This paper proposes a method for helping to identify adult web sites by using the image-content as means of detecting erotic material. The image content is classified by investigating probable skinregions, and extracting their feature vectors. These feature vectors are based on color-, texture-, contour-, placementand relative sizeinformation for a given region. The importance of the different ...

Phishing attacks attempt to fraudulently solicit sensitive information from a user by masquerading as a known trustworthy agent. They commonly use spoofed emails in association with fake websites in order to coerce a user into revealing personal financial data. Phishing is now a serious problem with criminals adopting the well-developed and well-known techniques to exploit Internet users with s...

Adverse and stressful experiences during adolescence are often of a social nature. The social defeat model in rats is used as an animal model for bullying in humans. Usually large individual differences in response to social defeat are found. The personality type that is mostly affected and the underlying mechanisms are unknown. We used male rats of the Roman selection lines to test whether soc...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the infl uence of intellectual impairment (II) on game-related statistics which best contribute to success in basketball. Offi cial game-related statistics were gathered from 6 male teams (n = 63 players) during the 13 games played in the World II-Basketball Championships (Ankara 2013). Variables were normalized to 100 ball possessions and descriptive st...

Concussions and subconcussive impacts sustained in American football have been associated with short- and long-term neurological impairment, but differences in head impact outcomes across playing positions are not well understood. The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine has identified playing position as a key risk factor for concussion in football and one for which additional research...

A dominating set S of a graph G is a global (strong) defensive alliance if for every vertex v ∈ S, the number of neighbors v has in S plus one is at least (greater than) the number of neighbors it has in V \ S. The dominating set S is a global (strong) offensive alliance if for every vertex v ∈ V \ S, the number of neighbors v has in S is at least (greater than) the number of neighbors it has i...

Male Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) treated with low-dose (0.5 mg/kg/day) cocaine throughout adolescence (P27-P56) display highly escalated offensive aggression. The current study examined whether adolescent cocaine exposure influenced the immunohistochemical localization of glutamic acid decarboxylase-65 (GAD65), the rate-limiting enzyme in the synthesis of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GAB...

In today’s data-driven world, programmers routinely incorporate user data into complex algorithms, heuristics, and application pipelines. While often beneficial, this practice can have unintended and detrimental consequences, such as the discriminatory effects identified in Staples’ online pricing algorithm and the racially offensive labels recently found in Google’s image tagger. We argue that...

The aim of the present study was to identify groups of offensive performance indicators which best discriminated between a match score (favourable, balanced or unfavourable) in water polo. The sample comprised 88 regular season games (2011-2014) from the Spanish Professional Water Polo League. The offensive performance indicators were clustered in five groups: Attacks in relation to the differe...

0022-1031/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2009.06.017 * Corresponding author. Fax: +1 519 746 8631. E-mail address: [email protected] (R.P. Eibach In modern liberal societies people are generally reluctant to morally condemn acts that they find personally distasteful so long as those acts are not harmful or unfair to others. However, in providing character educatio...