In this article we establish a large deviation principle for the family {ν ε : ε ∈ (0, 1)} of distributions of the scaled stochastic processes {P − log √ ε Z t } t≤1 , where (Z t) t∈[0,1] is a square-integrable martingale over Brownian filtration and (P t) t≥0 is the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroup. The rate function is identified as well in terms of the Wiener-Itô chaos decomposition of the termi...

Children’s imitation is a profoundly social process. Although previous developmental accounts of imitation have focused on imitation as a way to learn from others, the current article stresses that imitation goes far beyond this: It is often intimately tied to children’s need to belong to the group and their drive to affiliate with those around them. Accordingly, imitation is chiefly determined...

LAURA SEVERANCE*, LAN BUI-WRZOSINSKA, MICHELE J. GELFAND, SARAH LYONS, ANDRZEJ NOWAK, WOJCIECH BORKOWSKI, NAZAR SOOMRO, NAUREEN SOOMRO, ANAT RAFAELI, DORIT EFRAT TREISTER, CHUN-CHI LIN AND SUSUMU YAMAGUCHI University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, U.S.A. Fors Marsh Group, LLC, Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A. Warsaw School of Social Science and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland Department of Psycholo...

This is a new set of guidelines prepared for the BAD Clinical Standards Unit, made up of the Therapy & Guidelines Subcommittee (T&G) and the Audit & Clinical Standards Subcommittee (A&CS). Members of the Clinical Standards Unit are: H.K. Bell (Chairman T&G), L.C. Fuller (Chairman A&CS), N.J. Levell, M.J. Tidman, P.D. Yesudian, J. Lear, J. Hughes, A.J. McDonagh, S. Punjabi, N. Morar, S. Wagle (B...

Abstract This article provides a review of Transforming Universities in the Midst Global Crisis: A University for Common Good, authored by Richard Hil, Kristen Lyons and Fern Thompsett.

Recently Harris [Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A 129 (1999) 503], using probabilistic methods alone, has given new proofs for the existence, asymptotics and uniqueness of travelling wave solutions to the K-P-P equation. Following in this vein we outline alternative probabilistic proofs. Specifically the techniques are confined to the study of additive and multiplicative martingales and spinal...