Usually, in a real-world scenario, few signature samples are available to train an automatic verification system (ASVS). However, such systems do indeed need lot of signatures achieve acceptable performance. Neuromotor duplication methods and feature space augmentation may be used meet the for increase number samples. Such techniques manually or empirically define set parameters introduce degre...

It is commonly accepted that what we ought to do collectively does not imply anything about each of us individually. According this line reasoning, if cooperating will make no difference an outcome, then you are morally required it. And be personally costly as well, even stronger reason However, reasoning results in a self-defeating, yet entirely predictable outcome. If everyone rational, one c...

The relationship between exposure to combat stressors and poorer postdeployment health is well documented. Still, some individuals are more psychologically resilient to such outcomes than others. Researchers have sought to identify the factors that contribute to resilience in order to inform resilience-building interventions. The present study assessed the criterion validity of a model of psych...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 25 percent of people living with HIV in the United States in 2006 were age 50 and older. HIV prevention for people over 50 is an important health concern, especially as the U.S. population grows older. Scholarly research has identified the need for HIV/AIDS interventions in the population of people over age 50, but few intervent...

This study explored the relationship between EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers’ emotional intelligence (EI) and their students’ motivational attributes. Additionally, it investigated the contribution of EFL teachers’ EI to students’ motivational factors. To these ends, 30 EFL teachers were selected through convenience sampling from language institutes in Najaf-Abad, and were asked to...

Although it is important to consider multi-day activities in transportation planning, multi-day activity-travel data are expensive to acquire. In this study, we propose to generate multi-day activity-travel data through sampling from readily available single-day household travel survey data with considerations of day-to-day intrapersonal variability. One of the key observations we make is that ...

Rates of deliberate non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) increase during adolescence and young adulthood, particularly in clinical samples, making these important developmental stages for understanding the functions of NSSI. Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) symptoms also begin to emerge in adolescence, though little research has examined relationships between BPD symptoms and the functions of N...

OBJECTIVE This study applied a multi-method approach to examine the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and the experience of victimization during adolescence by investigating the role of intrapersonal feelings. METHODS The sample consisted of 2051 adolescents (M=13.8 years, S.D.=0.7; 51% male) from seven high schools in the Netherlands. Participants' weight and height were measured an...