There's a fungus among us.

بررسی تأثیر پنج عامل شخصیت بر عضویت نوجوانان در فیسبوک

Introduction: Nowadays, Facebook as a social networking site is one of the most popular hobbies of cyberspace among adolescents and young people. Tendency or reluctance to Facebook is determined by personality traits of the user. Method: To investigate the effect of big five personality factors on the membership of adolescents on Facebook, 350 students (175 male students and 175 female student...

For yew and me

Endophytic fungi live within the tissues of their host plants but, even for fungi, there's no such thing as a free lunch. Some of them pay the rent by producing compounds that protect the host against invading pathogenic microbes. These scanning electron micrographs show three species of endophytic fungus that have mutually beneficial relationships with plants of the family Taxaceae (yews and t...

Why I am not a nominalist

Nominalists think there are no mathematical objects, henceforth, "numbers." Here is how the debate about nominalism has sometimes been presented. First there's the argument AGAINST, credited to Quine: numbers are indispensable to natural science, hence they exist. Then there's the argument FOR nominalism: they are not (indispensable) either, which leaves us no reason to think that they exist. I...

[Cambridge University Press Prize for Best Student Paper] When There's More than One Norm-Enforcement Mechanism: Accommodation and Shift among Irish Immigrants to New York City

بررسی رابطه میان ویژگی‌های شخصیتی و استراتژی‌های خود - رهبری (مورد مطالعه: دانشجویان دانشگاه اصفهان)

Introduction: Self-direction is a process by which people direct and motivate themselves to behave and perform in a desirable way. Self-direction has been used successfully in many fields so far. It seems that personality traits of individuals have a relationship with self-direction skill. The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between Big Five Personality Factors (extrove...