The right hemisphere advantage for split-brain patients on a variety of spatial tasks (block design, cube drawing, wire figures, and fragemented stimuli) is found to be highly dependent upon the involvement of manual activities in the perception of spatial relationships or the production of spatial responses. The cerebral localization of the neural substrate of manipulo-spatial functions sugges...

Poor spellers in normal schools, who were not poor readers, were studied for handedness, visuospatial and other cognitive abilities in order to explore contrasts between poor spellers with and without good phonology. It was predicted by the right shift (RS) theory of handedness and cerebral dominance that those with good phonology would have strong bias to dextrality and relative weakness of th...

We often describe lives (or parts of lives) as meaningful or as not meaningful. It is also common to characterize them as more or less meaningful. Some lives, we tend to think, are more meaningful than others. But how then can one compare lives with respect to how much meaning they contain? Can one? This paper argues that (i) only a notion of rough equality can be used when comparing different ...

In general, the result of the elimination of weakly dominated strategies depends on order. We define nice weak dominance. Under nice weak dominance, order does not matter. We identify an important class of games under which nice weak dominance and weak dominance are equivalent, and so the order under weak dominance does not matter. For all games, the result of iterative nice weak dominance is a...

Kittens were given intramuscular injections of the N-methyl--aspartate (NMDA) antagonist MK-801 twice daily (morning and midday) during the peak of the period of susceptibility for ocular dominance changes. They were then exposed to light with one eye closed for 4 h after each injection. The ocular dominance of these kittens was shifted significantly less than that of kittens injected with sali...

Abstract Current study assessed the impact of Lantana camara invasion on native plant diversity in Pothohar region Pakistan. The approach used for was random samplings and comparisons indices [number species (S), abundance (N), richness (R), evenness (J?), Shannon index (H?) Simpson dominance (?)] with two categorical factors i.e., invaded non-invaded (control). Control plots harboured by an av...

Generalized diagonal dominance, a specific property of the matrix, can be very useful in various fields of the applied linear algebra, as a tool for discovering and proving new results. First, it gives possibility to be able to define different subclasses of H-matrices (papers [3], [11]). Second, it suggests a way to deduce and prove new theorems on the eigenvalue localization (papers [2], [4],...

In this study, 76 men came into the lab in pairs and engaged in a 7-minute videotaped mate competition for the attention of an attractive female confederate. Pre-competition testosterone (T) levels were positively associated with men’s dominance behaviors and with how much the confederate indicated that she ‘‘clicked’’ with each participant. Dyadic analyses showed that self-reported dominance m...