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Cross-cultural Perceptual Differences- Among African American, Caucasian, and Greek-Cypriot College Students
(VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K., 2007-11-06)
This book examines the variables of ethnic identity, collective self-esteem, person perception, individualism, collectivism, and prejudice in Caucasian (North and South United States), African-American, and Greek-Cypriot ...
Associations between body dissatisfaction, importance of appearance, and aging anxiety with depression, and appearance-related behaviors in women in mid-life
(J Women Aging, 2021-01)
The impacts of body dissatisfaction have been widely studied among adolescent girls, but much less in women in mid-life. In this study, we evaluated the associations between body dissatisfaction, psychological health and ...
Person perception, prejudice, and hostility as influenced by the use of persuasion: A cross-cultural study.
(University of South Alabama, 2002)
The purpose of this study was to assess whether it is possible to alter the perception of similarity vs. uniqueness of people towards others and if the powerful embedded constructs of prejudice and aggression could be ...
A Smart Product Co-design and Monitoring Framework Via Gamification and Complex Event Processing
(ICEIS, 2019)
In the traditional software development cycle, requirements gathering is considered the most critical phase. Getting the requirements right early has become a dogma in software engineering because the correction of erroneous ...
ParkChain: An IoT Parking Service Based on Blockchain
(IEEE, 2019-08-19)
The IoT ecosystem is evolving quickly, developing several applications in different sectors. The majority of these applications use centralized infrastructures something that poses several challenges especially related to ...
"Educational Robotics: Platforms, Competitions and Expected Learning Outcomes"
(IEEE, 2020-12-04)
Motivated by the recent explosion of interest around Educational Robotics (ER), this paper attempts to re-approach this area by suggesting new ways of thinking and exploring the related concepts. The contribution of the ...
Known Unknowns in an Era of Technological and ViralDisruptions—Implications for Theory,Policy, and Practice
(Springer Verlag, 2021-02-10)
Technology is composed of the words “Techne” and “Logos” that refer to the artistic/
creative and the logical/scientific aspects of its dualism. And so inherent this Promethean
concept lie the concepts of the Schumpeterian ...
Randomblocks: A transparent, verifiable blockchain-based system for random numbers
(Old City Publishing, Inc, 2019)
Games-of-chance require high-levels of trust between participants that is often uncertain and difficult to enforce. The unique characteristics introduced by the blockchain technology can be leveraged to inform a verifiable ...
Composite description based on Salient Contours and Color information for CBIR tasks
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)
This paper introduces a novel image descriptor for content based image retrieval tasks that integrates contour and color information into a compact vector. Loosely inspired by the human visual system and its mechanisms in ...
“IoT Device Firmware Update over LoRa: The Blockchain Solution”
(IEEE, 2020-06-17)
More and more Internet of Things (IoT) devicesare deployed around the world, due to the convenience andextra functionality they enable. This growth, while great forthe industry as a whole, has ...