Introduction: This study aimed to describe sexually explicit online media (SEOM) use among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Portugal and to examine any associations between exposure to SEOM depicting unprotected anal intercourse and engaging in unp...
11 December 2021
The aims of this study were to examine gender differences in how parent–child discussions on sex issues, peer interactions around sexual issues, and exposure to sexually explicit materials affect the intention to engage in casual sex among adol...
Current knowledge of the behavior of heavy quadricycles under impact is still very poor. One of the most significant causes is the lack of energy absorption in the vehicle frame or its steel chassis structure. For this reason, special steels (with yi...
11 October 2021
Little is known about how gender contentedness is related to sex-related experiences among Taiwanese adolescents. Secondary analysis of data (n = 2624, Mage = 13.3 ± 0.47 years and 51% males) on a longitudinal youth cohort was used to track the evolv...
This work focuses on a class of nonlinear second-order difference equations with non-autonomous periodic coefficients. We obtain explicit solution formulas that allow for a constructive characterization of their behavior. In particular, we derive nec...
This study explores the use of recycled brick powder (PRB), derived from waste bricks, and calcined recycled slurry powder (PCRS), sourced from waste cement blocks, as partial replacements for cement and fly ash in concrete. These materials can be ut...
As mining operations progressively advance to greater depths to meet increasing mineral demand, there is a growing need to develop new or improved rockbolts capable of effectively dissipating energy under dynamic loading conditions. Impact laboratory...
Probing food experience or liking through verbal ratings has its shortcomings. We compare explicit ratings to a range of (neuro)physiological and behavioral measures with respect to their performance in distinguishing drinks associated with different...
Over the last decade, new-type drugs have been replacing traditional-type drugs in China. However, studies of implicit attitudes towards new-type drugs are insufficient and contradictory results exist. Previous studies have suggested that implicit at...
The present study aims to contribute to a better understanding of the attitude–behavior link in the sphere of environmental issues by taking into account the role of moral disengagement. Pro-environmental attitudes, at both the implicit and exp...
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This study investigated how moral elevation affects children’s prosocial behavior through two experiments. In Experiment 1 (n = 99; Mage = 10.48 ± 0.86 years), children were randomly assigned to Moral Elevation, Joy, or Neutral groups. P...
The stereotype content model (SCM; Fiske, Cuddy, Glick and Xu, 2002) identifies four basic categories of stereotyped social groups: high warmth-high competence (HW-HC), high warmth-low competence (HW-LC), low warmth-high competence (LW-HC), and low w...
Pairing procedures are among the most frequently used paradigms for modifying evaluations of target stimuli related to oneself, an object, or a specific situation due to their repeated pairing with evaluative sources, such as positive or negative ima...
Numerical methods based on finite element (FE) have proven their efficiency for many years in the thermomechanical simulation of forming processes. Nevertheless, the application of these methods to new materials requires the identification and implem...
Accelerometers worn by animals produce distinct behavioral signatures, which can be classified accurately using machine learning methods such as random forest decision trees. The objective of this study was to identify accelerometer signal separation...
We examine the fundamental tension between explicit and implicit power motives; and their combined impact on the importance attached to prosocial organizational goals in small businesses (SMEs). We show that key decision-makers with a dominant implic...
This paper focuses on a high-order Korteweg–de Vries wave equation. The extended F-expansion method, a modified form of Kudryashov’s auxiliary equation approach, is employed to construct Jacobi elliptic function solutions for this equatio...
The mechanical method has become a new construction method for connected aisles in metro tunnels due to its advantages of fast construction speed, high safety, and minimal ground disturbance. During the tunneling process, the interaction mechanism be...
Social organizations increasingly rely on Natural Language Processing (NLP) to analyze large-scale textual data for high-stakes decisions, including university admissions, financial aid allocation, and job hiring. Current methods primarily employ top...
We study the asymptotic behavior of random time changes of dynamical systems. As random time changes we propose three classes which exhibits different patterns of asymptotic decays. The subordination principle may be applied to study the asymptotic b...
The high volume of user-generated content caused by the popular use of online social network services exposes users to different kinds of content that can be harmful or unwanted. Solutions to protect user privacy from such unwanted content cannot be...
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have revolutionized the biomedical field, directly influencing therapeutics and diagnostics in the biopharmaceutical industry, while continuing advances in computational efficiency have enabled molecular dynamics (MD) sim...
This paper empirically studies the impact of economic policy uncertainty on executives’ self-interest behaviors, distinguishes explicit self-interest behaviors from implicit ones, and studies the moderating effect of internal control. The resul...
Analyzing the farmer’s behavior and the water-saving incentive mechanism is of great significance to the implementation of the explicit subsidy policy of agricultural water prices. This paper introduces the concept of loss aversion from behavioral ec...
