President Hush1 was extremely proud of his robotics troops. The search for the notorious criminal Assuma’ Hex Loaded was proceeding fairly well, and the robotic troops on the ground were on the verge of surrounding and capturing the escapee. Compared to this, the thrill of his chief scientific advisor, who was babbling about how efficient the new capture algorithm was, seemed to President Hush ...

The global prohibition of psychoactive drugs has arguably caused more suffering than it could ever prevent. A recent UN report shows that it also stimulates the creativity of those who create new designer drugs and ‘legal highs’. Neuroscientists have warned, on the other hand, that drugs control stifles research that could advance our understanding of the mind and find valuable therapies for me...

Agressive behaviour is a part of basic human nature. It is an adaptive behaviour having its origin in genetically coded neural mechanisms that are acted upon by hormonal and psychosocial factors. It has multiple determinants whose manifestations and effects vary with age, sex and culture. Aggressive behaviour promotes the survival of the individual as well as the social groups. However, in the ...

Bayesian Stackelberg games have been used to compute optimal patrol strategies for the security of the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) by modelling the security situation as a 1-leader, 1-follower, Bayesian game where there is one leader type and an arbitrary number of follower types. A previous approach, named DOBSS, computes the Stackelberg solution for this game by solving a Mixed In...

Neighborhoods often resist public transit expansion for fears that it will increase crime by attracting transient populations and prospecting criminals. On the other hand, transit may reduce crime by altering economic development and other positive features of neighborhoods. Studies examining public transit and crime have either been cross sectional or examined the impact of public transit expa...

This study examined the effectiveness of a directed lie polygraph test in a juvenile population (9-15 years of age). Eighty-four juveniles were tested regarding their possible involvement in the tearing of a page from a book. A computer model for classifying adults as truthful or deceptive used physiological measures to determine the participant’s involvement in the “crime.” The adult-based mod...