The terrorist attacks of 9/11, and subsequent terrorist acts around the world, have alerted social psychologists to the need to examine the antecedents and consequences of terrorist threat perception. In these two studies we examined the predictive power of demographic factors (age, sex, location), individual values and normative influences on threat perception and the consequences of this perc...

9 Despite evidence that dogs are skilful in acquiring information socially from humans and are 10 able to copy the actions of a human demonstrator, formal dog-training methods have 11 traditionally relied only on individual learning (operant and classical conditioning). We 12 compared the efficiency of the ‘Do as I do’ method (Topál et al. 2006), which relies on social 13 learning, with that of...

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Many applications that exploit the manufacturing flexibility of additive manufacturing (AM) produce surfaces, primarily internal features, which cannot be measured using conventional contact or lineof-sight optical methods. This paper evaluates the capability of a novel technique to extract areal surface data from micro-focus x-ray computed tomography (XCT) from AM components and then generate ...

Winds from accretion disks driven by the radiation and magnetocentrifugal force. ABSTRACT We study the two-dimensional, time-dependent hydrodynamics of radiation-driven winds from luminous accretion disks threaded by a strong, large-scale, ordered magnetic field. The radiation force is mediated primarily by spectral lines and is calculated using a generalized multidimensional formulation of the...

Although the method utilizing the maximum standard uptake value (SUVmax) 18F-FDG Positron Emission Tomography (PET) to assess the outcome of lung stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) has been widely accepted in practice, its reliability has frequently been challenged i . The purpose of this study is to explore and test a novel method using a self background-corrected SUVmax (cSUVmax) in detect...

BACKGROUND Arterial stiffening is recognized to be associated with increased cardiovascular mortality and to be a major cause of several cardiovascular complications. Pulse wave velocity (PWV) has been widely accepted to be a reliable and robust measure of arterial stiffness. In this article, the novel ultrasound-based pulse wave imaging (PWI) method is hereby proposed for visualization of the ...