To Learn About Nature Look to Nature Itself

Benefits of nature: what we are learning about why people respond to nature.

People have positive aesthetic, emotional, and physiological responses to nature. Why is this so? The "savanna hypothesis," proposed by Gordon Orians, predicts that some human responses are based on innate knowledge of productive human habitats. To test this, researchers have examined particular aspects of nature that should be associated with productive human habitats to see if they trigger po...

Pnm-15: Studying about The legal nature of Embryo donation

Background: Embryo donation is one of the methods of infertility treatment. With this way, Infertile couples use a donated Embryo formed from an egg of another woman and the sperm of another man. The embryo is then placed into the woman’s womb. In order to determine the legal nature of embryo donation, a comparison has been made between this legal institution and those mentioned in our Civil La...

Does Nature Prefer Heterocycles?

Letters to Nature

HUMANS, animals and some mobile robots use visual motion cues for object detection and navigation in structured surroundings. Motion is commonly sensed by large arrays of small field movement detectors, each preferring motion in a particular direction Self-motion generates distinct ”optic flow fields” in the eyes that depend on the type and direction of the momentary locomotion (rotation, trans...

Getting Back to Nature

EVALUATIVE PROPERTIES ARE often thought to be problematic. E.g., they are said to be “unverifiable,” to “play no role in observation,” to be “queer,” to suffer from a “location problem,” and indeed “not [to be] in this world at all.”1 These charges differ in detail, and there are a variety of ways of responding to them.2 However, one general way of vindicating evaluative properties is to show t...