A short-term longitudinal study with 4and 5-month-old infants investigated whether infants’ prior experience with contingency or noncontingency in social interactions with specific others affects infants’ preference for these others in subsequent interactions. On Session 1 infants were simultaneously presented with social interaction from two strangers via video, one was interacting contingentl...

While today’s general purpose manipulators contain six degrees of freedom, effective reduction in degrees of freedom occurs from singularity regions and from workspace obstacles. It is argued that the future general purpose manipulators will contain seven degrees of freedom, and that one particular kinematic design is superior to other possible 7 degree of freedom kinematic designs. Considerati...

State educational spending policies strongly impact the funding of local schools. While some US states have removed school spending authority from local residents, others continue to encourage local control. In this paper we explore the effects of changes in state educational spending policies on Tiebout sorting by examining the location choice of young and elderly households, both within and a...

Any elementary textbook on statistical mechanics will try to convince you that energy is everything w.r.t. phase separation. The goal of this thesis is to show otherwise.

Identification of individual component from a natural mixture sample is having the utmost importance in the drug development industry. Generally, plant components or natural material on the earth use to present in a complex form and the individual components have been found to have specific beneficiary effect on specific disease. Such urgency to isolate the unit component or active ingredient i...

Separation-individuation is a developmental process through which individuals renegotiate self-other boundaries. Although this process is thought to be critically engaged in the first years of life, it is generally agreed that adolescence and young adulthood constitute a “second phase” wherein these issues are renegotiated in light of the developmental tasks common to this age period (Blos, 196...

Consider a gambling game in which we are allowed to repeatedly bet a portion of our bankroll at favorable odds. We investigate the question of how to minimize the expected number of rounds needed to increase our bankroll to a given target amount. Specifically, we disprove a 50-year old conjecture of L. Breiman [1], that there exists a threshold strategy that optimizes the expected number of rou...

This paper presents the graphical embeding of the rotational degree of freedom into the translational Configuration Space for planar assembly tasks. The resulting representation helps the visualization and understanding of motions in a simple and easy graphical way. The aim is the developing of motion planning algorithms in a two-dimensional parametrized space for planar assembly tasks (3 d.o.f...