We address the problem of finding harmonic colors, this problem has many applications, from fashion to industrial design. The proposed approach enables to evaluate and generate color combinations incrementally. In order to solve this problem we consider that colors follow normal distributions in tone (chroma and lightness) and hue. The proposed approach relies in the CIE standard for representi...

The development of a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is described, for the accurate calculation of CIE (Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage) 1931 xy chromaticity coordinates and luminance data from visible region absorption spectra recorded in transmission mode. Using firmly established CIE principles, absorbance-wavelength data from visible spectra recorded using a Hewlett Packard 8452A diode...

The knowledge of the luminance coefficient q or of the reduced luminance coefficient r of road surface is an unavoidable requirement for designing road lighting installations able to assure adequate road luminance for visual conditions, energy consumption and traffic safety according to standard requirements. Unfortunately q available data refers to measurements made during the seventies with n...

More than a third of the European pool of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is fragmented into a number of subclades of haplogroup (hg) H, the most frequent hg throughout western Eurasia. Although there has been considerable recent progress in studying mitochondrial genome variation in Europe at the complete sequence resolution, little data of comparable resolution is so far available for regions...

Fauna Europaea provides a public web-service with an index of scientific names (including important synonyms) of all living European land and freshwater animals, their geographical distribution at country level (up to the Urals, excluding the Caucasus region), and some additional information. The Fauna Europaea project covers about 230,000 taxonomic names, including 130,000 accepted species and...

Haematite and haematite bearing rocks is a common raw material in Palaeolithic. Widespread in nature, it occurrs either in isolated oucrops or in privileged litostratigraphic formations (in Central Europe these are Lower Devonian, Lower Permian, Lower Triassic and Upper Triassic rocks). All must have provoked an interest of Palaeolithic people so we have searched for a fingerprint for all. So f...

OBJECTIVES To extend existing research on the US health disadvantage relative to Europe by studying the relationships of disability with age from midlife to old age in the US and four European regions (England/Northern and Western Europe/Southern Europe/Eastern Europe) including their wealth-related differences, using a flexible statistical approach to model the age-functions. METHODS We used...

Leadership is in fact a process of influencing followers. Characteristics of leadership are functions of time and situation and differ in different cultures and countries. Managers of international organizations should obtain enough knowledge of these cultural characteristics and differences and should have the utmost versatility while executing their leadership tasks. In this paper we have con...

Several studies examined the fine-scale structure of human genetic variation in Europe. However, the European sets analyzed represent mainly northern, western, central, and southern Europe. Here, we report an analysis of approximately 166,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms in populations from eastern (northeastern) Europe: four Russian populations from European Russia, and three populations fr...

was extensively prevalent in European Russia, Poland, and Central Europe, and it spread over a considerable portion of Western, and some parts of Southern Europe, including Bosnia, the Austrian provinces on the eastern coast of the Adriatic, several parts of northern Italy and of the Italian coast on the Mediterranean. The disease is reported to have ceased in Russia in January 1874; it was ser...