Globally, the pandemic forced schools, colleges, and universities to close their campuses in order allow students practice social distancing practices. Despite difficulties challenges, some of undergraduate realized that with this new learning system, time set for or formal education become more flexible which leaves these fill spare productive activities. One those activities is joining a virt...

This paper presents a novel double knowledge transferring method to solve the multi-culture facial attractiveness enhancement problem. The existing enhancement of facial attractiveness methods just focus on one particular culture and assume the beautification model learned in one culture could be used in other cultures without adaptation. However, for the people in different cultures who do not...

We draw on the values literature from social psychology and the acculturation literature from cross-cultural psychology to develop and test a theory of how signals about an organization's diversity management (DM) approach affect perceptions of organizational attractiveness among potential employees. We examine the mediating effects of individuals' merit-based attributions about hiring decision...

Odour baited traps have potential use in population surveillance of insect vectors of disease, and in some cases for vector population reduction. Established attractants for human host-seeking mosquitoes include a combination of CO(2) with L-lactic acid and ammonia, on top of which additional candidate compounds are being tested. In this field study in rural Gambia, using Latin square experimen...

This study was designed to focus on the effect of relationship status on perceived attractiveness. In order to study this effect, facial images, including the area of the models above the neckline, were rated on several factors, including attractiveness, by participants on a Likert scale from one to six. The study presented participants with the images and a short vignette containing relationsh...

Medflies (Ceratitis capitata) are among the world’s most economically harmful pests. In addition, the costs of worldwide monitoring and control are expensive, exceeding $800 million per year in Israel and the U.S. alone. Efficient traps are vitally important tools for medfly quarantine and pest management activities. They are needed for control as well as early detection, for predicting dispers...

Just-world theory provides a possible explanation of physical attractiveness stereotyping, in that believing in a just world should lead to a positive bias toward "winners," such as the physically attractive. Several hypotheses derived from this premise were tested by having adults complete the Just World Scale and rate the personality traits and expected life outcomes of an attractive or unatt...

This study examined the causal relationships between the number of cyber-friends participants had and their social anxiety or loneliness. We predicted that participants who gave low self-evaluations of physical attractiveness would be able to lower their social anxiety or reduce their loneliness through Internet-based interpersonal relationships. Also, such effects would be more prominent if th...