We describe a patient who presented with a pure topographical disorientation after a stroke involving the right mesial occipito-temporal cortex. He could not point to external unseen landmarks or draw a map of his city, while he could recognize landmarks, and judge the distance, and describe the route between pairs of landmarks of the same city. He underwent standardized cognitive tests, and 6 ...

This paper assesses the potentiality of certainty factor models (CF) for the best suitable causative factors extraction for landslide susceptibility mapping in the Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. To test the applicability of CF, a landslide inventory map provided by National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED) was split into two subsets: (i) 70% of the la...

Accurate mapping of total soil C on the field scale is essential for evaluating efforts to sequester soil C and for providing individual producers with information on C sequestration potentials of their fields. Data on easily measured secondary variables that are strongly related to soil C are believed to be helpful in improving mapping accuracy. The objective of this study was to assess improv...

This paper explores how the original landscape map can be useful in a Japanese high-school class for teaching environmental and social diversity as an opportunity cross-cultural communication. We conducted collaborative at Tajimi High School Gifu Prefecture, which was attended by several foreign visitors (i.e., from South Africa, Namibia, France) interdisciplinary activity of biology, geography...

Drainage basin/watershed analysis based on morphometric parameters has an essential role in watershed management and planning. Reliable delineation of watersheds drainage networks is critical for hydrological geomorphological studies. Since access to high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) surface (DSMs) costly, many researchers need evaluate low-resolution open-source products. Several...

This paper describes the design of LeviTABLE, an electromagnetic controlled topographical display device. The electromagnets control the movement and displacement of an array of vertical rods. The height of these rods represents individual points of elevation in a landscape. We describe the iterative design and implementation of LeviTABLE, discuss design issues and suggest further research dire...

We review the literature on the reaction of cells to their surrounding topography. The topography may be that of surrounding cells, intercellular materials or biomaterials. The reactions include cell orientation, rates of movement, and activations of the cells. We concentrate on those papers where quantitative measurements of the reactions have been made and largely ignore those on subjective i...

The association between human hippocampal structure and topographical memory was investigated in healthy adults (N = 30). Structural MR images were acquired, and voxel-based morphometry (VBM) was used to estimate local gray matter volume throughout the brain. A complementary automated mesh-based segmentation approach was used to independently isolate and measure specified structures including t...

Soil organic matters are considered as the animal and plant residues and active components of soils. The cultivation practices will cause the quick removal of organic matters in soils even in those which are not affected by erosion. This study was carried out to assess the level of soil humus in the pilot area, to investigate the positive or negative effect of humus level on soil and to introdu...