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The Oppel-Kundt Illusion and Its Relation to Horizontal-Vertical and Oblique Effects.
2021
The Oppel–Kundt illusion consists in the overestimation of the length of filled versus empty extents. Two experiments explored its relation to the horizontal-vertical illusion, which consists in the overestimation of the length of vertical versus horizontal extents, and to the oblique effect, which consists in poorer discriminative sensitivity for obliquely as opposed to horizontally or vertically oriented stimuli. For Experiment 1, Kundt’s (1863) original stimulus was rotated in steps of 45° full circle around 360°. For Experiment 2, one part of the stimulus remained at a horizontal or vertical orientation, whereas the other part was tilted 45° or 90°. The Oppel–Kundt illusion was at its …
Innovation Activities in Baltic Countries
2013
Abstract Article discusses a research framework which brings together variety of related factors to innovation process on the basis of systemic review of theoretical and empirical studies. Aim – investigate human capital, R&D, cooperation with external environment, on innovation oriented organizational culture, and market orientation, state policy relation to the process of innovation creation in Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian innovative enterprises. Main research methods used. Monographs method - information collection and compilation of the influential factors on innovation creation. This method makes it possible to carry out a detailed study of the object, based on scientific literatur…
Derecho natural y derechos humanos: síntesis práctica y complementariedad teórica
1998
En este artículo se argumentan los siguientes puntos: 1. El lenguaje de los derechos humanos surge en Occidente en sintonía con la subjetivización de la idea de derecho iniciada a finales de la Edad Media. En ello se advierte sin dificultad la diferencia existente entre las modernas declaraciones de derechos humanos, y la doctrina clásica del derecho natural, que era una doctrina eminentemente práctica, integrada en la virtud de la justicia 2. Una fundamentación consistente de los derechos humanos en la idea de dignidad debe remitir necesariamente bien a un plano trascendental bien a un plano ontológico. Por su parte, el esclarecimiento de la idea de dignidad permite profundizar en la natur…
Give us today our daily bread: The effect of hunger on consumers’ visual attention towards bread and the role of time orientation
2021
Abstract This study investigated the effect of hunger on consumers’ visual attention during a food choice task, and the role of time orientation (i.e., present and future orientation) in this interplay. A lab-based eye-tracking experiment including 102 participants was conducted, with hunger as the manipulated factor (hungry, satiated). Participants in the satiated condition were served a breakfast buffet before the experimental tasks, whereas participants in the hungry condition were served the buffet after completion of the tasks. Both groups were exposed to a set of planograms depicting supermarket shelves and were asked to choose an option they could consider buying, while their eye mov…
Laminated carbonate deposits in Roman aqueducts: Origin, processes and implications
2013
Carbonate deposits in Roman aqueducts of Patara and Aspendos (southern Turkey) were studied to analyse the nature of their regular layering. Optical microscopy and electron-backscattered diffraction results show an alternation of dense, coarsely crystalline, translucent laminae composed of bundles and fans of elongate calcite crystals with their c-axes parallel to the long axis, and porous, fine-grained laminae with crystals at near-random orientation. The ?18O and ?13C data show a strong cyclicity and anti-correlation, whereby high and low ?18O values correspond to dense columnar and porous fine-grained laminae, respectively. Geochemical analyses show similar cyclic changes in carbonate co…
Ecological aspects of plants inhabiting Mediterranean cliffs. Challenges and prospects of life in vertical environments
2021
[ES] Esta tesis investiga las oportunidades, desafíos y limitaciones para la investigación en el campo de la ecología vegetal, en el contexto de los acantilados mediterráneos. En concreto, las especies casmofiticas, cuyos hábitats naturales se caracterizan por su acusada pendiente. Las laderas de las montañas de piedra caliza en la proximidad del mar, en la parte central y occidental del área mediterránea se consideran objetos de estudio. Los estudios se llevaron a cabo en los cinturones costeros de montaña de las costas del noroeste de Sicilia y la costa diánica en la Comunidad Valenciana. El primer capítulo, titulado "The complexity of environmental factors: cliff microclimate", investiga…
BlockSee: Blockchain for IoT video surveillance in smart cities
2018
The growing demand for safety in urban environments is supported by monitoring using video surveillance. The need to analyze multiple video-flows from different cameras deployed around the city by heterogeneous owners introduces vulnerabilities and privacy issues. Video frames, timestamps, and camera settings can be digitally manipulated by malicious users; the positions of cameras, their orientation and their mechanical settings can be physically manipulated. Digital and physical manipulations may have several effects, including the change of the observed scene and the potential violation of neighbors' privacy. To face these risks, we introduce BlockSee, a blockchain-based video surveillan…
Mutual inductance of thick coils for arbitrary relative orientation and position
2017
An exact solution method has been developed recently which gives the mutual inductance of two thin cylindrical coils in terms of line integrals of a new kind of vector potential, induced by the primary coil, around the two circular edges of the secondary coil. This paper describes the extension of this method to thick coils, by wrapping two radial integrations around these line integrals. Results are presented for two pairs of conventional coils and a combination of a superconducting coil and a Bitter coil. Excellent agreement with existing results for non coaxial coils was obtained. The trade-off between accuracy and computing time is also examined.
Deficiencies in reporting results of lesbians and gays after donor intrauterine insemination and assisted reproductive technology treatments: a revie…
2015
At a time when increasing numbers of lesbians and gays consider parenthood using reproductive assistance in infertility centers, the present review aims to summarize the results obtained so far by lesbians after intrauterine insemination (IUI) and in-vitro fertilization (IVF) using donor spermatozoa (D-IUI and D-IVF, respectively) and gays entering into gestational-surrogacy programs. Data show that gays display normal semen parameters and lesbians exhibit no specific causes of female infertility except perhaps for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and some PCOS-related factors. Pair-bonded lesbians entering into D-IUI programs, tend to have higher pregnancy and delivery percentages followin…
Evolution of OO Methods: the unified case
1997
This paper takes an evaluative look into OO methods and especially the evolution of the new snified method from its ancestors, OMT and OODA. The paper ries to classify the components of the earlier ethods and identify the parts that have been taken into the Unified ethod. The research applies the method metrics approach. For the sake of compactness we limit ourselves to the class diagram technique of all methods. We make observations about the number of concepts in each variation and show how the metrics can be used to analyse the changes in the techniques.