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Navigation: Am I really Lost or Virtually There

Data is presented from virtual environment (VE) navigation studies that used buildingand chessboard-type layouts. Participants learned by repeated navigation, spending several hours in each environment. While some participants quickly learned to navigate efficiently, others remained almost totally disoriented. In the virtual buildings this disorientation was illustrated by mean direction estima...

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Consciousness Reframed , Making Reality Really Real

In my work as a sculptor I am faced with a paradox, how to approach the real, the secret of things in a visual/spatial medium. How does a plastic artist go beyond superficial appearance in search of a more fundamental reality? I summarise my thinking and practice as a praxis, a ‘practice based metaphysics’. My ‘open sculptural systems’, multi-component contextually responsive sculpture-kits can...

Homosexuality identification models: review study

Identity exploration process is one of the most important tasks that everyone should do in life which is, in fact, the same answer to question of "Who am I". During the identification process, person initially concludes that "I am a man" or " I am a woman" which is named gender identity. After defining themselves, the person chooses a partner, that this choice represents his sexual orientation....

What Really Matters: Living Longer or Living Healthier; Comment on “Shanghai Rising: Health Improvements as Measured by Avoidable Mortality Since 2000”

The decline in Avoidable Mortality (AM) and increase in life expectancy in Shanghai is impressive. Gusmano and colleagues suggested that Shanghai’s improved health system has contributed significantly to this decline in AM. However, when compared to other global cities, Shanghai’s life expectancy at birth is improving as London and New York City, but has yet to surpass that of Hong Kong, Tokyo,...