Through the Blueprints for Violence Prevention Initiative, OJJDP provides information to communities on a broad array of violence prevention and intervention programs that have been proven to be effective. This Bulletin describes the demanding criteria established by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence to designate model Blueprints programs and the activities of the 11 programs ...

In this special section we report on the workshop Standards in Emotion Modeling held in August 2011, Leiden, The Netherlands. An important goal of this workshop was to identify challenges related to the development and evaluation of computational models of affective processes. These challenges were approached from a psychological and a computational modeling perspective. In this introduction we...

PURPOSE To report the outcomes in patients undergoing surgical correction of intermittent exotropia and to compare the age at surgery to motor and sensory success. METHODS This was a retrospective cohort study. The results of patients with intermittent exotropia treated with surgery over a 4-year period were reviewed. Patients were divided into two groups based on age at first surgery (<4 yea...

AIM To assess the consecutive recurrence following early success of intermittent exotropia surgery and to determine the clinical factors that affect the survival. METHODS One hundred and thirty-five patients who underwent intermittent exotropia surgery and experienced early surgical success [≤5 prism diopters (PD) esophoria (E) to ≤10 PD exophoria (X) on the postoperative sixth month] were en...

A growing number of collaborative networked organizations can be found in industry, services, and research. However, the lack of a reference model that could synthesize and formalize the base concepts, principles, and recommended practices, is an obstacle for an easier and more consistent development of the area. Therefore a reference modeling approach is proposed considering multiple modeling ...

Communicative action concerns achieving and maintaining mutual understanding among all those who are involved in a coordinated (organizational) situation. Communicative action is embedded in a social context. Current approaches in the Language/Action Perspective have focused mainly on the dynamic aspect of language, that is, on (business) conversation. In this paper, we develop a new model of c...

We propose a real-time and accurate solution to the Perspective-n-Point (PnP) problem –estimating the pose of a calibrated camera from n 3D-to-2D point correspondences– that exploits the fact that in practice the 2D position of not all 2D features is estimated with the same accuracy. Assuming a model of such feature uncertainties is known in advance, we reformulate the PnP problem as a maximum ...

Creativity has been conceptualized as involving two distinct components; divergent thinking, the search for multiple solutions to a single problem, and convergent thinking, the quest for a single solution either through an analytical process or the experience of insight. Studies have demonstrated that these abilities can be improved by cognitive stimulation, mood, and meditation. Here, we inves...

How does perspective-taking develop over the lifespan? This question has been investigated in two separate research traditions, dealing with theory of mind (ToM) and wisdom, respectively. Operating in almost complete isolation from each other, and using rather different conceptual approaches, these two traditions have produced seemingly contradictory results: While perspective-taking has been c...

The issue of the paper is how to characterize public e-services mediated through the web. One common kind of characterization is made through stage models (e-ladders). Such models are frequently used for policy-planning, evaluation and bench-marking of public e-services. E-ladder models have been criticized and as an alternative the e-diamond model has been formulated, which consists of twelve ...