A major aim of Kansei engineering is to translate human impressions into physical features of certain objects. When seeing a certain object, different individuals would try to express their impression of it with many different words even if they feel the same emotion for the object. However, no efficient approach to deal with such a large variety of impression words has been proposed so far. Th...

The encoding of either physical or semantic features of words was biased in an intentional learning situation. A modified recognition test was then employed to assess the effectiveness of this study manipulation and its consequences for retention. The Ss were required to select test items that were either physically similar, semantically similar, or identical to a study word. Results revealed t...

Berlin, E. (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.), H. R. Curran, and M. J. Pallansch. Physical surface features and chemical density of dry bacterial spores. J. Bacteriol. 86:1030-1036. 1963.-Gas-displacement and gas-adsorption techniques were used to determine the chemical density and physical surface properties of the spores of Bacillus subtilis 15U, B. cereus 720, and B. stearoth...

Acoustic-to-seismic (A/S) coupling–based mine detection is based on the ability of sound to penetrate the ground and excite resonances in buried compliant objects [1]. Sound produced in the air efficiently couples into the first 0.5 m of the soil because of the porous nature of weathered ground resulting in acoustic vibrations that are sensitive to the presence of buried mines. This phenomenon ...