In three experiments, we explored the basis of adults' judgments of individual object persistence through transformation. Participants watched scenarios in which an object underwent a transformation into an object belonging to the same or a different basic-level kind. Participants were queried about the object's persistence through the transformation as an individual (indexed by its proper name...

This study began in an effort to find a simpler derivation of the Bailey pairs associated with the seventh order mock theta functions. It is shown that the introduction of a new parameter independent of both a and q leads to a much simpler treatment. It is noted that a previous treatment of the central fifth order mock theta function inadvertently uses this approach. The paper concludes by appl...

This brief essay, which represents the third editorial of the series "Recollections, Reflections, and Revelations: Ethnobiologists and their First Time in the Field", captures a few memories of the author's first fieldwork in the Venezuelan rainforest. It is a collage of objects, subjects, feelings, spaces, and events that pendulate in spheres of meaning straddling between the author's identiti...

We present the methods that were used in capturing a library of human movements for use in computer-animated displays of human movement. The library is an attempt to systematically tap into and represent the wide range of personal properties, such as identity, gender, and emotion, that are available in a person's movements. The movements from a total of 30 nonprofessional actors (15 of them fem...

We present a new case of acquired prosopagnosia resulting from extensive lesions predominantly in the right occipitotemporal cortex. Functional brain imaging revealed atypical activation of all core face areas in the right hemisphere, with reduced signal difference between faces and objects compared to controls. In contrast, Herschel's lateral occipital complex showed normal activation to objec...

In [J. Haglund, A polynomial expression for the Hilbert series of the quotient ring of diagonal coinvariants, Adv. Math. 227 (2011) 2092-2106], the study of the Hilbert series of diagonal coinvariants is linked to combinatorial objects called Tesler matrices. In this paper we use operator identities from Macdonald polynomial theory to give new and short proofs of some of these results. We also ...

The terms ‘endurance’ and ‘perdurance’ are commonly thought to denote distinct ways for an object to persist, but it is surprisingly hard to say what these are. The common approach, defining them in terms of temporal parts, is mistaken, because it does not lead to two coherent philosophical alternatives: endurance so understood becomes conceptually incoherent, while perdurance becomes not just ...

This cross-sectional study analyzes the relationship between collective efficacy and two psychosocial processes involved in collective sport-physical activities. It argues that in-group identification and fusion with the group will affect collective efficacy (CE). A sample of 276 university students answered different scales regarding their participation in collective physical and sport activit...

Adolescence is a period full of changes, both physical and psychosocial, resulting in dynamic changes the way they view think about themselves world. Changes that lead to cognitive maturity: this condition anxiety often interpreted as search for identity or an crisis, where natural one adolescents, part includes forms religious identity, which principle human life. Many factors influence crisis...

The “Internet of Things” is an appealing concept aiming to assign digital identity to both physical and digital everyday objects. One way of achieving this goal is to embed the identity in the object itself by using digital watermarking. In the case of printed physical objects, such as consumer packages, this identity can be later read from a digital image of the watermarked object taken by a c...