The Psalmist dares ask, "What is man that Thou art mindful of him?" Present-day social psychologists might do well to ask the same question of the subjects in their studies of interpersonal attraction. Much of the work on interpersonal attraction falls short of specifying basic premises concerning the individual's motivational disposition with respect to his fellow humans. Occasionally an autho...

OBJECTIVE Examined how individual differences in disposition among pediatric cancer patients predict their later psychosocial functioning. METHODS Patients aged 8-17 years (N = 223) reported on their disposition at baseline. One and three years later, self-reports and parent reports of patient psychosocial functioning were obtained. Latent profile analysis was used to identify subgroups that ...

The Simple Counterfactual Analysis (SCA) was once considered the most promising analysis of disposition ascriptions. According to SCA, disposition ascriptions are to be analyzed in terms of counterfactual conditionals. In the last few decades, however, SCA has become the target of a battery of counterexamples. In all counterexamples, something seems to be interfering with a certain object’s hav...

Purpose: To determine factors associated with patient disposition status other than discharge to their customary residence (DCR) after elective, ambulatory inguinal hernia repair (IHR). Materials and methods: N= 7953 patients who underwent IHR were identified in the National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery (NSAS). Disposition status was examined by age, sex, race, type of anesthetic, anesthesia pr...

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged all physical interactions. Social distancing, face masks and other rules have reshaped our way of living during the last year. impact these measures for indoor establishments, such as education or hostelry businesses, resulted in a considerable organisation problem. Achieving table distribution inside spaces that fulfilled distancing requirements while tryin...

Liver disease changes the disposition properties of drugs, complicating drug therapy management. We present normal and "diseased" versions of an abstract, agent-oriented In Silico Livers (ISLs), and validate their mechanisms against disposition data from perfused normal and diseased rat livers. Dynamic tracing features enabled spatiotemporal tracing of differences in dispositional events for di...

Enterprise IT asset disposition is one important contributing dimension to green IT initiatives adopted by organizations. IT asset disposition services aim to maximize the value of the IT asset investment of enterprises over its entire lifecycle while guaranteeing data security and protecting against environmental liability. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the practice of IT asset dis...

the principle of party-disposition (or what is called “le principe dispositif” in the french law) is one of the guiding principles for civil trial. according to this principle, the civil proceeding is regarded as the parties’s thing, so they can make any disposition on their proceeding, inter alia they are be able to commence and terminate it, determine the matters of fact and finally judge is ...