This study is concerned with slowly varying, long-duration brain event-related potential (ERP) components, referred to as Slow Wave activity. Slow Wave activity can be observed in the epoch following P3b, suggesting that it reflects further processing invoked by increased task demands, beyond the processing that underlies P3b. The present experiment was designed to distinguish Slow Wave activit...

objective: compulsive or binge eating is a kind of disturbed eating behavior, which is mostly observed among dieting women, and is integrated with appetite disorder, and uncontrolled eating of plenty of junk food. the compulsive eating scale (ces) created first by kagan & squires in 1984, is an eight-item self-reporting instrument that is made to measure the severity of binge eating disorder. t...

Cosmic shear probes the distribution of dark matter via gravitational lensing of distant, background galaxies. We describe our cosmic shear survey consisting of deep blank fields observed with the Keck II telescope. We have found biases in the standard weak lensing analysis, which are enhanced by the elongated geometry of the Keck fields. We show how these biases can be diagnosed and corrected ...

Title of dissertation: PHASE TRANSITIONS IN COMPLEX NETWORK DYNAMICS Shane Squires, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Dissertation directed by: Professor Michelle Girvan Department of Physics Two phase transitions in complex networks are analyzed. The first of these is a percolation transition, in which the network develops a macroscopic connected component as edges are added to it. Recent work has sh...

Many of the diverse material properties of soft materials (polymer solutions, gels, filamentous proteins in cells, etc.) stem from their complex structures and dynamics with multiple characteristic length and time scales. A wide variety of technologies, from paints to foods, from oil recovery to processing of plastics, all heavily rely on the understanding of how complex fluids flow (Larson, 19...

The study of colloidal dispersions of micro-nano sized particles in a liquid is of great interest for industrial processes and technological applications. The understanding of the microstructure and fundamental properties of this kind of systems at microscopic level is also useful for biological and biomedical applications. However, a colloidal suspension must be placed somewhere and the dynami...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the accuracy of the mesoscopic approach proposed by Février et al. [P. Février, O. Simonin, K.D. Squires, Partitioning of particle velocities in gas–solid turbulent flows into a continuous field and a spatially uncorrelated random distribution: theoretical formalism and numerical study, J. Fluid Mech. 533 (2005) 1–46] by comparison against the Lagrangian...

Introduction The prestige of book publishers is an important element for the assessment of SSH scholars in Spain. Until 2012, that ‘prestige’ remained based upon subjective, individual judgements from assessment committees’ members. In order to provide a more objective reference for the prestige of book publishers, ÍLIA research group developed a ranking of book publishers (so called SPI) based...

H ow much do neighborhoods affect our life outcomes? This question, which has been long debated and researched, is especially significant when assessing problems and solutions related to residential segregation. Since post-WWII suburbanization, the segregation of black and white households has been a staple of U.S. residential patterns. One of the major issues related to segregation is not simp...

The interpretations of a particular quantum gedanken experiment provided by Bohmian mechanics and consistent histories are shown to contradict each other, both in the absence and in the presence of a measuring device. The consistent history result seems closer to standard quantum mechanics, and shows no evidence of the mysterious nonlocal influences present in the Bohmian description. Bohmian m...