AIMS Health information can be used to try to persuade people to follow safe drinking recommendations. However, both the framing of information and the dispositional characteristics of message recipients need to be considered. An online study was conducted to examine how level of autonomy moderated the effect on drinking behaviour of gain- and loss-framed messages about the short- vs. long-term...

This paper reviews Chineseand English-language literature on ethnic minorities and education in China. Six major research topics emerge from the Chinese-language research: (1) Marxism and ethnic minority education; (2) patriotism and national unity in education for ethnic minority students; (3) multicultural education; (4) determinants of ethnic differences in education; (5) school facilities a...

Abstract This article examines gift-giving within the Persian empire and its perception in Greek literary sources. Gift-giving world was often framed language of friendship, authors subsequently articulated traditions using cultural norms their intended audience. There were fundamental differences concepts gift-exchange reciprocity between Greeks Persians. will examine followed by gift-giving, ...

In order to lay a foundation for providing a soft algebraic tool in considering many problems that contain uncertainties, the notion of double-framed soft sets is introduced, and applications in BCK/BCI-algebras are discussed. The notions of double-framed soft algebras in BCK/BCIalgebras are introduced, and related properties are investigated. Characterizations of doubleframed soft algebras are...

2016 Framing the debate on human-like framing effects in bonobos and chimpanzees: a comment on Krupenye et al. Recently, Krupenye, Rosati & Hare (KRH henceforth) reported that bonobos and chimpanzees show 'human-like framing effects' in a food choice task [1]. Chimpanzees and bonobos could choose between a 'framed' option of fruit and an alternative option of peanuts (matched in expected value ...

2016 Framing the debate on human-like framing effects in bonobos and chimpanzees: a comment on Krupenye et al. Recently, Krupenye, Rosati & Hare (KRH henceforth) reported that bonobos and chimpanzees show 'human-like framing effects' in a food choice task [1]. Chimpanzees and bonobos could choose between a 'framed' option of fruit and an alternative option of peanuts (matched in expected value ...

The integration of a terrestrial UMTS network with a satellite platform represents one of the most attractive proposals to develop a functional Virtual Home UMTS environment for a generic mobile user provided with an “ad-hoc” dual mode terminal, which will be able to exploit the two integrated systems (hereafter referred to as “segments”) for a set of innovative multimedia services. At this pur...