n modern culture, beauty reigns supreme. Everywhere we look—whether it's magazines, TV shows or movies—beautiful people dominate. We aspire to be beautiful and if we're not, we are intrigued by the possibility of becoming so. Witness the popularity of shows such as "Extreme Makeover" and "Dr. 90210." Our quest for beauty isn't a modern obsession. Philosophers and poets chronicle the importance ...

Those who are physically attractive reap many benefits—from higher average wages to a wider variety of mate choices. Recent studies have investigated what constitutes beauty and how beauty affects explicit social judgments, but little is known about the perceptual or cognitive processing that is affected by aesthetic judgments of faces and why beauty affects our behavior. In this study, the aut...

Although human preference for beauty is common and compelling in daily life, it remains unknown whether such preference is essentially subserved by social cognitive demands or natural tendency towards beauty encoded in the human mind intrinsically. Here we demonstrate experimentally that humans automatically exhibit preference for visual and moral beauty without explicit cognitive efforts. Usin...

Beauty is produced much more abundantly at LHC energies compared to RHIC energies. The increase in production, coupled with the beauty large mass, makes it an interesting observable for the physic of the ALICE experiment[1]. Semi-electronic decay of beauty mesons offers a powerful tool to study beauty production in ALICE, attributed to its high tracking resolution (ITS, TPC, TRD) and vertexing ...

Beauty Is the Promise of Happiness”? We measure the impact of individuals’ looks on their life satisfaction or happiness. Using five data sets from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true effects of beauty on happiness. Personal beauty raises happiness, with a one standard-deviation change in beauty gen...

A method for customer churn characterization based on LightBGM (Light Gradient Boosting Machine) is proposed. Additionally, experimental approaches mitigation of are conducted through prediction. The experiments reveal several characteristics such as age dependency, gender dependency (with a high divorce rate among female customers), number visits higher customers with fewer visits), unit price...