Measuring time use in households with more than one person The U.S. Government's first-ever national time-use survey will collect time diary data from one respondent per household, forgoing the opportunity to provide information about how nonmarket time is allocated between husbands and wives; Canada's General Social Survey, similar in approach, uses stylized questions to elicit that very infor...

We present results from multiple experiments with colour filtering methods in order to improve robustness in an integrated surveillance system to track people in a subway station. The system is designed to operate in real-time in a distributed local network of off-the-shelf computers, resulting in practical constraints not found in developmental systems. We show that the quality of colour infor...

This paper introduces and tests for the endogeneity of job tenure and number of jobs in the wage equation using panel data uniquely suited for that purpose – the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). The model is multi-level in that there is wage dynamics – random intercept, random growth path and autocorrelated transitory variation – at the person-career level and at the job-specific l...

In 2007, Riverside County, California, after identifying a gap between the substance abuse prevention and treatment services it offered to individuals, developed the Individual Prevention Services (IPS) program to fill that gap. Over the past two years, the IPS program has provided individualized prevention services on a one-on-one basis at all seven of the county's substance abuse treatment cl...

Informing of a patient's death is difficult for physicians as well as patient's families. Breaking bad news is part of clinical experience of physicians and existential experience of patient's close relatives. The professional manner of death notification may effectively reduce the level of stress and other negative emotions in both parties involved. Special information procedures defining card...

A total of 420 adults between 18 and 91 years of age carried palm pilot (Palm M100; PalmOne, Milpitas, CA) devices and performed several reaction time trials when prompted at random times during the day. On the average, within-person variability in median reaction time from one occasion to the next was nearly the same magnitude as the between-persons variability in across-occasion mean reaction...

In this paper, we present an approach to realtime facial feature detection. Facial regions are segmented using Gabor filter responses with M-style grid matching. M-style grid matching method has been shown more effective than Gabor bunch graph matching method in many aspects such as frontal face detection against expression, in-planeldepth rotation, and various illumination environments. In add...