Sectional anatomy of human brain is useful to examine the diseased brain as well as normal brain. However, intracerebral reference points for the axial, sagittal, and coronal planes of brain have not been standardized in anatomical sections or radiological images. We made 2,343 serially-sectioned images of a cadaver head with 0.1 mm intervals, 0.1 mm pixel size, and 48 bit color and obtained ax...

A number of authors have enriched Nash’s original bargaining problem through the introduction of an additional point, which we call a salient point. When the salient point is restricted to lie in the bargaining set, it is interpreted as a reference point, the outcome, perhaps, of a bargain from an earlier period. When restricted to lie outside the bargaining set, it is interpreted as a claim on...

In the context of multiple attribute decision making, preference models making use of reference points in an ordinal way have recently been introduced in the literature. This text proposes an axiomatic analysis of such models, with a particular emphasis on the case in which there is only one reference point. Our analysis uses a general conjoint measurement model resting on the study of traces i...

We solicited participants through marathon organizers, organized running groups, marathon training programs, message boards, and athletic shops. The study was advertised as a study on the relationship between marathon performance and satisfaction. Over the course of three years (2007-2009), we recruited prospective marathon runners for our targeted marathons, specifically Boston, 2008; Chicago,...

This study examined the effects of two variables on spatial learning: the objects’ array (with or without a central reference point) and the learning method (virtual walk through or seeing still images). After learning the objects’ locations and their positional relations in a virtual room in egocentric reference frames, participants judged the directions to a target from an imaginary position ...

The Pechmann condensation has been used as a simple and efficient method for the preparation of coumarin derivatives, which phenols and ethyl acetoacetate were reacted in the presence of AlCl3 supported on nano silica as an efficient catalyst at 110 oC under solvent free condition to form products with good to excellent yield (55 -90%), which are identified by spectroscopic method ( FT-IR, NMR)...