The present study used eye-tracking to investigate whether a model’s gaze direction influences the way observers look at the entire body of the model and how this interacts with the observer and the model’s gender. Participants viewed individual male and female computer agents during both a free-viewing task and a rating task to evaluate the attractiveness of each character. The results indicated that both male and female participants primarily gazed at the models’ faces. Participants also spent more time scanning the face when rating the attractiveness of each model. Observers tended to scan faces with a direct gaze longer than faces with an averted gaze for both the free-viewing and attractiveness rating tasks. Lastly, participants evaluated models with a direct gaze as more attractive than models with an averted gaze. As these results occurred for pictures of computer agents, and not actual people, this suggests that direct gaze, and faces in general, are powerful for engaging attention. In summary, both task requirements and gaze direction modified face viewing preference.

No description available.

Ostracism arouses negative affect. However, little is known about variables that influence the intensity of these negative affective responses. Two studies seek to fill this void by incorporating work on approach- and withdrawal-related emotional states and their associated cortical activations. Study 1 found that following ostracism, anger related directly to relative left frontal cortical activation. Study 2 used unilateral hand contractions to manipulate frontal cortical activity prior to an ostracizing event. Righthand contractions, compared to left-hand contractions, caused greater relative left frontal cortical activation during the hand contractions as well as during ostracism. Also, righthand contractions caused more self-reported anger in response to being ostracized. Within-condition correlations revealed patterns of associations between ostracisminduced frontal asymmetry and emotive responses to ostracism consistent with Study 1. Taken together, these results suggest that asymmetrical frontal cortical activity affects angry responses to ostracism, with greater relative left frontal cortical activity being associated with increased anger.

The use of Robin boundary conditions as interfacial transmission conditions in nonoverlapping domain decomposition iterative procedures was introduced by P.~L.~Lions and later discussed by a number of authors. In all of these discussions, the weighting of the flux and the trace of the solution were independent of the iterative step number. Recently, Douglas and Huang have considered an extension in which the weighting has depended on the iterative index and proved that an acceleration in the convergence rate similar to that occurring for alternating-direction iteration using a cycle of pseudo-time steps results. Combined methods have received a lot of attention on the study of the boundary value problems of elliptic equation with singularities domain. The objects of this paper are to extend this accelerated procedure to a singularity problem on a sectorial domain. We show that the convergence rate similar to that occurring for alternating-direction iteration results. Also, a combined method and the methodology of weighting parameter can be used to solve a singularity problem.

Classical alternating direction (AD) methods for parabolic equations, based on some standard implicit time stepping procedure such as Crank-Nicolson, can have errors associated with the AD perturbations that are much larger than the errors associated with the underlying time stepping procedure . We plan to show that minor modifications in the AD procedures can virtually eliminate the perturbation errors at an minor additional computational cost. A mixed finite element method is applied in the spactial variables. Similar to the finite difference and finite element methods in spactial variables, we plan to have the same accuracy in time. A convergence analysis can also be shown .

Diss.--Wirtschaft--Universität St. Gallen, 2003. / Bibliogr. p. 297-315.

Thesis (M. A.)--Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-116).

Thesis (M. Div.)--St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Crestwood, N.Y., 2002. / Abstract. Microfiche copy lacks title page. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 38-39).

ITC/USA 2014 Conference Proceedings / The Fiftieth Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 20-23, 2014 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, CA / In this paper, we propose a novel technique using a single antenna for direction of arrival (DOA) estimation of broadband microwave signals. We designed and fabricated a microstrip-leaky-wave receiving antenna, which has good matching and reasonable radiation efficiency in the frequency range of interest: 2 - 3.5 GHz. Because the frequency response of the antenna is strongly incident-angle dependent, by using the spectral information at the antenna, we are able to estimate the DOA of a broadband microwave signal with a high degree of accuracy. Simulations and experiments show that the proposed technique enables good DOA estimation performance within a 90˚ range.

No description available.