As much an art as a science, effective landscape lighting requires an eye for composition as well as a range of professional expertise, from knowing how the eye reacts to light and light reacts in the environment, to understanding the ways plants grow and the deleterious effects of corrosion on lighting fixtures, which apparently begin the moment they're placed outdoors.
Manipulations with the foldable objects, such as a sheet of paper (the origami crease pattern), by the robot arms in the simulation environment lead to understanding the design of the origami-performing robot without testing physical prototypes at each design stage.
Mapping of ephemeral streams in desert environments is crucial to understanding the impacts to hydrologic and ecosystem functions caused by land-use changes.
One can also see the immediate impact of social networks on human health (e.g. biological connections, support networks, etc).. Metagenomics of life in extreme environments is critical to understanding our own microbiome that provides an important environmental layer that greatly influences risk of human disease.
Quantifying animal movement in response to a spatially and temporally heterogeneous environment is critical to understanding the structural and functional landscape influences on population viability.
However, examining the bi-directionality of relations between the child and his or her environment is key to understanding the persistence of problem behaviour.
In fact, the emergence of laboratories that study robotics led to the realization that interactions between the human body and the physical environment were central to understanding intelligence; it was not long before modeling in robotics became a distributed process including brain, body, and environment.
Interactions between the genome and its cellular and signaling environments are the key to understanding how cell-type-specific gene expression patterns arise during differentiation and development [ 8].
It is suggested that a 'whole-tree' perspective – such as that proposed by Givnish (1988) for the interpretation of leaf level traits within the context of whole-plant adaptation to light environments – is likely key to understanding the relationships among radial gradients in wood density, tree biomechanics and successional status/shade-tolerance.
More recently, however, psychologists have generally agreed that adaptation to the environment is the key to understanding both what intelligence is and what it does.
