BACKGROUND When viewing complex scenes, East Asians attend more to contexts whereas Westerners attend more to objects, reflecting cultural differences in holistic and analytic visual processing styles respectively. This eye-tracking study investigated more specific mechanisms and the robustness of these cultural biases in visual processing when salient changes in the objects and backgrounds occ...

Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic is a powerful reminder that there only one humanity and all individuals are subject to infections illness. However, news media the internet overflowing with data reminds us of fact we living in an unequal world which even neighbors close their borders observe how other countries faring battle against virus. Literature no stranger these opposing orientations, betwe...

When a particle decays into two fragments, the wavefunctions of the latter are spherical shells with expanding radii. In spite of this spherical symmetry, the two particles can be detected only in opposite directions. When particles at rest decay into two fragments, the latter have opposite momenta, p1 + p2 = 0. (1) Yet, the statistical distribution of each fragment is isotropic. The same holds...

We emphasise that charged slepton pairs produced via vector-boson fusion along with two high-mass, high-pT forward/backward jets (in two opposite hemispheres) can have a higher production cross-section for heavy slepton masses than that from conventional Drell-Yan production at a hadronic collider like the LHC. We analyse the signal and leading backgrounds in detail in the minimal supersymmetri...

The ability to recover from CNS injuries is strain dependent. Transgenic mice that weakly express the p41 CD74 isoform (an integral membrane protein functioning as a MHC class II chaperone) on an I-A(b) genetic background have normal CD4(+) T cell populations and normal surface expression of MHC class II, but their B cell development is arrested while the cells are still immature. After a CNS i...

Official statistics on suicides among children and adolescents in West Germany and Japan were used to compare transcultural social and psychiatric data on 108 German and 103 Japanese suicides and attempted suicides. This analysis revealed characteristic differences with respect to the following variables: ratio of attempted and accomplished suicide, age, method, integrating problems at school, ...

We introduce the concept of a quantum background and a functor QFT. In the case that the QFT moduli space is smooth formal, we construct a flat quantum superconnection on a bundle over QFT which defines algebraic structures relevant to correlation functions in quantum field theory. We go further and identify chain level generalizations of correlation functions which should be present in all qua...

The aim of this paper is to treat background (non-focus) elements as anaphoric, i.e. as objects which are formally subject to the same conditions which hold for other anaphora. The idea that backgrounds are anaphoric is inherent in many approaches to information structure, but they are rarely treated as such formally. I will discuss two problems which seem to challenge a strict anaphoricity app...