What makes a multimodal signal attractive? A preference function approach

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

What makes a dead cell attractive?

CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE represents the end stage of various cardiac disease etiologies, including hypertension, myocardial infarction/ischemia from atherosclerosis, viral myocarditis, valvular insufficiency, or mutations in genes encoding sarcomeric proteins (1, 10, 11). These events trigger neurohumoral and cellular signaling cascades, ultimately resulting in myocardial adaptation, typically ...

What Makes a Female Voice Attractive?

Vocal attractiveness is highly relevant both for speech technology and for our basic understanding of speech prosody. Yet our knowledge about it is still very limited, and this is particularly true in regard to female voice. The present study explores the nature of female vocal attractiveness by exploring a mechanism that has been shown to be effective in encoding emotions. In a perception expe...

What Makes Foreign Knowledge Attractive to Domestic Innovation Managers?

This study focuses on the early stages of international innovation activities, i.e. the organizational processes through which promising ideas from around the globe are collected and evaluated. We ask: What characteristics make foreign knowledge interesting to domestic R&D managers? We envision this process as a balancing act between direct transaction costs for communication and coordination a...

Alcohol advertising: what makes it attractive to youth?

This paper investigates the affective responses of youth toward specific elements featured in television alcohol advertisements (i.e., people character, animal character, music, story, and humor). It also examines the associations between advertising likeability and its potential influence. Respondents were 253 children and adolescents in California (47% male; aged 10-17). Data were collected u...