Deciding whether other individuals are trustworthy or likeable belong to the most important decisions in social interactions. It is important for an individual to decide whether to approach or avoid another person. In recent years literature on trustworthiness evaluation of face stimuli is growing with studies focussing on deficits in social evaluation (e.g. Adolphs et al., 1998; Baas et al., 2...

Although the distinction between positive and negative facial expressions is assumed to be clear and robust, recent research with intense real-life faces has shown that viewers are unable to reliably differentiate the valence of such expressions (Aviezer, Trope, & Todorov, 2012). Yet, the fact that viewers fail to distinguish these expressions does not in itself testify that the faces are physi...

We apply bond order and topological methods to the problem of analysing the results of radiation damage cascade simulations in ceramics. Both modified Steinhardt local order and connectivity topology analysis techniques provide results that are both translationally and rotationally invariant and which do not rely on a particular choice of a reference structure. We illustrate the methods with ne...

Recent research finds that naive survey participants’ rapid evaluations of the facial competence of United States Congressional candidates predict aggregate vote margins. The predictive power of facial competence has generated considerable interest because it seems to indicate a causal relationship between face and vote choice. Because there is no a priori reason to expect that candidate facial...

The purpose of this paper is to use insights from the academic literature on crises to understand the role of liquidity in the current crisis. We focus on four of the crucial features of the crisis that we argue are related to liquidity provision. The first is the fall of the prices of AAA-rated tranches of securitized products below fundamental values. The second is the effect of the crisis on...

• The problem of the non-robustness of the classical estimates in the setting of the quadratic and linear discriminant analysis has been addressed by many authors: Todorov et al. [19, 20], Chork and Rousseeuw [1], Hawkins and McLachlan [4], He and Fung [5], Croux and Dehon [2], Hubert and Van Driessen [6]. To obtain high breakdown these methods are based on high breakdown point estimators of lo...

En este artículo proponemos una reflexión en torno a las posibilidades representacionales del sufrimiento que el Holocausto trajo consigo, partiendo argumento de que, tras la Shoah, se produjo sociedades occidentales ruptura con los dispositivos tradicionales (artísticos) exposición afectos. El dolor causado por exterminio era tal había quedado enquistado, causando un trauma degeneró crisis rep...

Em direção diversa das narrativas romanescas e fílmicas que em geral tematizam a Amazônia os povos indígenas partir do misticismo simplista ou da imagem idealizada “bom selvagem”, Frontera Verde (2019) é uma produção original Netflix, oito episódios, cuja trama, inicialmente policialesca, toma rumos mais profundos, obscuros instigantes, tendo como cenário cidade de Leticia, próxima à tríplice f...

The wave functions of the Haldane-Rezayi paired Hall state have been previously described by a non-unitary conformal field theory with central charge c = −2. Moreover, a relation with the c = 1 unitary Weyl fermion has been suggested. We construct the complete unitary theory and show that it consistently describes the edge excitations of the Haldane-Rezayi state. Actually, we show that the unit...

In his 1984 proof of the Bieberbach and Milin conjectures de Branges used a positivity result of special functions which follows from an identity about Jacobi polynomial sums that was published by Askey and Gasper in 1976. The de Branges functions τ k (t) are defined as the solutions of a system of differential recurrence equations with suitably given initial values. The essential fact used in ...