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Documentation of Two- and Three-Dimensional Hypersonic Shock Wave/Turbulent Boundary Layer Interaction Flows
Experimental data for a series of two- and three-dimensional shock wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction flows at Mach 7 are presented. Test bodies, composed of simple geometric shapes, were designed to generate flows with varying degrees of pressure gradient, boundary-layer separation, and turning angle. The data include surface-pressure and heat-transfer distributions as well as limited mean-flow-field surveys in both the undisturbed and the interaction regimes. The data are presented in a convenient form for use in validating existing or future computational models of these generic hypersonic flows
The Neuroscience of Moral Judgment: Empirical and Philosophical Developments
We chart how neuroscience and philosophy have together advanced our understanding of moral judgment with implications for when it goes well or poorly. The field initially focused on brain areas associated with reason versus emotion in the moral evaluations of sacrificial dilemmas. But new threads of research have studied a wider range of moral evaluations and how they relate to models of brain development and learning. By weaving these threads together, we are developing a better understanding of the neurobiology of moral judgment in adulthood and to some extent in childhood and adolescence. Combined with rigorous evidence from psychology and careful philosophical analysis, neuroscientific evidence can even help shed light on the extent of moral knowledge and on ways to promote healthy moral development
Finally, results from Gravity Probe-B
Nearly fifty years after its inception, the Gravity Probe B satellite mission
delivers the first measurements of how a spinning gyroscope precesses in the
gravitational warping of spacetime.Comment: A Viewpoint article, published in Physics 4, 43 (2011), available at
http://physics.aps.org/articles/v4/43 Submitted to the arXiv by permission of
the American Physical Societ
Free subgroups of one-relator relative presentations
Suppose that G is a nontrivial torsion-free group and w is a word over the
alphabet G\cup\{x_1^{\pm1},...,x_n^{\pm1}\}. It is proved that for n\ge2 the
group \~G= always contains a nonabelian free subgroup.
For n=1 the question about the existence of nonabelian free subgroups in \~G is
answered completely in the unimodular case (i.e., when the exponent sum of x_1
in w is one). Some generalisations of these results are discussed.Comment: V3: A small correction in the last phrase of the proof of Theorem 1.
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Limitations Of The Analysis Of Variance
Conditions under which the analysis of variance will yield inexact p-values or would be inferior in power to a permutation test are investigated. The findings for the one-way design are consistent with and extend those of Miller (1980)
Gaze constancy in upright and inverted faces
This work is supported by Australian Research Council Discovery Project [DP120102589]; CC is supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship
Testing the dual-route model of perceived gaze direction: Linear combination of eye and head cues
This work is supported by Australian Research Council Discovery Project [DP120102589 & DP160102239] to CC. IM is supported by a Leverhulme Project Grant RPG-2013-218. YO is supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up [15H06456] from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. We thank Matthew Patten for his help in data collection
Body-coiling Behavior in the Three-toed Amphiuma (Amphiuma tridactylum)
Salamanders coil their bodies for a variety of reasons, but primarily as a response to predators. For the aquatic salamander Amphiuma, all reports on coiling are associated with nest attendance, although another notion has made it into the literature, that Amphiuma coils its body to reduce evaporative water loss of the adult. We inadvertently tested this notion via another study on temperature preference in an aquatic thermal gradient. Because nearly half of our observations were of tightly coiled individuals underwater, we conclude that this behavior is not for reducing evaporative water loss, but more likely a defensive posture
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