Radial distortion has widely existed in the images captured by popular wide-angle cameras and fisheye cameras. Despite long history of rectification, accurately estimating parameters from a single distorted image is still challenging. The main reason that these are implicit to features, influencing networks learn information fully. In this work, we propose novel rectification approach can obtai...

This paper introduces a model of optimal health insurance. This model provides theoretical guidance of the relationship between household preferences, cost-sharing, and premiums. I apply this model to understand how the income tax subsidy distorts optimal cost-sharing in health insurance. Typically, insurance protects individuals from financial risk. Health insurance plans, however, are frequen...

Social workers who have both investigative and helping roles in child protective cases may find the roles to be in conflict and difficult to integrate. This problem has been exacerbated by recent changes in U.S. law and court procedure which place more emphasis on the quality of child abuse investigations. While it may not be easy for social workers to integrate the roles of investigator and he...

In this paper capacity withholding in an oligopolistic electricity market that all Generation Companies (GenCos) bid in a Cournot model is analyzed and the capacity withheld index, the capacity distortion index and the price distortion index are obtained and formulated. Then a new index, Distortion-Withheld Index (DWI), is proposed in order to measure the potential ability of market for capacit...

background: deterministic thinking is one of the major cognitive distortions. this type of thinking ignores any possibility in making a conclusion about events. any consequence of an event may be thought as: 2×2= 4. equality is a dominant factor among all conclusions of this kind of distortion. distortion emerges in cognitive rigidity in the mind and could be the source of all distortions. cogn...

conclusions: these findings demonstrated that cognitive failure and alexithymia had important roles in strengthening and appearance of high-risk behaviors in students with learning disabilities. therefore, considering those problems, precautionary actions might be necessary. results: the results showed that high-risk behaviors had significant positive correlations with difficulty identifying fe...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to find out whether in bulimia nervosa the perceptual component of a disturbed body image is restricted to the overestimation of one's own body dimensions (static body image) or can be extended to a misperception of one's own motion patterns (dynamic body image). METHOD Participants with bulimia nervosa (n = 30) and normal controls (n = 55) estimated...

OBJECTIVE The current study explored the clinical meaningfulness of distinguishing subjective (SBE) from objective binge eating (OBE) among individuals with threshold/subthreshold bulimia nervosa (BN). We examined relations between OBEs and SBEs and eating disorder symptoms, negative affect, and personality dimensions using both a group comparison and a continuous approach. METHOD Participant...