Winnicott ( 1953) was the first investigator in the Western literature who paid due attention to the rather common phenomenon of a “security” blanket. In his report he introduced the term “transitional object” and described it as the first not-me possession of a child which plays an important role in ego development. Since then, many reports on this topic have appeared, mainly in the psychoanal...

This paper briefly examines two approaches to the position of women in Judaism. One is from an orthodox perspective, represented by Chana Weisberg, and the other is a non-orthodox and feminist approach, represented by Judith Plaskow. By examining these two approaches, we expect to contribute to a better understanding of the diverse views of women in contemporary Judaism. Plaskow criticizes t...

In a recent article in Psychological Science, Weisberg (1994) examined the hypothesis that creative individuals suffering from manic-depressive disease are not only more productive during hypomanic phases (which they commonly are) but also produce works of higher quality than during normal or depressed periods. As his test case he took the composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856) who suffered from ...

I have learned a lot from Josh Weisberg’s substantial criticism in his well-crafted and systematic commentary (see also his book review in Weisberg 2003). Unfortunately, I have to concede many of the points he intelligently makes. But I am also flattered by the way he ultimately uses his criticism to emphasize some of those aspects of the theory that can perhaps possibly count as exactly the co...

Two types of diagnostics are presented for the transformation of explanatory variables in regression. One is based on the likelihood displacement proposed by Cook and Weisberg (1982) for assessing the in uence of individual cases on the maximum likelihood estimate of a transformation parameter. The other is based on the local in uence theory proposed by Cook (1986) for assessing the in uence of...

Graphical methods based on dimension-reduction subspaces for regression problems (Cook 1994) may be useful for studying the relative importance of inputs in computer models of physical systems. Sliced inverse regression (Li 1991), principal Hessian directions (Li 1992), ceres plots (Cook 1993), and inverse response plots (Cook and Weisberg 1994) are recent methods that can identify characterist...

Foley J. Benign forms of intracranial hypertension. 'Toxic' and 'otitic' hydrocephalus. Brain 1955;78:1-41. 2 Oski FA. Roseola infantum: another cause of bulging fontanelle. Am J Dis Child 1961;101:376-8. 3 Rose A, Matson DD. Benign intracranial hypertension in children. Pediatrics 1967;39:227-37. Weisberg LA. Chutorian AM. Pseudotumor cerebri of childhood. Am J Dis Child 1977.131:1243-8. Grant...

Abst rac t . Recent experiments (Weisberg, Kevrekidis & Smits 1997) have demonstrated that the centrifugal instability leading to Taylor vortex flow can be controlled by harmonic oscillations of the inner cylinder in the axial direction. Marques & Lopez (1997) used linear Floquet analysis to study the control of the instability for the flow between two infinite length co-axial cylinders. Howeve...

We report the discovery of two radio pulsars, 2127+11B and 2127+11C, in the globular cluster M15 (NGC7078), which also contains the 110-ms pulsar 2127+11A (Wolszczan et al. 1989). Although only twenty globular cluster pulsars are known at present, the detection of three pulsars in a single cluster suggests that there might be a large total population of these objects, which would make them powe...