Research on the development of externalizing behaviors during early childhood has focused on child and parenting factors. Fewer studies have investigated effects of aversive features of the micro-level physical environment, such as overcrowding and chaos in the home, and the macro-level environment, such as neighborhood quality. This study extends research on physical environmental factors by e...

To gain a synthetic understanding of the emergence of babies’ goal-directed behaviors that are important for early development, we constructed an early developmental scenario for self-organization of these behaviors. This scenario is guided by a principle of sensorimotor integration based on sensory constraints. We constructed a neural model to represent our proposed scenario with simplified bu...

OBJECTIVE Callous-unemotional behaviors in early childhood signal higher risk for trajectories of antisocial behavior and callous-unemotional traits that culminate in later diagnoses of conduct disorder, antisocial personality disorder, and psychopathy. Studies demonstrate high heritability of callous-unemotional traits, but little research has examined specific heritable pathways to early call...

Autonomous driving is predicted to play a large part in future transportation systems, providing benefits such as enhanced road usage and mobility schemes. However, self-driving cars must be perceived safe drivers by other users contribute traffic safety addition being operationally safe. Despite efforts develop machine learning algorithms solutions for the of automated vehicles, researchers ha...

To assess whether there are qualitatively deviant characteristics in the early vocalizations of children with Rett syndrome, we had 400 native Austrian-German speakers listen to audio recordings of vocalizations from typically developing girls and girls with Rett syndrome. The audio recordings were rated as (a) inconspicuous, (b) conspicuous or (c) not able to decide between (a) and (b). The re...

The majority of existing malware detection techniques detects malicious codes by identifying malicious behavior patterns. However, they have difficulty identifying new or modified malicious behaviors; consequently, new techniques that can effectively and accurately detect new malicious behaviors are crucial. This paper proposes a method that defines the malicious behaviors of malware using conc...