The Japanese rock garden with the hidden order (fractal structure) is said to give the quiet and sophisticated impression. The perspective devices which are hard to notice are also said to be useful to show the narrow garden widely. This research was carried out to confirm the effect of such hidden devices in the rock garden using 2D-CG pictures. The whole impression of the gardens was examined...

This thesis presents NL-Soar, a detailed computational model of human sentence comprehension that accounts for a broad range of psycholinguistic phenomena. NL-Soar provides in-depth accounts of structural ambiguity resolution, garden path effects, unproblematic ambiguities, parsing breakdown on difficult embeddings, acceptable embeddings, immediacy of interpretation, and the time course of comp...

Micromechanical properties that help mediate herbivore access may be particularly important when considering herbivorous insects that feed with piercing-sucking stylets. We used microindentation to quantify the micromechanical properties of hemlock, Tsuga spp., to quantify the hardness of the feeding site of the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae. We measured hardness of the hemloc...

A residential garden contributes to mental health in modern life. Gardening is a common recreational activity. From the view of the Kansei engineering, designing the garden is a quite difficult subject. Since garden components such as stones and trees are widely diversified, then number of possible design elements becomes quite large. Meanwhile, evaluation samples that can be used for Kansei Ev...

We describe procedural methods we have developed to automatically create layouts for non-formal parks and gardens. Given the topography of the parkland, we have created algorithms for automatically creating lakes, bridges and paths. In particular, we have designed a novel efficient bridge-siting algorithm that selects n appropriate sites to build bridges across a park lake, where n is set by th...

Forest bathing is based upon a Japanese practice known as Shinrin–Yoku and nature-based therapy involving mindful walks through ancient woodland to reduce stress anxiety. One proposed mechanism behind the effectiveness of on potential mental physical health benefits natural volatile organic compounds (NVOCs) that fill forest understory. Surprisingly little about concentrations diversity plant N...