Implicature in The Devil Wears Prada Film

The rival wears Prada: luxury consumption as a female competition strategy.

Previous studies on luxury consumption demonstrated that men spend large sums of money on luxury brands to signal their mate value to women and, thus, increase their reproductive success. Although women also spend copious amounts of money on luxuries, research focusing on women's motives for luxury consumption is rather scarce. Relying on costly signaling and intrasexual competition theory, the...

An unusual complication occurring after cardiac radiofrequency ablation: the devil wears DRESS.

A 37-year-old male underwent trans-catheter ablation for symptomatic ventricular ectopia. The focus was interrupted with radio-frequency erogations in the left ventricular mitro-aortic contiguity. The patient was discharged the day after procedure on aspirin 100 mg in/die. Two days later, he was readmitted for malaise and syncope. The ECG (see Supplementary material online, Figure S1) showed si...

The Truth Wears Off

a few dozen neuroscientists, psychiatrists, and drug-company executives gathered in a hotel conference room in Brussels to hear some startling news. It had to do with a class of drugs known as atypical or second-generation antipsychotics, which came on the market in the early nineties. The drugs, sold under brand names such as Abilify, Seroquel, and Zyprexa, had been tested on schizophrenics in...

PRADA Applicability in Industrial Practice

The proliferation of Android devices brings the fragmentation problem. Selecting and prioritizing major device models are critical for mobile app developers to select testbeds and optimize various issues such as quality-assurance, release planning, revenues, and so on. PRADA, an approach proposed in our previous work, was designed to help prioritizing Android devices for apps. In this paper, we...

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