In most spiritual traditions of the world we find, in one way or another, an emphasis on self-denial, a call to limit the importance attributed to the ego. It seems that what we might call the experience of the "transpersonal" is only possible for those who have experienced a breakdown or limitation of ego-centered values. In that way we could say that the negation of the ego is a gateway for t...

This paper describes a GPU implementation for simultaneous camera ego-motion compensation and lens undistortion. The main idea is to transform the image under an ego-motion constraint so that tracked points in the image, that are assumed to come from the ego-motion, maps as close as possible to their average position in time. The lens undistortion is computed simultaneously. We compare the perf...

'Ego depletion' refers to the phenomenon of diminished ability to enact self-regulation with repeated efforts. Several models offer process accounts of how ego depletion works, but few studies directly investigate these processes. A study in this issue of Social, Cognitive, & Affective Neuroscience by Wagner and Heatherton is among the first to do so. Their results substantiate one possible mec...

psychological criticism is considered as a new field in literary criticism, that critic, review and analyzes the literary work therein based on principles of psychology. the present study, address to the personality psychology criticism of mutanabbi poetry as battle, conflict, and tension within three levels of personality: id, ego and superego. the objectives of this paper include: 1-avoid fro...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to examine the impact of ego-resilience and family function on quality of life in childhood leukemia survivors. METHODS This study targeted 100 pediatric leukemia survivors, who visited the Pediatric Hemato-Oncology Center in South Korea from Aug to Dec 2011. A structured questionnaire of ego-resilience, family function and quality of life used to collect data thro...

Online Social Networks (OSNs) are more and more establishing as one of the key means to create and enforce social relationships between individuals. While substantial results have been obtained in the anthropology literature describing the properties of human social networks (built “outside” the OSN world), a clear understanding of the properties of social networks built using OSNs is still to ...