Mate-choice copying occurs when animals rely on the mating choices of others to inform their own mating decisions. The proximate mechanisms underlying mate-choice copying remain unknown. To address this question, we tracked the gaze of men and women as they viewed a series of photographs in which a potential mate was pictured beside an opposite-sex partner; the participants then indicated their...

In this paper we examine how the process of mate search, degree of mate choice and degree of mate fidelity may interact to affect long-term population dynamics of sexually reproducing species. In particular, we address the following questions: are degree of mate choice and degree of mate fidelity correlated? How does mate search shape this relationship? How does longevity affect mating behaviou...

Peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheter-related infection is still is the most troublesome problem for continuation of PD without the need to switch to hemodialysis. We have been performing subcutaneous pathway diversion (SPD) as a surgical treatment for refractory exit-site and tunnel infection (ESTI). To clarify the efficacy and safety of SPD, we conducted a retrospective study. From August 2008 to...

We tested the hypothesis that men are particularly sensitive to individual differences in the attractiveness of women of the same mate value as themselves and less sensitive to variation among women of lower or higher mate value. We first assessed sensitivity to variation in women's attractiveness by asking men (n=148) to choose the more attractive of two photographs of the same target woman (n...

In this paper we present a design case study in configuring our protocol processor architecture to meet the performance requirements of IPv6 routing at gigabit speeds. Our methodology makes it possible to make fast reliable analyses of the problem on a high level and to find its key bottlenecks and design constraints. Based on the analyses we suggest architectural configurations for the target ...

arlier hybrid multilayer perceptron (MLP)/hidden Markov model (HMM) continuous speech recognition sysr g tems have not modeled context-dependent phonetic effects, sequences of distributions for phonetic models, o ender-based speech consistencies. In this paper we present a new MLP architecture and training procedure for t " modeling context-dependent phonetic classes with a sequence of distribu...