Stakeholders perception of biomass chain – in terms of socio-economic and environmental sustainability – is an important topic in territorial planning. On this subject rational and emotional aspects of perception have to be taken into account in participative approaches. The innovation of the present research was the application of semantic differential approach for the evaluation of bioenergy ...

urban perception is the result of mutual transaction between human and environment and the process of perception is developed through the three continuous steps of “sensation”, “perception” and “cognition”. in the first step (sensorial perception), the environmental signals are received via sensorial sensors and each different sense based on its own essence, performance and ability has its own ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the nurses' perception of hospital organization related to cultural issues on the safety of the patient and reporting medical errors. In addition, to identify factors associated with the safety of the patient and the nurse. METHODS A survey conducted during December 2008-Jannuary 2009, with 126 nurses using the Korean version of the AHRQ patient safety survey, a self-rep...

Abstract Functioning in media discourse as reference points for shaping people’s worldview, sociocultural stereotypes are considered cognitive-linguistic phenomena, formed the process of evaluative categorization. A lexical item that represents a stereotype is determined study nomen stereotype. The aim paper to outline strategies formation found American discourse. Nomina by phonetic, morpholog...

This paper discusses perception of the designed object and how our knowledge impacts on our visual perception of that designed object. It is however challenging to describe what this entails because what is being said at a technical level about perception of the designed object has an everyday counterpart. This means that the point that is being made here can be at times lost in the commonplace...

BACKGROUND Commensal as well as pathogenic bacteria can influence a variety of gut functions, thereby leading to constipation and diarrhea in severe cases. In fact, several researchers have reported evidence supporting the association between stool consistency or constipation and the Gut microbiome (GM) composition and dysbiosis. GM influences the human health and disease via the gut-brain axis...

Introduction: Auditory temporal resolution and auditory temporal ordering are two major components of the auditory temporal processing abilities that contribute to speech perception and language development. Auditory temporal resolution and auditory temporal ordering can be evaluated by gap-in-noise (GIN) and pitch-pattern-sequence (PPS) tests, respectively. In this survey, the effect of biling...

Previous research suggests that bodily self-identification, bodily self-localization, agency, and the sense of being present in space are critical aspects of conscious full-body self-perception. However, none of the existing studies have investigated the relationship of these aspects to each other, i.e., whether they can be identified to be distinguishable components of the structure of conscio...

Although Tangible User Interfaces are considered an intuitive means of human-computer interaction, they oftentimes lack the option to provide active feedback. We developed ‘Sensators’: generic shaped active tangibles to be used on a multi-touch table. Sensators can represent digital information by means of ‘Sensicons’: multimodal messages consisting of visual, auditory, and vibrotactile cues. I...

A phonological model of intonation was proposed for Kumamoto accentless Japanese and the validity of the model was examined by means of perception experiment. Twenty intonation contours including both well-formed and ill-formed ones were synthesized from the original by means of LPC resynthesis. Naturalness judgments given by 19 native Kumamoto speakers indicated that well-formed contours were ...