background and objectives: varicella–zoster virus (vzv) is a human herpes virus that usually attacks young children and commonly causes chicken pox (varicella). following primary infection, a lifelong latent infection is established. the virus often reactivates during adulthood or senesces to cause shingles (zoster). little is known regarding the genotypes of varicella in kuwait. the aim of thi...

AIMS To test a hypothetical path model evaluating the influence of type D personality on job stress and job satisfaction and to identify the mediating effects of compassion fatigue, burnout, and compassion satisfaction among clinical nurses in South Korea. BACKGROUND Personalities susceptible to stress, compassion fatigue, and burnout in clinical nurses have negative effects on the job stress...

In our daily lives we often have to face binary decisions where we seek to take the minority’s choice, e.g., in traffic scenarios where we have to choose between similar alternative routes. In previous papers, we have dealt with an agent coordination mechanism for binary decision models introduced in the literature recently: the El Farol Bar Problem. Extending this model, we have proposed perso...

This paper describes how personalities influence the behaviour of emotional agents. Two different emotional models are discussed, namely the OCC emotion model and the emotion-connectionist model. In both models personalities changes the behaviour on a different way. This paper also presents an implementation of a prototype to evaluate the performance of the different personalities in the emotio...

We give geometric explanations and proofs of various mirror symmetry conjectures for T-invariant Calabi-Yau manifolds when instanton corrections are absent. This uses fiberwise Fourier transformation together with base Legendre transformation. We discuss mirror transformations of (i) moduli spaces of complex structures and complexified symplectic structures, Hp,q’s, Yukawa couplings; (ii) sl (2...

Abstract. Consensus is emerging that the constellation of dark personalities should include sadistic personality. To build a four-factor measure, we modified and extended Short Dark Triad (SD3) measure to sadism. A series three studies yielded Tetrad (SD4), four subscale inventory with 7 items per construct. Study 1 ( N = 868) applied exploratory factor analysis (EFA) diverse 48-item pool using...