..........................................................................................i TABLE OF CONTENTS.........................................................................iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.......................................................................iv BAD HABITS: TEMPTATION & THE DIVIDED SELF ORIGINAL WORK OF FICTION..........................................................

Methods for mapping and determining the condition of archaeological resources while they are still underground have been in development for nearly half a century. The authors here offer an example from the frontiers of the art: the application of a package of remote sensing procedures not only designed to locate sites but to model the valley deposits which contain and cover them. The variation ...

The present study examined the manner in which both hemispheres utilize prior semantic context and relative meaning frequency during the processing of homographs. Participants read sentences biased toward the dominant or the subordinate meaning of their final homograph, or unbiased neutral sentences, and performed a lexical decision task on lateralized targets presented 250ms after the onset of...

The present study was designed to examine the cerebral hemispheric differences in memory of positive, negative and non-emotional words using a new method of successive presentation to each visual half-field in which perception of each item was nearly perfect thereby allowing laterality differences for effects of emotion on memory to emerge unconfounded by perception (Experiment 1). This procedu...

Here, we propose valley-selective excitations via a two-color $(\ensuremath{\omega}+2\ensuremath{\omega})$ laser field, made by superimposing two linearly polarized pulses at frequencies $\ensuremath{\omega}$ and $2\ensuremath{\omega}$. We have studied the intensity ratio between few-cycle pulse of an $2\ensuremath{\omega}$ laser, its enhancement factor employing time-dependent first-principles...

The Photoexcited carrier lifetime (τ) and peak to valley transmission difference (ΔTp-v) in direct and indirect band gap crystals has been investigated by the use of single beam open and closed aperture z-scan technique using frequency doubled Nd:YAG laser. The peak to valley transmission difference (ΔTp-v) is found to be of the order of 10-2 in case of direct band gap crystals and of the order...

1Research plant pathologist, USDA ARS San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, Parlier, CA 93648; 2formerly Research soil scientist, USDA ARS San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, currently Extension specialist, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616; and 3formerly Agricultural engineer, USDA ARS San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center...

Understanding the syntax of an undeciphered writing is a significant challenge. This can provide important clues to the nature of writing and guide potential decipherments. Here we evaluate a set of computational tools that can help us address this problem. We show that significant aspects of the writing can be inferred through this approach without making any assumption about the underlying co...