The present study aimed to merge research on initial attraction and implicit theories of relationships by examining how beliefs about relationships influence dating strategies. Research has examined role of implicit theories in the functioning of existing relationships but there is much room for growth in the area of initial attraction and dating strategies. Results revealed that destiny theory...

We propose ARGUS, a high density, low power supercomputer built from an IXIA network analyzer chassis and load modules. The prototype is a diskless MPP scalable to 128 processors in a single 9U chassis. The entire system has a footprint of 1/4 meter2 (2.5 ft2), a volume of 0.09 meter3 (3.3 ft3) and maximum power consumption of less than 2200 watts. We compare and contrast the characteristics of...

The central thesis of this paper is that the definition of social phenomena is culturally determined, and, therefore, the explanation of health and illness is a function of culture. As a result, this has significant implications for health-seeking behaviour. The study, carried out in a Yoruba community, obtained ethnographic data through in-depth interview and nonparticipatory observation metho...

With an ever increasing amount of news being published every day, being able to effectively search these vast amounts of information is of primary interest to many Web ventures. As word-based approaches have their limits in that they ignore a lot of the information in texts, we present Destiny, a linguistic approach where news item sentences are represented as a graph featuring disambiguated wo...