The four studies reported here sought to explore the nature of the construct of mind-mindedness. In Study 1, involving 37 mothers of 5- to 8-year-old children, mothers' verbal mind-minded descriptions of their children were positively correlated with their mind-minded descriptions of their current romantic partner. Participants in Studies 2 (N=114), 3 (N=173), and 4 (N=153) were young adults wh...

Wide area site models are useful for delineating regions of interest and assisting in tasks like monitoring and change detection. They are also useful in registering a newly acquired image to an existing one of the same site, or to a map. This paper presents an algorithm for building a two-dimensional (2-D) wide area site model from high resolution, single polarization Synthetic Aperture Radar ...

Transits of bright stars offer a unique opportunity to study detailed properties of extrasolar planets that cannot be determined through radial-velocity observations. We propose a technique to find such systems using all-sky small-aperture transit surveys. The optimal telescope design for finding transits of bright stars is a 5 cm “telescope” with a 4k × 4k camera. We are currently building suc...

Suzaku observed the Galactic center region near the Radio Arc at ∼ 20 southeast of SagittariusA. In the 18×18 field of view, we found four distinct X-ray sources: a bright star and a diffuse source associated with the star clusters in the soft band (0.5–2.0 keV), a small clump in a higher energy band (4–6 keV), and a peculiar clump in the 6.4 keV line band. The latter two clumps are located at ...