Failure to express minority views may distort the behavior of company boards, committees, juries, and other decision-making bodies. Devising a new experimental procedure to measure such conformity in a judgment task, we compare the degree of conformity in groups with varying gender composition. Overall, our experiments offer little evidence that gender composition affects expression of minority...

We investigate the complexity of temporal defeasible logic, and propose an efficient algorithm to compute the extension of any theory. The logic and algorithm are discussed in regard to modeling deadlines and normative retroactivity.

The present paper is an attempt to assess the nexus between insurgency and underdevelopment in North East India. To achieve this end first various dimensions of insurgencies towards achievement of different goals in different states in the region are narrated. The impact of insurgency on infrastructure, industry including petroleum and tea, and environment are then analyzed. The origin and pers...

Résumé : La terminologie connaît depuis plusieurs années un tournant linguistique important. On s’intéresse aujourd’hui davantage aux mots et à leur utilisation en discours qu’à connaître les choses qu’ils peuvent dénoter. Si effectivement l’approche wüstérienne et l’approche normative sont difficilement applicables stricto sensu et que la terminologie a tout intérêt à s’approprier le signifié,...

Social anxiety is a psychological disorder affected by cognitive aspects of person. The aim of study was to investigate the role of informational, normative, and avoidance identity styles in predicting the variance of social anxiety amongst Iranian medical science students. Using stratified sampling method, one hundred and twenty students were selected from each of the colleges of medicine, pha...

LTHOUGH self-compatible (SC) species frequently can hybridize as females A with related self-incompatible (SI) species, the reciprocal cross is often impeded by inhibition of pollen tube growth in the style. This unilateral incompatibility can also be demonstrated between species of widely separated genera, or even of different families, which suggests that it is of fundamental significance in ...

abstract sclerotinia sclerotiorum is the causal necrotroph pathogen with wide host range and showed various phenotipic intraspecies variability. considering to difficult identification of intraspecies heterogeneity on the basis of phenotypic factors, compatible mycelium groups introduced as an appropriate tool for classification and intraspecies heterogeneity distinction. in this research, 19 f...

In the January issue of New Phytologist Vallejo-Marín and O'Brien1 documented that in the genus Solanum (Solanaceae) clonality and self-incompatibility, a common genetic mechanism enforcing cross-fertilization, co-occur more often than expected by chance. Using a phylogenetic approach the authors showed that the statistical association between clonality and self-incompatibility persists even af...

Inherent incompatibilities between genetic components from genomes of different species may cause intrinsic reproductive isolation. In evolution experiments designed to instigate speciation in laboratory populations of the filamentous fungus Neurospora, we previously discovered a pair of incompatibility loci (dfe and dma) that interact negatively to cause severe defects in sexual reproduction. ...

The establishment of a root nodule symbiosis between a leguminous plant and a rhizobium requires complex molecular interactions between the two partners. Compatible interactions lead to the formation of nitrogen-fixing nodules, however, some legumes exhibit incompatibility with specific rhizobial strains and restrict nodulation by the strains. Bradyrhizobium elkanii USDA61 is incompatible with ...