People are most likely to see something if their gaze is directed at it. Thus if they saw something they may be biased towards believing that they had been looking at it. In order to examine whether this is so we asked participants where a target that jumped to a new position every 250 ms had been at a moment indicated by a flash or a tone. The jumping introduced uncertainty about where the tar...

Variations in the phase velocity of earthquake-generated surface waves have been used to determine local variations in the thickness of the earth's crust. It is of interest to determine whether this method can be used to delineate structures encountered by the exploration geophysicist. A seismic model study of the effect of thickness changes, lithology changes, faults-and srnrps, on the phase v...

Infants' memories are highly specific to their training stimuli; they rarely transfer learned responding. In two experiments, we asked whether sensory preconditioning facilitates the transfer of deferred imitation. In Experiments 1A and 1B, 6-month-olds were simultaneously preexposed to Puppets A and B and then saw target actions modeled on Puppet A. The infants associated the paired puppets an...

‎The water wave generation by wave paddle and a freely falling rigid body are examined by using an Incompressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (ISPH)‎. ‎In the current ISPH method‎, ‎the pressure was evaluated by solving pressure Poisson equation using a semi-implicit algorithm based on the projection scheme and the source term of pressure Poisson equation contains both of divergence free ve...

NOMAD is an experiment searching for ; (e) oscillations in the CERN Wide Band Neutrino Beam. After its completion (August 1995), the detector has performed according to expectations and has been taking data since. A preliminary analysis, based upon the event sample collected in 1995, saw no evidence for oscillations, thus setting an upper limit in the mixing angle for high m 2

We discuss constraints on the right-handed Majorana mass scale MR of the SUSY see-saw model in the mSUGRA framework. The sensitivity of radiative lepton-flavor violating decays on MR is compared with the reach in lepton-flavor violating channels at a future linear collider.

[1] Sediment resuspension in lake littoral zones (nearshore region) is strongly related to the properties of the surface wavefield. The occurrence and characteristics of surface waves, near‐bottom current velocities, and related suspended sediment concentrations and properties were measured simultaneously in Lake Constance over 1 year. Wind and ship waves are distinguished on the basis of their...

During a seminar several years ago, a participant asked if I could offer a tool that would help him manage physician relations at his hospital. Seeing this question as an opportunity for a class dialogue, I asked participants, “What is the first image that comes to mind when you hear the word ‘tool’?” The majority replied “hammer.” A few shouted, “gun” or “machine gun.” One even bellowed “chain...

Five out of six functioning creepmeters on southern California faults recorded slip triggered at the time of some or all of the three largest events of the 1992 Landers earthquake sequence. Digital creep data indicate that dextral slip was triggered within 1 min of each mainshock and that maximum slip velocities occurred 2 to 3 min later. The duration of triggered slip events ranged from a few ...