Perceived Importance of Body Shape Attractiveness in Potential Spouse Selection for Fitness Enthusiasts

Importance of different criteria and age preference in spouse selection for single and married young Iranian adults was examined. The sample included 104 married (49 male. 55 female) and 112 single (51 male. 61 female) students. A 26- item scale developed for this study included 4 items related to demographic factors. 3 items on preferences for the ideal age of marriage, and 19 Likert-type items asking about criteria important for spouse selection. Analysis indicated that, in Iran, commitment, chastity, refinement, and health are four important criteria for spouse selection among male and female and single and married persons. Also, experience of marriage for married males may increase maturity, social prestige, family background, having a job, and age as criteria for choosing a spouse. On the other hand, marriage experience for females may decrease the importance of social skills, housekeeping, and autonomy for selecting a spouse.

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Organization Buying: Supplier Evaluation Criteria for Standard Products

Vikalpa The Journal for Decision Makers ◽

10.1177/0256090919810202 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 75-85 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Subhash C. Mehta ◽

Rakesh Khurana ◽

H.S. Chhabra ◽

C.P. Rao ◽

G.E. Kiser

Keyword(s):

Marketing Strategy ◽

Supplier Selection ◽

Evaluation Criteria ◽

Supplier Evaluation ◽

Organizational Buying ◽

Perceived Importance ◽

Importance Ratings ◽

Selection For ◽

Buying Behaviour

This paper studies organizational buying behaviour, a responsibility shared by several functionaries including the purchasing personnel. It measures the perceived importance of various standard attributes for supplier selection. For this, 500 purchasing executives were administered a questionnaire with 65 attributes. The reasons for some attributes getting high or low mean importance ratings have been analysed. Based on these weights the marketer of standard goods can plan his marketing strategy, giving more emphasis to factors which have emerged important.

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Bidirectional mass selection for body shape in common carp

Genetics Selection Evolution ◽

10.1186/1297-9686-24-1-43 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 43 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

Y Ankorion ◽

R Moav ◽

GW Wohlfarth

Keyword(s):

Common Carp ◽

Body Shape ◽

Mass Selection ◽

Selection For

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Evidence of a heritable component to body shape in the northern redbelly dace (Phoxinus eos)

Canadian Journal of Zoology ◽

10.1139/z97-147 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 75 (8) ◽

pp. 1247-1253 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

C. Anna Toline ◽

Allan J. Baker

Keyword(s):

Body Shape ◽

Natural Populations ◽

The Body ◽

Foraging Ability ◽

Environmental Induction ◽

Foraging Tactics ◽

Selection For ◽

Shape Changes ◽

Common Laboratory

Hypotheses about the role of selection on body-shape evolution assume a heritable component to this phenotypic character. To examine the influence of environmental induction on body shape, offspring form two morphologically differentiated populations of northern redbelly dace (Phoxinus eos) were reared in a common laboratory environment. Additionally, shape changes were monitored over 3 consecutive years in six populations. Offspring reared in a common environment retained the body shape of individuals from their natal pond, and shape changes among fish in different ponds were maintained in natural populations over years. These results strongly suggest a heritable component to body shape in P. eos. These results complement earlier work examining foraging tactics as a potential selection pressure on body shape and support the conclusion that body-shape differences among fish in different ponds are being maintained by selection for foraging ability.

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Genomic Prediction for Whole Weight, Body Shape, Meat Yield, and Color Traits in the Portuguese Oyster Crassostrea angulata

Frontiers in Genetics ◽

10.3389/fgene.2021.661276 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Sang V. Vu ◽

Wayne Knibb ◽

Cedric Gondro ◽

Sankar Subramanian ◽

Ngoc T. H. Nguyen ◽

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Keyword(s):

