Sentences with phrase «of image distortion»

Gillessen's group took similar steps to identify potential sources of error, refining their coordinate system and examining the effects of image distortion and light - source confusion on the estimates.

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Even though no one after Adam broke a command like Adam, every human after Adam has sinned (committed idolatry) because the only image of God available to humanity has been Adam's idolatrous distortion of him.

Inevitably, distortions, errors, and prejudices are introduced into the developing images of the self since the experiences on which they are based and the interpretations given to them are extremely unlikely to mirror perfectly the real world (God's perspective).

Prophetic vision of this sort — in other words, metaphor, the linking within one image of the «this here» with the «that there,» the distortion of appearances «in order to show a hidden truth» — is everywhere in this novel.

If the earlier liberals were guilty of distortion in their attempt to make Jesus over in the image of a historical evolutionist, Albert Schweitzer's work made it impossible for liberal scholarship ever again to ignore the authentically apocalyptic theme which is present in Jesus» teaching.

The dominant image of the Protestant ministry is of the preacher in the pulpit with an open Bible before him, which involves a rejection of certain aspects of medieval Catholic theology and practice, and results in some cases in pathological distortion of the preacher - pulpit - Bible image.

Yet it is unmistakably true that some of the distortions of the preaching image have resulted, directly or indirectly, from the loss of positive elements of the medieval image which were discarded, along with the unacceptable elements, when the new Protestant image was created.

So long as the image is being used properly, then, to demonstrate the attitude and relevant action of the shepherd in relation to need, our analysis has hopefully rescued the whole business from both distortion and desuetude.

Let me remind you that the immediate point has been pathologies in the conception of ministry arising from subtle distortion of the relations among the three elements in the dominant Reformation image of ministry: Bible, pulpit, and preacher.

But there have been other distortions of the ministry when the delicate relationships among the elements of this image have been lost sight of.

The most serious, troublesome, and subversive distortions of the ministry in Protestantism have come, however, from literalizing some single aspect of the preaching image and ignoring the indispensability of all the parts and the subtlety of their symbolic interrelationships.

One such distortion is a kind of premature closure on this image as if it represented the whole goal of Christian faith and life instead of what it actually is, the basic mode of ministry to evoke faith and life.

For now, it is enough to acknowledge that the very best image of the ministry, which might or might not be Bible - pulpit - preacher, is always subject to pathological distortions.

Tinder employs them more like Weberian ideal types — simplified images that make key ideas clear — than like real, historical groups, and he consistently puts the terms «Catholic» and «Reformation» in quotes to remind readers of the possible distortions.

To remedy this distortion, balance the picture of the priest pleading for mercy with the image of a child, terrified and crying when our predictions about the man's future good behavior turn out wrong.

Heck any church with those images of a white Jesus are a distortion, aren't they?

Despite their distortion and half - truths, these glamorized images have become the linchpin of the anti-trafficking movement.

An example of controlled symbolic reference would be the restraint of a scientist who suppresses his natural tendency to refer an image to some region of the environment because he knows of special circumstances that produce sensory distortion.

Even if this meaning undergoes and will undergo many distortions, it will always remain, at the deepest level... as a sign of the image of God.»

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Using this detailed computer model, the LROC team ran simulations to see if they could reproduce the distortions seen on the Oct. 13 image and determine the size of the meteoroid that hit the camera.

She has since gone on to establish herself in the field of weak gravitational lensing, which involves studying the subtle distortions in images of distant galaxies to probe the nature of mysterious dark matter and dark energy.

For fantastic electric image stabilization on the go, the Feiyu Tech G4 - QD delivers incredible ease of use and powerful three - axis, distortion - free video.

Adaptive optics are used at large ground - based telescopes to correct for image distortions caused by the motion of Earth's atmosphere.

Such distortions often create multiple images of the more remote object; the brightness of each image depends on the distribution of mass around the intervening galaxy.

This technology has the potential to reduce image distortions and more accurately differentiate cancerous from non-cancerous soft tissue,» said Adjunct Assistant Professor Tan Cher Heng, LKCMedicine Lead for Anatomy & Radiology and Senior Consultant with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

A special type of MRI developed at Hospital for Special Surgery in collaboration with GE Healthcare can show a detailed image following fracture repair, without the distortion caused by metal surgical screws that are problematic in standard MRIs.

