The viewed viewer in Gerhard Richter’s October 18, 1977

Aid to families with dependent children: an overview, October 1977.

In 1977, reorganization of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare brought together in the Social Security Administration three major income-maintenance system--old age, survivors, and disability insurance; supplemental security income; and aid to families with dependent children. These are distinct and separate programs differing in purpose and in methods of financing and administrati...

Attractiveness is influenced by the relationship between postures of the viewer and the viewed person

Many factors influence physical attractiveness, including degree of symmetry and relative length of legs. We asked a sample of 112 young adults to rate the attractiveness of computer-generated female bodies that varied in terms of symmetry and leg-to-body ratio. These effects were confirmed. However, we also varied whether the person in the image was shown sitting or standing. Half of the parti...

Washington University Record, October 18, 2007

Lecture 18: October 25 18.1 Martingales

As a motivation, consider a fair game (i.e., the expected win/loss from each play of the game is zero). Suppose a gambler plays the game multiple times; neither his stakes, nor the outcome of the games need be independent, but each play is fair. Let Zi denote the outcome of the i game and Xi the gambler’s capital after game i. Fairness ensures that the expected capital after a game is the same ...

The Early Childhood Caries Conference--October 18-19, 1997.