This article examines the love of comics or bedephilia discernible in Katherine Collins’s Neil Horse Comics and Stories, a short-lived comic from 1980s. It interrogates contextualizes “childish” elements comic, its bridging children’s culture adult through focusing girls’ funny animal comics. also discusses comic’s interactions with musicals. Situating “maturing” scene 1980s North America, this...

Acknowledgements: Thank you to Dr. Jennifer Dill for her advice and encouragement throughout my MURP years. Dr. Dill and Dr. Irina Sharkova served as readers on this Field Area Paper. I must also thank my loving wife, who has supported me through the experience that was my FAP.

Robin de Vilder would like to dedicate this paper to the loving memory of his wife Annemiek. Abstract We describe algorithms for computing hyperbolic invariant sets of diieomorphisms and their stable and unstable manifolds. This includes the calculation of Smale horseshoes and the stable and unstable manifolds of periodic points in any nite dimension.

On the personal note I own my loving thanks to my husband Deepak and daughter Shireen for their understanding, support, and patience. And finally to my parents, who taught me value of education and who's best wishes and prayers were always with me.

support, advice, and instruction over the course of this project. I also want to thank my wife, Hailey. Without her loving support and encouragement, it would have been much more difficult. Finally, I'd like to thank my parents. They never stopped encouraging me and inspiring me to perform to the best of my abilities and to set my goals high.

In The Sovereignty of Good' Iris Murdoch suggests that the central task of the moral agent involves a true and loving perception of another individual, who is seen as a particular reality external to the agent. Writing in the 1960s she claimed that this dimension of morality had been "theorized away" in contemporary ethics. I will argue today that 20 years later, this charge still holds true of...

Spiritual practices are gaining an increasingly wider audience as a means to enhance positive affect in healthy individuals and to treat neurological disorders such as anxiety and depression. The current study aimed to examine the neural correlates of two different forms of love generated by spiritual practices using EEG; love generated during a loving kindness meditation performed by Buddhist ...

UNLABELLED Self-criticism is a vulnerability risk factor for a number of psychological disorders, and it predicts poor response to psychological and pharmacological treatments. In the current study, we evaluated the efficacy of a loving-kindness meditation (LKM) programme designed to increase self-compassion in a sample of self-critical individuals. Thirty-eight individuals with high scores on ...

The field of basal ganglia research is exploding on every level - from discoveries at the molecular level to those based on human brain imaging. A remarkable series of new findings support the view that the basal ganglia are essential for some forms of learning-related plasticity. Other new findings are challenging some of the basic tenets of the field as it now stands. Combined with the new ev...

Mindfulness-based meditation interventions have become increasingly popular in contemporary psychology. Other closely related meditation practices include loving-kindness meditation (LKM) and compassion meditation (CM), exercises oriented toward enhancing unconditional, positive emotional states of kindness and compassion. This article provides a review of the background, the techniques, and th...