If yon were to talk to Albert for a short time and hear him tell of his toys or his games with his friends, or of his trip to Cuba you would probably say, '' Here is a superior child or at least a boy who is better than average." Or if you were to judge him by his appearance and general manner you would probably say that he was a normal boy of ten with a pleasing personality and winning ways. H...

The primary objective was to develop field-verified models for the evolution of surfacegravity waves propagating over a muddy seafloor, allowing more skillful predictions of wave fields on continental shelves, and enabling the estimation of characteristics of the seafloor from wave observations. The approach was to investigate empirical and theoretical expressions for mud-induced damping by com...

Infants begin to help other individuals in the second year of life. However, it is still unclear whether early helping behavior is based on an understanding of other individuals' needs and is thus motivated prosocially. In the present eye-tracking study, 9- to 18-month-old infants (N= 71) saw a character in need of help, unable to reach its goal because of an obstacle, and a second character th...

With the large-scale construction and rapid development of underground engineering, a large number of underground engineering construction, such as tunnel and subway emerged. The geological structure of the tunnel is complex and the roc is fragmented. Tunnel seismic image is a new geophysical technique. This method has advantages such as high resolution, high reliability and obvious image chara...

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The study investigated the effect of observational goals (i.e., impression formation and memory) on the process of observing ongoing behavior of others. Specifically, the amount of behavior extraction was studied. Forty-nine subjects were randomly assigned to impression and memory groups, and asked to watch a ten-minute video clip featuring a male actor in daily activities. The subjects in the ...

This contribution reports the results of the SHREC 2008 track on Stability on Watertight Models. This track saw six registrations of which only three participants effectively sent the results of their runs.

Four experiments investigated whether and how interpolated faces cause impairment to memories for related target faces. Participants viewed target faces and then saw a presentation of interpolated faces that were related to some of the targets. Modified tests, which offered target and novel faces as recognition alternatives, detected impairment effects after short retention intervals but not af...