BACKGROUND There has been an increased recognition of the importance of socio-cultural factors affecting late presentation in breast cancer. Socio-culturally mediated symbolic meanings, attached to " breasts" might importantly affect understandings of breast cancer in connection with late presentation. OBJECTIVE To explore symbolic meanings of " breasts" which might affect late presentation, ...

We evaluate two competing accounts of the relationship between beauty and category structure. According to the similarity-based view, beauty arises from category structure such that central items are favored due to their increased fluency. In contrast, the theory-based view holds that people's theories of beauty shape their perceptions of categories. In the present study, subjects learned to ca...

Concern with body image and medical interventions related to physical beauty has greatly increased in the past few years. The purpose of this study is to investigate how medicine is dealing with the theme of beauty. The 2003/2004 editions of the periodicals Aesthetic Surgery Journal and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery were analyzed, in order to investigate the rationality buttressing their discourse....

Suspend belief for the next two minutes and imagine that you own a Ferrari Testarossada gleaming red marvel; the marriage of art and engineering. You and this breathtaking morsel of mechanistic beauty have been together for so long that you can’t remember a time when you were not as one. You know each other intimately. Or do you? One Sunday afternoon as you snake along the chicanes of a high mo...

Beautiful people earn more. Surprisingly, this premium is often larger for men than for women, and is independent of customer contact, e.g., even in software engineering. Overlooked is the possibility that beauty can influence college admissions. We investigate this academic contributor to the labor market beauty premium by sampling 1,800 social media profiles of students from universities rank...

We recently developed adenovirus/transposase hybrid-vectors utilizing the previously described hyperactive Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposase HSB5 for somatic integration and we could show stabilized transgene expression in mice and a canine model for hemophilia B. However, the safety profile of these hybrid-vectors with respect to vector dose and genotoxicity remains to be investigated. Herein, ...

Rapid Prototyping is part of a modern technologies group whose target is to reduce the designing and manufacturing cycle of a product. One efficient rapid prototyping technique is that of 3D printing and, its benefits in designing and manufacturing elements of a laser medical device are presented by this paper. More, a simulation involving computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and heat transfer ph...

The Bempp boundary element library is a well-known for the simulation of range electrostatic, acoustic, and electromagnetic problems in homogeneous bounded unbounded domains. It originally started as traditional C++ with Python interface. Over last two years, we have completely redesigned native library, called Bempp-cl, that provides computational backends OpenCL (using PyOpenCL) Numba. backen...