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The Scottish Office Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Department has been concerned to know the area of bracken (Pteridium aquilinum ) in Scotland and how rapidly it is spreading. It offers a potential danger to animal health and a devaluation of land for agricultural practice. Bracken is present in patches which are often difficult to delimit because of variable density and appearance throughout the year and is not consistently identifiable at a single minimum spatial resolution. Bracken provided a candidate vegetation type for prototyping a knowledge-based system (KBS) which synthesized environmental data expressed spatially, with knowledge on vegetation dynamics and vegetation succession in particular. Temporal models of vegetation types, which have different degrees of reliability with analysis of static spatial data were incorporated. The knowledge-based system permits the user access to knowledge about botany, ecology, mapping, image processing and spatial data analysis for an informed and informative answer to their query. Bracken was mapped at three experimental sites using land survey, photogrammetric techniques and satellite image processing to quantify the extent of bracken and bracken change. An existing data model was enhanced by building-in the hierarchy of survey observations and associated error bands. The model was then implemented within an expert system shell with KBS routines written in POP-11 and Fortran. The coupling of the GIS and KBS routines was of the form of: 1. organisation of the transfer of descriptive values as parameters between the data-models of the KBS and the GIS routines and 2. read/write of the spatial data into the data-models for analyses by KBS routines.

Recent evidence indicates that mental imagery comprises independent object and spatial subsystems. The experiments reported here are behavioral studies of these subsystems. Experiments 1 and 2 used the selective interference paradigm to determine whether these subsystems could be behaviorally dissociated. In Experiment 1, subjects listened to descriptions of spatially arrayed objects as they performed an object or spatial interfering task. Recall of the descriptions was expected to demonstrate selective interference of item names or spatial relations as a function of interfering task, however this result was not found. In Experiment 2, subjects indicated whether sentences read in either a spatial or a non-spatial format were true or false. Sentences required either object, spatial, or no imagery. The spatial presentation differentially slowed verification time for high imagery sentences compared to abstract sentences. The prediction that the spatial format would selectively slow verification time for spatial versus object imagery sentences did not obtain for all subjects, however subjects of lower spatial ability showed this pattern of results. Experiments 3-5 isolated one contribution of spatial imagery to memory: Its ability to preserve the sequential order of events. Pictures were presented either in the same location or in different locations. When items in the spatial condition appeared in consecutive locations (Experiment 3), there was no effect on amount recalled, but subjects made fewer sequencing errors. No benefits of the spatial presentation were found with nonconsecutive locations (Experiment 4), presumably because subjects could not remember the order of locations in which the stimuli appeared. When retrieval cues informed subjects of the sequence of locations in which the stimuli had appeared (Experiment 5), subjects were able to use the nonconsecutive locations to aid in sequencing. These studies are interpreted in terms of the anatomical underpinnings of the spatial and object systems. It is argued that connections between these systems make it difficult to separate them through selective interference. Nevertheless, Experiments 3-5 indicate that spatial imagery functions to maintain temporal order information. The two systems therefore appear to serve different and complementary roles in memory. / This thesis was digitized as part of a project begun in 2014 to increase the number of Duke psychology theses available online. The digitization project was spearheaded by Ciara Healy.

This thesis discusses the characters, themes, and imagery in the novel Women in Love written by D.H. Lawrence.

The emphasis of this thesis is to describe the Spasmodic poets of the Victorian period, to define "Spasmodism", to familiarize the reader with the major Spasmodics and their works, and to show the role that the Spasmodics filled during the Victorian period in English literature.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University / The purpose of this study is to determine, as far as possible, the relationship of imagery to recall in so far as it is concerned with children's reading. Research in imagery is in its beginning stage, and this study is, accordingly, a probing for characteristics of imagery, the main concern being the problem stated above. Other characteristics of imagery discernible in the collected data will be stated, as they also may be helpful in later studies.

Guided Imagery and Music(GIM) is a method of psychotherapy using specifically prepared programs of classical music to facilitate altered states of consciousness and imagery. Whilst researchers and clinicians agree that music in GIM acts as a catalyst to the imagery response, little is known about the temporal effects of entire GIM programs. This study explores the premise that a continuous assessment of autonomic arousal may increase an understanding of time-varying relationships between the musical structure of GIM programs and the listener's imagery. In the final conclusion the author postulates that, although specific attributes of music may underpin specific imagery responses, it is the unique temporal structure of the entire GIM program that facilitates the continuous flow of the imagery. Recommendations are made for future research into the continuous response to music and imagery. / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Guided Imagery and Music(GIM) is a method of psychotherapy using specifically prepared programs of classical music to facilitate altered states of consciousness and imagery. Whilst researchers and clinicians agree that music in GIM acts as a catalyst to the imagery response, little is known about the temporal effects of entire GIM programs. This study explores the premise that a continuous assessment of autonomic arousal may increase an understanding of time-varying relationships between the musical structure of GIM programs and the listener's imagery. In the final conclusion the author postulates that, although specific attributes of music may underpin specific imagery responses, it is the unique temporal structure of the entire GIM program that facilitates the continuous flow of the imagery. Recommendations are made for future research into the continuous response to music and imagery. / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Guided Imagery and Music(GIM) is a method of psychotherapy using specifically prepared programs of classical music to facilitate altered states of consciousness and imagery. Whilst researchers and clinicians agree that music in GIM acts as a catalyst to the imagery response, little is known about the temporal effects of entire GIM programs. This study explores the premise that a continuous assessment of autonomic arousal may increase an understanding of time-varying relationships between the musical structure of GIM programs and the listener's imagery. In the final conclusion the author postulates that, although specific attributes of music may underpin specific imagery responses, it is the unique temporal structure of the entire GIM program that facilitates the continuous flow of the imagery. Recommendations are made for future research into the continuous response to music and imagery. / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 249-262). Also available in print.