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Attractiveness and activity in Internet communities [PDF]

, 2005
Datasets of online communication often take the form of contact sequences -- ordered lists contacts (where a contact is defined as a triple of a sender, a recipient and a time).
Brehm, Buss, Donath, Ebel, Eckmann, Fan, Gourab Ghoshal, Holme, Holme, Katz, Liljeros, Newman, Newman, Perrett, Petter Holme, Tovée, Tyler, Wedekind, Whittaker   +18 more
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Physical Disability Affects Women’s but Not Men’s Perception of Opposite-Sex Attractiveness

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Physical appearance influences our perceptions, judgments, and decision making about others. While the current literature with regard to the perceptions and judgments of nondisabled people’s attractiveness is robust, the research investigating the ...
Farid Pazhoohi, Francesca Capozzi, Alan Kingstone   +2 more
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Change in Evaluation Mode Can Cause a Cheerleader Effect

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
The cheerleader effect describes the phenomenon whereby faces are perceived as being more attractive when flanked by other faces than when they are perceived in isolation. At least four theories predict the cheerleader effect. Two visual memory processes
Claude Messner, Mattia Carnelli, Patrick Stefan Höhener   +2 more
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‘If you look the part you’ll get the job’: should career professionals help clients to enhance their career image? [PDF]

, 2014
This article presents a critical exploration of the role of career professionals in supporting people to reflect on and enhance their appearance, attractiveness and self-presentation (career image).
Barnard M., Bourdieu P., Brown P., CDI, Hakim C., Hazen L., Julia Yates, Jæger M., Marini I., Parsons F., Rasmusson S. L., Rhee J. S., Rodger A., Smith M., Toledano E., Tristram Hooley, Tsetsura K., UKCES, Wolf N.   +18 more
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Attraction is altered via modulation of the medial prefrontal cortex without explicit knowledge

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Previous studies have demonstrated that brain stimulation can alter an individual's physical appearance via dysregulation of the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC).
Samantha Zorns, Claudia Sierzputowski, Sydney Ash, Molly Skowron, Anthony Minervini, Adriana LaVarco, Matthew Pardillo, Julian Paul Keenan   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social media recruitment : communication characteristics and sought gratifications [PDF]

, 2019
This study examines how social media pages can be used to influence potential applicants' attraction. Based on the uses and gratifications theory, this study examines whether organizations can manipulate the communication characteristics informativeness ...
Carpentier, Marieke, Van Hoye, Greet, Weng, Qingxiong   +2 more
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Phosphatidylinositol 4‐kinase as a target of pathogens—friend or foe?

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
This graphical summary illustrates the roles of phosphatidylinositol 4‐kinases (PI4Ks). PI4Ks regulate key cellular processes and can be hijacked by pathogens, such as viruses, bacteria and parasites, to support their intracellular replication. Their dual role as essential host enzymes and pathogen cofactors makes them promising drug targets.
Ana C. Mendes, Guilherme M. Azevedo, Amanda P. Barcellos, Diana Bahia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Boosting Engineering Education with Virtual Reality: An Experiment to Enhance Student Knowledge Retention

Applied System Innovation
This article is about experiments investigating teaching and learning processes and their effects on students. Specifically, the laboratory experiment method aims to determine if using virtual reality in classes leads to better learning outcomes ...
Fernando Elemar Vicente dos Anjos, Adriano de Oliveira Martins, Gislene Salim Rodrigues, Miguel Afonso Sellitto, Debora Oliveira da Silva   +4 more
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Disordered but rhythmic—the role of intrinsic protein disorder in eukaryotic circadian timing

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Unstructured domains known as intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are present in nearly every part of the eukaryotic core circadian oscillator. IDRs enable many diverse inter‐ and intramolecular interactions that support clock function. IDR conformations are highly tunable by post‐translational modifications and environmental conditions, which ...
Emery T. Usher, Jacqueline F. Pelham
wiley   +1 more source

An assessment of the availability, accessibility, and attractiveness of urban green space and parks in three African cities

African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences
Context and background: Urban green areas are critical in generating community social, economic, environmental, and health advantages. However, clear and reliable data on the spatial extent, distribution, accessibility, and attractiveness of green ...
Alemakef Tassew, Aklilu Fikresilassie
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