What can I say? Prague was an absolutely beautiful city, now my favorite city. Nearly every other new block we walked, we would be met with a nice landscape view or a building of stunning architecture and “distinct personality”. One of my favorite experiences was going alone to the Prague tower and watching the sunset fall over the city; another would be the 10-mile hike that our Czech counterp...

Remote sensing imagery has been widely used in urban growth and environment analysis with many effective and advanced strategies being developed. However, most of these approaches are separated from each other. There is an urgent need to combine different modules into some practical processing chains. Firstly, we present a comprehensive analysis of key processing chains in applying remote sensi...

Using event-related potential measures, the present study investigated the affective responses to aesthetic experience. To differentiate the objective aesthetic value from subjective aesthetic evaluation, an amended oddball task was used in which pendant pictures were presented as frequent nontarget stimuli, whereas the landscape pictures were presented as a rare target. The pendant pictures we...

Granular material s display a certain number of properties that have long been observed but only partially understood. Some resemble the properties of solids, some resemble properties of fluids and others are unique. The concept of "fourth state of matter" has been mentioned. This is perhaps precisely the reason why these materials are so fascinating and beautiful. Thus the aim of this work is ...

Zusammenfassung Januskinase-Inhibitoren (JAK-Inhibitoren) sind als Therapieoption bei einer Vielzahl chronisch-entzündlicher Erkrankung mittlerweile nicht mehr wegzudenken. Die Geschichte ihrer Entwicklung stellt ein wunderbares Beispiel erfolgreichen From-bench-to-bedside-Strategie dar. Nach Entdeckung der Bedeutung von Zytokinen und Interferone (IFN) für die Entstehung Chronifizierung entzünd...

extended abstract 1. introduction city is a living creature formed through the interaction of different forces in unique substantiality. one of the main aspects of each city is its landscape; urban landscape is the experience of people as the members of society. landscape is an objective and subjective phenomenon that is the part of peoples’ nature in a city. in fact, the process of landscape p...