1 June 2023
Information about suicidal behavior in Nepal is limited. According to official records, suicide rates were high until the year 2000 and declined thereafter. Official records are considered unreliable and a gross undercounting of suicide cases, partic...
29 November 2021
Viewing online pornography is common among US adults, with mixed-sex threesome (MST) videos being one of the top 10 most popular categories of pornography for both men and women. The current content analysis applied sexual script theory to understand...
Fatal pediatric vehicular heatstroke occurs when a driver accidentally leaves a child in a vehicle, leading to death by overheating. Most such accidents are caused by simple cognitive errors. One aspect of these events, described anecdotally, is fals...
Adolescence is a stage of significant intrapersonal and interpersonal changes, influenced by cultural and historical shifts. This study aims to analyze the changes in heterosexual behaviors among adolescents in Western countries over the past 50 year...
In the evolving cybersecurity landscape, detecting Thai-English code-mixed malicious scripts within high-trust domains such as governmental and academic portals presents a significant defensive challenge. While Transformer-based architectures excel i...
1 June 2022
Sex toys are widely marketed on the Internet. Browsing for, buying, and reviewing sex toys online are popular cybersexual activities. The aim of this study was to investigate consumers’ experiences with different types of realistic sex toys via...
Nonlocal quantum field theory (QFT) of one-component scalar field
Nonlocal quantum theory of a one-component scalar field in D-dimensional Euclidean spacetime is studied in representations of
The present study is devoted to explore the existence of a new family of compact star solutions by adopting the Karmarkar as well as Pandey–Sharma condition in the background of
Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment (DDA) is a technique in game design used to adapt challenge in real-time based on player performance with the goal of maintaining engagement. Existing DDA implementations are predominantly tied to specific game engines a...
Script identification is an essential step in document image processing especially when the environment is multi-script/multilingual. Till date researchers have developed several methods for the said problem. For this kind of complex pattern recognit...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently been widely employed as effective wireless platforms for aiding users in various situations, particularly in hard-to-reach scenarios like post-disaster relief efforts. This study employs multiple UAVs to...
Video-based teacher training has become an important component of teacher education. A special form of instructional videos is scripted videos, also known as staged videos. They can be used to accomplish several didactic objectives and visualise prob...
22 December 2021
Exposure to pornographic material has been linked to sexual aggression perpetration and victimization in a large body of research. Based on social learning theory and 3A theory of script learning, this study contributes to this research by testing th...
Research has shown that athletes are divided in their assessment of possibly sexualising behaviours from coaches towards athletes. How they arrive at their conclusions has received less attention—yet it is crucial to understand as a basis for s...
Tragic irony may mean the dramatic irony in scripted tragedy (tragic play). The audience can predict the regrettable outcome on the stage before the main characters do. I focus on non-scripted events and their tragic aspects. Colloquially, disaster a...
Underpinned by Script Theory and the S-O-R model, this research enhances the green tourism consumption literature to identify how destination service quality contributes to visitors’ memorable experiences and loyalty towards a place-based food...
A common assumption of psychological theories of humor is that experienced funniness results from an incongruity between stimuli provided by a verbal joke or visual pun, followed by a sudden, surprising resolution of incongruity. In the perspective o...
Quantum cryptography is a topic of considerable interest. A simple and robust experiment and theory for a senior level undergraduate investigation of quantum key distribution are described. In the proposed experiment, key principles from the BB84 pro...
Computational modeling is more and more often used in studies of novel ionic liquids. The inevitable side-effect is the growing number of similar computations that require automation. This article introduces NaRIBaS (Nanomaterials and Room Temperatur...
As part of studies that employ health electronic records databases, this paper advocates the employment of graph theory for investigating drug-switching behaviors. Unlike the shared approach in this field (comparing groups that have switched with con...
Although heritage reconstruction can effectively restore physical form, the regeneration of living cultural experience remains theoretically underexplored in heritage tourism scholarship. This study introduces the concept of post-reconstruction exper...
In contrast to the writing practices of many modern languages, Japanese routinely employs four denotative systems that operate in conjunction, but which are actively recognized as distinct from one another: kanji, hiragana, katakana, and the Roman al...
Sexual Script Theory posits that individuals develop expectations about sexual behavior through various agents of sexual socialization (i.e., peers, family, media, other cultural influences). Although previous research has examined expectations surro...
We discuss how to assess computationally the aesthetic value of “small” objects, namely those that have short digital descriptions. Such small objects still matter: they include headlines, poems, song lyrics, short musical scripts and other culturall...
Romantic relationships are central to adult life, yet contemporary social, cultural, and technological transformations have reshaped how individuals navigate intimacy. This study examines how Greek millennials conceptualize short- and long-term roman...
