The role of scenic landscapes in restoring human mental fatigue has begun to receive attention from landscape researchers. However, little is known about the positive role of visually-preferred landscapes on restorative environments and in improving the mental fatigue of people. This study attempted to determine the relationship between the predictors of preference and restorative components of...

In a series of engaging observations on colonialism and territorial conquest, Edward Said crafted the notion of “imaginative geography” to describe the ideological impulses of dominant groups seeking control of places and people.1 According to Said, imagined geography is a process initiated by groups with territorial ambitions who reinvent meanings about the landscapes they covet, and frame dis...

Natural image understanding is a very active and promising research domain both in psychology for visual perception modelling and in computer science for image retrieval. In this study, we investigate the eciency of orientation distributions over the whole image in the scale space. The global distribution of the local dominant orientations (LDO) appears to be a powerful feature for discriminat...

We developed and applied a computational approach to simulate functional effects of the global circulating mutation D614G SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. All-atom molecular dynamics simulations are combined with deep mutational scanning analysis residue interaction networks investigate conformational landscapes energetics proteins in different states mutant. The results collective motions demonstrate...

Urban landscapes and their possible changes can be visually represented in 3D Geovisualization. In this study, forthcoming changes at Aalborg University, Denmark, have been visualized in three different visual representations: a 2D Plan View, a simple 3D Model View and a photorealistic 3D World View. Ten subjects and two expert evaluators have been consulted with the purpose of studying the use...