Visual acuity is the eye's ability to detect fine details and is the quantitative measure of the eye's ability to see an in -
focus image at a certain distance.
Dr Ann Wheeler said: «The spinning disk microscope produces
focused images at high speed because it has a disk with an array of tiny holes in it which remove the out of focus light.
Not exact matches
Franklin, then just shy of her 32nd birthday and working as a research chemist
at King's College in London, had to rush off to a meeting
at the Royal Society and so didn't wait around for the full
image to come into
focus.
Instead of renting office space per se, the company
focused on helping entrepreneurs work
at home without compromising their privacy or corporate
image.
In a study, a group of researchers found that by taking a 40 - second break and simply looking
at a computerized
image of a green roof, employees»
focus on a particular task improved.
If some Westerners find the
images of gods off - putting, they may also express surprise
at finding that the lingam, the male organ, is the
focus of worship in many temples dedicated to Siva, the third god of the Hindu trinity.
Based on the content that a brand has
at its disposal, it could be more prudent to
focus on more
image - friendly platforms like Pinterest, Instagram or Tumblr.
This is exactly the kind of
image that Arsenal need to develop, and it is belief and character alone which can carry them through the tough times and
focus on the goal
at hand.
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At this stage, infant eyes will
focus on simple
images.
To stop yourself getting lost, as in other medieval cities, you have to lay map - like mental
images to one side and
focus on the details: you must remember to turn left
at the carving on the corner of this house, right when you glimpse the clock tower.
Finally ICM also commissioned a
focus group on the
image of the party leaders, asking respondents what cars they associated with the party leaders (which sounds silly, but is actually a good way of looking
at a brand
image).
«To read the two Milibands and Mr Balls was like staring with furrowed brow
at an apparently fuzzy picture,
focusing and refocusing your eyes, trying to snap the
image into sharpness until your head aches — and you realise that it isn't your eyesight: the picture itself is just a blur.»
Brain drain One set of
images focused on gray matter
at the brain's wrinkled surface, or cortex, where processing of speech, memory, motor control, emotion, sensory and other information occurs.
Gary Greenberg, a research affiliate
at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, took this 3 - D stereo
image (cross your eyes slightly until there are three
images, then
focus on the center) of a single grain of moon sand (magnified here about 300 times).
A lens invented
at The Ohio State University combines the
focusing ability of a human eye with the wide - angle view of an insect eye to capture
images with depth.
So he isolated a single ytterbium atom in a vacuum chamber, shined a laser
at it, and
focused in on the resulting 450 - nanometer gap of darkness that landed on his digital
image sensor.
«These cyanobacteria use the entire cell body as a lens to
focus an
image of the light source
at the cell membrane, as in the retina of an animal eye,» says University of London microbiologist Conrad Mullineaux, who helped to make the discovery.
Stacked macrophotography, in which each
image is a composite of between five and 50 photos, each
focused at a different point, reveals the menacing spikes and hooks in all their glory.
The lens manages to
focus sharp
images onto both of them, so the beetle can see near and far objects
at the same time, with equal sharpness.
Work
at Janelia will
focus on two areas, «the identification of general principles that govern how information is processed by neuronal circuits, [and] the development of imaging technologies and computational methods for
image analysis,» as HHMI puts it on their Web site.
The researcher's prototype device, which can be attached to a window, comprises three layers: a lens array
at the rear
focuses light onto a transparency film on which a photograph is printed; the light passes through and is projected onto a «diffuser» in front, where the
image is revealed.
For the first time, scientists working
at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new type of lens that bends and
focuses ultraviolet (UV) light in such an unusual way that it can create ghostly, 3D
images of objects that float in free space.
«Blur is normally compensated for by adjusting the lens of the eye to bring the
image back into
focus,» says study co-author Aaron Johnson, a professor in the Department of Psychology
at Concordia.
Teo de Campos
at the University of Brazil says that systems like P - REACT are a useful tool that «help the operator in a surveillance room to
focus on relevant cameras or even in relevant regions of
images».
Similarly, what's seen
at the
focus of any telescope when the
image of a star is magnified enough is the sum of the Airy patterns corresponding to all colors in the starlight.
