Women often complain that their partners are not romantic enough. This raises the question: how romance is recognized and evaluated in a love relationship? However, there has been essentially no empirical research bearing on this issue. The present set of studies examined possible gender differences in perceptions of romance and the associated neural mechanisms in Chinese college students. In S...

In this study, first we examined the effect of workplace romance on employee job performance, and the mediatory role of psychological wellbeing in the relationship between workplace romance and employee performance. Then we tested the moderating effects of gender and workplace romance type - lateral or hierarchical - on the indirect effect of workplace romance on employee performance. Based on ...

Medical romance fiction is a subgenre of popular romance fiction that features medical professionals in their work environment. This essay explores the way professionalism is portrayed in popular medical romance fiction written during the early twenty-first century, a period of significant disruption in both the public image and self-understanding of organized medicine. I analyze a selection of...

This ethnographic study explores the implications of romance reading for young Indian women’s gender, class, and national identities in one urban setting in South India. The project demonstrates that the practice of reading Western romance fiction is deeply embedded within patriarchal discourses of feminine respectability that exert control over women’s sexuality. Young women’s fascination for ...

To cite: Iqbal K. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2014;40:300–302. INTRODUCTION Romance novels are defined broadly as fiction focused on a central love story, which is concluded in an emotionally satisfying and optimistic manner. Romance is one of the most popular genres, accounting for the largest market share in fiction. In 2009, romantic fiction generated approximately $1.4 billion in the USA...

woman in motran's poem -abstract this article explains the issue of woman in two fields of social and romance. in social case, motran defends the rights of woman and considers her as a human with its rights and one of the two major factors in the society. woman is a basic and essential party in building the social and even political body of the society, at motran's point of view. the ...

The ROMANCE project aims at building a Repli-cated Object MANagement Conngurable Environment based on Group Technology. Ultimately, we aim to develop a programming environment to support sharing passive replicated data objects regardless of data persistence or durability requirements. ROMANCE objects are distributed and can be accessed from any node in the system (in a location transparent way)...

This article describes MetaRomance, a rule-based cross-lingual parser for Romance languages submitted to CoNLL 2017 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies. The system is an almost delexicalized parser which does not need training data to analyze Romance languages. It contains linguistically motivated rules based on PoS-tag patterns. The rules included in MetaR...

In 1949 Robert B. Heilman published the essay "Hawthorne's 'The Birthmark': Science as Religion."^ The year of the Soviet Union's first successful test of an atomic bomb and four yeiirs after the United States' use of atomic weapons against the Japanese, 1949 was a year inclined to provoke concern about the practice of science as religion. Heilman's reading of Aylmer as a tragic overreacher who...