The affective meaning of words can be quantified statistically by the "semantic differential technique". We studied a total of 55 Chinese adults in two experiments: first, 210 nouns were rated by 32 subjects. Factor analysis on these data yielded three independent semantic dimensions. Semantically unique words were used in electrophysiological experiments in another group of 23 healthy right-ha...

— The nature of point defects in nematic liquid crystals has been studied by placing droplets on a water substrate and viewing these between crossed polarizers. Three configurations are observed. These configurations are accounted for by minimizing the Frank elastic energies with suitable boundary conditions. The second order nonlinear simultaneous partial differential equations that describe s...