Editorial: God's Nature and Attributes

Editorial: Food, Nature, and Health: Dueling Epistemologies

Over the past two decades, the importance of addressing the complexity of the food system in ways that draw on new approaches to knowledge generation and new research paradigms has attracted significant attention (1, 2). This research topic explores the nexus of public health, food systems, food behavior, and food ways, focusing on belief systems, values, assumptions, and relationships to the f...

Editorial: The Social Nature of Emotions

Emotions are a defining aspect of the human condition. They pervade our social and professional lives, influence our thinking and behavior, and profoundly shape our relationships and social interactions. Traditionally, emotions have been conceptualized and studied primarily as individual phenomena, with research focusing on cognitive and expressive components and on physiological and neurologic...

Extraction of Attributes, Nature and Context of Images

In this paper a framework for deriving highlevel scene attributes from low-level image features is presented. Examples of attributes derived are photo-painting, indoor-outdoor, night-day and nature-city. The assignment of the attributes to images is done by a hierarchical classification of the low level features, which capture colour, texture and spatial information. A prototype for image class...

Editorial: The Global Nature of Health Information Management and Systems.

Editorial: Investigating Human Nature and Communication through Robots

The aim of this research topic was to gather findings and hypothesis on how robotic devices have changed, or may change, ways of communication between people. In the last two decades, people acquired new means for communication; cellphones, e-mail, chat, SNS, and so on. With such communication media, along with the progress in information technologies and devices such as World Wide Web (WWW) an...