Pornography has become a primary source of sexual education. At the same time, mainstream commercial pornography has coalesced around a relatively homogenous script involving violence and female degradation. Yet, little work has been done exploring the associations between pornography and dyadic sexual encounters: What role does pornography play inside real-world sexual encounters between a man...

This study aims at determining the personality traits and investment patterns in the stock market and presenting the pattern with a behavioral finance approach. This is an applied, descriptive- survey, and cross-sectional study. The statistical population includes real investors in the Tehran Stock Exchange. The required information was collected using questionnaire and was analyzed using SPSS ...

background: acute appendicitis is one of the common and urgent illnesses among children.  children usually are unable to help the physicians completely due to weakness in describing the medical history. moreover, acute appendicitis overlaps with conditions of other diseases in terms of symptoms and signs in the first hours of presentation. these conditions lead to unwanted biases as well as err...

This study examined the effect of moderately repeated exposure (three times) to a fear appeal message on the Extended Parallel Processing Model (EPPM) variables of threat, efficacy, and behavioral intentions for the recommended behaviors in the message, as well as the proportions of systematic and message-related thoughts generated after each message exposure. The results showed that after repe...

Flocking behaviors are used in games and computer graphics for realistic simulation of massive crowds. Simulation of massive crowds in real time is a computationally intensive task. This intensity mostly comes from the O(n 2 ) complexity of the traversal algorithm. It is because each agent in crowd has to decide for itself which neighbors fall into its environment. There are several algorithms ...

Distributed Artificial Intelligence techniques have evolved toward multi-agent systems (MASs) where agents solve specific problems. Bargaining is a challenging area well-explored in both MAS and economics. To make agents more human-like and to increase their flexibility to reach an agreement, the authors investigated the role of personality behaviors of participants in a multi-criteria bilatera...

Within the context of learning sequences of basic tasks to build a complex behavior a method is proposed to coordinate a hierarchical set of tasks Each one pos sesses a set of sub tasks lower in the hierarchy which must be coordinated to respect a binary perceptive con straint For each task the coordination is achieved by a reinforcement learning inspired algorithm based on an heuristic which d...