Tourism English belongs to the English for Specific Purpose (ESP) and it has its own stylistic features. This paper aims at analyzing the stylistic features of tourism English. Firstly, a large amount of authentic materials are collected from official tourism websites of Britain and the U.S., and then a corpus named Tourism English Corpus (TEC) is compiled. Freiburg-LOB Corpus of British Englis...

This article introduces the notion of genetic essentialist biases: cognitive biases associated with essentialist thinking that are elicited when people encounter arguments that genes are relevant for a behavior, condition, or social group. Learning about genetic attributions for various human conditions leads to a particular set of thoughts regarding those conditions: they are more likely to be...

In data for 5688 ch ildren , age-an d sex-specific com parison s of weigh t, h eigh t, body m ass in dex (BMI), an d skin fold data are m ade with an accepted British stan dard an d also with th e recen tly developed in tern ation al stan dard based on pooled data from several cou n tries. 3 Usin g th ese stan dards, th e au th ors also m ake age-an d sex-specific com parison s across eth n ici...

UNLABELLED Body weight positively correlates with bone mass, gravity being a stimulating bone stress. Adipose tissues could influence bone metabolism especially in postmenopause. Also, muscle mass positively correlates with bone mass and is dependent on physical activity, but also on some hormones with direct effect on bone, such as insulin growth factor-1 (IGF-1). AIM Our study investigated ...

A substantial body of empirical literature provides evidence for overreaction in markets. Past losers outperform past winners in stock markets as well as in sports markets. Two hypotheses are consistent with this observation. First, the recency hypothesis states that traders overweigh recent information. Thus, they are too optimistic about winners and too pessimistic about losers. Second, the h...

Adapting behavior to changes in the environment is a crucial ability for survival but such adaptation varies widely across individuals. Here, we asked how humans alter their economic decision-making in response to emotional cues, and whether this is related to trait anxiety. Developing an emotional decision-making task for functional magnetic resonance imaging, in which gambling decisions were ...

WSNs have a number of sensor nodes which are extremely small in size, consuming low power and costing less. WSNs overweigh traditional network in the areas of deployment, scalability, ease of use and mobility. Due to lack of structure and resources, WSNs have a few limitations as compared to the traditional network. Middleware is a software that fills the gap or glues together the network hardw...

— A number of new application scenarios, e.g. mobile/wireless TCP proxies, edge to edge overlays, QoS provisioning and mass data transport, are calling for aggregate ow management. In this paper we show that applying a single owshare to an aggregate ow will result in unfairness in the bandwidth sharing between the aggregate traf c and the background ows sharing the same bottleneck. To overcome ...

Purpose Taking cues from the fact that there remains a dearth in establishment of theoretical and empirical relationship between executive compensation corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance firms, this study attempts to explore non-linear said variables. Design/methodology/approach The utilizes strongly balanced panel data set 179 non-financial National Stock Exchange (NSE) 500 list...