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Naturalness
About: Naturalness is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1305 publications have been published within this topic receiving 31737 citations.
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TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a comprehensive aesthetic assessment approach to realize the determination of landscape aesthetic indicators, integration of objective indicators and subjective preferences, and validation of estimations based on a four-level landscape aesthetic indicator system from the bottom features up to attributes (landscape naturalness, landscape complexity, plant species diversity, water surface, water clarity, and bank naturalness), component qualities, and finally overall quality).
Abstract: To improve human well-being, there is increasing awareness of elevating aesthetic benefits by landscape design, planning, and management. However, which landscape features and attributes may be associated with aesthetic value of an urban landscape, human aesthetic preference, and landscape practices is still not clear yet. We proposed a comprehensive aesthetic assessment approach to realise the determination of landscape aesthetic indicators, integration of objective indicators and subjective preferences, and validation of estimations. The approach was based on a four-level landscape aesthetic indicator system from the bottom features up to attributes (landscape naturalness, landscape complexity, plant species diversity, water surface, water clarity, and bank naturalness), component qualities, and finally overall quality. Fourteen metrics that could provide objective visual and spatial characters and ecological implications were identified and quantified to indicate landscape aesthetic features. Landscape aesthetic attributes, vegetation and waterbody component qualities, and overall quality were estimated by integrating objective indicators and human subjective preferences. The approach was applied to a case study of four subareas along an artificially restored riparian buffer in Beijing, China. The results showed that the modelled overall aesthetic quality was determined by both vegetation (accounting for 53%) and waterbody. The higher vegetation quality depended on the higher plant abundance, more vegetation patches, and more vegetation patch types; the higher waterbody quality depended on the clearer water and larger water surface. Compared with other features, vertical vegetation configuration, diversity of patch type and patch shape, and shrub species diversity had greater contribution to the attributes of naturalness, complexity, and plant species diversity, respectively. The modelled vegetation aesthetic attributes were directly validated using the surveyed perceptions, and the modelled vegetation and waterbody aesthetic qualities were indirectly validated by correlating with the main recreational activities. The approach is confirmed to be able to address the questions on determination, integration, and validation of landscape aesthetic indicators in some way. Thus, the approach is expected to be used for other landscapes to offer a framework for landscape practices to improve aesthetic value and cultural service.
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TL;DR: For instance, this article found that reflecting on an experience in natural environments led to a stronger naturalness bias on drug choice than reflecting on a neutral experience, which is consistent with our findings.
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11 Jun 2021
TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of naturalness with respect to a particular data collection practice is revisited, when the researcher themselves is a participant in the recorded data, and it is argued that analysis may be guided by how the researcher-participant is treated by others in the data and that researchers may be considered as any other participant if treated as making activity-adequate (rather than research-sufficient) contributions.
Abstract: Conversation analysis strives to use naturalistic data in its research, but the definition of “natural” is often unclear (Speer, 2002) and can be at odds with both ethnomethodological understandings of data (Lynch, 2002) and practices of data collection (e.g., Stevanovic et al., 2017; Goodwin, 2018). In this paper, I reconsider the concept of naturalness with respect to a particular data collection practice: When the researcher themselves is a participant in the recorded data. I argue that analysis may be guided by how the researcher-participant is treated by others in the data, and that researchers may be considered as any other participant if treated as making activity-adequate (rather than research-adequate) contributions. Furthermore, researcher presence can demonstrate unique adequacy and provides opportunities to experiment with situated practices that otherwise are atypical or hard to access. This version of “natural” respecifies naturalness as a members’ concern in recorded interaction.
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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: A 3-D quality model was constructed in which both naturalness and viewing experience reflect image quality to a similar degree, yet the added value of depth was slightly more incorporated by naturalness than by viewing experience.
Abstract: Subjective image quality is a standard evaluation criterion for 2-D imaging systems. However, when applied to 3-D imaging systems, it does not incorporate the added value of depth that is present in 3-D content. Higher level evaluation criteria are proposed that are sensitive to both image quality and depth. A 3-D quality model was constructed in which such higher level evaluation criteria (naturalness and viewing experience) were factored in a weighted sum of image quality and depth. An experiment was performed to evaluate this model. Two scenes were varied in depth (using came base distances) and image quality (using white Gaussian noise) and evaluated in terms of naturalness, viewing experience, image quality, and depth. Analysis revealed that both naturalness and viewing experience reflect image quality to a similar degree, yet the added value of depth was slightly more incorporated by naturalness than by viewing experience.
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TL;DR: In this article, the feasibility of minimalistic expansions of the SM Higgs boson at the electroweak scale has been discussed, assuming that there is some symmetry which keeps the Higgs at the macroscopic scale.
Abstract: Assuming that there is some symmetry which keeps the SM Higgs boson at the electroweak scale, we discuss the feasibility of some minimalistic expansions of the SM.
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