Parallel dimensions of experience in psychoanalytic psychotherapy of the religious patient.

Summarizes psychological aspects of religious experience in the therapeutic process and proposes a model for conceptualizing anthropocentric (interpersonal) and deocentric (human-and-God) object relationships. The model addresses 2 clinical dilemmas: identification between therapist and patient and interpretation of religious material during therapy. Using this model, therapists can think in terms of object representations wherein deocentric experiences might be envisioned. Special meanings can be derived for the religious material that emerges in therapy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The EMG-Force Model of Electrically Stimulated Muscle: Dependence on Control Strategy and Predominant Fiber Composition

The EMG-force relationships of electrically stimulated muscle under a wide range of firing rate and recruitment control strategies were studied in a predominantly slow (soleus) and fast (m. gas-trocnemius) twitch muscles with the objective of applying the results in rehabilitative systems where the EMG serves as a force feedback parameter.     

Bromostyrene-crosslinked polyesters. I. Thermal stability and flame retardancy

Bromostyrene was used as partial replacement of styrene for crosslinking polyester resins. The oxidative stability of the polymer was studied and the performance in standard flammability tests was tested. It was shown that flame retardation increased linearly with the Br content. Under certain conditions, self-extinguishing polyesters were obtained.     

The Capacitated p-facility Location Problem on the Real Line

The problem we address involves locating p new facilities to service a set of customers or fixed points on the real line such that a measure of total cost will be minimized. A basic form of this problem was investigated by Love (1976), who observed that the fixed points must be allocated in sequence to the new facilities in an optimal solution, and thus, the problem can be solved by a dynamic programming algorithm. Since then, other forms of the model have been investigated; however, in all cases it is assumed that the new facilities have unlimited capacity so that customer flows are always allocated to the nearest facility. The objective of this paper is to analyze the effect of capacity constraints on the optimal locations of the new facilities. A general fixed-cost function is also included to account for practical considerations such as zoning regulations, and to permit the facilities to be located anywhere on the line instead of only at the fixed vertices. A dynamic programming method is formulated to solve the problem when the variable cost components are increasing convex functions of travel distance. The problem is shown to be NP-hard under more general cost structures.     

Actions as space-time shapes

Human action in video sequences can be seen as silhouettes of a moving torso and protruding limbs undergoing articulated motion. We regard human actions as three-dimensional shapes induced by the silhouettes in the space-time volume. We adopt a recent approach for analyzing 2D shapes and generalize it to deal with volumetric space-time action shapes. Our method utilizes properties of the solution to the Poisson equation to extract space-time features such as local space-time saliency, action dynamics, shape structure and orientation. We show that these features are useful for action recognition, detection and clustering. The method is fast, does not require video alignment and is applicable in (but not limited to) many scenarios where the background is known. Moreover, we demonstrate the robustness of our method to partial occlusions, non-rigid deformations, significant changes in scale and viewpoint, high irregularities in the performance of an action, and low quality video.     

Intelligence is not Enough: On the Socialization of Talking Machines

Minds and Machines - Since the introduction of the imitation game by Turing in 1950 there has been much debate as to its validity in ascertaining machine intelligence. We wish herein to consider a...     

Diozonide of jojoba wax as intermediate for synthesis

Jojoba wax reacts with ozone yielding diozonide, which is a viable synthetic intermediate. The diozonide of jojoba wax is a white solid of low titre which decomposes violently around 110–120 C. We have studied several synthetic methods based on the diozonide, such as the preparation of dialdehyde; the corresponding dicarboxylic acid, and derivatives of the latter, such as metal soaps, esters and polyesters. Many additional paths may start from the diozonide intermediate and its derivatives. Presented in part at the Sixth International Conference on Jojoba and Its Uses, held in Beer-Sheva, Israel in 1984.