Anorexia nervosa (AN) is an eating disorder affecting mostly young people which could lead to serious complications and consequences. There are ethnical and gender differences in the incidence and prevalence of AN, but the influence of urbanization has not yet been proved. The relationship of genetic background to the risk of AN is still being investigated. In this review we summarize current k...

Population distribution estimates by age and race/ethnicity from the U.S. Census Bureau for the years 2010 and 2050 were combined with estimates of stroke incidence from population-based surveillance studies to forecast the distribution of incident stroke cases for the years 2010 and 2050. Over these 40 years, the number of incident strokes will more than double, with the majority of the increa...

Parasocial contact has been examined in the context of attitudes towards ethnical minorities or in the context of sexual orientation. Similarly, the form of such contact has been examined. We conducted an experiment to examine if there is a similar influence on the attitudes towards people with mental difficulties. We also decided to examine the mediating effect of essentialism. Our results ind...

‘In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in ...

Green space is important for the maintenance of the ecological dimension of a sustainable urban landscape. Therefore, in order to figure out the relationship between the greening of urban parks and bird diversity, we used 5 avian ecological diversity indexes, such as Species richness, Abundance, ShannonWeiner diversity index, Evenness, and Margalef’s richness indices, to evaluate the functional...

We study the consequences of introducing individual nonconformity in social interactions, based on Axelrod’s model for the dissemination of culture. A constraint on the number of situations in which interaction may take place is introduced in order to lift the unavoidable homogeneity present in the final configurations arising in Axelrod’s related models. The inclusion of this constraint leads ...

A high degree of topical diversity is often considered to be an important characteristic of interesting text documents. A recent proposal for measuring topical diversity identifies three elements for assessing diversity: words, topics, and documents as collections of words. Topic models play a central role in this approach. Using standard topic models for measuring diversity of documents is sub...