There are non–vanishing price responses across different stocks in correlated financial markets. We further study this issue by performing different averages, which identify active and passive cross– responses. The two average cross–responses show different characteristic dependences on the time lag. The passive cross–response exhibits a shorter response period with sizeable volatilities, while...

A new approach is presented for determining the rigid regions in proteins and the flexible joints between them. The short-range forces in proteins are modeled as constraints and we use a recently developed formalism from graph theory to analyze flexibility in the bond network. Forces included in the analysis are the covalent bond-stretching and bond-bending forces, salt bridges, and hydrogen bo...

The mastery of two languages provides bilingual speakers with cognitive benefits over monolinguals, particularly on cognitive flexibility and selective attention. However, extant research is limited to comparisons between monolinguals and bilinguals at a single point in time. This study investigated whether growth in bilingual proficiency, as shown by an increased number of translation equivale...

I have just returned from NEHA’s 78th Annual Educational Conference (AEC) & Exhibition in Las Vegas, Nevada. This was one of our most successful AECs with over 1,000 attendees. The AEC’s President’s Banquet was attended by one of the largest crowds in recent memory. Additional tables were needed to seat everyone. The excitement of the crowd was amplifi ed by members of NEHA and the Internationa...

The abilities to either flexibly adjust behavior according to changing demands (cognitive flexibility) or to maintain it in the face of potential distractors (cognitive stability) are critical for adaptive behavior in many situations. Recently, a novel human paradigm has found individual differences of cognitive flexibility and stability to be related to common prefrontal networks. The aims of ...

We intended this Festschrift as a celebration of Dr. Stephen L. Wood’s 85th birthday. Sadly Dr. Wood past away a little before his 85th birthday thus this volume pays tribute to his life’s contribution to the study of bark and ambrosia beetles, which is summarized in the next article by Donald Bright. We arranged the volume geographically, starting with taxonomy of North American scolytines, fo...

In analogy to charge in conventional circuitry, magnetic domain walls provide an alternative medium for encoding digital information. The authors exploit the lateral coupling between out-of-plane and in-plane regions induced by interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction thin films realize both field- current-driven domain-wall inverters. Nonreciprocity transport is introduced breaking symmet...

This paper proposes a double propeller wall-climbing robot (DP-Climb) with hybrid adhesion system based on the biomimetic design principle to address problems of single adhesion-powered wall climbing robots (WCRs). Such include poor maneuverability and adaptability orthogonal working surfaces different roughness flatness, weak flexibility ground-wall transition motion, easy stand stilling trans...