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Some human populations in south-east Asia have foraged for a living in shallow coastal waters for generations. Could their eyes have adapted to these challenging conditions?

Picture This: World War I Posters and Visual Culture

Picture this: visual cues enhance health education messages for people with low literacy skills.

D W m h p t h he old adage, “A picture is worth a thousand words” refers to the idea that an image may be more uccessful in communicating a story han several lines of text—but does his idea hold true for communicating ealth information to people with low iteracy skills? While people at all literacy levels ay have problems comprehending nd retaining health information for variety of reasons, inc...

Culpable versus non-culpable traffic accidents; what is wrong with this picture?

INTRODUCTION It is often implicitly or explicitly assumed in traffic accident research that drivers with accidents designated as non-culpable are a random sample from the population. However, this assumption is dependent upon differences in the criterion used for culpability. If drivers are erroneously categorized by assuming randomness, results could be grossly misleading. METHOD The assumpt...

Picture This: The State of the Art in Visualization for Complex Adaptive Systems

Visualization has an increasingly important role to play in scientific research. Moreover, visualization has a special role to play within artificial life as a result of the informal status of its key explananda: life and complexity. Both are poorly defined but apparently identifiable via raw inspection. Here we concentrate on how visualization techniques might allow us to move beyond this situ...