Lightning occurrence at higher latitudes in northwestern Europe is by far less frequent than mainland continental and the Mediterranean during most of year. Yet, as recent studies suggest, this region harbors a large fraction energetic lightning flashes on Earth, commonly referred to superbolts. In study, we examine time/locations intense cloud-to-ground (CG) strokes (>200 kA absolute value), p...

We investigated how attitudes towards social equality can influence the relationship between conservation motivation (or openness) and personal ideological preferences on the left-right dimension, and how this relationship pattern differs between Western and Central & Eastern European (CEE) respondents. Using data from the European Social Survey (2012) we found that individual-level of conserva...

Categorical perception (CP) occurs when discrimination of items that cross category boundaries is faster or more accurate than discrimination of exemplars from the same category. Categorical perception of color is observed when, for example, a green stimulus and a blue stimulus are more easily distinguished than two stimuli from the same color category (e.g., two different shades of green). Col...

It is our conjecture that the variability of colors in a pathology image effects the interpretation of pathology cases, whether it is diagnostic accuracy, diagnostic confidence, or workflow efficiency. In this paper, digital pathology images are analyzed to quantify the perceived difference in color that occurs due to display aging, in particular a change in the maximum luminance, white point, ...

Starting from the colour-matching functions measured by Stiles–Burch for a 2◦ visual field and ten individual observers, published by Trezona we have discussed certain differences between this dataset and the CIE 1931 Standard Observer. Moreover, a Standard Deviate Observer (SDO) has been developed from this dataset, loosely following the method proposed by Nayatani et al . It should be borne i...

Perhaps one of the most fascinating and important subjects to be addressed in our industry over recent years is the effect of lamp spectral distribution on visibility. In the past, it has been widely accepted that under virtually all circumstances where artificial light is used, lighting level calculations could ignore spectral effects. In IESNA and CIE practice, recommended lighting levels do ...

This paper describes the Link-the-Wiki submission of Lycos Europe. We try to learn suitable anchor texts by looking at the anchor texts the Wikipedia authors used. Disambiguation is done by using textual similarity and also by checking whether a set of link targets “makes