.........................................................................................iii TABLE OF CONTENTS...........................................................................iv LIST OF TABLES...................................................................................vi CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW...........................1 Attractiveness Stereotypes............

appearance of nationalism in each country is influenced by some social , religious and political factors throughout the history of that country in iranian contemporary history, this process has also been dependent upon opinions and thoughts of some of the nationalist intellectuals and modernists their intellectual products played an important role in various social , intellectual and even artis...

This study investigates the relationships among sociocultural pressures to be thin, internalisation of the thin ideal, social comparison, body mass index, and body dissatisfaction in young girls. One hundred and fifty-three 10-13 year old girls completed measures assessing sociocultural pressure to be thin, media exposure, body dissatisfaction, social comparison, and internalisation of the thin...

........................................................................................................................................ viii 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Background ...........................................................................................................

We examine individuals’ distributional orderings in a number of contexts. This is done by using a questionnaire-experiment that is presented to respondents in any one of seven “flavours” or interpretations of the basic distributional problem. The flavours include inequality, risk, social welfare and justice. The issue of personal involvement in the distributional comparison is explicitly addres...

Today, it is common that people are users of more than one social network and their friends may also be registered on multiple websites. A facility to aggregate our online friends into a single integrated environment would enable us to keep up-to-date with our virtual contacts more easily, as well as to provide improved facility to search for users across different websites. In this paper, we p...

Social network study has become an important topic in many research fields. Early works on social network analysis focus on real world social interactions in either human society or animal world. With the explosion of Internet data, social network researchers start to pay more attention to the tremendous amount of online social network data. There are ample space for exploring social network re...

Figure 1: List of intuitions in our paper and comparison with related works. (a) Intuition 1: Rigid objects typically lie up-right on the supporting plane. (b) Intuition 2: Under the perspective camera model, the size of an object in the 2D image is an inversely proportional function of its distance to the camera when the object pose is fixed. (c) Intuition 3: The statistics describing the 2D a...