Th e goal of this paper is the assessment of the impact of personal experience on visitors' perceptions of the environments of selected tourist attractions. Th e cognitive paradigm of environmental perception research was chosen and the Mehrabian-Russell general measure of information rate was used. Students from the University of South Bohemia from three diff erent study programmes (faculties)...

The adaptive humoral immune system of vertebrates functions by evolving a huge repertoire of binding proteins, which target potentially all molecules that come into contact with developing B cells. The key to endowing these binders with immunological activity is the adjustment of antibody structure and affinity against molecular targets. As a result, antibodies with a wide range of affinities a...

Working out from an encounter with a series of memorial benches at Mullion Cove, Cornwall, this paper develops an account of landscape in terms of absence and the non-coincidence of self and world. Arguing that recent work on the topics of landscape, embodiment, perception and material culture has tended to stress presence in various ways, I seek to explore instead here motifs of absence, dista...

With the rapid and vigorous growth of forest tourism, irresponsible environmental behavior tourists has caused enormous strain on forests’ ecological systems. Carrying out education in parks is conducive to promoting sustainable development tourism. To explore impact human–place emotion effects, this study took Fuzhou National Forest Park as an example construct a structural equation model comp...

A binary switch is the basic building block for information processing. The potential energy profile of a bistable binary switch is a 'symmetric' double well. The traditional method of switching it from one state (one well) to the other is to tilt the profile towards the desired state. Here, we present a case, where no such tilting is necessary to switch successfully, even in the presence of th...

Observable lip movements of the speaker influence perception of auditory speech. A classical example of this influence is reported by listeners who perceive an illusory (cross-modal) speech sound (McGurk-effect) when presented with incongruent audio-visual (AV) speech stimuli. Recent neuroimaging studies of AV speech perception accentuate the role of frontal, parietal, and the integrative brain...

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are increasingly used to appreciate how past people experienced their world. Two key approaches, visibility and cost surface studies, have been the dominant form of analysis to help archaeologists to reconstruct and visualize space, in other words to help archaeologists understand what it was like to be ‘there’ in the past. This paper seeks to question the...

Current software systems are growing ever larger and more complex. This increase in size and complexity is of course reflected in the data produced in the development process and overviewing and navigating the structure are becoming daunting tasks. This paper presents a model for visualising many important aspects of the complex, multi-dimensional, data in a software development project. The mo...

Popcorn fractals are instances of Integrated Fractal Systems involving trigonometric functions. In this paper, we study the effect of spherical, swirl and pseudo-horseshoe functions on popcorn fractals to produce talismanic and tantric designs. General Terms Fractal, Algorithm, Turbo C++, Program.