IMPORTANCE To date, the conversation about facial rejuvenation surgery has focused on one goal: youthfulness. However, human beings are judged throughout life based on many other characteristics and personal qualities conveyed by their faces. The term facial profiling has been used to describe this act of determining personality attributes through visual observation. OBJECTIVES To introduce t...

Despite advances in technology and major shifts in economy, people remain an organizations most valuable resource. Human capital and intellectual assets make a difference to the competitive advantage of the firm in a knowledge based industry. Employer Attractiveness (EA) is the prerequisite to attract and retain superior quality talent. Employer attractiveness can be defined as the envisioned b...

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Evolutionary theory based research shows that attractiveness is based on biological correlates that index appropriate estrogen and testosterone levels. Symmetry affects or plays a role in the perception of many of these correlates of attractiveness. Additionally, since attractiveness affects infidelity perception and reactions, sexual satisfaction, and personality perception, symmetry also affe...

The main goal of this study was to assess how the millennial generation perceives companies that have different social media policies and how such perception influences key variables for job-seeking behaviors, including perceived person-organization fit (POF), organizational attraction, and job pursuit intention. Results from a univariate general linear model and path analysis supported all of ...

Acoustic technology has been applied for many years in studies of insect communication and in the monitoring of calling-insect population levels, geographic distributions and species diversity, as well as in the detection of cryptic insects in soil, wood, container crops and stored products. Acoustic devices of various sizes and power levels have been used successfully to trap insect pests that...

Considering the growing significance of Eurasian economic ties because South Korea s New Northern Policy and Russia Eastern Policy, this study investigates motivations locational factors Korean foreign direct investment (FDI) in three countries Commonwealth Independent States (CIS: Kazakhstan, Russia, Uzbekistan) by employing panel analysis (pooled ordinary least squares (OLS), fixed effects, r...

Augmented reality mirrors are popular marketing tools that allow virtual try-on of products, such as makeup. We study how sensory experiences affect consumer perception the self, specifically gap between actual and ideal attractiveness, we conceptualise this change augmented self. Over three lab experiments show viewing oneself in an AR mirror (as opposed to regular mirror) affects ideal-actual...