The assimilation–accommodation theory provides a crucial theoretical framework for understanding the neural mechanisms of second language (L2) processing. Chinese characters, as logographic scripts, contain diverse strokes and components with h...
This study explored the association between pornography consumption and self-reported sexual behavior among male students from two campuses of a South African public university in an HIV risk region. Using a quantitative, cross-sectional survey desig...
Despite our intimate relationship with music in every-day life, we know little about how people create music. A particularly elusive area of study entails the spontaneous collaborative musical creation in the absence of rehearsals or scripts. Toward...
This study aimed to analyze the remembrances of elderly people about their illness and the path taken in health services until diagnosis of HIV/AIDS. This is a cross-sectional and descriptive analytical study, with a qualitative approach and theoreti...
Globally, over a third of women have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime. In Russia, human trafficking, sexual exploitation, and physical abuse of women are amongst the world’s highest. Applying cognitive dissonance theory...
This paper proposes an approach to the geospatial assessment of a territorial road network based on the fractals theory. This approach allows us to obtain quantitative values of spatial complexity for any transport network and, in contrast to the cla...
In this paper, the possibility of installing small hydraulic turbines in existing water-supply networks, which exploit the daily pressure fluctuations in order to produce energy, is examined. For this purpose, a network of five pressure sensors is de...
Attachment theory provides a conceptual framework to understand the impact of early child–caregiver experiences, such as loss or separation, on adult functioning and psychopathology. In the current study, scenes from the Adult Attachment Projec...
International adoptees share the experience of unwanted separations as well as exposure to racism. Previous research has a general focus on adoptees’ infancy, childhood, and adolescence rather than adoptees in adulthood, which makes their own c...
Elder abuse is a multifactorial public health issue deeply affected by silence and discrimination. This paper aims to analyze the social representations of violence among older people with functional dependence based on the theory of social represent...
In recent years, the Carousel Greedy (CG) algorithm has gained increasing attention as a simple yet effective heuristic for a broad class of combinatorial optimization problems, with applications ranging from graph theory to logistics and network ana...
Introduction: Engaging social actors dedicated to education has facilitated dialogue, emotional connection, action, and the accumulation of knowledge to create insights that address community needs and promote its development. This study aims to unde...
This study focused on evaluating the sensitivity and limitations of the simplified equipment used in the Digital Image Correlation (DIC) technique, comparing them with the analog extensometer, based on the mechanical property data of a composite made...
The theoretical prediction of drug-decorated nanoparticles (DDNPs) has become a very important task in medical applications. For the current paper, Perturbation Theory Machine Learning (PTML) models were built to predict the probability of different...
In the domain of application of PN theory, the system deadlock problem of a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is a thorny problem that needs to be solved urgently. All the research has the same objective of designing optimal controllers with maxima...
This article reports upon research on vegan transition, which I bring into dialogue with Sara Ahmed’s figure of the killjoy. Ahmed’s work on affect and the feminist killjoy is found to be apt for considering contemporary vegans and their transgressio...
This essay engages the experimental playwright Nassim Soleimanpour’s White Rabbit Red Rabbit alongside the theological dramatic theory of Hans Urs von Balthasar. Every Soleimanpour play can only happen once. Actors receive the script as they be...
Complexity quantification, through entropy, information theory and fractal dimension indices, is gaining a renewed traction in psychophsyiology, as new measures with promising qualities emerge from the computational and mathematical advances. Unfortu...
This paper analyses seven project deliverables from the Interreg Euro-MED “MAST” project to examine its sustainability protocol as a sociotechnical boundary object facilitating ISO 21401:2018 adoption among Mediterranean tourism SMEs. Usi...
Fibre-reinforced polymers based on natural fibers, such as flax fibers, exhibit pronounced nonlinear orthotropic material behavior. This presents a significant challenge in finite element analysis (FEA) simulations, as the nonlinear constitutive mode...
Supervisory control theory (SCT), based on Petri nets, offers a robust framework for modeling and controlling discrete-event systems but faces significant challenges in scalability, expressiveness, and practical implementation. This paper introduces...
Pathogenic germline variants in Breast Cancer 1/2 (BRCA) genes confer increased cancer risk. Understanding BRCA status/risk can enable family cascade screening and improve cancer outcomes. However, more than half of the families do not communicate fa...
In this work, we present a simulation software that permits designing and testing several types of controllers based on both classical and modern control theory. It has been created using Easy JavaScript Simulations, since this software permits imple...
This paper develops an automated algorithm to process input data for segmented string relative rankings (SSRRs). The purpose of the SSRR methodology is to create rankings of countries, companies, or any other units based on surveys of expert opinion....
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