OBJECTIVES Sleep EEG spindles are linked to efficient cortical-subcortical connectivity and intellectual abilities. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship of spindle activity to psychosocial stress response and coping strategies in healthy kindergarten children. METHODS In a cross-sectional study of 41 5-year old kindergarten children we examined stress-induced hypot...

Good self-control has been linked to adaptive outcomes such as better health, cohesive personal relationships, success in the workplace and at school, and less susceptibility to crime and addictions. In contrast, self-control failure is linked to maladaptive outcomes. Understanding the mechanisms by which self-control predicts behavior may assist in promoting better regulation and outcomes. A p...

We present a novel approach for unsupervised learning of depth and ego-motion from monocular video. Unsupervised learning removes the need for separate supervisory signals (depth or ego-motion ground truth, or multi-view video). Prior work in unsupervised depth learning uses pixel-wise or gradient-based losses, which only consider pixels in small local neighborhoods. Our main contribution is to...

Acquiring the full global information is impractical, if feasible at all, in many networks with distributed operation and self-organization features. To meet scalability requirements practical protocol implementations could use local information instead, drawn from the nodes’ ego-networks, the Social Network Analysis (SNA) counterpart of centered graphs. However, in almost all these efforts the...

Balint's great merit was to question what, in the classical perspective, was assumed as a prerequisite for analysis and thus located beyond analysis: the maturity of the ego. A fundamental premise of his work was Ferenczi's distrust for the structural model, which praised the maturity of the ego and its verbal, social, and adaptive abilities. Ferenczi's view of ego maturation as a trauma deriva...

Our aim here is to address the problem of decomposing a whole network into a minimal number of ego–centered subnetworks. For this purpose, the network egos are picked out as the members of a minimum dominating set of the network. However, to find such an efficient dominating ego–centered construction, we need to be able to detect all the minimum dominating sets and to compare all the correspond...

Visual motion, such as radial optic flow, is an important cue for perceiving direction during ego-motion. Several previous studies have reported that the perceived speed of a radial optic flow is underestimated when the represented ego-motion direction between radial optic flow and non-visual (such as vestibular or/and proprioceptive) information is congruent. In the present study, we examined ...

the present research intends to understand the influence of manager’s perception of quality of work life and ego-strength on their organizational commitment. the study was carried out in different private and public organizations located in delhi. data were collected from 300 managers. analysis of the data was done using stepwise multiple regression analysis and t-test. results revealed that on...