This paper investigates age, family, group and gender influence consumer preference for selection of the mobile carrier. About seventy seven students from high learning institutions in Dodoma Municipality participated in responding to prepared questionnaires. The results indicate that family members and friends are contributing in influencing consumer preferences to select mobile services provi...

This paper uses a social network approach to examine gender clustering in a complete network of teenagers and their friends. It demonstrates the advantages of using increasingly sophisticated social network techniques, including clustering coefficients and their visualization, and social selection models within the ERGM framework, to visualize and explain the process of clustering which takes p...

Several recent papers use the quantile regression decomposition method of Machado and Mata (2005) to analyze the gender gap across log wage distributions. In this paper, we prove that this procedure yields consistent and asymptotically normal estimates of the quantiles of the counterfactual distribution that it is designed to simulate. Since employment rates often differ substantially by gender...

The role of physical and relational aggression in adolescents' friendship selection was examined in a longitudinal sample of 274 Chilean students from 5th and 6th grade followed over 1 year. Longitudinal social network modeling (SIENA) was used to study selection processes for aggression while influence processes were controlled for. Furthermore, the effects of network characteristics (i.e., re...

The United States Supreme Court has restricted attorneys from considering the gender and race of potential jurors in their use of peremptory challenges—the practice by which jurors may be removed from a jury without explanation or evidence of potential bias. We propose that forbidding peremptories based on social category information not only fails to decrease biased jury selection, but also en...

Gender differences in the immune response of insects are driven by natural selection for females and sexual selection for males. These natural forces entail a multitude of extrinsic and intrinsic factors involved in a genotype-environment interaction that results in sex-biased expression of the genes shared by males and females. However, little is known about how an infection at a particular on...

This paper was set out to investigate the main cultural differences between Saudi and British participants making apologies with a focus on the role of the gender of the addressee in the selection of apology strategies in gender-segregated vs. coed societies. Written questionnaires were used to collect data from 80 participants: 20 Saudi males, 20 Saudi females, 20 British males and 20 British ...

Abstract Aims Patients with a suspected cancer affecting the pancreatic head or periampullary region may be offered curative-intent pancreatoduodenectomy providing they are fit enough. Due to high-risk nature of operation and high recurrence rates, outcomes poor. This study aimed investigate impact patient gender on key short- long-term outcomes. Methods Data were extracted from Recurrence Afte...