This study explores the hypothesis that age-related declines in inhibitory ability are associated with increases in socially inappropriate behavior. Consistent with this hypothesis, older participants were less likely than younger participants to differentiate between public and private settings when inquiring about potentially embarrassing issues, according to their peers. Additionally, this i...

We describe Paradropper, a general-purpose global computing system based on a peer-to-peer self-organizing overlay network. In Paradropper, the peer is organized into an overlay network with “small world” characteristics, and workload is well balanced among the peers according to their workload in a decentralized manner. Particularly, it not only supports embarrassing parallel computing mode, b...

Job applicants frequently lie or cover up important information. In fact, 40% of the résumés received by companies contain inaccuracies. The result of this chicanery is that companies often end up choosing the wrong professionals, which has damaging consequences. Luckily, human resources professionals have numerous ways to prevent poor hiring decisions from being made, thus sparing themselves f...

One of main problems in current medical practice is the rocketing conflict patient vs physician, generally popularized with the term malpractice; this is particularly true in the field of surgical activity. When dealing with errors occurring in different specialties one of the first and embarrassing event is to deliver surgery at the incorrect (not affected!?) side or level; as the wrong-side i...

A radicular cyst is an inflammatory odontogenic of the jaw commonly found at apices tooth anterior maxilla. It develops as a sequel untreated dental caries with pulp necrosis and periapical infection. Different treatment includes surgical endodontic treatment, extraction involving tooth, marsupialization, enucleation primary closure followed by rehabilitation. We presented case huge midline 52 ...

This article presents a mapping of the discursive strategies present in De volta para o meu aconchego, from Rede Record de Televisão, emphasizing narratives built in/by painting, about migratory processes Northeasterners that, for most part, are based on notions stigmatizing and stereotyped region, subjects their ways life. The is characterized as qualitative nature descriptive-exploratory type...

Failure is embarrassing. In gambles involving both skill and chance, we show that a strategic desire to avoid appearing unskilled generates behavioral anomalies consistent with prospect theory’s concepts of loss aversion, framing effects, and probability weighting. Based on models from the career concerns literature that formalize early social psychology models of risk taking, the results show ...

Personal names used in the second edition of The Gebusi are in most cases actual names. This includes persons who have given permission for their real names to be used and for persons whose depiction in the text is nonproblematic and/or if they have been deceased for a number of years. This reflects the fact that the Gebusi generally are pleased to have their real identities represented to the ...