When an anisotropic material is subject to creep conditions and a complex state of stress, an anisotropic creep damage behavior is observed. Previous research has focused on the anisotropic creep damage behavior of isotropic materials but few constitutive models have been developed for anisotropic creeping solids. This paper describes the development of a new anisotropic tertiary creep damage c...

We develop a unified model accounting simultaneously for the contrast invariance of the width of the orientation tuning curves (OT) and for the sigmoidal shape of the contrast response function (CRF) of neurons in the primary visual cortex (V1). We determine analytically the conditions for the structure of the afferent LGN and recurrent V1 inputs that lead to these properties for a hypercolumn ...

This Article surveys the law of LGBT asylum as it has developed over the past fifteen years, first, with the landmark case of Matter of Toboso-Alfonso, which recognized homosexuality as a “particular social group”; second, with the Ninth Circuit’s recent cases adopting a soft immutability standard of identity and expanding asylum protection to transgender individuals; and third, with a discussi...

Except for some U.S. states and localities, gay men and lesbians are largely unprotected from employment discrimination. In debate over national legislation (Employment Non-Discrimination Act), some legislators have questioned the efficacy of antidiscrimination legislation. To address this issue, we conducted three studies. In Study 1, we documented public awareness of sexual orientation employ...

INTRODUCTION........................................................................1299 I. THE QUEST FOR “CURES” ......................................................1303 II. FAILED EFFORTS TO MAKE “HOMOSEXUALS” SICK......1311 A. WHAT MAKES A PERSON MENTALLY ILL .............................1313 B. THE DEPATHOLOGIZATION OF HOMOSEXUALITY.................1316 C. CAUSAL THEORIES OF DISORDER........

I. Deutsch's Crude Law of Social Relations Many years ago, my students and I were doing research to answer the question: What are the factors which determine whether a conflict will take a constructive or destructive course? (See Deutsch, 1973, for a summary and discussion of this research) After much research, a major simplifying idea occurred to me which I labeled Deutsch's Crude Law o/Social...

An orientation-matching task, based on a mental rotation paradigm, was used to investigate how participants manually rotated a Shepard-Metzler object in the real world and in an immersive virtual environment (VE). Participants performed manual rotation more quickly and efficiently than virtual rotation, but the general pattern of results was similar for both. The rate of rotation increased with...

The equilibrium form of a crystal is the shape which minimizes the total surface tension for a given volume. The surface tension itself is considered to be a function of the orientation of the crystal face within the crystal lattice. This function of orientation is identified with the stable norm on the second homology classes of a Riemannian 3-torus. Minimizing the total surface tension of the...

Starting from the Navier-Stokes equation, we rigorously prove that a modi ed third order structure function ~ S 3 (r) asymptotically equals 4 r=3 ( is the dissipation rate) in the large Reynolds number limit of Navier-Stokes equation in an inertial regime. From this result, we rigorously con rm the Kolmogorov fourfth law, without the Kolmogorov assumption on isotropy. Our de nition of the struc...

objective: this study investigated the relationship between resilience and religious orientation (internal and external) with posttraumatic growth (ptg). this study also examined the impact of marriage and sex variables on growth . method: participants were selected based on prescreening of a larger group of students enrolled in the university of shiraz. participants were recruited in two stage...