25 Metacontrast is a visual illusion in which the visibility of a target stimulus is 26 virtually lost when immediately followed by a non-overlapping mask stimulus. 27 For a colored target, metacontrast is color-selective, with target visibility 28 markedly reduced when the mask and target are the same color, but only 29 slightly reduced when the colors differ. The present study investigated ne...

genetically labelled appear as compact spots occupying any region of the adult wing of Drosophila. However, these clones stop along constant or invariant lines of the final organ. These mosaic borders delimit closed ‘compartments.” Compartments arise during development along with cell information by successive, binary, topographical partition of groups of cells with characteristic morphological...

The powder-blasting method is used to fabricate structures with a three-dimensional topography in glass using elastomeric masks. The relation between the mask opening width and the erosion depth is exploited to fabricate microstructures with varying depth in a single micropatterning step. As an application, planar three-dimensional micro-mixers were fabricated, which consist of a repeating conv...

This study examines the suitability of 30 m Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM), 250 m time-series Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) and other auxiliary datasets for mapping forest extent in China at 30 m resolution circa 2010. We calculated numerous spectral features, EVI time series, and topographical features that are helpful for forest/non-forest dist...

The current study investigates the relation between retrieval effort and the relative memory strength of mentally stored information. A previous pupillary study by Magliero (1983) showed that encoding effort reacts to the recency effect but no studies have linked effort as measured by pupillary dilation to the frequency effect. In the current study, phasic pupil dilation of 15 participants was ...

Treefall gaps are the major source of disturbance in most tropical forests. The frequency and size of these gaps have important implications for forest ecosystem processes as they can influence the functional trait distribution of tree communities, stand-level aboveground biomass and productivity. However, we still know little about the relative importance of environmental drivers of gap distur...