Studies have long investigated similarities and differences in men’s and women’s mate preferences. This study sought to expand on previous research by investigating whether mate value moderated participants’ design of mates. Using both a budgeted and a non-budgeted mate design task, we investigated the effect of mate value on the design of a mate. We found that mate value consistently predicted...

The function of mate retention tactics is to prevent a long-term partner from defecting from the relationship and to ward off potential mate poachers. These tactics include Concealment of Mate, Appearance Enhancement, and Violence against Rivals. The current research is the first to investigate the performance of husband’s and wife’s mate retention tactics over time. We assessed 49 husbands and...

Two studies explored the effect of fear priming on women’s mate preferences. In Study 1, 53 females completed Implicit Attitudes Tests (IATs) that measure preferences for strong-versus-weak and friendly-versus-aggressive mates. Participants listened to a fear-prime or control scenario, completed IATs and an emotion scale. Reaction times indicated overall (non-significant) preferences for strong...

EEcient, large-scale estimation methods such as nested dissection or multiscale estimation rely on a divide-and-conquer strategy, in which a statistical problem is conditionally broken into smaller pieces. This conditional decorrelation is not possible for arbitrarily large problems due to issues of computational complexity and numerical stability. Given the growing interest in global-scale rem...

Application of the Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle to multiresolution image denoising has been somewhat unsuccessful to date. This disappointing performance is due to the crudeness of the underlying prior image models, which lead to overly sparse solutions. We propose a new family of complexity priors based on Rissanen's universal prior for integers , which produces estimates with be...

Blind synchronization of Minimum-Shift-Keying signals in the context of time-selective fading communication channels is considered. Strictly feedforward algorithms based on second-and fourth-order cyclic statistics are proposed for frequency and timing ooset estimation. The new esti-mators are shown to outperform existing methods. Extensions of the algorithm to GMSK are also studied. Finally, f...

Research in educational multimedia shows many benefits of learning with the use of multimedia environments. To take advantage of these benefits we developed Multimedia Assisted Teaching Environment (MATE), which is currently trialled in supporting our teaching of IT subjects. MATE’s main strength is its ability to facilitate reuse of multimedia components while developing teaching material. In ...