Sense of coherence (SOC) is thought to be a stress-buffering personality construct. We explored if SOC has a moderating effect on the distress experienced following mortality salience. SOC, mindfulness, neuroticism, and meaning in life were measured as potential moderators. Participants reported on death anxiety and completed a worldview defense task. Results indicated that all potential modera...

One line of theorizing suggests considering death reminders—i.e., mortality salience (MS) inductions—unique in their effect on worldview defenses (e.g., Pyszczynski et al., 2006). Other theorizing suggests that meaning and certainty threats produce effects similar to MS and thus that these threats be considered theoretically equivalent (e.g., Proulx & Heine, 2006; McGregor, 2006). To help recon...

Detailed information on tree cover structure is critical for research and monitoring programs targeting African woodlands, including agroforestry parklands. High spatial resolution satellite imagery represents a potentially effective alternative to field-based surveys, but requires the development of accurate methods to automate information extraction. This study presents a method for tree crow...

Due to its capacity to describe detailed information., high spatial resolution remote sensing technology has been used increasely in forest resource dynamic monitoring, especially at large scale. Based on 0.5m resolution Worldview-2 data and 1:10000 forest stand-wise vector data, monitoring on forest resource dynamic during 2010-2011 in Pingtan Island is carried out. Object-oriented classificat...