Today, concepts such as place attachment, sense of place, meaning of place, place identity, has devoted many studies In literature of architecture and urban design particularly in the field of environmental psychology. It is obvious that in all these concepts, various aspects of interaction between human and place and the impact that places have on people has been presented. This paper defines ...

To grow and develop optimally, all organisms need to perceive and process information from both their biotic and abiotic surroundings. A particularly important environmental cue is light, to which organisms respond in many different ways. The responses can be simple, as in phototactic single-celled organisms, or complex, as in higher animals, which use visual inputs to modify their behavior. Ma...

Keeping track of things as they move in space and time is a task common to scientists, marketers, spies, coaches, and more. Visualizations of complex information aid drawing inferences and conclusions but there are many ways to represent data. Here we show that the kinds of inferences people draw depend on the kind of visualization, boxes in tables or lines in graphs. Lines link and boxes conta...

Psychiatry has always both interested and frightened the general public in equal measure. Forensic psychiatry, when it deals with high-profile criminal cases, is even more within the public domain. Hence, public reaction, as expressed through the media and by politicians, can be intense. This dynamic relationship between the profession and the public is accepted and understood in one direction—...

Time-Place learning (TPL) refers to the ability of animals to remember important events that vary in both time and place. This ability is thought to be functional to optimize resource localization and predator avoidance in a circadian changing environment. Various studies have indicated that animals use their circadian system for TPL. However, not much is known about this specific role of the c...

individuals create different links through their interaction with environment. during this connection, unknown spaces become places by meanings which people attach to them. it seems that the meaning, play an important role in sense which people percept from a place. in environment psychology, concepts such as sense of place and place attachment investigate as an emotional relationship between p...

Tuberculosis remains a global health pandemic. The current depiction of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis life cycle proposes that airborne bacilli are inhaled and phagocytosed by alveolar macrophages, resulting in the formation of a granuloma that ruptures into the airways to reinitiate the infectious cycle. However, this widely proposed model overlooks the fact, established 100 years ago, that t...

the term globalization undoubtedly has affected all parts of humanity life in current century. globalization as a comprehensive phenomenon has influenced economical, political, social and cultural aspects of our societies. contemporary architecture as a multidimensional category is depended on various factors and needs to be pursued in different fields, in order to reach to a perfect comprehend...