Incomplete Nature is about an important and difficult subject: how life and mind evolved from a world of inanimate matter. It is also about what are the right concepts to use in understanding the nature and workings of life and mind. We need to be able to conceive them in such a way that it becomes intelligible that they could have arisen naturally from the kinds of inanimate processes describe...

tourism as a growing industry needs special attention in developing countries. during last decades, nature based tourism has been growing faster than other tourism fields and it seems to grow even faster. ever growing demand for nature based tourism emphasizes the necessity of a holistic planning for preserving environment against degradation. objective of this study is to present a nature base...

Interrelationships between urban and rural areas are fundamental for the development safeguarding of viable future living conditions quality life. These not well-delineated or self-sufficient, existing interrelations may privilege one over other. Major challenges facing China Europe related to changes in climate, environment, decision-making that makes landscapes more susceptible environmental ...

Abstract This article proposes using microscopy for nature-inspired design in the early stage of “fuzzy front end” radical innovation and sustainable technology, where it would have a high positive or impact. To give taste what is possible, live virtual Nature Experience Radical Design (NERD) Jam was created. Instead starting with problem, designers, biologists, engineers, microscopists, curiou...

A novel method is proposed to retrieve image sequences with the goal of forecasting complex and timevarying natural patterns. To that end, we introduce a framework called Memory-Based Forecasting; it provides forecast information based on the temporal development of past retrieved sequences. This paper targets the radar echo patterns in weather radar images, and aims to realize an image retriev...