Although our results showed that dominance is not a unitary concept, several measures of dominance were highly correlated with one another. Thus, one measure, in some instances, may be a good but imperfect predictor of dominance defined by other criteria. For data sets based on index scores or...
Dominance relationships In a pair of individuals which know each other, one (the dominant) regularly wins conflicts with the other (the subordinate). When a subordinate meets a dominant, it expresses its lower status by either avoiding the dominant or submitting to it. ...
Poverty mapping based on first order dominance with an example from Mozambique We explore a novel first order dominance (FOD) approach to poverty mapping and compare its properties to small area estimation. The FOD approach uses census data directly; is straightforward to implement; is ...
China to complete B&R sci-tech cooperation system in 2030 A science and technology (S&T) cooperation network along the Belt and Road (B&R) will be completed in 2030, said Bai Chunli, president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), on Tuesday. "Chinese Brands Day" set to nurture indepe...
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of this phenomenon. For example, while up to 70% of sex doll owners cite sexual gratification as the primary function of their doll, others discuss how their dolls act as a form of friendship and companionship [1,2]. In addition, even among those who did suggest that sex was their doll...
Example of visual stimuli presented to participants in the 3AFC block examining the perceived attractiveness of the “textbook” group. Left: early follicular phase, middle: peri-ovulatory phase, right: mid-luteal phase. Full size image We created three further sets of face prototypes based on se...
(3) dominance and submission, for example, where one individual orders the other to do his or her bidding; (4) bondage and discipline, involving restraints such as rope and chains and/or punishment for real or fabricated transgressions. Other variations include fetishistic, exhibitionistic and ...
Nonetheless, the public authority keeps these goods in the public realm on the basis of the shared values of the community (i.e. those values that ‘the individual, as member of the community, accepts even though they contrast with his individual preferences’).23 For example, the public ...
of complex ethical issues at play (for example, objectification1and distributive justice2,3), an important reason for these limits on incentives is the influential albeit conceptually vague and empirically largely untested notion of undue inducement4. This term describes the belief that participation ...