PURPOSE Wisdom has received increasing attention in empirical research in recent years, especially in gerontology and psychology, but consistent definitions of wisdom remain elusive. We sought to better characterize this concept via an expert consensus panel using a 2-phase Delphi method. DESIGN AND METHODS A survey questionnaire comprised 53 Likert scale statements related to the concepts of...

Music has a unique power to elicit moments of intense emotional and psychophysiological response. These moments - termed "chills," "thrills", "frissons," etc. - are subjects of introspection and philosophical debate, as well as scientific study in music perception and cognition. The present article integrates the existing multidisciplinary literature in an attempt to define a comprehensive, tes...

This paper extends tools developed by Richard Crandall in [16] to provide robust, high-precision methods for computation of the incomplete Gamma function and the Lerch transcendent. We then apply these to the corresponding computation of the Hurwitz zeta function and so of Dirichlet L-series and character polylogarithms.

There have been many results on the asymptotics of the Painlevé transcendents in recent years, but the asymptotics of the fourth Painlevé transcendent has not been studied much. In this note, we study the general fourth Painlevé equation and develop an asymptotic representation of a group of its solutions as the independent variable approaches infinity along a straight line.