Distances appear different on hills

Big secrets do not necessarily cause hills to appear steeper.

Slepian, Masicampo, Toosi, and Ambady (Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141, 619-624, 2012, Study 1) found that individuals recalling and writing about a big, meaningful secret judged a pictured hill as steeper than did those who recalled and wrote about a small, inconsequential secret (with estimates unrelated to physical effort unaffected). From an embodied cognition perspective, ...

When perception says “no” to action: Approach cues make steep hills appear even steeper

Experimental Study on Hydraulic Parameters of Vertical Drops Equipped to Horizontal Screen with Different Relative Distances

The present study aimed to investigate and compare the laboratory results of energy dissipation and length of vertical Drops equipped with horizontal Screens with the results of standard stilling basins of type one, two, three and four simple vertical Drops. For this purpose, 64 different experiments were performed on vertical Drops equipped with a horizontal Screen at relative distances of 0, ...

The Effect of Standard and Extended Curing Time in Different Distances on Composite’s Degree of Conversion

Introduction: The aim of this study was to in-vestigate the effect of irradiation duration and distance of light tip to prepared samples in two different light curing unites on the degree of conversion of resin composite. Materials and Methods: Conventional halogen and blue Light emitting diode (LED) units were used for polymerization of an Opalis resin com-posite. The conversion measurements w...

Spectral Distances of Graphs Based on their Different Matrix Representations

The investigation of the spectral distances of graphs that started in [3] (I. Jovanović, Z. Stanić, Spectral distances of graphs, Linear Algebra Appl., 436 (2012) 1425–1435.) is continued by defining Laplacian and signless Laplacian spectral distances and considering their relations to the spectral distances based on the adjacency matrix of graph. Some separate results concerning the defined di...