In this paper we try to put different practical aspects of the general linear methods discussed in the papers [1,6,7] under one algorithm to show more details of its implementation. With a proposed initial step size strategy this algorithm shows a better performance in some problems. To illustrate the efficiency of the method we consider some standard test problems and report more useful detail...

Social difficulties form a part of the canonical description of autism spectrum conditions (ASC), and the development of familiarity with new faces is a key ability required to navigate the social world. Here, we investigated the acquisition of new face representations in ASC by analysing the N170 and N250 event-related potential components induced by a previously unfamiliar face that was embed...

BACKGROUND Postnatally depressed mothers have difficulties responding appropriately to their infants. The quality of the mother-child relationship depends on a mother's ability to respond to her infant's cues, which are largely non-verbal. Therefore, it is likely that difficulties in a mother's appraisal of her infants' facial expressions will affect the quality of mother-infant interaction. Th...

Recent work regarding the statistics of natural images has revealed that the dominant eigenvectors of arbitrary natural images closely approximate various oriented derivative-of-Gaussian functions; these functions have also been shown to provide the best fit to the receptive field profiles of cells in the primate striate cortex. We propose a scheme for expression-invariant face recognition that...

The UK DTI/EPSRC 1999 workshop on “Future Issues for Design Research” [1] highlighted the need for better integration and evaluation of computational design support tools resulting from fundamental design method research. Widespread anecdotal evidence and substantial first hand experience and observation, suggest that practical software implementation difficulties are the major cause of this ac...