angry-face information from the left to the right hemisphere. These individual differences are consistent with earlier behavioral evidence of altered interhemispheric communication of angry faces in anxiety, and may be interpreted within a threat-avoidance model of worry. Together, the findings suggest that hemispheric correlates of emotion extend beyond regional activation asymmetries to inclu...

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SUMMER 2015 85 The aim of the Angry Birds AI competition (AIBIRDS) is to build intelligent agents that can play novel Angry Birds levels better than the best human players. The competition was initiated in 2012 by the authors of this report and is held in collocation with some of the major AI conferences such as the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 2013 and again in ...

We construct exact solutions to Einstein equations which represent relativistic disks imbedded in an expanding FRW Universe. It is shown that the expansion influences the kinematical characteristics of the disks such as rotational curves, surface mass density, etc. The effects of the expansion are exemplified with non-static generalizations of Kuzmin-Curzon and Schwarzschild disks. Subject head...

Previous research has indicated that memories can be modified in conjunction with one’s attitudes, in particular, political beliefs. The current study extended this finding by focusing on the relationship between differing religious beliefs and false memories for news events. We predicted that religious people would be more inclined to remember fabricated news events positively depicting religi...

BACKGROUND We hypothesized that SRX246, a vasopressin V1a receptor antagonist, blocks the effect of intranasally administered vasopressin on brain processing of angry Ekman faces. An interaction of intranasal and oral drug was predicted in the amygdala. METHODS Twenty-nine healthy male subjects received a baseline fMRI scan while they viewed angry faces and then were randomized to receive ora...

Recent research indicates that angry facial expressions are preferentially processed and may facilitate automatic avoidance response, especially in socially anxious individuals. However, few studies have examined whether this bias also expresses itself in more complex cognitive processes and behavior such as decision making. We recently introduced a variation of the Iowa Gambling Task which all...

The performance of micro-mixers is evaluated in terms of deviations from perfectly mixed state and mixing length (i.e., device length required to achieve perfect mixing). Different variations of T-mixer are reported for improved mixing performance, including geometric constrictions/obstacles embedded in the channel wall, heterogeneously charged walls, grooves on channel base, etc. Most of the r...