Face emojis are regularly used in reviews on online shopping sites to add richness and/or levity the text. However, few researchers have investigated use of face consumer reviews. This paper examined effects number (none, one, and three) user-generated (UGRs) trustworthiness purchase intention. They found that UGRs has a profound impact consumers. A greater correlates with degree review trustwo...

When the camera was first connected to the endoscope in 1984, we did not imagine the undergoing revolution yet! At that time the pessimists claimed that nothing could be better than the human eye. But plugging this camera not only enhanced the quality of vision, improved the surgeon’s comfort and the ergonomic, but also allowed to share the vision to all the actors of the surgery. Above this an...

Humankind has dramatically transformed much of the Earth’s surface and its natural ecosystems. This process is not new—it has been ongoing for millennia—but it has accelerated sharply over the last two centuries, and especially in the last several decades. Today, the loss and degradation of natural habitats can be likened to a war of attrition. Many natural ecosystems are being progressively ra...

The article describes the background and the detailed history of computer icons featured in graphical interfaces—complete with visual examples and short descriptions of 21 interfaces (from 1981’s Xerox Star to upcoming BeOS Zeta). There is also a breakdown of various icon properties (such as size, style or number of colours). The article ends with a quick glimpse into the future and a conclusio...

Thousand cankers disease (TCD) is a newly recognized disease of various species of walnut (Juglans). Black walnut (Juglans nigra) is particularly susceptible to TCD and during the past decade it has devastated plantings of black walnut in most western states. In July 2010 thousand cankers disease was found over an extensive area around Knoxville, Tennessee, the first finding of TCD within the n...

The world of color presents no more surprising phenomenon than that of color-blindness which is ever playing a mysterious backstage role in human experience. An example of its more serious pranks is the following historic incident. Maximilian Hell of Vienna was the one astronomer to observe the transit of Venus in 1769 from the most favorable station on the globe, a position at the northern ext...

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