Human object recognition and classification depend on the retinal location where the object is presented and decrease as eccentricity increases. The lateral occipital complex (LOC) is thought to be preferentially involved in the processing of objects, and its neural responses exhibit category biases to objects presented in the central visual field. However, the nature of LOC neural responses to...

BACKGROUND Elevated body mass index (BMI), higher waist-to-hip ratio, and body dissatisfaction have been investigated as risk factors for the development of bulimic symptoms. Central fat deposition may be particularly relevant to eating disorders. To our knowledge, the longitudinal relations between fat distribution, body dissatisfaction, and loss-of-control (LOC) eating development and mainten...

The goal of this talk is to prove an analog of the Beilinson-Bernstein localization theorem for Cherednik algebras. Strictly speaking we will only do this for categories O, in fact, the localization theorem for all modules follows from here. Let us recall the notation and some definitions. We consider the reflection representation h of the symmetric group Sn. By X we denote the “normalized” Hil...

The lateral occipital cortex (LOC) activates selectively to images of intact objects versus scrambled controls, is selective for the figure-ground relationship of a scene, and exhibits at least some degree of invariance for size and position. Because of these attributes, it is considered to be a crucial part of the object recognition pathway. Here we show that human LOC is critically involved i...

The Lab-on-a-Chip (LoC) described here is designed for the complex analysis of cytotoxic effects of chemical substances imposed on human keratinocytes. This LoC operating in real-time will have promising applications in cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. All parameters and conditions on the LoC were optimized with respect to practical aspects under semi-automated conditions. The system inc...

While longitudinal posttraumatic stress responses are known to be heterogeneous, little is known about predictors of those responses. We investigated if locus of control (LOC) and coping style are associated with long-term PTSD-trajectories after exposure to combat. Six hundred and seventy five Israeli soldiers with or without combat stress reaction (CSR) from the Lebanon war were assessed 1, 2...

In 1995, Malach et al. discovered an area whose fMRI BOLD response was greater when viewing intact, familiar objects than when viewing their scrambled versions (resembling texture). Since then hundreds of studies have explored this late visual region termed the Lateral Occipital Complex (LOC), which is now known to be critical for shape perception (James, Culham, Humphrey, Milner, & Goodale, 20...

In order to evaluate the extraction property of new extractants, diglycolamide (DGA) compounds, we investigated the maximum extraction of di-, tri-, and tetravalent metal ions using nitric acid and n-dodecane. The limits of metal concentration (LOC) for Ca(II), Nd(III) and Zr(IV) in the organic phase are strongly influenced by HNO3 and the extractant concentration. For the purpose of enhancing ...

Researchers continue to debate the role of self-esteem in aggression, but research has shown a consistent association between narcissism and aggression in adults and adolescents [e.g., Barry et al., 2007; Bushman and Baumeister, 1998; Stucke, 2007]. The primary aim of the current study was to examine whether locus of control (LOC) moderated the relation between self-perception variables (i.e., ...

We study relations between properties of the Miura map r 7→ q = B(r) = r + r and Schrödinger operators Lq = −d/dx + q where r and q are real-valued functions or distributions (possibly not decaying at infinity) from various classes. In particular, we study B as a map from L loc (R) to the local Sobolev space H loc (R) and the restriction of B to the Sobolev spaces H(R) with β ≥ 0. For example, ...