Lifespan psychology and life-course sociology concern themselves to a considerable extent with separate areas of interest and separate lines of research. Life-course sociology aims to understand the evolution of life courses primarily as the outcome of institutional regulation and social structural forces. Lifespan psychology views development across the life span primarily as changes of geneti...

In this paper Aitken’s extrapolation normally applied to convergent fixed point iteration is extended to extrapolate the solution of a divergent iteration. In addition, higher order Aitken extrapolation is introduced that enables successive decomposition of high Eigen values of the iteration matrix to enable convergence. While extrapolation of a convergent fixed point iteration using a geometri...

Der Beitrag geht Beschreibungen von Situationen, insbesondere Modulationen, in der theoretischen Literatur des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts nach, denen rein intervallische Muster wie chromatische Linien oder symmetrisch divergierende konvergierende als unterstützend kollidierend mit standardisierten Kadenzmodellen angesehen werden. The paper pursues descriptions the theoretical literature of 18th a...

The main objective of the present study is to utilize a novel linearization strategy to linearize the convection terms of the quasi-one-dimensional Euler governing equations on collocated grids and to examine its shock-capturing capabilities. To avoid a pressure checkerboard problem on the collocated grids, it is necessary to utilize two velocity definitions at each cell face. Similarly, we def...

In 1992, Goodale and Milner proposed the existence of a dedicated visuomotor control system that allows for the control of action without the need for conscious perception of the target object's form. The 'action and perception hypothesis' was motivated in large part by the surprising observation of spared visuomotor abilities in D.F., a patient with a severe deficit in visual form perception a...

The concentration of US imports is studied from transaction-level data. Concentration has fallen in the typical industry, while it stable by industry-origin. Falling driven extensive margin: number exporting firms grown, and exported products relatively more for top firms. Instead, average revenue per product increased. Top are converging at industry level, but diverging within country. Finally...

A microfluidic device that operates as a set of two adaptive cylindrical lenses focusing light along two orthogonal axes is designed, fabricated and characterized. The device is made out of a silicon elastomer, polydimethylsiloxane, using soft lithography, and consists of a few chambers separated by flexible membranes and filled with liquids of different refractive indices. The cylindrical lens...