To examine the effects of family support and demographics on suicidal behavior, 385 subjects completed a demographic questionnaire and a Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire (SIQ). Sixteen percent described themselves as "serious" ideators, while 59% were seen as ideators, numbers consistent with past suicide research. Multiple regression analyses revealed that the type of caregiver a person reporte...

In face recognition, most appearance-based methods require several images of each person to construct the feature space for recognition. However, in the real world it is difficult to collect multiple images per person, and in many cases there is only a single sample per person (SSPP). In this paper, we propose a method to generate new images with various illuminations from a single image taken ...

Does intruder group size and orientation affect flight initiation distance in birds?— Wildlife managers use flight initiation distance (FID), the distance animals flee an approaching predator, to determine set back distances to minimize human impacts on wildlife. FID is typically estimated by a single person; this study examined the effects of intruder number and orientation on FID. Three diffe...

Ultra-wideband (UWB) radars are sensors allowing to track people in critical environments and situations. The results reached by single UWB sensors for such applications have shown that they are able to detect and track a person very well in a single person scenario. However, in multiple moving person scenarios, the ability of a single UWB sensor to detect several persons is usually significant...

The fission of a person involves what common sense describes as a single person surviving as two different people. Thus, say most metaphysicians, this paradox shows us that common sense is inconsistent with the transitivity of identity. Those attempting to resolve the paradox deny common sense and argue that the resolution rests upon embracing a particular metaphysics. I disagree on both counts...

Almost all current spoken dialog systems treat dialog as that where a single user talks to an agent. We, on the other hand, set out to investigate a multiparty dialog system that deals with two agents and a single user. We developed a three person (one user and two agents) and a two person (one user and one agent) dialog system to consider the same dialog task, that is, “Which do you prefer, ud...

This paper describes a face recognition method based on combining two complementary matching algorithms, one is a single-image matching algorithm and the other is a sequential-image matching algorithm. The sequential-image matching algorithm distinguishes each person by using the derived features from a set of sequential images of the same person, and the derived features meaningfully correspon...