Mobile remote presence systems (MRPs) are the logical next step in telepresence, but what are the ethical, social, legal, and technical implications of such systems going into the wide wild world? We explored these potential issues by immersing ourselves in a range of possible applications by re-purposing commercially available MRPs. This is a researcher-as-experimental-subject (RAES) approach ...

Until the middle of the 19th century, perfumes were reserved for the wealthiest strata of society. In contrast, the picture we see today is very different. We have come to accept and expect fragrances to be used not only in haute couture perfumes but in a wide range of consumer products from soaps and detergents to household cleaners, including bleaches. This dramatic change in the use of perfu...

We propose an integrated Mixed Reality methodology for recreating ancient daily life that features realistic simulations of animated virtual human actors (clothes, body, skin, face) who augment real environments and re-enact staged storytelling dramas. We aim to go further from traditional concepts of static cultural artifacts or rigid geometrical and 2D textual augmentations and allow for 3D, ...

The three tables here provide the reader with a snapshot of ‘‘an average week in the life’’ of the usual working-aged population between 18 and 64 years in 23 countries (see the methodological notes at the end for two slight exceptions to the age range). Table 1 covers the 168 h weekly hours for people of both sexes, Table 2 covers the weekly hours for women only, while Table 3 covers men. All ...

Humans have historically low engagement with the natural world. Global urbanization has led people to abandon wildlife-rich landscapes. The current lack of connectedness to nature is known as nature-deficit disorder. However, to encourage sustainable relationships between humans and other animals, technology to reconnect is urgently needed. The natural world is in a dire state; we are in the mi...

Polymers are widely used advanced materials, which are found almost in every material used in our daily life. To date, the importance of polymers has been much more highlighted because of their applications in different dominions of sciences, technologies and industry - from basic uses to biopolymers and therapeutic polymers. The main aim of this editorial is to accentuate the pragmatic impacts...

An overview is presented of the impact of NLO on today's daily life. While NLO researchers have promised many applications, only a few have changed our lives so far. This paper categorizes applications of NLO into three areas: improving lasers, interaction with materials, and information technology. NLO provides: coherent light of different wavelengths; multi-photon absorption for plasma-materi...

This study determined whether there is an association between social capital and a composite outcome of decline in Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and death by gender. A prospective 3.5 year cohort study was conducted in a rural town in Japan. The study participants were 984 individuals aged 65 years and older with not impaired on ADL at 2010 baseline survey. Social participation and generaliz...

Plant motifs were of great importance in the arts ancient Egypt. It was very interested decorative units and its aesthetic forms. The lotus flower is one most well-known plants Egyptian civilization due to association with religious daily life Egyptians. This fragrant colors white, blue, red, as a sacred symbol not only an component that depicted by Egyptians on walls temples, or used manufactu...