BACKGROUND Video feedback (VF) interventions effectively reduce social anxiety symptoms and negative self-perception, particularly when they are preceded by cognitive preparation (CP) and followed by cognitive review. AIMS In the current study, we re-examined data from a study on the efficacy of a novel VF intervention for individuals high in social anxiety to test the hypothesis that physica...

1 We propose to use statistical models of shape and texture as deformable anatomical atlases. By training on sets of labelled examples these can represent both the mean structure and appearance of anatomy in medical images, and the allowable modes of deformation. Given enough training examples such a model should be able synthesise any image of normal anatomy. By finding the parameters which mi...

Monocular gaze estimation is usually performed by locating the pupils, and the inner and outer eye corners in the image of the driver’s head. Of these feature points, the eye corners are just as important, and perhaps harder to detect, than the pupils. The eye corners are usually found using local feature detectors and trackers. In this paper, we describe a monocular driver gaze tracking system...

This study examined sex differences in risk factors associated with adolescent depression in a large sample of boys and girls. Moderation and mediation explanatory models of the sex difference in likelihood of depression were examined. Findings indicate that the factors associated with depression in adolescent boys and girls are quite similar. All of the variables considered were associated wit...

Researchers studying human sexuality have repeatedly concluded that men place more emphasis on the physical attractiveness of potential mates than women do, particularly in long-term sexual relationships. Evolutionary theorists have suggested that this is the case because male mate value (the total value of the characteristics that an individual possesses in terms of the potential contribution ...

Variations of the atmospheric angular momentum "AAM# is responsible for almost all of the observed length!of!day "LOD# variation on time scales from several days to several years\ and much of the observed polar motion on the intra!seasonal time scale[ El Nin1⁄2o:Southern Oscillation "ENSO# and Quasi!Biennial Oscillation "QBO# have been singled out to successfully explain interannual LOD variati...

The k-core of a graph is the largest subgraph of minimum degree at least k. We show that for k sufficiently large, the (k + 2)-core of a random graph G(n, p) asymptotically almost surely has a spanning k-regular subgraph. Thus the threshold for the appearance of a k-regular subgraph of a random graph is at most the threshold for the (k + 2)-core. In particular, this pins down the point of appea...