This work is focused on the investigation of the structural behavior of a composite floor beam, located in the cargo zone of a civil aircraft, subjected to cyclical low-frequency compressive loads with different amplitudes. In the first stage, the nu...
Exploring the cohort behavior of local governments in green governance from the perspective of knowledge management can help promote the implementation of new development concepts. This article firstly explains the differentiation logic of local gove...
The current research studied the relationship between cultural values and tacit and explicit knowledge sharing behavior in the context of sustainable organizations. The sample consisted of 751 workers from Colombian organizations. It was found that s...
This paper discusses novel numerical techniques for studying the damage to automotive safety components in carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) deployed in the automotive industry to protect passengers, high voltage batteries and powertrains from r...
Recommendation has become an inseparable component of many software applications, such as e-commerce, social media and gaming platforms. Particularly in collaborative filtering-based recommendation solutions, the preferences of other users are consid...
Background: Creep-fatigue phenomena are complex and difficult to model in ways that are useful from an engineering design perspective. Existing empirical-based models can be difficult to apply in practice, have poor accuracy, and lack economy. Need:...
In the continuous development of behaviorist public policy theory, nudge tools have gradually become a policy tool of great interest to the academic community, which believes these tools can improve the effectiveness of public policy. However, schola...
This paper explores the ballistic impact behavior of a 1/1 fabric composed of aramid yarns using numerical simulations in ANSYS 2024 R2-Explicit Dynamics [...]
The existing deep learning-based detection of fake information focuses on the transient detection of news itself. Compared to user category profile mining and detection, transient detection is prone to higher misjudgment rates due to the limitations...
We describe the initial realization of behavior in the biosphere, which we term behavioral chemistry. If molecules are complex enough to attain a stochastic element to their structural conformation in such as a way as to radically affect their functi...
Data preparation requires heterogeneous operations to be composed into coherent pipelines while respecting application-specific constraints. CAPPERI (Context-Aware data Preparation Pipelines through Explicit Reuse and human Interaction) is an open-so...
This paper studies a three-dimensional second-order rational difference system, which generalizes earlier scalar and bidimensional models. We derive explicit closed-form solutions for general initial conditions and identify special cases that simplif...
We state the product formulae of the values of the levels of functions at critical points involved in asymptotic behaviors of hypergeometric integrals associated with symmetric arrangements of three-dimensional spheres. We show, in an explicit way, h...
Habits as a form of behavior re-execution without explicit deliberation is discussed in terms of implicit anticipation, to be contrasted with explicit anticipation and mental simulation. Two hypotheses, addressing how habits and mental simulation may...
Autonomous ship control faces significant challenges due to the diversity of ship types, the complexity of task scenarios, and the uncertainty of dynamic marine environments. These factors limit the effectiveness of traditional control approaches tha...
An overview is given of effective gravitational field theories with fixed background fields that break spacetime symmetry. The behavior of the background fields and the types of excitations that can occur depend on whether the symmetry breaking is ex...
A small deformation to the Schwarzschild metric controlled by four free parameters could be referred to as a nonspinning black hole solution in alternative theories of gravity. Since such a non-Schwarzschild metric can be changed into a Kerr-like bla...
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Many studies have examined the relationship between the built environment and health. Yet, the question of how and why the environment influences health behavior remains largely unexplored. As health promotion interventions work through the individua...
It is known that in Lorentz-violating effective field theory, there is a classical equivalence between certain coefficients (c and f), in spite of the fact that the operators of the two types of coefficients described appear to have opposite behavior...
28 September 2022
Gender violence is a major public health issue. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of sexist attitudes that could be associated with said violence, and to identify some sociodemographic variables that predict sexism. A cross-sectio...
The growing integration of chatbots and large language models (LLMs) into society raises important concerns about their potential to reproduce toxic human behaviors. As a result, it is essential to investigate these models to mitigate or eliminate su...
Trans* people frequently report attitudes of prejudice/transphobia in health professionals. Conversely, health professionals indicate the lack of adequate training to care for these people and its impact on the quality of care provided. Objective: Ou...
In this work, we review the study of singularities in Poincaré gauge theories of gravity. Since one of the most recent studies used the appearance of black hole regions of arbitrary dimension as an indicator of singular behavior, we also give...
The finite element method has been widely used to investigate the mechanical behavior of biological tissues. When analyzing these particular materials subjected to dynamic requests, time integration algorithms should be considered to incorporate the...
In this paper, the time-fractional wave equation associated with the space-fractional Fokker–Planck operator and with the time-fractional-damped term is studied. The concept of the Green function is implemented to drive the analytic solution of the t...
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