Two “phase-shift equivalent” local NN potentials with different parametrizations, Reid93 and NijmII, which were found to give nearly identical results for the triton by Friar et al., are shown to yield remarkably similar results for Li and N in a (0 + 2)h̄Ω no-core space shell-model calculation. The results are compared with those for the widely used Hamada-Johnson hard-core and the original Rei...

Over recent years automated face detection and recognition (FDR) have gained significant attention from the commercial and research sectors. This paper presents an embedded face detection solution aimed at addressing the real-time image processing requirements within a wide range of applications. As face detection is a computationally intensive task, an embedded solution would give rise to oppo...

The "hardening hypothesis" suggests that as smoking prevalence decreases, lighter smokers will quit first, leaving more "hardcore" smokers in the population. At a population level, however, the weight of evidence suggests that no hardening is occurring. By understanding the lessons from Geoffrey Rose's model of population-level risk factor change, we argue that the hardening of the smoking popu...

The question of why players of video games persist gaming in the face of what seems to be insufficient reward has not yet been properly answered. This paper approaches the issue by combining two general psychological theories: Self-determination Theory (Deci & Ryan, 2000) and Social Identity Theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1986). A large scale survey (N = 7252) enabled a comparison of three groups whi...

We show how to extract an arbitrary polynomial number of simultaneously hardcore bits from any oneway function. In the case the one-way function is injective or has polynomially-bounded pre-image size, we assume the existence of indistinguishability obfuscation (iO). In the general case, we assume the existence of differing-input obfuscation (diO), but of a form weaker than full auxiliary-input...