The Silver Alert system was initially created to help protect missing persons who have cognitive impairments, particularly the elderly. The Silver Alert is modeled after the Amber Alert, created to help locate and safeguard missing children. Unlike the Amber Alert, however, in most states the Silver Alert applies to the elderly, adults with a mental impairment, or both, depending on the state. ...

This paper proposes a ubiquitous environment store, which is composed of cameras, sensors and displays, for supporting decision concerning commodities based on each customer’s shopping interest. This store suggests that three analyzing views can be utilized to analyse relations between customers’ interests and their behaviours towards commodities. This store collects data on the behaviour of ea...

One of the most significant developments in modern constitutional thought revolves around judicial protection of fundamental privacy and liberty interests.' These interests are derived from the first, eighth, and fourteenth amendments, the "penumbra" of privacy rights found generally in the Bill of Rights,2 and the common law doctrine of informed consent.' Courts have held these interests to be...

In some cultures, individuals are free to pursue careers that match their personalities. In others, familial and societal expectations regarding career paths may restrict the links between individual personality and interests. Gender role expectations also may vary across cultures and may be associated with gender differences in interests. Past meta-analytic research has shown some career inter...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.09.032 0191-8869/ 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author at: Section of Psychology, Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Messina, Via Bivona, 98122 Messina, Italy. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (M.C. Gugliandolo), [email protected] (S. Costa), [email protected] (F. Cuzzocrea), [email protected] (R. Larcan)....

Learning Implicit User Interest Hierarchy for Web Personalization by Hyoung-rae Kim Dissertation Advisor: Philip K. Chan, Ph.D. Most web search engines are designed to serve all users in a general way, without considering the interests of individual users. In contrast, personalized web search engines incorporate an individual user's interests when choosing relevant web pages to return. In order...

"Best interests" is widely accepted as the appropriate foundation principle for medico-legal decisions concerning treatment withdrawal from patients in persistent vegetative state (PVS). Its application appears to progress logically from earlier use regarding legally incompetent patients. This author argues, however, that such confidence in the relevance of the principle of best interests to PV...