Over the last fifteen years, development of blockchain technologies has attracted a large volume professional expertise, capital investment and media attention. This burgeoning sector technology practices coalesced around few major initiatives (Bitcoin, Ethereum), but it is still moving at fast pace its configuration evolving. If this marked by variety technological protocols, financial arrange...

Torralba (Visual Neuroscience, 26, 123-131, 2009) showed that, if the resolution of images of scenes were reduced to the information present in very small "thumbnail images," those scenes could still be recognized. The objects in those degraded scenes could be identified, even though it would be impossible to identify them if they were removed from the scene context. Can tiny and/or degraded sc...

According to reports about 30-thousand people spent watching television had the impact on their memory and recall that the results showed no differences between men and women. The people who watched less than an hour a day did better at every memory function. As these contributors watched negative political ads, physiological responses indicated that their body was reflexively preparing to move...

This paper presents a novel approach to automatic classifying and identifying of tree leaves using image segmentation fusion. With the development of mobile devices and remote access, automatic plant identification in images taken in natural scenes has received much attention. Image segmentation plays a key role in most plant identification methods, especially in complex background images. Wher...

A randomized crossover study explored whether viewing different scenes prior to a stressor altered autonomic function during the recovery from the stressor. The two scenes were (a) nature (composed of trees, grass, fields) or (b) built (composed of man-made, urban scenes lacking natural characteristics) environments. Autonomic function was assessed using noninvasive techniques of heart rate var...

Scene-selective regions in the brain play an important role in the way that we navigate through our visual environment. However, the principles that govern the organization of these regions are not fully understood. For example, it is not clear whether patterns of response in scene-selective regions are linked to high-level semantic category or to low-level spatial structure in scenes. To addre...

Eye movements can reflect memory. For example, participants make fewer fixations and sample fewer regions when viewing old versus new scenes (the repetition effect). It is unclear whether the repetition effect requires that participants have knowledge (awareness) of the old-new status of the scenes or if it can occur independent of knowledge about old-new status. It is also unclear whether the ...