An expression for the oscillatory part of an asymptotic formula for the for the relativistic spin network amplitude for a 4-simplex is given. The amplitude depends on specified areas for each two-dimensional face in the 4-simplex. The asymptotic formula has a contribution from each flat Euclidean metric on the 4-simplex which agrees with the given areas. The oscillatory part of each contributio...

A three-year prospective, longitudinal, multi-school study was undertaken to investigate if either handedness, eyedness, their same or opposite side status (unilateral or crossed hand-eye dominance) was related to specific aspects of elementary school academic performance. Some 540 subjects, in 1 through 5 grades comprised the initial group. Testing on the reading sub-test of the Iowa Test of B...

The current study investigates whether eye color provides a marker of Agreeableness in North Europeans. Extrapolating from Frost’s (2006) research uncovering an unusually diverse range of hair and eye color in northern Europe, we tested the hypothesis that light eyed individuals of North European descent would be less agreeable (a personality marker for competitiveness) when compared to their d...

The parametric factors kL, kC and kH that scale the CIELAB components ∆L*, ∆C* and ∆H* in the CIE94 colour difference formula are unity under reference conditions. When the conditions are changed, the scaling factors may be adapted to account for the influence of specific experimental conditions on perceived colour differences. We determined thresholds for the visibility of static background no...

William H. Redd1*, Heiddis Valdimarsdottir1,2, Lisa M. Wu1, Gary Winkel1, Emily E. Byrne1, Melba A. Beltre1, Elizabeth S. Liebman1, Tanya Erazo1, Judy A. Hayes1, Luis Isola3, Eileen Scigliano3, Yeraz Meschian1, Susan Lutgendorf4 and Sonia Ancoli-Israel5 Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA Department of Psychology, Reykjavik University, ...

Easwar Natarajan,* John D. Omobono II,* Zongyou Guo,* Susan Hopkinson, Alexander J.F. Lazar, Thomas Brenn, Jonathan C. Jones, and James G. Rheinwald* From the Departments of Dermatology * and Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Skin Disease Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; and the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Northwestern University Medic...

Five new eyed species of Sinella from China, respectively with 3, 3, 2, 1, 1 ommatidia on each side, are described here: S. longisensilla sp. nov., S. yui sp. nov., S. pseudobrowni sp. nov., S. sacellum sp. nov. and S. gracilis sp. nov. Clypeal chaetae and chaetae along cephalic groove exhibit differences among these species and could be used to distinguish species in Sinella and Coecobrya. A k...

An employer has a special duty towards a one-eyed man (Paris v. Stepney Borough Council, I95i) but *does not have a special duty to a man with normal sight because employment could normally continue with good monocular vision. Clearly, a man with very defective vision in one eye needs the same consideration as a one-eyed man so we examined the level of visual acuity which should alert the emplo...

We present a joint symbol, frame, and carrier synchronization method for the Eureka 147 DAB signal in this paper. Symbol timing is determined first by detecting an abrupt change in the phase angle of the complex product between the last quarter of a useful symbol and its cyclic extension in the guard interval. The detection of this abrupt change is based on the maximal likelihood (ML) principle...