Three behavioural tasks (standard visual search, multiple target search, and numberdiscrimination)weretestedwithavariety of stimuli relevanttotwo-stage theories of vision. One purpose was to compare the two versions of the search task; a second was to explore the relations between processes of search and enumeration. The two search tasks were quite consistent overall, with strong correlations b...

A natural and practical criterion in the preparation of diagrams of ordered sets is to minimize the number of different slopes used for the edges. Any diagram requires at least the maximum number of upper covers (or of lower covers) of any element. While this maximum degree is not always enough we show that it is as long as any edge joining a covering pair may be bent, to produce a crooked diag...

For the figure eight knot, we show that slopes with even numerator are slopes of immersed surfaces covered by incompressible, boundary-incompressible embeddings in some finite cover.  2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Soil erosion is one of the vital factors contributing to the loss of fertility and environmental degradation. Generally accepted diagnostics of eroded soils is based on comparison of the sloping soils profile depth with the watershed soils. In this case, there is a separate problem of slope soils with a naturally shortened profile and eroded soils. Formation of the soil’s natura...

Changes in levels of the stress-sensitive hormone cortisol from morning to evening are referred to as diurnal cortisol slopes. Flatter diurnal cortisol slopes have been proposed as a mediator between chronic psychosocial stress and poor mental and physical health outcomes in past theory and research. Surprisingly, neither a systematic nor a meta-analytic review of associations between diurnal c...