We do not need long arguments to convince anyone that love has been promoted since time immemorial. Spiritual heroes, religious leaders, philosophers, poets, moralists and philanthropists of all kinds have used a great diversity of terms to encourage the expression of love's many facets. According to the context they refer to compassion, altruism, selflessness, charity, generosity, bounty, huma...

A corollary of a celebrated theorem of Minty is that the subdifferential graph of a closed convex function on Rn has uniform local dimension n. In contrast, there exist nonconvex closed functions whose subdifferentials have large graphs. We consider how far Minty’s corollary extends to functions that are nonconvex but semi-algebraic. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Critical closing pressure (CCP) is thought to be jointly influenced by intracranial pressure and cerebrovascular tone. We examined how CCP is affected by cerebral vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). METHODS In 15 patients with vasospasm of the middle cerebral artery, CCP was calculated using 2 methods previously reported (ad modem Aaslid and Michel, indexed C...

Preface. Imagery, language, and visuo-spatial thinking: E pluribus unum (Robert H. Logie & Michel Denis) Chapter 1. – The generation, maintenance, and transformation of visuo-spatial mental images (David Pearson, Rossana De Beni, & Cesare Cornoldi) Chapter 2. – Individual differences in visuo-spatial working memory (Tomaso Vecchi, Louise H. Phillips, & Cesare Cornoldi) Chapter 3. – Pictures in ...