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color has the ability to inspire, excite, soothe, heal and even agitate. this is particularly true for children, who can be extra sensitive to color's impact. so the importance of picking out just the right color for a young child's room shouldn't be underestimated. when choosing colors to use for your rooms home it's important to think about the mood you want to create and ...

color has the ability to inspire, excite, soothe, heal and even agitate. This is particularly true for children, who can be extra sensitive to color's impact. So the importance of picking out just the right color for a young child's room shouldn't be underestimated. When choosing colors to use for your rooms home it's important to think about the mood you want to create and whether you want it ...

Categories can affect our perception of the world, rendering between-category differences more salient than withincategory ones — a phenomenon known as categorical perception (CP). Previous research has shown that basic color categories across a variety of languages yield CP in speakers of those languages. Here, we provide evidence that CP generalizes to color categories beyond the basic level....

Limited research exists on the hedonic dimensions of HCI and their relevance to usability and an even smaller set of this research is empirical in nature (Hoffman & Krauss, 2004; Schenkman & Jonsson, 2000; Zhang and Li, 2005). Furthermore, it appears that there are gender differences regarding perceptions of attractiveness, usability, and the consequent affective state of satisfaction, in websi...

California is suffering from a serious drought and the future of turfgrass and other landscape plants has never been more uncertain. Use of drought tolerant plant species should be at the forefront of water conservation management plans for golf courses and other landscapes. Warm-season or C4 grasses are better adapted to warmer, drier climates and use at least 20% less water compared to cool-s...

• Environment, and its inevitable season-to-season weather variations, is considered the main source of fluctuation in vintage quality within a region. In a 1992 study, the ideal vineyard climate was described as one with “consistently warm days –not hotand consistently cool nights throughout the growing season, but particularly around veraison, when maximum carbohydrate accumulation for color ...