Three studies explored how the traits that people ideally desire in a romantic partner, or ideal partner preferences, intersect with the process of romantic relationship initiation and maintenance. Two attraction experiments in the laboratory found that, when participants evaluated a potential romantic partner’s written profile, they expressed more romantic interest in a partner whose traits we...

A motivation behind much UbiComp research has been to make our lives convenient, comfortable and informed, following in the footsteps of Weiser’s calm computing vision. Three themes that have dominated are context awareness, ambient intelligence and monitoring/tracking. While these avenues of research have been fruitful their accomplishments do not match up to anything like Weiser’s world. This...

The role of biology in psychology changes from animals to humans. Biology determines animal behaviour in natural environments. For humans the biological forces changes to an energizing function. They recede in the background and the higher psychological functions govern consciousness and behavior. Humans do not have to obey the instincts or reflexes, but have the option to do what they decide t...

Preliminary Sermon: Humans will be Humans; The Medium is the Message The famous Catalan numbers (see [Sl1]), count zillions of combinatorial families (see [St]) and many humans have fun trying to find ‘nice’ bijections between family A and family B. While this may be fun for a while, sooner or later this game gets old, especially since the real reason Catalan numbers are so ubiquitous is their ...

In this paper we present the first experimental step of a larger study investigating the effects of agents’ gender identification on the perceived interaction quality. The purpose was to determine how test subjects judge the ‘gender’ of virtual humans. 48 test subjects rated 7 agents according to their degree of feminity, masculinity and gender ambiguity. The results showed that subjects’ gende...

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results the mean age of the patients was 14.73 ± 2.3 (range 13-16) years. the most common symptom was cyclic dysmenorrhea. the vaginal septum was resected safely in all of the patients. the symptoms including cyclic dysmenorrhea and hematometra resolved after 3 months. conclusions hysteroscopic resection of the vaginal septum is an available, feasible, convenient, and effective tool in the mana...

An enhanced binding of an N -particle system interacting through a scalar bose field is investigated, where N ≥ 2. It is not assumed that this system has a ground state for a zero coupling. It is shown, however, that there exists a ground state for a sufficiently large values of coupling constants. When the coupling constant is sufficiently large, N particles are bound to each other by the scal...

Humans are going to delegate the rights of driving to the autonomous vehicles in near future. However, to fulfill this complicated task, there is a need for a mechanism, which enforces the autonomous vehicles to obey the road and social rules that have been practiced by well-behaved drivers. This task can be achieved by introducing social norms compliance mechanism in the autonomous vehicles. T...