Sökning: "conspicuousness"
Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade ordet conspicuousness.
1. Colour patterns in warning displays
Sammanfattning : In aposematism a prey species use bright colours, often combined with a black contrasting pattern, to signal unprofitability as prey to potential predators. Although there are several different hypotheses about the presence of these internally contrasting patterns, there is little experimental evidence of any beneficial effects. LÄS MER
2. It’s Not What You Sell : It’s Whom You Sell it To: How the Customer’s Character Shapes Brands and What Companies Do About it
Sammanfattning : In this dissertation I investigate the effects of user and usage imagery on brands and how businesses employ user imagery to build brands. Over four articles I present results that suggest that user imagery affects brand personality and that companies under certain conditions adapt their behavior to optimize this effect. LÄS MER
3. Selection on floral traits in Primula farinosa
Sammanfattning : Flowers and inflorescences have evolved in relation to animals for at least 100 million years. Plants attract pollinators with large, conspicuous, bright-coloured or scented flowers. These display attributes, however, also attract herbivores. LÄS MER
4. Salient Region Detection Methods with Application to Traffic Sign Recognition from Street View Images
Sammanfattning : In the computer vision community, saliency detection refers to modeling the selective mechanism in human visual attentions. Outputs of saliency detection algorithms are called saliency maps, which represent conspicuousness levels of different scene areas. LÄS MER
5. Growth The Missing Ingredient of Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Sammanfattning : This thesis muses the question; how do we understand firm growth in immigrant owned firms? Two literature streams are proposed to be relevant. Firstly, theimmigrant entrepreneurship field, which is developing and becoming increasinglysophisticated. LÄS MER