The Dark Triad – narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy – have traditionally been considered to be undesirable traits. However, emerging work suggest that not only may there be a positive side to possessing these traits but they may also serve important adaptive functions, even if the strategies associated with them are viewed as socially undesirable. In an online survey (N = 336), we in...

Programming parallel/distributed applications is a difficult task that requires a high degree of knowledge and expertise, especially to achieve the potential performance offered by HPC. Analysis and tuning tools can be helpful for automatically improving applications performance. In particular, dynamic analysis and tuning tools are necessary for applications that vary their behaviour at executi...

Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 2-11-16 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan; Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan; Department of Bioengineering Sciences, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 4...

There have been several approaches to the problem of provisioning traffic engineering between core network nodes in Internet Service Provider (ISP) networks. Such approaches aim to minimize network delay, increase capacity, and enhance security services between two core (relay) network nodes, an ingress node and an egress node. MATE (Multipath Adaptive Traffic Engineering) has been proposed for...

BACKGROUND We used an economic model based on evolutionary theory to guide an examination of relations among self-reported depressive symptoms and ratings of mate values of self, social, and sexual partners. This model treats assortative mating as a form of social exchange between partners of socially and sexually desirable traits. METHODS Two studies used variants of the Mate Value Inventory...

The operations drip and mate considered in (mem)brane computing resemble the operations cut and recombination well known from DNA computing. We here consider sets of vesicles with multisets of objects on their outside membrane interacting by drip and mate in two different setups: in test tube systems, the vesicles may pass from one tube to another one provided they fulfill specific constraints;...

A sample of 460 low-income women completed a mate preference questionnaire and surveys that assessed family background, life history, conscientiousness, sexual motives, self-ratings (e.g., looks), and current circumstances (e.g., income). A cluster analysis revealed two groups of women: women who reported a strong preference for looks and money in a short-term mate and commitment in a long-term...

Human-induced eutrophication is a serious environmental problem that constrains visual communication and influences the mate choice process in fishes. Eutrophication also changes the chemical environment and the pH of the water, which could influence the use of olfactory cues in mate choice. Here, we show that an increase in pH enhances the use of male olfactory cues in mate choice in three-spi...

An implementation of the Multi-Area Thévenin Equivalents (MATE) partitioning framework for the parallel solution of large power system matrices is described in this paper. The solution of the Western Electricity Coordinating Council system (∼15,000 buses) obtained using both traditional sparsity techniques and MATE were compared. The MATE algorithm achieved speedups of up to 7 times with respec...

⁎ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 210 857 0146. E-mail address: [email protected] (D. Conroy http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.04.003 1090-5138/© 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Please cite this article as: Conroy-Beam, D., e fulfillment or mate value discrepan..., Evoluti Article history: Initial receipt 18 June 2015 Final revision received 7 April 2016 Available online...