Walking is the most basic and sustainable mode of transportation, many jurisdictions would like to see increased walking rates as a way reducing congestion emission levels improving public health. In United States, trips account for 10.5% all undertaken. To increase this rate, additional research on what makes people feel more comfortable while needed. Research pedestrian quality service (QOS) ...

Economists define risk in terms of the variability of possible outcomes, whereas clinicians and laypeople generally view risk as exposure to possible loss or harm. Neuroeconomic studies using relatively simple behavioral tasks have identified a network of brain regions that respond to economic risk, but these studies have had limited success predicting naturalistic risk-taking. By contrast, mor...

The magnitude of leftward bias demonstrated in pseudoneglect has been found to differ between younger and older adults in laboratory settings. The objective of this study was to examine the association between age and asymmetries in navigation in a naturalistic setting by examining the frequency of the location of impact on participants' vehicles during crashes and near crashes. The location of...

John Dilworth Western Michigan University The outlines of a novel, fully naturalistic theory of perception are provided, that can explain perception of an object X by organism Z in terms of reflexive causality. On the reflexive view proposed, organism Z perceives object or property X just in case X causes Z to acquire causal dispositions reflexively directed back upon X itself. This broadly fun...

this study aims at evaluating the coursebooks taught at the intermediate level of adult and young adult departments of the iran language institute in terms of multiple intelligence types introduced by gardner (1983) to see to what extent such coursebooks represent the multiple intelligence theory. to fulfill the objectives, a checklist developed by botelho (2003) and localized by the researcher...

This paper presents a study on the influence of locomotion technique on presence in immersive virtual environments (VE). It is a largely extended study to an experiment conducted by Slater (1995) with groups of subjects who explore a virtual environment either by hand navigation or by walking in place, i.e. reproducing naturalistic movements similar to real walking. Naturalistic is considered h...