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  2. Salient (geography) - Wikipedia

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    The term salient is derived from military salients. The term "panhandle" derives from the analogous part of a cooking pan , and its use is generally confined to North America. The salient shape can be the result of arbitrarily drawn international or subnational boundaries, though the location of administrative borders can also take into account ...

  3. Salience (neuroscience) - Wikipedia

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    Salience (also called saliency, from Latin saliƍ meaning “leap, spring” [1]) is the property by which some thing stands out.Salient events are an attentional mechanism by which organisms learn and survive; those organisms can focus their limited perceptual and cognitive resources on the pertinent (that is, salient) subset of the sensory data available to them.

  4. Saliency map - Wikipedia

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    Objects that move are considered salient. Objectness: Objectness reflects how likely an image window covers an object. These algorithms generate a set of bounding boxes of where an object may lie in an image. In addition to classic approaches, neural-network-based are also popular. There are examples of neural networks for motion saliency ...

  5. Salience (language) - Wikipedia

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    As ideals become more salient they become more accessible, the more accessible the attitude object is the stronger the attitude toward the object. As accessibility increases, so does the likelihood of self-interested voting (Young). For example: In times of elections, issue relevant events are the focus of attention.

  6. Physical geography - Wikipedia

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    The exploration of Siberia is an example. In the mid-eighteenth century, many geographers were sent to perform geographical surveys in the area of Arctic Siberia. Among these is who is considered the patriarch of Russian geography, Mikhail Lomonosov. In the mid-1750s Lomonosov began working in the Department of Geography, Academy of Sciences to ...

  7. Salient - Wikipedia

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    Salient may refer to: Salient (military), a battlefield feature that projects into enemy territory; Salient (geography), an elongated protrusion of a territory; Salient (heraldry), an adjective describing a heraldic beast in a leaping attitude; Salient pole, a projecting electromagnetic pole of a field coil

  8. Social salience - Wikipedia

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    The social salience of an individual is a compilation of that individual's salient attributes. These may be changes to dress or physical attributes with respect to a previous point in time or with respect to the surrounding environment. Salient attributes of an individual may include the following: Clothing (e.g., boldly patterned clothing)

  9. Geographical feature - Wikipedia

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    Cartographic features are types of abstract geographical features, which appear on maps but not on the planet itself, even though they are located on the planet. For example, grid lines, latitudes , longitudes , the Equator , the prime meridian , and many types of boundary, are shown on maps of Earth, but do not physically exist.