An important predictor of historical sound change, functional load, fails to capture insights from speech perception. Building on ideal observer models of word recognition, we devise a new definition of functional load that incorporates both a priori expectedness and perceptual information. We explore this new measure with a simple model and find that it outperforms tra-

The current study explored the effects of media exposure on men and women's body satisfaction, self-esteem, level of internalization of sociocultural ideals, and level of social comparison. Male and female undergraduates (N = 32) were exposed to television advertisements either with muscular men and thin women (sociocultural ideal group) or without those types of men and women (neutral advertis...

leishmanolysin is a worldwide disease that is caused by different species of the genus leishmania. leishmanolysin, one of the genes expressed by leishmania, appears to be an ideal candidate for genetic vaccination. in this study, a full length sequence, which encodes leishmanolysin functionally critical regions (amino acids 100-579), was cloned from a leishmania strain endemic to iran. analysis...

BACKGROUND Previous research has documented that self-objectification is associated with numerous negative outcomes including body shame, eating disorder (ED) pathology, and negative affect. This exploratory open study investigated whether or not an evidence-based body image improvement program that targets thin-ideal internalization in university women also reduces self-objectification. A seco...

OBJECTIVE The Body Project is a cognitive dissonance-based body image improvement program with ample research support among female samples. More recently, researchers have highlighted the extent of male body dissatisfaction and disordered eating behaviors; however, boys/men have not been included in the majority of body image improvement programs. This study aims to explore the efficacy of a mi...

OBJECTIVE Impediments limit dissemination and implementation of evidence-based interventions (EBIs), including lack of sufficient training. One strategy to increase implementation of EBIs is the train-the-trainer (TTT) model. The Body Project is a peer-led body image program that reduces eating disorder (ED) risk factors. This study examined the effectiveness of a TTT model at reducing risk fac...

introduction: auger electron based radioimmunotherapy (rit) using 111in-dota-trastuzumab (111in-dota-antiher2) feasibility was studied in vitro on a her2/neu positive cell line, skbr3. methods:111in-dota-antiher2 was prepared according to the optimized conditions followed by quality control tests including radiochemical purity; immunoreactivity). skbr3 as a her2/neu positive cell line was used ...