A lens for negative refractive properties would have a flat surface and would not share the same resolution limitations and image distortions of a normal curved lens with positive refractive properties, says lead study author Anthony Hoffman, a Princeton engineering graduate student.

Researchers have spent decades working to eliminate different kinds of aberrations, which are distortions that arise in the electron - optical lens and blur the resulting images.

In the central 4:3 area of the screen, the electron beam moves at normal speed so that there is no distortion of the image's shape.

Within the lensed image of the source are small - scale distortions, which encode an imprint of how the lens galaxy's mass is distributed.

At the International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East here last week, for example, one scholar even reinterpreted well - studied ancient images as representing drug - taking rituals and drug - induced distortions.

Based on high definition 3D lossless digital imaging technology, the Compound Eye imaging system can acquire realistic 3D positional information of objects at both near and far fields, which provides a solution to image distortion caused by conditions such as insufficient light and inadequate resolution.

In such case, the image information of the object can not be accurately transferred to the image plane, resulting in distortion, deviation and noise convolution that affect the ultimate image quality.

The distortions in the image of this «guide star» tell the team the nature of the optical aberrations along either pathway.

The new microscope is essentially three microscopes in one: an adaptive optical system to maintain the thin illumination of a lattice light sheet as it penetrates within an organism, and another adaptive optical system to create distortion - free images when looking down on the illuminated plane from above.

Its wide - angle lens, designed and built by Rockwell - Collins Optronics of Carlsbad, California, produces sharp, low - distortion images that rival the best MSSS cameras have ever taken.

«We have worked for years on techniques for beating the distortions in the atmosphere and producing high - resolution images,» she said of the research.

Diffusion - weighted images with phase - encoding directions (left — right) of opposite polarity were acquired to correct for susceptibility distortion (Andersson et al., 2003).

At the heart of the AO system is a six - inch - wide deformable mirror that changes its shape up to 2,000 times per second to cancel out atmospheric distortion; the resulting images are therefore ten times sharper than previous images taken with the telescopes.

The most impressive distortions occur as the Whirlpool passes behind the center of the galaxy cluster, with multiple, stretched, distorted images of the galaxy appearing.

The updated geometric distortion correction including this time dependency can greatly improve the accuracy of the image alignment and provides a better representation of the undistorted image by as much as 0.15 pixels at the edge of the chips.

In this image, researchers observe distortions in the reaction front (the boundary between the blue and red regions) as they form on the surface of the calcite mineral, driven by the high solution acidity where the reaction fronts become unstable.

These include obsessive focus on food choice, planning, purchase, preparation, and consumption; food regarded primarily as source of health rather than pleasure; distress or disgust when in proximity to prohibited foods; exaggerated faith that inclusion or elimination of particular kinds of food can prevent or cure disease or affect daily well - being; periodic shifts in dietary beliefs while other processes persist unchanged; moral judgment of others based on dietary choices; body image distortion around sense of physical «impurity» rather than weight; persistent belief that dietary practices are health - promoting despite evidence of malnutrition.

But after truly deciding that blogger wasn't quite up for the job anymore (there's only so much image distortion i can take) I thought it was about time I transferred my little blog onto it's own host, and gave it the overhaul i'd been dreaming of!

But whilst I am happy with the new look, the focus on imagery (theres on distortion of image quality anymore) & the simple navigation & snazzy category pages (which I really wanted as part of my re-design), there were still a few things I wanted to adapt to make the blog feel a little more «me».

Those distortions are given a life of their own with his digital tools and even become cinematic devices of their own, morphing from one image to another as if released by the ghosts of early cinema.

The Dolby 2.0 audio is clear, loud, and free of distortion — sometimes to the point where it doesn't feel organically tied to the image.

Two years ago, those of us at the first press screening of Jia Zhangke's «Mountains May Depart» waited patiently as the opening scenes were replayed a few times, due to bizarre image distortions.

The image looks perfect, as it shows no grain, distortion, or any sort of defects from the source material.