113 research outputs found
Interpersonal Emotions as Emergent Phenomena: Social Neuroscience Beyond Western Cultural Constructions
Because science as it exists today is a cultural construction of the West, studies of neuroscience have often been limited by Western perspectives. In particular, the Western proclivity towards individualism has led to a field of neuroscience which has historically focused on studying single individuals, as opposed to social or collective neuroscience. For the most part, it has just been assumed that collective phenomena such as interpersonal emotions must be able to be reduced in terms of individual phenomena such as individual emotions. However, closer review reveals that interpersonal emotions have emergent properties that individual emotions alone do not account for. In other words, there is more to the emotions within interpersonal relationships than the simple transmission of individual emotions from one individual to another. Rather, there appear to be unique emotions associated with the abstract interpersonal relationships between individuals. These interpersonal emotions are neuroscientifically and qualitatively different from individual emotions. This could have huge ramifications for any field involving human interaction, from economics, to international relations, to mobilization for causes like climate change. In order to better understand these complex phenomena, a greater diversity of thought is needed in neuroscience
What\u27s All the Fuss about Feist? The Sky Is Not Falling on the Intellectual Property Rights of Online Database Proprietors
Compositon of Tantalum Nitride Thin Films Grown by Low-Energy Nitrogen Implantation: A Factor Analysis Study of the Ta 4f XPS Core Level
Tantalum nitride thin films have been grown by in situ nitrogen implantation
of metallic tantalum at room temperature over the energy range of 0.5-5keV.
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Factor Analysis (FA) have been used
to characterise the chemical composition of the films. The number of the
different Ta-N phases formed during nitrogen implantation, as well as their
spectral shape and concentrations, have been obtained using principal component
analysis (PCA) and iterative target transformation factor analysis (ITTFA),
without any prior assumptions. According to FA results, the composition of the
tantalum nitride films depends on both the ion dose and ion energy, and is
mainly formed by a mixture of metallic tantalum, beta-TaN0.05, gamma-Ta2N and
cubic/hexagonal TaN phases.Comment: 24 pages, 5 figures submitted to Applied Physics
Betting on the U.S. Market A Discussion of the Legality of Sports Gaming Businesses
Over time, the US sports gaming industry has progressed dramatically beyond what the US anti-gaming law drafters envisioned. The result is a system of mostly antiquated laws controlling modern industry causing confusion across the board. This discussion, therefore, intends to shed light on the US sports gaming legal framework, including analysis of the preeminent US laws that regulate the sports gaming industry and a brief review of various sports gaming businesses that fall within the US legal rubric
Investigation on the photoconductive behaviors of an individual AlN nanowire under different excited lights
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