These phenomena may be extensions of the basic human response to the soft blue, green, and brown backgrounds of the environment as opposed to sharply contrasting warning colorations found on many dangerous organisms.
The background coloration of the environment was estimated in Adobe Photoshop CS5 with a 3 × 3 pixel sample from the background of each photo.
This is particularly evident since they appear to be ubiquitously distributed throughout the water pathway and can thus lead to an increased background contamination of the environment.
Physically, the flow field in the vicinity of a tropical cyclone may be decomposed into two parts: the flow associated with the storm itself, and the large-scale background flow of the environment in which the storm is embedded.
For the threshold-based method, all images of a sequence are first used to compute a background image of the environment by pixel averaging.
Functionally, this cortical region has been implicated in adaptive cognitive control of behavior, in particular in background monitoring of the environment for potentially significant sensory events [ 15].
The distribution map of artifacts, especially when studied against the background of the natural environment, is a key method of archaeological study.
From this primitive stock mammals have radiated into a wide spectrum of adaptive modes against the background of the diverse environment of the Cenozoic Era (the last 65.5 million years).
"The contracts were entered into at a time when we were expecting revenue growth, the accountants looked at what we paid for this against the background of the trading environment, and obviously that has deteriorated," said Grade.
"We've made it absolutely clear to the FA we will meet the letter, the date, the spirit of the agreement, there's no question about that... the contracts were entered into at a time when we were expecting revenue growth, the accountants looked at what we paid for this against the background of the trading environment, and obviously that has deteriorated.
