Japanese gardens are widely appreciated all over the world for sophisticated, minimal compositions and for the calm yet profound atmosphere which they engender. How are the visual elements of a garden, its rocks, moss, and shrubs, interpreted by the brain, and how do gardens achieve particular expressive and artistic effects? In this paper we suggest how principles of visual psychology can be u...

During my 2006-2007 VSGC fellowship I modeled the O2 atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon Europa. By assuming that atmospheric O2 can react with species contained in portions of Europa’s surface, my coauthors and I have been able to reproduce the O2 density variations seen by a previously-unexplained HST observation. This work included further refinements to a regolith model that I published previous t...

Visual identifiers of urban culture are recognizable by all images, largely marking it. They reflect the basic values and meanings culture, its phenomena, atmosphere. The identification these markers, analysis their changes in historical dynamics, is an important issue not only for fixing cultural identity territories cities, but also to predict development near possibly long term. article anal...

The sounds accompanying electrophonic burster meteors are characteristically described as being akin to short duration “pops” and staccato–like “clicks”. As a phenomenon distinct from the enduring electrophonic sounds that occasionally accompany the passage and ablation of large meteoroids in the Earth’s lower atmosphere, the bursters have proved stubbornly difficult to explain. A straightforwa...

Broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. italica) is a vegetable that requires the application of postharvest techniques to extend its marketability. Controlled atmosphere and 1-MCP treatments are most used to extend the shelf life of broccoli and reduce post-harvest deterioration. The aim of this study was to evaluate the visual, physicochemical and functional changes of broccoli head samples stored a...

background: parkinson's disease (pd) is a neurodegenerative disorder impairing motor, verbal and other abilities. visual evoked potential (vep) assessment is a useful method for analysis of visual system and its function. the present study was designed in order to evaluate whether vep changes are associated with pd. m aterials and methods: in the present study, 100 subjects encompassing 40 pati...

post cardiac surgery ophthalmic complications are uncommon, and sudden visual loss is one of the most important ophthalmic problems in these patients. we report a 54-year-old woman that suffered transient sudden bilateral visual loss seven days after orthotopic heart transplantation. in ophthalmologic examination positive findings were bilateral normal size pupils without direct and indirect pu...

Lighting design is an important topic of 3D scene design. There are many functions that lighting assumes in game environments, including directing attention, visibility, evoking emotions, setting atmosphere, and providing depth. Due to the unpredictability of interactive environments, current lighting design models do not adequately adapt the lighting to serve these aesthetic and communicative ...

results mean age was 41.6 ± 9.2 for the military truck drivers and 43.4 ± 10.9 for commercial truck drivers (p > 0.05). no significant difference between military and commercial drivers was found in terms of driving experience, number of mvcs, binocular va, frequency of color vision defects and cs scores. in contrast, the last ocular examination was significantly earlier in military drivers tha...

The transmission and fluorescence of the compound eye of living, intact blowflies Cuiliphoru erythrocephala, mutant chalky, were studied microspectrophotomettically. Transmission spectra were recorded under four conditions. The fly was either in the normal air environment or in a nitrogen atmosphere, and in both cases the investigated eye was adapted to red and blue light. respectively. The abs...