For a century, the matching of images of fingerprints has been used for forensic identification. Despite that history, there have been no published, peer-reviewed studies directly examining the extent to which people can correctly match fingerprints to one another. The results of three experiments using naïve undergraduates to match images of fingerprints are reported. The results demonstrate t...

high intensity workout provokes damage in muscles with an effect on muscle physiology and function. today, serum levels of creatine and aspartate aminotransferase are widely used as biochemical markers of muscle damage in order to determine the functional status of muscle tissues in both pathological and physiological conditions. this study investigated the effect of a futsal match on some bioc...

Nee et al. (Reports, 19 August 2005, p. 1236) used a null model to argue that life history invariants are illusions. We show that their results are largely inconsequential for life history theory because the authors confound two definitions of invariance, and rigorous analysis of their null model demonstrates that it does not match observed data.

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In this paper, we present a new solution to the problem of multi-camera tracking with non-overlapping fields of view. The identities of moving objects are maintained when they are traveling from one camera to another. Appearance information and spatio-temporal information are explored and combined in a maximum a posteriori (MAP) framework. In computing appearance probability, a two-layered hist...

A well-known result due to Vickery gives a mechanism for selling a number of goods to interested buyers in a way that achieves the maximum social welfare. In practice, a problem with this mechanism is that it requires the buyers to specify a large number of values. In this paper we study the problem of designing optimal mechanisms subject to constraints on the complexity of the bidding language...

For a flexible camera-to-camera tracking of multiple objects we model the object’s behavior with a Bayesian network and combine it with the multiple hypothesis framework that associates observations with objects. Bayesian networks offer a possibility to factor complex, joint distributions into a product of intuitive conditional densities describing and predicting the object’s path. Yet, these m...