In response to a recent hypothesis that the neuropeptide oxytocin might be involved in human pathogen avoidance mechanisms, we report the results of a study in which we investigate the effect of intranasal oxytocin on two behaviors serving as proxies for pathogen detection. Participants received either oxytocin or a placebo and were asked to evaluate (1) the health of Caucasian male computer-ge...

The question we raise in this paper is why some women choose not to go into computing. What motivates their reasons for selecting their major and occupational goals? We interviewed twelve first year women who are not majoring in Computer Science and found half had pro-social goals for their careers. When asked if participants thought that people working in computing are helping people, some tol...

Photographs furnish evidence. This is true in both formal and informal contexts. The use of photographs as legal evidence goes back to the very earliest days of photography, and they have been used in American trials since around the time of the Civil War. Photographs may also serve as historical evidence (for example, about the Civil War). And they serve in informal contexts as evidence about ...

A tool that enables programming in pictures based on Filmification of Methods (FIM) is presented. FIM is an approach where pictures and moving pictures are used to specify and program computational algorithms. The key contribution of the tool is the integration of sub-systems for organizing a visual programming environment in which end-users can easily access, through web browsers, special libr...

Pat Mullin, Special Projects Chairman o f the Social Comm is­ sion, has revealed tha t pictures o f almost for ty St. M ary’s girls were subm it ted as entries in the Miss N otre Dame contes t before the 2 p.m. deadline Friday. F rom this field, seven girls have been chosen as finalists by the Social Commission: Terri Buck, Geraldine C hatm an, Cathy Hicks, Anne Kersten, Mary Beth Gallagher, Ca...

1047-3203/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jvcir.2008.09.002 q Part of this work has been funded by the French AN 01-01 (ESSOR). * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (T paristech.fr (B. Pesquet-Popescu). This paper deals with distributed video coding (DVC) for multi-view sequences. DVC of multi-view sequences is a recent field of research, w...

Faces and self-referential material (eg one's own name) are more likely to capture attention in the inattentional-blindness (IB) paradigm than other stimuli. This effect is presumably due to the meaning of these stimuli rather than to their familiarity [Mack and Rock, 1998 Inattentional Blindness (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press)]. In previous work, IB has been investigated mostly with schematic stimu...