The current study examines the generalization of the Category Adjustment Model (CAM) across scales along two dimensions: time and distance. Participants were presented with geologic time and astronomical distance information either conventionally or using the hierarchical alignment model. Participants provided with hierarchically structured magnitude information for time and distances were more...

Recent studies show that anatomical and functional brain networks exhibit similar small-world properties. However, the networks that are compared often differ in what the nodes represent (e.g. sensors or brain areas), what kind of connectivity is measured, and what temporal and spatial scales are probed. Here, I review studies of large-scale connectivity and recent results from a variety of rea...

Appropriate temporal and spatial scales vary between rehabilitation objectives. A scale appropriate within a physical or biological context might not be appropriate within a political or social context. For example, corporations and stockholders consider quarterly profits and losses to be an important measure of corporate health. Politicians often focus on election cycles as their measure of a ...

the meaning of the yard as residential open space has changed in the contemporary iranian architecture, where its dignity has transformed to the public space in the sub-neighborhood. in the new urbanism according to the land limitation and economic problem, home’s space has decrease and share building has increased. this article has been conducted to investigate the possible landscape architect...

This article examines the nexus of spatial and social mobility by focusing on how migrants in Germany use cultural, economic moral boundaries to position themselves socially transnational spaces. It is based a mixed-methods approach, drawing qualitative interviews panel data from German Socio-Economic Panel Survey. By people different origins classes sets symbolic give meaning their trajectorie...

Rotating thermal convection captures key properties of geophysical and astrophysical systems. By performing high-resolution direct numerical simulations we strongly connect the physics wall-localized states rotating with observations a boundary zonal flow where turbulent has strong localized structure similar properties. We show that as buoyancy increases at fixed rotation rate, spatial, tempor...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS During the development of an even-aged plant population, the spatial distribution of individuals often changes from a clumped pattern to a random or regular one. The development of local size hierarchies in an Abies forest was analysed for a period of 47 years following a large disturbance in 1959. METHODS In 1980 all trees in an 8 x 8 m plot were mapped and their height g...

Hyperspectral anomaly detection is one of the main challenging topics in both military and civilian fields. The spectral information contained in a hyperspectral cube provides a high ability for anomaly detection. In addition, the costly spatial information of adjacent pixels such as texture can also improve the discrimination between anomalous targets and background. Most studies miss the wort...

There is a long tradition of community ecologists using interspecific dominance hierarchies as a way to explain species coexistence and community structure. However, there is considerable variation in the methods used to construct these hierarchies, how they are quantified, and how they are interpreted. In the study of ant communities, hierarchies are typically based on the outcome of aggressiv...

In most landform classification studies – either per cell or object-based – the authors have ignored modeling the semantics of landforms explicitly. Thus, landform classification schemes rely on individual knowledge, and are too much tailored to specific areas and/or scales. Integration of structured knowledge models in the classification process has been proposed to overcome the limitations in...