There are errors in affiliation 1 for authors Fu Wang, Zhiguo Chai, Jung Gao, Hui Wang, and Jihua Chen and affiliation 2 for author Zaixi Deng. Affiliation 1 should be: State Key Laboratory of Military Stomatology, Department of Prosthodontics, School of Stomatology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, PR China Affiliation 2 should be: State Key Laboratory of Military Stomatology, Depart...

Title: Do Patients with Diabetic Neuropathy Use a Higher Proportion of their Maximum Strength when Walking? Authors: Steven J. Brown. Affiliation: School of Healthcare Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK. Joseph C. Handsaker. Affiliation: School of Healthcare Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan Universi...

For k-double auctions with k 0 (0,1), the effect of a change in the degree of affiliation between buyer and seller values on equilibrium bidding strategies is described. Local changes are shown to depend on how affiliation influences standard inverse hazard rates. While for some equilibria, increased affiliation results in high-value buyers and low-value sellers shading their bids less, for oth...

BACKGROUND Bystander affiliation (post-conflict affiliation from an uninvolved bystander to the conflict victim) may represent an expression of empathy in which the bystander consoles the victim to alleviate the victim's distress ("consolation"). However, alternative hypotheses for the function of bystander affiliation also exist. Determining whether ravens spontaneously offer consolation to di...

While previous aging studies have focused on particular components of social perception (e.g., theory of mind, self-referencing), little is known about age-related differences specifically for the neural basis of perception of affiliation and isolation. This study investigates age-related similarities and differences in the neural basis of affiliation and isolation. Participants viewed images o...

The transmission of religious affiliation is analyzed in a sample of 3810 Australian twin pairs and their parents. Twins were classified by sex, zygosity, and whether they were living together or apart. Analysis of twin, spousal, and parent-offspring resemblance shows that several different forms of cultural inheritance operate jointly in the transmission of religious affiliation. Model-fitting...

Post-conflict third-party affiliation has been reported to have different functional meanings, one of them being consolation. Here, we tested the main hypotheses that have been put forth to explain the presence of this phenomenon at a functional level in the bonobo: Self-Protection Hypothesis, Victim-Protection Hypothesis, Relationship-Repair or Substitute for Reconciliation Hypothesis, and Con...