Identifying people using their biometric data is a problem that is getting increasingly more attention. This paper investigates a method that allows the matching of people in the context of victim identification by using their ear biometric data. A high quality picture (taken professionally) is matched against a set of low quality pictures (family albums). In this paper soft computing methods a...

OBJECTIVE The aims of current study were to determine whether childhood maltreatment contributes to the occurrence of major depressive disorder (MDD) with bipolarity or suicidality. METHODS In total, 132 outpatients diagnosed with MDD between 2014 and 2015 on the medical records were included. The subjects were divided into two groups according to the presence of childhood maltreatment (CM gr...

Accurate chromosome segregation during mitosis relies on the organization of microtubules into a bipolar spindle. Kinesin-5 proteins play an evolutionarily conserved role in establishing spindle bipolarity [1, 2] and clinical trials are currently evaluating inhibitors of human kinesin-5 (i.e., Eg5) for chemotherapeutic potential. However, in mammalian somatic cells, Eg5 activity is dispensable ...

Political psychologists have typically argued that ideological commitments are structured in a bipolar fashion, where a positive evaluation of conservative objects implies a negative evaluation of liberal objects (and vice versa). Individual differences in conformity to this pattern are usually attributed to an ability-related variable, i.e., political expertise. Departing from this strict focu...

Numerous previous studies found monopolar rather than bipolar dimensions of affect (defined as emotion represented in language), but may have included methodological biases against bipolarity. The present study of self-report data (N = 150) on 11 affect scales showed that response format and acquiescence response style significantly shifted correlations between hypothesized opposites away from ...

Can we experience positive (PA) and negative affect (NA) separately (i.e., affective independence), or do these emotional states represent the mutually exclusive ends of a single bipolar continuum bipolarity)? Building on previous emotion theories, propose that relation between PA NA is not invariable, but rather fluctuates in response to changing situational demands. Specifically, argue our sy...

BACKGROUND This review evaluates the DSM-IV criteria of social anxiety disorder (SAD), with a focus on the generalized specifier and alternative specifiers, the considerable overlap between the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for SAD and avoidant personality disorder, and developmental issues. METHOD A literature review was conducted, using the validators provided by the DSM-V Spectrum Study Group...

A photosensor is an electronic control device that adjusts the light output of a lighting system based on detected illuminance. While some photosensors simply switch lights on and off, Specifier Reports: Photosensors focuses on photosensors that are used with dimming electronic ballasts to adjust the light output of fluorescent lighting systems over a continuous range. These photosensors are mo...

Until now, formal models of bipolar choice have been phenomenological and were not related to the deep principles of processing information by live organisms, which limited the applications of these models and made it difficult to generalize them to the case of multialternative choice. We demonstrate here how to deduce a model theoretically based on a general definition of the self-reflexive sy...