As we have seen in the previous lectures, FD are very intuitive but lack flexibility and accuracy towards complex geiometries. FEM solve the problem very effectively, but at the cost of a significant computational burden. As we shall see, the FVM offers a very effective intermediate strategy between the two. In this lecture we shall describe the main ideas behind the Finite Volume (FV) method, ...

Mothers' ability to empathically share offspring's emotional feelings is considered integral to primary affective bonds and a healthy socio-emotional development. What neurobiological mechanism is responsible for this ability in humans? It has been proposed that the psychological and neural components of affective experiences are strictly associated with autonomic-visceral changes. Hence, the v...

We study F -term hybrid inflation in a novel supersymmetric extension of the SM with a subdominant Fayet–Iliopoulos D-term. We call this particular form of inflation, in short, FD-term hybrid inflation. The proposed model ties the μ-parameter of the MSSM to an SO(3)-symmetric Majorana massmN , through the vacuum expectation value of the inflaton field. The late decays of the ultraheavy particle...

Maternal attunement with an infant's emotional states is thought to represent a distinctive feature of the human primary bond. It implies the mother's ability of empathizing with her child in order to fulfil the child's needs in an immediate and appropriate manner. Thus, it is particularly involved in stressful situations. By assuming that maternal attunement embodies a direct sharing of physio...

PURPOSE In this study, the authors aimed to determine whether children with dyslexia (hereafter referred to as "DYS children") are more affected than children with average reading ability (hereafter referred to as "AR children") by talker and intonation variability when perceiving speech in noise. METHOD Thirty-four DYS and 25 AR children were tested on their perception of consonants in natur...

Familial dysautonomia (Riley et al., 1949) is an autosomal recessive disease affecting Jews of Eastern European ancestry (Brunt and McKusick, 1970). As the name implies the autonomic nervous system is defective, and this is seen clinically as defective control of temperature, blood pressure, and swallowing, by skin blotching, excessive sweating, lack of tearing, and bowel disturbance. Abnormali...