AIMS To examine the relationship between salivary cortisol and frequency of past driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) convictions. METHODS A total of 104 males with previous DUI convictions (from one to eight) and mean age of 44.7 years were assessed on measures characterizing repeat DUI offenders, including sociodemographic information, alcohol use behaviours, biological indices of t...

If autonomous systems are to realize their potential, they must improve their abilities to operate in the real world. Sensorimotor systems are among the weakest and most critical components of such systems. Perceptual systems exist to enable their owners to cope with the dynamic environments in which they operate. The system is inundated by stimuli; the successful system selects the stimuli tha...

Habermas’s theory of knowledge-constitutive interests (initially outlined in the Introduction) is intended to challenge what he regards as the ‘false objectivism’ of positivism’s conception of science and the relationship between theory and practice. This objectivism has two related elements. First, there is the belief that the objects of scientific knowledge exist independently of the epistemo...

My primary research interest is in statistical pattern recognition in general, and speech recognition in general; more specifically, I am especially interested in the emerging subfield of distant speech recognition (DSR), wherein it cannot be assumed that the microphone used for speech capture is directly adjacent to the speaker’s mouth; rather, the microphone might be located several meters aw...

the caspian basin in its old geopolitical situation under the soviet :union: was located in the buffer zone between two spheres of influence of the two superpowers. after the fall of the soviet :union: followed by the rise of new structures and three new states in the region, new relations, however, prevailed among the areas of geography, power and politics in the region. these new relations in...