting and visual artefacts. This work aims to propose a new strategy for the seam‐cutting method which provides visually appealing result. …”
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An improved adaptive triangular mesh-based image warping method by Wei Tang, Fangxiu Jia, Xiaoming Wang

“…A comprehensive evaluation shows that the proposed method achieves more accurate image stitching, with significantly reduced ghosting effects in the overlapping regions and more natural results in the other areas. …”
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Family perspectives on severe mental disorders and relapse prevention: a qualitative study by Sawab Sawab, Ah Yusuf, Rizki Fitryasari, R.R Sri Endang Pujiastuti, Permana Putra

“…The family treats and prevents the relapse of severe mental disorder by taking the sufferer to spiritual treatment, a shaman, being shackled (pasung) because of the assumption that the cause is evil from ghosts, magic, curses, and unbelief. Objective. The purpose of this study is to explore the experience of families preventing the relapse of severe mental disorders. …”
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Reading the (in)-between-(in) the Borderlands of North-West Ulster: Brian McGilloway as Literary Detective & Guide. by Keith McAllister, Colm Donnelly

“…Through his choice of chief protagonist, An Garda Síochána officer Benedict Devlin, McGilloway turns detective to critically investigate both the seemingly straightforward and the unseen lurking in the rural Ulster landscape; temporally and spatially, a place of displacement, loss and complicated histories, redolent and entwined with the ghosts of the past. Turning literary investigators, the authors contend that there is much to learn from this physiography, not just for the borderlands of North-West Ulster, but for the wider countryside and society beyond. …”
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Off-shell color-kinematics duality for Chern-Simons by Maor Ben-Shahar, Henrik Johansson

“…This holds both for the gauge field and the BRST ghosts, and the duality is manifest in the Feynman rules. …”
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Baris Memedi Dance in Jatiluwih Village Tabanan Bali: A Strategy to Preserve Traditional Arts by I Wayan Dana, Ni Kadek Juni Artini

“…The Baris Memedi dance depicts a group of ‘ghosts’ who live in haunted places such as graves, cliffs, and in large trees. …”
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The Cemetery and the Fear of the Dead by Vito Carrassi

“…In the ATU 1676B narrative type, an individual bets to enter a cemetery at night in order to show her/his courage and/or refute the belief of the dead as ghosts, but this gamble results in a death from fright. …”
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Madness/Disability as “Spectral Presence” in The Woman Warrior: Confusing Hegemonic Categories Through a Mad Asian American Modality by Lzz Johnk

“…By thinking together Nirmala Erevelles’ historical materialist perspective on haunting with Yen Li Loh’s conceptualization of The Woman Warrior’s Mad women as “inhuman ghosts” (2018, 231), I assert that Kingston’s Mad Asian American modality blurs distinctions between human/nonhuman, past/present/future, and discourse/matter. …”
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Deconstructing fear in Indonesian cinema: Diachronic analysis of antagonist representations in half a century of Indonesian horror films 1970-2020 by Justito Adiprasetio

“…From 1985 to 1998, there was a notable shift in Indonesian horror films, as ghostly spirits emerged as the predominant antagonistic entities. …”
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Graph SLAM-Based 2.5D LIDAR Mapping Module for Autonomous Vehicles by Mohammad Aldibaja, Naoki Suganuma

“…The optimization process is decomposed into applying Graph SLAM on nodes’ intensity images for eliminating the ghosting effects of the road surface in the XY plane. …”
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MAKNA SIMBOLIK PERTUNJUKAN KELENTANGAN DALAM UPACARA BELIAN SENTIU SUKU DAYAK BENUAQ DESA TANJUNG ISUY, KUTAI BARAT, KALIMANTAN TIMUR by , Eli Irawati, , Prof. Dr. Victor Ganap, M. Ed.

“…All of kelentangan performance in the belian sentiu ceremony play a role as the social life stabilizer of the Dayak Benuaq society of Tanjung Isuy in its individual, environment, and belief to the ghosts and the ancestorsâ�� spiritô���ô���ô���…”

Kala Malam Bulan Mengambang - 'Noir' parody with a satirical edge? / Norman Yusoff by Yusoff, Norman

“…Mamat Khalid's Kala Malam Bulan Mengambang (2008), which focuses upon an intriguing story of an investigative journalist having to confront mysterious disappearances, conspiracies and ghostly presence is a rambunctious black-and-white send-up of (Hollywood) film noir. …”
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Loss of autophagy in erythroid cells leads to defective removal of mitochondria and severe anemia in vivo. by Mortensen, M, Ferguson, D, Edelmann, M, Kessler, B, Morten, K, Komatsu, M, Simon, A

“…Proteomic analysis of erythrocyte ghosts suggests that in the absence of autophagy other cellular degradation mechanisms are induced. …”

The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: too soon to talk of echoes? by Morrison, A

“…Across all its former territories, elements of the Soviet and even the Tsarist legacy are still live political issues: tangled borders, new nationalities, patterns of migration, strategic imperatives, and open warfare all function within the ghostly framework of the Russian Empire. This is so even though the destinies of its constituent parts over the last twenty years have been so divergent, ranging from EU membership for the Baltic States to a return to the personality cult in post-communist Turkmenistan. …”

Nonidet P-40 extraction of lymphocyte plasma membrane. Characterization of the insoluble residue. by Davies, A, Wigglesworth, N, Allan, D, Owens, R, Crumpton, M

“…By analogy with similar studies with erythrocyte ghosts, it appears likely that the polypeptides are located on the plasma membrane's cytoplasmic face.…”

Geometric Parameter Self-Calibration Based on Projection Feature Matching for X-Ray Nanotomography by Shuangzhan Yang, Yu Han, Lei Li, Xiaoqi Xi, Siyu Tan, Linlin Zhu, Mengnan Liu, Bin Yan

“…Simulation and actual data from the experimental results show that the proposed method effectively realizes the calibration of geometric parameters, and the blurring and ghosting caused by geometric artifacts are corrected. …”
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Re-presenting disability : activism and agency in the museum / by Sandell, Richard, 1967-, Dodd, Jocelyn, Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie

FUSULINIDI PERMIANI NELLA SUCCESSIONE METAMORFICA DEL SOTTOSUOLO DEL M. AMIATA, TOSCANA MERIDIONALE (ITALIA) by ENRICO PANDELI, MARIO PASINI

“…P. ozawai Yabe & Hanzawa,? Chusenella sp., ghosts of Misellina sp. and ?Neofusulinella sp. This fusulinid association is indicative of the Cancellina Zone of Kubergandian age (Late Permian), which is recorded in Italy for the first time. …”
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Mechanisms of evasion of Schistosoma mansoni schistosomula to the lethal activity of complement by F. Juarez Ramalho-Pinto, Ermelinda M. R. D. Carvalho, Maria de Fátima M. Horta

“…Schistosomula treated with trypsin before incubation with NHuE ghosts did not become resistant to complement damage. …”
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Juxtavascular Microglia Scavenge Dying Pericytes and Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells in Diabetic Retinopathy by Tom A. Gardiner, Alan W. Stitt

“…Importantly, mural cells undergoing active phagocytic engulfment appeared to represent relatively early stages in autophagy-dependent cell death, suggesting that the more degraded pericyte and SMC corpses, known as “ghosts”, have evaded efficient efferocytosis and undergone secondary necrosis. …”
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