In the current study, opposite-sex strangers had 10-min conversations with a possible further date in mind. Based on judgments from partners and observers, three main findings were produced. First, judgments of attractiveness/vitality perceptions (compared with warmth/trustworthiness and status/resources) were the most accurate and were predominant in influencing romantic interest and decisions...

The health and survival benefits of social embeddedness have been widely documented across social species, but the underlying biophysiological mechanisms have not been elucidated in the general population. We assessed the process by which social isolation increases the risk for all-cause and chronic disease mortality through proinflammatory mechanisms. Using the 18-year mortality follow-up data...

The social deficits of schizophrenia have been interpreted in an evolutionary context of Machiavellian social dexterity, stressing deficits in evolved psychological mechanisms that mediate the interpretation of affect and deceptive intention in others. A complementary hypothesis was tested, that patients with schizophrenia will be relatively non-Machiavellian compared to controls, and that soci...

8elected social characteristics of individuals were examined for groups of villages simultaneously dichotomized by size, location relative to larger cities, and population change. The percent of people having a selected characteristic in each village group of the resulting eight-fold classification was taken as the dependent variable, and difference scores indicating main effects and first orde...

The advent of electronic commerce over an open-source, ubiquitous Internet Protocol (IP) based network has led to the creation of new channels such as business-to-consumer online auctions, the focus of our study. They typify a new generation of mercantile processes that facilitate the flow of goods and services, connecting producers, suppliers, intermediaries and end-consumers. The vast body of...

The solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR) exposure of 30 children and adolescents in three age groups (4-6 years, 7-9 years and 13-14 years) was measured for 1 week in late summer (February-March) in Durban, South Africa, using UVR-sensitive polysulfone film badges (PSFB) attached to the lapel region of the body. The mean and median values for all ages over the study period were 2.0 and 1.2 standar...

Computer T he widespread adoption of streaming video on the Internet appears ready to become the next major frontier for online multimedia. Graphics, animation, and audio technologies have already proliferated on the Internet. However, streaming video—in which viewers can begin watching content almost as soon as it starts downloading—is only now developing as a mainstream technology. “In the pa...

[1] The United States Department of Agriculture UVB Monitoring and Research Program maintains a network of Yankee Environmental Systems surface UVB-1 meters distributed throughout the United States. We analyzed behavior of surface UVB radiation (280– 320 nm) over 8 to 10 years measured at eight stations within this network that were selected because of their early deployment (ranging from 1995 ...

background & aim: spondylolisthesis is a visible deformity in lumbosacral region with vertebral slip and fracture or other deformities of pars interarticularis. this study aims at investigating the characteristics of spondylolisthesis surgery in operated patients. methods & materials/patients: this is a retrospective study which included all the patients who had undergone spondylolisthesis surg...