In the information-intensive marketplaces of the networked economy, database-related marketing techniques have gained unprecedented popularity. Their development is based on the assumption that greater capturing of customer information in digital databases leads to epistemologically superior insights about the customer. The proliferation of customer databases, however, has triggered privacy con...

1. Overview of the Madelung Problem 2. Analytic Consequences of the Andrews Identity 3. Connection with Multiple Zeta Sums 4. An -Series for M(s) 5. Integral Representations for the Madelung Constant 6. Number-Theoretical Implications: Sums of Three Squares 7. Open Problems Acknowledgments References From a modern theta-function identity of G. E. Andrews we derive new representations for the ce...

The face is a central communication channel providing information about the identities of our interaction partners and their potential mental states expressed by motor configurations. Although it is well known that infants ability to recognise people follows a developmental process, it is still an open question how face identity recognition skills can develop and, in particular, how facial expr...

This study consists of an analysis of the novel Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters, in terms of cross-dressing as self-representation. The study aims to emphasise how cross-dressing can be significant when expressing one’s gender identity, by examining the gender identity and sexual orientation of the male impersonator Nancy Astley/Nan King and how she reacts to her own queerness. With the use ...

Research on ensemble encoding has found that viewers extract summary information from sets of similar items. When shown a set of four faces of different people, viewers merge identity information from the exemplars into a representation of the set average. Here, we presented sets containing unconstrained images of the same identity. In response to a subsequent probe, viewers recognized the exem...

In this paper, we propose a conjectural identity between the Fourier–Jacobi periods on symplectic groups and the central value of certain Rankin–Selberg L-functions. This identity can be viewed as a refinement to the global Gan–Gross–Prasad conjecture for Sp(2n)×Mp(2m). To support this conjectural identity, we show that when n = m and n = m±1, it can be deduced from the Ichino–Ikeda’s conjectur...

In order to recognize the identity of a face we need to distinguish very similar images (specificity) while also generalizing identity information across image transformations such as changes in orientation (tolerance). Recent studies investigated the representation of individual faces in the brain, but it remains unclear whether the human brain regions that were found encode representations of...

For some time the relationship between processing of facial expression and facial identity has been in dispute. We re-examined this relationship and evaluated whether the same relationship characterized both perception and short-term memory. In three experiments we examined perception and memory for realistic, synthetic human faces. Experiment 1 used subjects’ judgments to identify, from a larg...

In the paper we propose a one dimensional client specific fisher face representation for personal identity verification. This novel LDA approach contrasts with the conventional LDA representation which involves multiple shared fisher faces. The method provides two measures for authentication: a distance to the client template, and a distance to the mean of impostors. These two decision scores a...

Providing analytical and social tools, critical discourse analysis (henceforthCDA) can be used to unravel the hidden ideologiesas well as biases in the websof discursive practices involved in texts. In this paper, the van Leeuwen’s (1996)CDA framework is used to analyze an article from a British broadsheet newspaper,the Guardian. To have a more detailed analysis, eleven elements are chosen from...