We present a large-scale data association tracker that can handle variable numbers of world objects and measurements. Large-scale data association problems arise in surveillance, wildlife monitoring, and applications of sensor networks. Several approaches have recently been proposed that represent the uncertainty in data association using a parameterized family of distributions on the set of pe...

Humans can often recognize faces across viewpoints despite the large changes in low-level image properties a shift in viewpoint introduces. We present a behavioral and an fMRI adaptation experiment to investigate whether this viewpoint tolerance is reflected in the neural visual system and whether it can be manipulated through training. Participants saw training sequences of face images creatin...

The aim of the research was to study a city-wide approach to meet the mental health needs of UK students involving a range of professional and non-professional support. The creation of a network for agencies and individuals concerned with the mental health of students in further and higher education offered an opportunity to examine issues of access to services, transitions between services and...

Examining the importance of categorization of actors (e.g., organizations, individuals, products) in the construction of identity, existing work in the organizational ecology tradition has generally focused on the present state of actors’ category memberships. Yet, recent work has started to emphasize actors’ membership histories in the construction of identity. With insights from this recent l...

Although speech-language pathologists in the schools are being encouraged to provide services more inclusively, they often express concern that they are becoming like classroom teachers and are "watering down" the therapy they should be providing to students on their caseloads. This article explores these concerns and offers solutions to the role confusion and dissatisfaction of many speech-lan...

Given that an estimated 0.6% of the U.S. population is transgender (trans) and that large health disparities for this population have been documented, government and research organizations are increasingly expanding measures of sex/gender to be trans inclusive. Options suggested for trans community surveys, such as expansive check-all-that-apply gender identity lists and write-in options that o...

The advent of cybertechnologies has led to radical paradigm shifts in our social, economic, cultural, and psychological conceptualizations. The paper investigates the advent of cyborgs, indeed our transformation into cyborgs, and the impact of this transformation upon identities and face management, which has an important social value since the late modernism. Cyborg is a designation for the in...

Hexagonal quasigroup is idempotent, medial and semisymmetric quasigroup. In this article we define and study vectors, sum of vectors and transfers. The main result is the theorem on isomorphism between the group of vectors, group of transfers and the Abelian group from the characterization theorem of the hexagonal quasigroups. 1. Hexagonal quasigroup Hexagonal quasigroups are defined in article...

This paper seeks to import a more complex understanding of gendered subjectivity into discussions of young people and homosexuality, and is based on an Australian national survey (n=749) of same-sex attracted youth (SSAY) aged between 14 and 21. Results revealed significant gender differences with regard to patterns of sexual attraction, behaviour and identity labels among participants. For the...

We vigorously object to the normalization of childhood gender identity disorder (GID) promoted by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in the article “Psychological and Medical Care of Gender Nonconforming Youth,” published in the December issue of Pediatrics. The recommendations of the authors to reinforce the delusions of gender identity–confused children, and to prescribe puberty-blockin...