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Facial Masculinity Increases Perceptions of Men's Age, But Not Perceptions of Their Health: Data From an Arab Sample
(SPRINGERNATURE, 2021-06)
Masculine characteristics in men's faces are often assumed to function as health cues. However, evidence for this assumption from empirical tests is mixed. For example, research on Western women's face perceptions found ...
Forecasting Models For Daily Natural Gas Consumption Considering Periodic Variations And Demand Segregation
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020)
Due to expensive infrastructure and the difficulties in storage, supply conditions of natural gas are different from those of other traditional energy sources like petroleum or coal. To overcome these challenges, supplier ...
On the Time Shift Phenomena in Epidemic Models
(Frontiers Media Sa, 2020)
In the standard Susceptible-Infected-Removed (SIR) and Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Removed (SEIR) models, the peak of infected individuals coincides with the inflection point of removed individuals. Nevertheless, a survey ...
The ULX source X-3 in NGC 4258: a search for its X-ray and optical properties
(Oxford Univ Press, 2020)
We present the results of a search for the nature of ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) X-3 in the nearby galaxy NGC 4258. We use archival data from XMM-Newton, Chandra, NuSTAR, and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations. ...
Housing Prices in a Market Under Years of Constant Transformation: A County-Based Analysis of Istanbul
(Cracow Univ Economics, 2020)
Objective: The objective of the article is to present a comprehensive approach to analysing Istanbul's housing prices, using a hedonic price model with a large dataset and a single variable for locational attributes.
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How to engage consumers through effective social media use-guidelines for consumer goods companies from an emerging market
(Universidad de Talca, 2021-07)
This study aims to establish actionable guidelines and provide strategic insights as a means of increasing the social media effectiveness of consumer brands. Post-related factors in addition to the contextual and temporal ...
How and why patterns of sexual dimorphism in human faces vary across the world
(2021-03)
Sexual selection, including mate choice and intrasexual competition, is responsible for the evolution of some of the most elaborated and sexually dimorphic traits in animals. Although there is sexual dimorphism in the shape ...
Recurrence analysis of extreme event-like data
(COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH, 2021)
The identification of recurrences at various time-scales in extreme event-like time series is challenging because of the rare occurrence of events which are separated by large temporal gaps. Most of the existing time series ...
Gamma-Robust electricity market equilibrium models with transmission and generation investments
(SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, 2021-03)
We consider uncertain robust electricity market equilibrium problems including transmission and generation investments. Electricity market equilibrium modeling has a long tradition but is, in most of the cases, applied in ...
Forecasting time-varying arrivals: Impact of direct response advertising on call center performance
(Elsevier Inc., 2021-07)
This study investigates manpower planning and the performance of a national call center for scheduling car repairs and responding to road interventions. We model the impact of advertising on the required capacity and develop ...