Mapping of urban land cover using remote sensing technology has been widely explored, especially with the recent availability of high resolution images and object-based processing techniques. This study uses the InterIMAGE system and WorldView-2 orbital sensor imagery, two technologies which are new and still little explored in urban studies, to classify land cover in five test-sites near to th...

The concept of nature as "totally other" -the man-nature dualism -is a basic presupposition of the Modern worldview. It is an obstacle to planning for environmental sustainability. In the framework of this worldview solutions to the environmental crisis are monistic strategies that at best bridge man and nature. These strategies, in addressing only the outer reality of the environmental crisis,...

The recent launch and operational deployment of the WorldView-2 satellite by DigitalGlobe has remote sensing experts around the world in a state of excitement. Not only does this advanced new satellite offer extremely high resolution imagery with 50cm pixels, but the 8 bands that it collects promise greater insight into classifying and mapping the world in which we live. Besides the visible col...

Shifting One's Worldview to Neurocentrism May Be Troubling, But the Evidence That This Is the Cause of Maladaptation in DBS Patients Is Lacking Adrian C. Byram & Peter B. Reiner To cite this article: Adrian C. Byram & Peter B. Reiner (2014) Shifting One's Worldview to Neurocentrism May Be Troubling, But the Evidence That This Is the Cause of Maladaptation in DBS Patients Is Lacking, A JOB Neuro...

Tea is an important but vulnerable economic crop in East Asia, highly impacted by climate change. This study attempts to interpret tea land use/land cover (LULC) using very high resolution WorldView-2 imagery of central Taiwan with both pixel and object-based approaches. A total of 80 variables derived from each WorldView-2 band with pan-sharpening, standardization, principal components and gra...

The concept of worldview is introduced and explored as a framework for creating a philosophical foundation for servant leadership. The author uses the work of Schaeffer (1968), Pearcey (2004), Murphy and Ellis (1996), and MacIntyre (1984, 1988) to demonstrate the fragmented nature of modern philosophic and scientific traditions, how this affects ethics and morality, and how this fragmentation c...

From Racism to Genocide: Anthropology in the Third Reich is a fascinating and provocative analysis of archival materials by Gretchen E. Schafft, many of which were recently discovered, that demonstrate the complicity of German anthropologists in creating, disseminating, and realizing the Nazi worldview as outlined by Adolf Hitler. As an applied anthropologist, Schafft was able to provide critic...

Terror management theory posits that people tend to respond defensively to reminders of death, including worldview defense, self-esteem striving, and suppression of death thoughts. Seven experiments examined whether trait mindfulness-a disposition characterized by receptive attention to present experience-reduced defensive responses to mortality salience (MS). Under MS, less mindful individuals...