Most butter£y species can be characterized as capital breeders, meaning that reproductive output is strongly coupled to the amount of resources they have procured during the larval stage. Accordingly, female fecundity is generally correlated with female mass, both within and across species. However, the females of some species can be partly characterized as income breeders, in the sense that th...

Online social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn regularly use People You May Know (PYMK) algorithms to encourage connectivity among their users. We argue that these algorithms have the unintended effect of making users’ interactions more visible, which can deter them from being intimate online. To test this theory, we analyze data from a large online social network that lets users buy and exc...

The purpose of this paper is to consider the contribution of prosody to discourse analysis in interaction by means of a concrete example, i.e., the analysis of bonjour, a French greeting. In this experiment, naïve subjects were made to listen to a series of French politeness formulae taken from real interactions and asked to evaluate the degree of politeness they perceived. Two hypotheses were ...

The right of a conscious and competent patient to self-determination the ability make decisions about their own treatment affects outcome decisively. patient’s acceptance or rejection options doctor offers directs active medical interventions towards one goals: curing disease reducing suffering. In accordance with provisions Health Care Act, every person has practice religious rites during stay...

This study aimed to discover the cultural contents in digital authentic greeting cards as English teaching materials for junior high schools. The research data were values form of words, phrases, clauses, or sentences that are contained texts on cards. sources taken from several websites providing free be downloaded. analyzed with framework dimensions by Moran (2001) and Chao (2011) using a qua...