The first annual meeting of Deputy Governors from the emerging markets took place at the BIS in February 1995. It had as its central focus the challenge to central banks (and supervisors) as countries moved towards a more liberal banking system in the context of wider capital account convertibility. There was at that meeting a common sense of unease about short-term capital flows, a good deal o...

A growing number of applications are starting to use face recognition as the initial step towards interpreting human actions, intention, and behaviour, as a central part of next-generation smart environments. Recognition of facial expressions is an important example of face-recognition techniques used in these smart environments. In order to be able to recognize faces, there are some difficulti...

The intensity and effort of bodybuilding training suggest an overinvestment in body shape and physical appearance, which has been suggested to be a risk factor for developing eating disorders. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of eating disorder tendencies among a sample of collegiate male bodybuilders (BB, n = 68) and controls (C, n = 50) (nonbodybuilders), using the ...