By looking
at high - resolution
images taken by SDO and STEREO over the same time period and in different wavelengths, Alzate and her colleagues
at the University of Aberystwyth were able to
focus down on the cause of the puffs and the interaction between the small and large - scale eruptions.
And Vivek Srinivasan, an optical engineer very
focused on how we
image the eyes, who was
at Harvard / MGH and came almost to Stanford University but is thankfully right down the street
at UC Davis.
Filippetto has a goal to improve the
focus of the HiRES electron beam from microns, or millionths of a meter in diameter, to the nanometer scale (billionths of a meter), and to also improve the timing from hundredths of femtoseconds to tens of femtoseconds to boost the quality of the
images it produces and also to study even faster processes
at the atomic scale.
When using an
image to stare
at, we are evoking the power and strength of what that
image represents, while you
focus it on it as you meditate.
This stunning mug
focuses on an enlarged
image of the leaping leopard, it's paw outstretched towards the handle as if taking a swipe
at the mug user, its tail flicked inside the mug.
As such, I made this my
focus keyword knowing that people looking
at the LOFT website may very well enter the name of the item in Google to see product reviews, more detailed fit information, and additional
images.
Daily emails with your challenges to help you
focus on one aspect of your
image and outfit
at a time.
Suffice it to say the transfer is intermittently noisy and generally looks like it's been subjected to a light cocktail of grain - filtering and edge - enhancement, though the anamorphic cinematography is naturally soft, with lens aberrations
at times throwing the upper third of the
image out of
focus entirely.
The 2.35:1, 1080p
image contains a lot of soft
focus, but this is due to both the diffusion the filmmakers favour and the anamorphic lenses that were available to them
at the time.
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Robert Altman's unloved mood piece,
Images, his middle - child in a triptych of eerie, unsettling films
focused intensely and enigmatically on the female psyche (following the exceptional The Cold Day in the Park in 1969 and preceding lauded masterpiece 3 Women in 1977),
at last gets the loving restoration it deserves thanks to Arrow Academy.
A jubilant Ava DuVernay was named entertainer of the year
at an NAACP
Image Awards ceremony that
focused on the black community's power to create change.
A trailer is expected to hit in the next few days, and you can look
at the
images below along with the first poster for the movie,
focusing on Miller's Peter (courtesy of Empire).
The 2.40:1, 1080p transfer is extremely faithful to what was shown in theatres, in that the
image is soft -
focused, somewhat low - contrast, and features a colour palette that is
at once undersaturated and overworked, with skin tones showing some spotty grading in the opening scenes.
The Marsden / Gustafson Gallery
at FilmNorth is a creative space that brings together diverse communities and connects artists across disciplines, with a
focus on regionally - based artists whose work explores the intersection of moving
image and photography.
A jubilant Ava DuVernay was named entertainer of the year
at the NAACP
Image Awards ceremony that
focused on the black community's power to create change.
A lesson with a starter activity which
focuses students on how artists communicate ideas in different ways as well as understanding that when they look
at an
image it is usually communicating a story, a concept, a response to something.
The
focus is aimed
at the AQA
image stimulus and preparing pupils for this visual description and how to build imagery and engagement.
At this point, the need to avoid unnecessary texts, sounds, and
images in multimedia teaching is emphasized,
focusing only on the presentation of the necessary information.
This article
focuses on the usage of a particular type of talking videos as the ones created with the SlideTalk service
at www.slidetalk.net SlideTalk allows to create talking videos from simple PowerPoint presentations or any collection of
images, by simply adding a text to each slide.
Education policy would let him play up his
focus on bipartisan cooperation,
at least on issues like tenure reform, while maintaining his
image of being tough on the teacher unions and low performing school districts.
Too many schools are breaking out the cameras
at the gas station and clicking pictures of the pump instead of
focusing on capturing and showcasing
images of the real destination, a successful career.
Sourcing
images for a book can be a difficult and frustrating process, but dedicating more space to quality photography and less to grainy, out - of -
focus and poorly - framed owner - sourced shots (of some dubiously - modified vehicles
at that) would undoubtedly have improved the look as you flip through the pages.
Ford has just released new
images of their 2011
Focus at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.