Reflecting Ourselves: 'Maoriland' in the Mirror

Commentary: a look at ourselves in the mirror.

As a pediatric psychologist with some administrative duties, I keep a file of publications about salaries and work expectations of psychologists. Although these reports have more information than just salary data, more often than not I use them to assist with salary and contract benchmarks for my department. Opipari-Arrigan, Stark, and Drotar’s (2005) article adds much to those existing surveys...

Landscape mirror: the attractiveness of reflecting water

This research examined human preference for water and a key aspect of water, its reflection. We compared responses to reflection in water versus reflection in glass and responses to reflection versus transparency. Sixty respondents rated the attractiveness of four scale-models varied on those dimensions. High inter-item reliability across the rating scales called for their combination into a co...

Mirror Neurons: Reflecting on the Motor Cortex and Spinal Cord

Neurons in the monkey motor cortex that project to the spinal cord to control particular muscle contractions and movements have been found to discharge again while the monkey simply watches another primate make similar movements: monkey see; monkey not do.

Quantum radiation from a partially reflecting moving mirror

We consider the quantum radiation from a partially reflecting moving mirror for the massless scalar field in 1+1 Minkowski space. Partial reflectivity is achieved by localizing a δ-type potential at the mirror’s position. The radiated flux is exactly obtained for arbitrary motions as an integral functional of the mirror’s past trajectory. Partial reflectivity corrections to the perfect mirror r...

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