Late Friday Night in Summer Iowa

Friday Late Afternoon Session ( 15 : 30 -

The neural basis of social perception and understanding. Tjeerd Jellema, Utrecht University. Social scenes usually contain complex stimulus configurations, derived from the postures and actions of one or more agents. A description of the social scene can be made at two successive levels. At the first level, a literal, mechanistic, description is made in terms of causes and consequences of goal-...

Detecting Friday Night Party Photos: Semantics for Tag Recommendation

Multimedia annotation is central to its organization and retrieval – a task which tag recommendation systems attempt to simplify. We propose a photo tag recommendation system which automatically extracts semantics from visual and meta-data features to complement existing tags. Compared to standard content/tag-based models, these automatic tags provide a richer description of the image and espec...

Late-night breastfeeding advice.

Enter motherhood I was elated, apprehensive, and exhausted when I arrived home with my first baby, Sarah. I also had a mission: I wanted to breastfeed. I had read The Canadian Mother and Child1 and every available book on breastfeeding. I believed that if I were to bottle feed my baby, it would be a failure—my failure as a mother and a woman. When we came through the door of our apartment my mo...

Limits to Ice Thickness in Iowa During the Late Wisconsinan

Summer food habits and gill raker morphology of seven Catostomid species in Iowa rivers

Previous attempts to age Carpiodes spp. have focused on the use of scales or dorsal fin rays. Past studies indicate that obtaining age estimates from these structures in other species is difficult and inconsistent. We examined between reader precision of age estimates of scales and pectoral fin rays for 123 highfin carpsuckers Carpiodes velifer, 174 quillback carpsuckers C. cyprinus and 135 riv...