in this study, postharvest characteristics of eight cut rose cultivars (valentine, king pride, prima donna, black baccara, victory, papagayo, royal baccara and yellow island) were investigated in a growth room with temperature of 20 ºc, relative humidity of 50% and light intensity of 10 µmol m-2 s-1 in autumn 2008. among cultivars significant differences were found for all of the attributes eva...

The fourteenth century anonymous English romance Robert of Cisyle takes its plot from the saints’ legends; therefore, it is classified under title homiletic romances. Considered as a secularized hagiography, describes miraculous interference divine power to chastise king, his subsequent submission all suffering and withstanding owing piety. Robert, proud King Cisyle, indeed self-victimizer he p...

A great Empire Health Congress is about to be held at Wembley where, among many other remarkable things, there is a series of exhibits relating to tropical diseases of such importance that the King directed attention to them in the speech in which he opened the Exhibition. The British Empire has been the pioneer in sanitary enterprise, and it must be at once its duty and its pride to preserve a...

Compassion and pride serve contrasting social functions: Compassion motivates care-taking behavior, whereas pride enables the signaling and negotiation of rank within social hierarchies. Across 3 studies, compassion was associated with increased perceived self-other similarity, particularly to weak or vulnerable others. In contrast, pride was associated with an enhanced sense of similarity to s...

A growing body of research suggests that pride and shame are associated with distinct, cross-culturally recognised nonverbal expressions, which are spontaneously displayed in situations of success and failure, respectively. Here, we review these findings, then offer a theoretical account of the adaptive benefits of these displays. We argue that both pride and shame expressions function as socia...

Finding a cost-effective alternative to rendering for the biosecure and environmentally sound disposal of poultry daily mortality was the focus of research conducted by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS), Cargill Turkey Products, Pilgri...

To test whether the pride expression is an implicit, reliably developing signal of high social status in humans, the authors conducted a series of experiments that measured implicit and explicit cognitive associations between pride displays and high-status concepts in two culturally disparate populations--North American undergraduates and Fijian villagers living in a traditional, small-scale so...

OBJECTIVE To test whether high levels of reported pride are associated with subsequent falls. DESIGN Secondary analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) dataset. SETTING Multi-wave longitudinal sample of non-institutionalised older English adults. PARTICIPANTS ELSA cohort of 6415 participants at wave 5 (baseline, 2010/11), of whom 4964 were available for follow-up at wav...