This paper presents a novel video editing model. In this model, a video is considered as a sequence of small boxes each of which has a length of 0.5 or 1 second, and editing is defined as the problem of filling each box with an appropriate shot. Each editing rule is implemented independently of the others, as an evaluation function or a constraint for choosing shots and arranging shots. This fo...

Recent developmental research has shown that young children coordinate complementary action roles with others. But what do they understand about the logical structure of such roles? Do they have an agent-neutral conception of complementary action roles, grasping that such roles can be variably filled by any two agents or even by one agent over time? Accordingly, can they make use of such repres...

IMPORTANCE Rhinoplasty continues to rank among the most popular cosmetic surgical treatments. Measuring what the nose looks like has typically involved the use of observer-reported or physician-reported outcome measures (eg, photographs). While objective outcomes are important, facial appearance is subjective, and asking patients what they think about the appearance of their nose is of paramoun...

Within committed relationships, a wide range of factors may challenge or facilitate sexual satisfaction. The aim of this study was to clarify which individual, partner-, and partnership-related aspects of a sexual relationship are crucial for the prediction of sexual satisfaction. The study included data of a representative sample of 964 couples from the general population. The actor-partner in...

We examine the complexity of constraint satisfaction problems that consist of a set of AllDiff constraints. Such CSPs naturally model a wide range of real-world and combinatorial problems, like scheduling, frequency allocations and graph coloring problems. As this problem is known to be NP-complete, we investigate under which further assumptions it becomes tractable. We observe that a crucial p...

We report new results on the complexity of the valued constraint satisfaction problem (VCSP). Under the unique games conjecture, the approximability of nite-valued VCSP is fairly well-understood. However, there is yet no characterisation of VCSPs that can be solved exactly in polynomial time. This is unsatisfactory, since such results are interesting from a combinatorial optimisation perspectiv...

UNLABELLED Maximizing satisfaction among the older persons is the goal of modern individualized elderly care and how to best achieve this is of relevance for people involved in planning and providing elderly care services. PURPOSE OF THE STUDY What predicts satisfaction with care among older persons can be conceived as a function of process (how care is performed) and the older person. Inspir...

UNLABELLED Treatment effectiveness is increasingly evaluated from the patients' perspective. However, the interpretation of satisfaction is complex because the patient's perception of a satisfactory outcome is influenced by numerous factors. The objective of this study was to identify which factors are associated with patient satisfaction after orthopedic interventions to the hand. A literature...