This study examined the effects of two variables on spatial learning: the objects’ array (with or without a central reference point) and the learning method (virtual walk through or seeing still images). After learning the objects’ locations and their positional relations in a virtual room in egocentric reference frames, participants judged the directions to a target from an imaginary position ...

The Penman-Monteith formulation of evaporation has been criticised for its reliance upon point estimates so that areal estimates of wetland evaporation based upon single weather stations may be misleading. Typically, wetlands comprise a complex mosaic of land cover types from each of which evaporative rates may differ. The need to account for wetland patches when monitoring hydrological fluxes ...

In the current work, different methods for optimization of turbine blade internal cooling are investigated, to achieve higher cyclic efficiency and output power for a typical gas turbine. A simple two-dimensional model of C3X blade is simulated and validated with available experimental data. The optimization process is performed on this model with two different methods. The first method is ...

In the current work, different methods for optimization of turbine blade internal cooling are investigated, to achieve higher cyclic efficiency and output power for a typical gas turbine. A simple two-dimensional model of C3X blade is simulated and validated with available experimental data. The optimization process is performed on this model with two different methods. The first method is ...

This paper proposes a point cloud (PC) visual quality assessment (VQA) framework that reflects the human system (HVS). The proposed compares natural images acquired using digital camera and PC generated via 2D projection in terms of appropriate objective evaluation metrics. Humans primarily consume images; thus, knowledge is typically formed from images. Thus, can be more reliable reference dat...