a dialogue between myself and my hallucinations. The publication of this book brought me letters from people who wanted to know how a nurse could work efficiently while being a schizophrenic. Getting the schizophrenic a job and helping him to keep it are very important tasks for psychiatrists and social workers. The way has been paved by the setting up of workshops within hospitals, so that pat...

Thermal convection in a fluid layer heated from below (Rayleigh-Bénard layer) and flows between coaxial differentially rotating cylinders (Taylor-Couette system) have been investigated for more than a century, experimentally as well as theoretically. Both are attractive systems for laboratory investigations of fluid turbulence because visualizations and data gathering are easier than in experim...

Japanese has various forms of fillers. However, the characteristics of each form have yet to be well understood. We use a large corpus of spontaneous Japanese speech and conversation and focus on three frequently observed types of fillers : e-, ma-, and demonstrative-type fillers. We show that it is possible to characterize Japanese fillers from the viewpoint of how a speaker concerns himself w...

This paper describes a classification of paralleling schemes for dc–dc converters from a circuit theoretic viewpoint. The purpose is to provide a systematic classification of the types of parallel converters that can clearly identify all possible structures and control configurations, allowing simple and direct comparison of the characteristics and limitations of different paralleling schemes. ...

ity over the technical or implementational point of view. In this regard, it cannot be criticized as designed in a too rigid way from the implementational viewpoint and not adaptable to new situations and unforeseen phenomena. The separation of data structures from the procedures and the modularity of the system are features that are essential to the extendability of the system to other domains...

1 Three-dimensional shape and two-dimensional surface reeectance contributions to face recognition: Abstract We measured the three-dimensional shape and two-dimensional surface reeectance contributions to human recognition of faces across viewpoint. We rst divided laser scans of human heads into their two-and three-dimensional components. Next, we created shape-normalized faces by morphing the ...

Scenarios that describe concrete situations of software operation play an important role in software development, and in particular in requirements engineering. Scenario details should vary in content and detail when described from different viewpoints (e.g. types of user or external interface), but this presents a difficulty, because informal scenarios cannot easily be translated from one view...

In three experiments, we examined the role of structural similarity and different types of motion on the efficiency of performing same--different shape judgments across changes in viewpoints. In all experiments, participants judged whether two novel, multi-part objects were structurally identical, and they were to ignore any viewpoint or motion differences between the objects. In experiment 1, ...