Multiple Choice Questions or MCQs are very important for e-learning. Generally, MCQs are used as a tool for the assessment of students’ performance at the end of their learning sessions. Can MCQs become an important tool in the process of knowledge acquisition while attending a course? This paper intends to find out how MCQs could be used as a tool for the better understanding, coverage as well...

Transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) is a severe complication related with blood transfusion. TRALI has usually been associated with antibodies against leukocytes. The flow cytometric granulocyte immunofluorescence test (Flow-GIFT) has been introduced for routine use when investigating patients and healthy blood donors. Here we describe a novel tool in the automation of the Flow-GIFT t...

Gift giving is thought to be welfare decreasing. This claim rests on two key assumptions, namely, full information as to the whereabouts of all goods and the ability to reach the stores that contain desired goods costlessly. In this paper, we replace these two assumptions with the more realistic assumption of uncertainty about the location of goods. As a result, search costs ensue. In sharp con...

0003-3472 2012 The Association for the Study of A doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.03.007 Males of the spider Pisaura mirabilis offer prey items as nuptial gifts to females. While gift giving in this species has received attention in captivity, the ecological context of these gifts remains largely unknown. First, we examine the occurrence of gift carrying by males in nature. Field data reveal that gi...

Established in 1995, the UNU/Institute of Advanced studies (UNU/IAS) is an advanced research and education institution with a flexible and multi-thematic programme orientation concerned with the interactions of social and natural systems. For the initial years, the UNU/IAS programme is directed at sustainable development issues. To this end, the UNU/IAS is currently active in the following rele...

This paper presents statistics of a controlled laboratory gift-exchangegame experiment. These numbers can be used for assumptions about human behavior in analysis of noisy web data. The experiment was described in ‘The Impact of Social Comparisons on Reciprocity’ by Gächter et al. 2012. As already shown in relevant literature from experimental economics, human decisions deviate from rational pa...

This research investigated the relation between individual differences in inhibitory control and emotion regulation. Preschool children (N= 53) ages 4–6 (M= 5; 0) were assessed on brief batteries of inhibitory control of prepotent responses and emotion regulation. Individual differences in inhibitory control were significantly correlated with children’s ability to regulate their emotions. This ...