Background and Objectives: Extra-marital affairs as one of the covert social problems are among issues with a wide range of disastrous consequences for family and social institutions. Therefore, determining the factors associated with the tendency toward such relationships is of great importance. We aimed to study the tendency toward extra-marital affairs and some related factors among married ...

background: patients with trichotillomania (tc) have an irreversible urge to pull their hair.  this self-mutilation behavior is associated with high level of tension before and a sense of gratification and relief after tc.   objective: to investigate the personality characteristics of patients suffering from tc.   method: the study was performed on 43 tc patients and 43 gender and age-matched n...

In this paper we analyze completeness results for basic narrowing. We show that basic narrowing is not complete with respect to normalizable solutions for equational theories defined by confluent term rewriting systems, contrary to what has been conjectured. By imposing syntactic restrictions on the rewrite rules we recover completeness. We refute a result of Hölldobler which states the complet...

The mechanistic understanding of metal hyperaccumulation has benefitted immensely from the use of molecular genetics tools developed for Arabidopsis thaliana. The revolution in DNA sequencing will enable even greater strides in the near future, this time not restricted to the family Brassicaceae. Reference genomes are within reach for many ecologically interesting species including heterozygous...

We study the determinants of Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads through quantile regressions. In addition to traditional variables, the results indicate that CDS spreads are also determined by illiquidity costs. However, contrary to stocks or bonds, we show that CDS transaction costs should be measured by absolute, rather than relative, bid-ask spreads. Quantile regressions indicate that both th...

was recognized as a very interesting and representative model of chaotic dynamics. It contains regular and stochastic maps intertwined in an intricate manner. It also has remarkable universality properties. Complexification of this family leads to a beautiful interplay between real and complex dynamics, supplying us with powerful geometric tools. By now we have a complete picture of the basic d...