Two studies examined intergroup schadenfreude -malicious pleasure at an outgroup’s misfortune. Study 1 showed that schadenfreude regarding a German loss in soccer was increased by interest in soccer and threats of Dutch inferiority. The effect of inferiority threat was especially strong for participants less interested in soccer, as the more interested showed relatively high schadenfreude. Stud...

The future of colonial pasts still haunts Christian imagination and theology. This is especially true in the field eschatology, which dedicated to ways conceiving future. article examines manifold entanglements that collude fabrication imaginaries time, future, global community within (post)colonial conditions. At center resides case study a lithograph distributed by missionary networks second ...

Background: The efficacy and safety of tigecycline in the treatment complicated intra-abdominal infections (cIAIs) is potentially controversial. Here we conducted non-inferiority study to assess versus meropenem postoperative cIAIs.

Methods A total of 96 patients (51 female) with UC in remission (not longer than 12 months) were included in a randomized, double-blind, double-dummy, multicenter, non inferiority study comparing mesalazine 500 mg (3x1/d) to 100mg myrrh, 70mg chamomile extract and 50mg coffee charcoal (3 x 4/d) over a time period of 12 months. As primary outcome criterion, non-inferiority of the herbal preparat...

In this paper, we describe an adjusted method to facilitate a non-inferiority trial by a three-arm robust design. Because local optimal designs derived in Hasler et al. [2007] require knowledge about the ratios of the population variances and are not necessarily robust with respect to possible misspecifications, a maximin approach is adopted. This method requires only the specification of an in...

Two studies examined intergroup schadenfreude--malicious pleasure at an out-group's misfortune. Study 1 showed that schadenfreude regarding a German loss in soccer was increased by interest in soccer and threats of Dutch inferiority. The effect of inferiority threat was especially strong for participants less interested in soccer; the more interested showed relatively high schadenfreude. Study ...

Although the Guatemalan population is made up of 53% Indigenous peoples, there a certain belief according to which peoples are still currently associated with underdevelopment, inferiority, submission, and exploitation, causing that, for many, being Mayan not synonymous identity, but poverty, neglect, inferiority. Through biographical–naturalist study, we delve into how teachers experienced onl...