BACKGROUND Despite increasing numbers of Iranian-American physicians practicing in the United States, little is known about the barriers that may impact them as providers of sexual health care. This is an important topic as discussions of sexual topics are generally considered a taboo among Iranians. We aimed to identify barriers experienced by Iranian-American physicians that inhibit their wil...

Eroticism in later life is, on the whole, a taboo subject, and stigma attached to expressions of sexual intent by older people is widespread most cultures. However, sexuality eroticism have an important role play maintaining healthy ageing. Sexuality essential aspect our biology its effects repercussions systems organs other than sexual. In this paper I review importance developing sexual-eroti...

This study reports effects of meaning and emotion (taboo vs. neutral words) on an illusory word (IW) phenomenon linked to orthographic repetition blindness (RB). Participants immediately recalled rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) lists consisting of two critical words (C1 and C2) containing shared letters, followed by a word fragment: for example, lake (C1) brake (C2) ush (fragment). For ...

Along with the widespread application of the electronic commerce in the modern business, the logistic distribution has become increasingly important. More and more enterprises recognize that the logistic distribution plays an important role in the process of production and sales. A good routing for logistic distribution can cut down transport cost and improve efficiency. In order to cut down tr...

In the last decade, various approximation approaches, such as dispatching rules, shifting bottleneck heuristic and local search methods, are proposed for the job shop scheduling problem. As one of the local search methods, taboo search provides a promising alternative for the job shop scheduling problem; however, it has to be tailored each time with respect to parameters for every instance in o...

Three experiments were conducted to determine if emotional content increases repetition priming magnitude. In the study phase of Experiment 1, participants rated high-arousing negative (taboo) words and neutral words for concreteness. In the test phase, they made lexical decision judgements for the studied words intermixed with novel words (half taboo, half neutral) and pseudowords. In Experime...

Abstract While databases of taboo language word norms exist, none focus specifically on slurs as a category language. Furthermore, no existing include measures linguistic reclamation, phenomenon which may affect the processing slurs. I produced database in 155 native or near-native speakers British English rated 41 LGBTQ+ for number properties and reclamation. then ran correlation demographic g...

Academic studies on the impact of taboo words on cognition, memory, perception, etc. support the intuitive position that taboo words are at least in part used because they are an effective tool in making meaning understood. What hasn’t been done, to the best of our knowledge, is to look at the effect of taboo words on speech recognition. To this end we have collected data comparing the impact o...

Many people insist that their commitments to certain values (e.g. love, honor, justice) are absolute and inviolable - in effect, sacred. They treat the mere thought of trading off sacred values against secular ones (such as money) as transparently outrageous - in effect, taboo. Economists insist, however, that in a world of scarce resources, taboo trade-offs are unavoidable. Research shows that...