Cities across the United States that have considerable vacant land are debating whether to foster community gardens on that land, while cities with land shortages are debating when to replace gardens with other uses. Meanwhile, many cities are looking for new ways to finance green spaces. Little empirical evidence about the neighborhood impacts of community gardens is available, however, to inf...

A channel transformation based on opponent-color theory of the color vision models is applied to optical pattern recognition so that the conventional red, green, and blue (RGB) channels are transformed into bright–dark, red–green, and yellow–blue (ATD) channels. Matched filtering and correlation are performed over the new components of the target and the scene in the ATD system. The proposed tr...

background: color blindness is an inherited disorder in which a person cannot distinguish colors from each other.  color blind drivers are involved in car accident twice as much as others. according to the importance of identifying causes of a lot of car accidents in iran and shortage of similar studies in this regards, this research was done to study the prevalence of color blindness in driver...

Consumer choices reflect not only price and quality preferences but also social and moral values, as witnessed in the remarkable growth of the global market for organic and environmentally friendly products. Building on recent research on behavioral priming and moral regulation, we found that mere exposure to green products and the purchase of such products lead to markedly different behavioral...

We present a general theory of non-Markovian dynamics for open systems of noninteracting fermions (bosons) linearly coupled to thermal environments of noninteracting fermions (bosons). We explore the non-Markovian dynamics by connecting the exact master equations with the nonequilibirum Green's functions. Environmental backactions are fully taken into account. The non-Markovian dynamics consist...

The spatial structure of color cell receptive fields is controversial. Here, spots of light that selectively modulate one class of cones (L, M, or S, or loosely red, green, or blue) were flashed in and around the receptive fields of V-1 color cells to map the spatial structure of the cone inputs. The maps generated using these cone-isolating stimuli and an eye-position-corrected reverse correla...

Synopsis – Feminist health activists Sandra Coney and Phillida Bunkle researched and exposed an experiment carried out by Professor Herbert Green at National Women’s Hospital (NWH), Auckland New Zealand, involving inadequate treatment of women with carcinoma in situ. Green believed that CIS was not a precursor to invasive cancer. A public inquiry vindicated the claims of Coney and Bunkle and sh...