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Understanding the conditions under which Virtual Environment (VE) users experience a sense of presence may, in the long term, yield valuable insights into human cognition and psychology. More immediately, however, the general assumption is that a sense of presence impacts a user’s ability to perform a task and, therefore, that insights into presence offer a potential payoff in terms of task per...

The sociological studies on the concept of mothering have not been of much interest in Iran, so far. Thus, the current study has aimed at investigation of the lived experience of the mothers and the fathers working in Tehran. We, in the current study, have not investigated the motherhood, but we have addressed the mothering (the maternal role), through 31 field interviews with 15 couples and a ...

There has been a recent shift in the field of sexual health, representing a move away from biomedical concerns to sexual rights frameworks. However, few studies on sexuality are based on a rights framework. The unspoken nature of sexuality in Iranian culture has led to a lack of national studies on the topic. The objective of this study was to explore the perceptions and experiences of married ...

This article argues that one way to foreground and privilege women's perspectives on the Cold War is by re-interpreting their historical experiences of food drink. The develops this argument analysing letter, from an unknown woman BBC, in context nuclear health concerns early Britain. contends where archival references food, drink women are ephemeral, a lonely source can describe experience ext...

Romanian has been traditionally seen as bearing three lexical genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter, although it has always been known to have only two agreement patterns (for masculine and feminine). Previous machine learning classifiers which have attempted to discriminate Romanian nouns according to gender have taken as input only the singular form, either presupposing the traditional tri...

We assessed individual differences in visual attention toward faces in relation to their attractiveness via saccadic reaction times. Motivated by the aim to understand individual differences in attention to faces, we tested three hypotheses: (a) Attractive faces hold or capture attention more effectively than less attractive faces; (b) men show a stronger bias toward attractive opposite-sex fac...

BACKGROUND Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is a significant global public health problem, which is associated with negative psychosocial outcomes and high-risk sexual behaviors in adults. Men who have sex with men (MSM) often report higher prevalence of CSA history than the general population, and CSA may play a key role in MSM's greater vulnerability to HIV. METHODS This study examined the prev...