First, I would like to thank Dr. Theodore Bapty, for the opportunity to work on this project, which has increased my knowledge of embedded systems tremendously. Also deserving of my thanks is Dr. Sandeep Neema, whose body of work forms much of the foundation on which this project sits. To my father, Dr. Greg Nordstrom, who from the very beginning has fostered my endeavor for knowledge, I give t...

Declared relationship status on Facebook can serve as a public commitment and as an extra layer of a couple's security. However, the question arises: do those who report the relationship status feel stronger romantic love and jealousy toward their partners than those who do not share such information publicly? To test this assumption, profile information and questionnaire data of romantic love ...

Social media have evolved into a potentially important virtual arena, where they are used not only for socializing but also promoting businesses and their products. A brand's emotional relationship with customer is called engagement. Customers who extremely engaged more likely to buy, promote, remain loyal brand. Specifically, the purpose of this study discover if social networking sites play s...

This article provides a new, C-OAR-SE-based, contrastive measure that distinguishes “brand love” from “brand liking.” The new measure is tested in an empirical study conducted among German university students about brands of products that they buy in four diverse product categories. From a consumer perspective, the incidence of consumers who have a loved brand in the category was found to be on...

Oxytocin has been implicated in a variety of prosocial processes but most of this work has used laboratory tasks (such as the ultimatum game or the dictator game) to evaluate oxytocin's prosocial effects. In a double blind randomized trial we examined the influence of intranasal administration of oxytocin on real, high-cost donating money to a charity without any expectation for reciprocation. ...

Background: According to the situation of education in Iran it is clear that over the years, there has been no successful attempt to identify related challenges and problems to development and implementation of virtual training. In this regard, the effect of this type of training influenced by the role of hidden curriculum of education in the country.   Based on this, current study has investig...

Part One addresses the question whether the fact that some persons love something, worship it, or deeply care about it, can endow moral status on that thing. I argue that the answer is ‘‘no.’’ While some cases lend great plausibility to the view that love or worship can endow moral status, there are other cases in which love or worship clearly fails to endow moral status. Furthermore, there is ...