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eLife, 2014 A beetle pheromone that lures nematode worms to an insect host can also stop their development or even kill them outright.
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Cahiers de la Recherche sur l'Education et les Savoirs, 2018 The difficulties in recruiting future teachers which have been observed in France (and elsewhere) over the last years raise the question of how students choose the study programs and the competitive exams giving access to teacher careers.
Pierre Périer
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Journal of Statistical Physics, 2015 We prove that the complex conjugate (c.c.) eigenvalues of a smoothly varying real matrix attract (Eq. 15). We offer a dynamical perspective on the motion and interaction of the eigenvalues in the complex plane, derive their governing equations and discuss applications. C.c. pairs closest to the real axis, or those that are ill-conditioned, attract most
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The Intrinsic Dimensionality of Attractiveness: A Study in Face Profiles [PDF]
, 2012 The study of human attractiveness with pattern analysis techniques is an emerging research field. One still largely unresolved problem is which are the facial features relevant to attractiveness, how they combine together, and the number of independent ...
Andrea Bottino +3 more
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Impact of the recession on the attractiveness of urban and rural areas of Slovenia [PDF]
Geodetski Vestnik, 2014 In this paper, we analyse and present the findings regarding the impact of the recession that began in 2008 in Slovenia on the attractiveness of predominantly urban, intermediate and predominantly rural areas of Slovenia.
Samo Drobne
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Cross-cultural agreement in facial attractiveness preferences : the role of ethnicity and gender [PDF]
, 2014 Previous work showed high agreement in facial attractiveness preferences within and across cultures. The aims of the current study were twofold. First, we tested cross-cultural agreement in the attractiveness judgements of White Scottish and Black South ...
Stephen, ID +20 more
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Face Inversion Effect on Perceived Cuteness and Pupillary Response
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 The face inversion effect reflects the special nature of facial processing and appears not only in recognizing facial identity or expression but also in subjective evaluation, such as facial attractiveness.
Kana Kuraguchi, Kei Kanari
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 We used attractiveness judgements as a proxy to visualize the ideal female and male body for male and female participants and investigated how individual differences in the internalization of cultural ideals influence these representations.
Bethany J. Ridley +6 more
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Fiscal attractiveness of Portuguese municipalities [PDF]
Public and Municipal Finance, 2023 The modeling of the municipalities’ tax burden is one of the most relevant issues, especially in terms of municipal competitiveness. It challenges the definition and delimitation of local authorities’ taxing powers.
Ricardo de Moraes e Soares +1 more
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The heritability of attractiveness [PDF]
Current Biology, 2007 SummarySexual selection is responsible for the evolution of numerous conspicuous and extravagant displays observed in nature — from cricket choruses to peacock's tails. A key assumption of many models of sexual selection is that attractive males father attractive sons1.
Taylor, Michelle L. +2 more
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