Polarization Vision And Environmental Polarized Light

Author : Gábor Horváth
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783031628627
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polarization Vision and Environmental Polarized Light written by Gábor Horváth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2024-09-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition presents a state-of-the-art exploration of polarized light and polarization vision. Part I of the book examines polarization sensitivity across many animal taxa, including invertebrates and vertebrates, and it details both terrestrial and aquatic life. Part II is devoted to the description of environmental polarization with implications to animal and human polarization vision. This includes underwater polarization, polarization signals, sky-polarimetric Viking navigation and astronomical polarization. This part also examines polarized light pollution induced by anthropogenic factors, such as reflection off asphalt surfaces, glass panes, car bodies, and other man-made structures that are now known to form ecological traps for polarotactic insects. The new edition features a number of novelties, including chapters on trilobites, springtails, bats, seals, imaging polarimetry, and astronomical polarization.

Author : Gábor Horváth
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642547184
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polarized Light and Polarization Vision in Animal Sciences written by Gábor Horváth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers advances made since the 2004 Springer volume “Polarized Light in Animal Vision” edited by Horvath and Varju, but also provides reviews and synopses of some areas. Part I examines polarization sensitivity across many animal taxa including vertebrates and invertebrates and details both terrestrial and aquatic life. Part II is devoted to the description of polarized light in nature and explores how the physics of light must be taken into account when understanding how polarized light is detected by the visual system. This includes underwater polarization due to scattering; polarization patterns reflected from freshwater bodies; polarization characteristics of forest canopies; normal and anomalous polarization patterns of the skies; skylight polarization transmitted through Snell’s window and both linearly and circularly polarized signals produced by terrestrial and aquatic animals. This Part also examines polarized “light pollution” induced by anthropogenic factors such as reflection off asphalt surfaces, glass panes, car bodies, and other man-made structures that are now known to form ecological traps for polarotactic insects. Part III surveys some of the practical applications of polarization vision including polarization-based traps for biting insects, ground-based polarimetric cloud detectors and an historical examination of the navigational abilities of Viking seafarers using the sky polarization compass. The deterrent qualities of ungulate pelage to polarization-sensitive biting insects is also examined in this section.

Author : Gábor Horváth
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662093871
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polarized Light in Animal Vision written by Gábor Horváth and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this volume is two-fold. First, it gathers typical polarization patterns occurring in nature. Second, it surveys the polarization-sensitive ani mals, the physiological mechanisms and biological functions of polarization sensitivity as weIl as the polarization-guided behaviour in animals. The monograph is prepared for biologists, physicists and meteorologists, espe cially for experts of atmospheric optics and animal vision, who wish to under stand and reveal the message hidden in polarization patterns of the optical environment not directly accessible to the human visual system, but measur able by polarimetry and perceived by many animals. Our volume is an attempt to build a bridge between these two physical and biological flelds. In Part I we introduce the reader to the elements of imaging polarimetry. This technique can be efflciently used, e. g. in atmospheric optics, remote sens ing and biology. In Part 11 we deal with typical polarization patterns of the natural optical environment. Sunrise/sunset, clear skies, cloudy skies, moonshine and total solar eclipses all mean quite different illumination conditions, wh ich also affect the spatial distribution and strength of celestial polarization. We pre sent the polarization patterns of the sky and its unpolarized (neutral) points under sunlit, moonlit, clear, cloudy and eclipsed conditions as a function of solar elevation. The polarization pattern of a rainbow is also shown. That part of the spectrum is derived in which perception of skylight polarization is optimal under partly cloudy skies.

Author : Dieter Jaeger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781461473206
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience written by Dieter Jaeger and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gabor Horvath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783662093887
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polarized Light in Animal Vision written by Gabor Horvath and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Spottiswoode
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polarisation of Light written by William Spottiswoode and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the substance of lectures on polarized light in the hope that they inspire interest in the study of optics.

Author : Ezra Klein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476700397
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why We're Polarized written by Ezra Klein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 One of Bill Gates’s “5 books to read this summer,” this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America’s political system isn’t broken. The truth is scarier: it’s working exactly as designed. In this “superbly researched” (The Washington Post) and timely book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us—and how we are polarizing it—with disastrous results. “The American political system—which includes everyone from voters to journalists to the president—is full of rational actors making rational decisions given the incentives they face,” writes political analyst Ezra Klein. “We are a collection of functional parts whose efforts combine into a dysfunctional whole.” “A thoughtful, clear and persuasive analysis” (The New York Times Book Review), Why We’re Polarized reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America’s descent into division and dysfunction. Neither a polemic nor a lament, this book offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump’s rise to the Democratic Party’s leftward shift to the politicization of everyday culture. America is polarized, first and foremost, by identity. Everyone engaged in American politics is engaged, at some level, in identity politics. Over the past fifty years in America, our partisan identities have merged with our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities. These merged identities have attained a weight that is breaking much in our politics and tearing at the bonds that hold this country together. Klein shows how and why American politics polarized around identity in the 20th century, and what that polarization did to the way we see the world and one another. And he traces the feedback loops between polarized political identities and polarized political institutions that are driving our system toward crisis. “Well worth reading” (New York magazine), this is an “eye-opening” (O, The Oprah Magazine) book that will change how you look at politics—and perhaps at yourself.

Author : G. P. Konnen
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521258623
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polarized Light in Nature written by G. P. Konnen and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1985-09-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald G. Pitts
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 1483292185
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Vision written by Donald G. Pitts and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 1993-06-18 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book emphasizes concepts and methods for solving problems that occur through the interaction of the eyes and vision of people with their environment. Student clinicians will learn to assess their patient's visual tasks, visual environments, and visual performance needs in order to provide quality eye care.

Author : J. David Pye
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420033689
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polarised Light in Science and Nature written by J. David Pye and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes a number of simple methods for showing that light is polarised and determining the direction of vibration. It is based on a demonstration lecture, called 'Polar Explorations in Light' developed for young audiences, at the Royal Institution of Great Britain.