Can we understand others’ feelings better when we sit side by side than face to face?

When can we do better than autarky?

This paper provides a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of nonautarkic contract in a risk sharing model with two-sided lack of commitment. Verifying the condition takes just one Gaussian elimination of a matrix. Published by Elsevier B.V.

Can we do better than dobutamine?

Side-View Face Recognition

Side-view face recognition is a challenging problem with many applications. Especially in real-life scenarios where the environment is uncontrolled, coping with pose variations up to side-view positions is an important task for face recognition. In this paper we discuss the use of side view face recognition techniques to be used in house safety applications. Our aim is to recognize people as th...

Others Sometimes Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves

Most people believe that they know themselves better than anyone else knows them. However, a complete picture of what a person is like requires both the person’s own perspective and the perspective of others who know him or her well. People’s perceptions of their own personalities, while largely accurate, contain important omissions. Some of these blind spots are likely due to a simple lack of ...

Limits to vision: can we do better than nature?

Non-invasive wavefront sensing of the human eye provides the necessary information to design corrections which minimize the monochromatic optical errors of the eye beyond simple sphere (defocus) and cylinder (astigmatism). These "ideal" corrections must move with the eye, maintaining proper alignment with the eye's optics. Viable modes of correction include contact lenses, refractive surgery an...