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Visual Expectations in Infants: Evaluating the Gaze-Direction Model
Schlesinger (in press) recently proposed a model of
eye movements as a tool for investigating infantsâ
visual expectations. In the present study, this gaze-direction
model was evaluated by (a) generating a set
of predictions concerning how infants distribute their
attention during possible and impossible events, and
(b) testing these predictions in a replication of
Baillargeonâs "car study" (1986; Baillargeon &
DeVos, 1991). We find that the model successfully
predicts general features of infantsâ gaze direction,
but not specific differences obtained during the
possible and impossible events. The implications of
these results for infant cognition research and theory
are discussed
Contemporary psychoanalytic applications: Development and its vicissitudes
The contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis is being increasingly questioned; Off the Couch challenges this view, demonstrating that psychoanalytic thinking and its applications are both innovative and relevant, in particular to the management and treatment of more disturbed and difficult to engage patient groups. Chapters address:
Clinical applications in diverse settings across the age range
the relevance of psychoanalytic thinking to the practice of CBT, psychosomatics and general psychiatry
the contribution of psychoanalytic thinking to mental health policy and the politics of conflict and mediation.
This book suggests that psychoanalysis has a vital position within the public health sector and discusses how it can be better utilised in the treatment of a range of mental health problems. It also highlights the role of empirical research in providing a robust evidence base.
Off the Couch will be essential reading for those practicing in the field of mental health and will also be useful for anyone involved in the development of mental health and public policies. It will ensure that practitioners and supervisors have a clear insight into how psychoanalysis can be applied in general healthcare
Top Partners at the LHC: Spin and Mass Measurement
If one takes naturalness seriously and also assumes a weakly coupled
extension of the Standard Model (SM) then there are predictions for
phenomenology that can be inferred in a model independent framework. The first
such prediction is that there must be some colored particle with mass O(TeV)
that cancels the top loop contribution to the quadratic divergence of the Higgs
mass. In this paper we begin a model independent analysis of the phenomenology
of this "top partner," t'. We make one additional assumption that it is odd
under a parity which is responsible for the stability of a WIMP dark matter
candidate, N. We focus on three questions to be explored at the LHC: discovery
opportunities, mass determination, and spin determination of this top partner.
We find that within a certain region of masses for the t' and N, t'\bar{t'} is
easily discovered in the t\bar{t}+2N decay with the tops decaying fully
hadronically. We show that without having to rely on other channels for new
physics that for a a given t' spin the masses of t' and N can be measured using
kinematic information (e.g. average MET or H_T) and total cross section. A
degeneracy due to the spin remains, but with several hundred inverse fb of
luminosity we demonstrate potentially useful new methods for determining the t'
spin over a wide range of masses. Our methods could be useful for
distinguishing supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric models.Comment: 28 pages, 5 figure
Garside families in Artin-Tits monoids and low elements in Coxeter groups
We show that every finitely generated Artin-Tits group admits a finite
Garside family, by introducing the notion of a low element in a Coxeter group
and proving that the family of all low elements in a Coxeter system (W, S) with
S finite includes S and is finite and closed under suffix and join with respect
to the right weak order
COIN is dead - long live transformation
Donald Rumsfeld was right. Force transformation works. The techniques that led to the initial victories in Afghanistan in 2001 were precisely those that produced success in Libya in 2011.1 Small-scale deployments of special forces backed by precision strike and deep attack capabilities used to support an allied indigenous armed group proved an effective military tool for achieving specific strategic outcomes. In contrast, the results of large-scale troop deploy- ments as part of counterinsurgency (COIN), stabilization and nation-building activities over the past ten years in Iraq and Afghanistan have been less defini- tive. Despite intensive investment in blood, treasure, and military effort, the precise long-term outcomes of these two campaigns remain unclear and will be open to debate for years to come. This challenging operational experience has, however, highlighted some necessary and enduring truths about the use of military force. This paper explores those in light of the last ten years of counterinsurgenc
Estimating Housing Demand with an Application to Explaining Racial Segregation in Cities
We present a three-stage estimation procedure to recover willingness to pay for housing attributes. In the first stage, we estimate a non-parametric hedonic home price function. Second, we recover each consumer's taste parameters for product characteristics using first order conditions for utility maximization. Finally, we estimate the distribution of household tastes as a function of household demographics. As an application of our methods, we compare alternative explanations for why blacks choose to live in center cities while whites suburbanize.
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