Two preregistered quasi-experiments disentangled the effects of selfish genes and memes on participants? self-reported willingness to help in hypothetical everyday-favor life-or-death situations. Memes were operationalized as perceived level similarity important attitudes values between person participating study a selected target person, assessed reported by participant. In Study 1 (N = 761), ...

Introduction The article considers the issue of increasing motivation technical university students to study a foreign language using English-language Internet memes, which are considered be significant material for teaching Generation Z students. purpose is theoretically substantiate and experimentally test memes’ effectiveness in building language. research’s scientific novelty identifying wa...

The aim of this research is to investigate students’ attitudes in writing descriptive text using Internet memes as a medium and the reasons leading particular attitude that occurred. This qualitative was conducted purposive sampling class consists 13 fourth semester students English Language Education study program at Universitas Tanjungpura Essay Writing course. There are two types data collec...

This paper investigates the discursive construction of sexual violence in humorous Internet memes. Feminist digital media scholars have taken an increased interest ways which communication and content reproduces notions gender norms as well creating misogynist, racist, homophobic transphobic content. However, little research has investigated role humour plays this discourse – especially how it ...

conclusions results of this study could be used to find suitable targets for inverse metabolic engineering and site-directed mutagenesis to achieve stable and high-level extracellular lipase production in y. lipolytica and other yeasts. results two nucleotide substitutions were found in the extracellular lipase lip2 orfs of y. lipolytica u6 mutant strain compared to the wild-type strain. in thi...

background : salmonella actively stimulates its own uptake into the epithelial cells by inducing cytoskeleton rearrangements and membrane ruffling triggered by some proteins secreted by salmonella into the cytosol of the epithelial cells via a type iii secretion system (ttss) encoded by genes of the salmonella pathogenicity island 1 (spi-1). hila is a transcriptional activator encoded on salmon...

Heavy-tailed distributions of meme popularity occur naturally in a model of meme diffusion on social networks. Competition between multiple memes for the limited resource of user attention is identified as the mechanism that poises the system at criticality. The popularity growth of each meme is described by a critical branching process, and asymptotic analysis predicts power-law distributions ...

reproductive parameters and ovipositional preference of plutella xylostella were assessed on some mutant genotypes of canola (rgs 8-1, rgs 10-2, rgs 8-13, zar 9-9 and talaye 8-3) and their cultivars (rgs, zar, talaye) under greenhouse condition (21 ± 6 °c, 65 ± 10 rh and a photoperiod of 16l: 8d h). comparison of the reproductive parameters on rgs and its mutant genotypes revealed that mutant g...

Social media is playing an increasingly vital role in information dissemination. But with dissemination being more distributed, content often makes multiple hops, and consequently has opportunity to change. In this paper we focus on content that should be changing the least, namely quoted text. We find changes to be frequent, with their likelihood depending on the authority of the copied source...