Virtual worlds have grown tremendously in recent years yet little is known about individuals that are working within these worlds. A study of several virtual worlds reveals that members are hesitant to reveal personal information which complicates investigations of such environments. We investigated the role of sex and computer self efficacy on users’ intentions to use Second Life (a popular vi...

the main purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of identity made by a brand for customrers on their anti-brand activities through brand love and brand jealousy. the present study is an applied research and is descriptive/ survey research in terms of methodology. the statistical population consists of all benetton customers who buy at benetton store in shriaz city, of which 384 custo...

The presence of a third dimension, coupled with the advance functionalities of modern image / video-coding standards, could add a feeling of reality to the two dimensional images we have learnt to admire for decades. As a result of the rapid development of the internet, digital entertainment media and virtual reality, recent years have shown an increased interest in research and development rel...

Passionate love is associated with intense changes in emotion and attention which are thought to play an important role in the early stages of romantic relationship formation. Although passionate love usually involves enhanced, near-obsessive attention to the beloved, anecdotal evidence suggest that the lover’s concentration for daily tasks like study and work may actually be impaired, suggesti...

BACKGROUND The evolutionary consequences of love are so important that there must be some long-established biological process regulating it. Recent findings suggest that the serotonin (5-HT) transporter might be linked to both neuroticism and sexual behaviour as well as to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The similarities between an overvalued idea, such as that typical of subjects in the e...

This manuscript is an adapted text of an address to the Thai Royal Institution during the 'International Conference for the Celebrations on the Auspicious Occasion of His Majesty the King's 7th Cycle Birthday Anniversary'. There are many problems facing the world in the context of increasing globalization. "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." The Old Testament (Leviticus 19:18), reminds ...

To my beloved family, relatives and friends. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My dissertation would not have been possible without the support of so many people in my life. It was a long and winding road to my dissertation defense, and now it is time to express my gratitude to those who helped me so much along the way. First and foremost, I would like to acknowledge the support of Prof. Calton Pu, who was a pa...

In her article "Echoes of Sophocles's Antigone in Auster's Invisible" Kathleen Waller discusses Paul Auster's Invisible, a novel that explores Deleuze's and Guattari's ontological idea of becoming in a virtual world versus merely living in the actual, physical world. Sexual and immortal desires in the protagonist's virtual world show a near achieved nothingness, or "a space which is unlimited" ...

In 1911, when the Nobel Foundation awarded its coveted Chemistry Prize to a 44 year old Polish born woman, it is likely they may not have expected the action ever duplicated in the more than 100 years that followed. In fact, it was the second Nobel Prize in the sciences awarded to Maria Sklodowska-Curie, whom the world would come to admire, know, and love as Madame Curie. In a time of science d...