Soft Tissue ◽

Body Shape ◽

Condition Index ◽

Genomic Information ◽

Meat Yield ◽

Tissue Weight ◽

Crassostrea Angulata ◽

Color Traits ◽

Sib Families ◽

Selection For

Genetic improvement for quality traits, especially color and meat yield, has been limited in aquaculture because the assessment of these traits requires that the animals be slaughtered first. Genotyping technologies do, however, provide an opportunity to improve the selection efficiency for these traits. The main purpose of this study is to assess the potential for using genomic information to improve meat yield (soft tissue weight and condition index), body shape (cup and fan ratios), color (shell and mantle), and whole weight traits at harvest in the Portuguese oyster, Crassostrea angulata. The study consisted of 647 oysters: 188 oysters from 57 full-sib families from the first generation and 459 oysters from 33 full-sib families from the second generation. The number per family ranged from two to eight oysters for the first and 12–15 oysters for the second generation. After quality control, a set of 13,048 markers were analyzed to estimate the genetic parameters (heritability and genetic correlation) and predictive accuracy of the genomic selection for these traits. The multi-locus mixed model analysis indicated high estimates of heritability for meat yield traits: 0.43 for soft tissue weight and 0.77 for condition index. The estimated genomic heritabilities were 0.45 for whole weight, 0.24 for cup ratio, and 0.33 for fan ratio and ranged from 0.14 to 0.54 for color traits. The genetic correlations among whole weight, meat yield, and body shape traits were favorably positive, suggesting that the selection for whole weight would have beneficial effects on meat yield and body shape traits. Of paramount importance is the fact that the genomic prediction showed moderate to high accuracy for the traits studied (0.38–0.92). Therefore, there are good prospects to improve whole weight, meat yield, body shape, and color traits using genomic information. A multi-trait selection program using the genomic information can boost the genetic gain and minimize inbreeding in the long-term for this population.

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Natural selection for body shape in resource polymorphic Icelandic Arctic charr

Journal of Evolutionary Biology ◽

10.1111/jeb.13346 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 31 (10) ◽

pp. 1498-1512 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Oliver D. Franklin ◽

Skúli Skúlason ◽

Michael B. Morrissey ◽

Moira M. Ferguson

Keyword(s):

Natural Selection ◽

Body Shape ◽

Arctic Charr ◽

Selection For

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Church Membership, Consanguineous Marriage, and Migration in a Scotch-Irish Frontier Population

Journal of Family History ◽

10.1177/036319908801300403 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 397-414 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Russell M. Reid

Keyword(s):

Consanguineous Marriage ◽

Church Membership ◽

Nuclear Families ◽

Common Descent ◽

Consanguineous Marriages ◽

New Destination ◽

Small Set ◽

Selection For ◽

And Migration ◽

Spouse Selection

This article discusses the persistence of a pattern of close consanguineous marriages among a group of Scotch-Irish American families that migrated in almost every generation from the early 1700s to the mid-1800s These migrations involved not separate nuclear families, but small networks of families already related by marriage and common descent. Such kin-structured migration created a small set of kin at each new destination who became the focus of spouse selection for the next generation of marriages. The histories of these families suggest that ethnic and denominational separateness from other frontier populations may have contributed both to the pattern of kin-structured migration and, through endogamy, to the associated consanguineous marriages.

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Framework for Selecting Vocabulary for Preliterate Children Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology ◽

10.1044/2019_ajslp-18-0041 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

pp. 1000-1009

Author(s):

Allison Bean ◽

Lindsey Paden Cargill ◽

Samantha Lyle

Keyword(s):

Language Impairment ◽

Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽

Developmentally Appropriate ◽

School Age Children ◽

Alternative Communication ◽

School Based ◽

Selection For ◽

Nonverbal Children ◽

Grammatical Structures ◽

Insufficient Knowledge

Purpose Nearly 50% of school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) provide services to school-age children who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). However, many SLPs report having insufficient knowledge in the area of AAC implementation. The objective of this tutorial is to provide clinicians with a framework for supporting 1 area of AAC implementation: vocabulary selection for preliterate children who use AAC. Method This tutorial focuses on 4 variables that clinicians should consider when selecting vocabulary: (a) contexts/environments where the vocabulary can be used, (b) time span during which the vocabulary will be relevant, (c) whether the vocabulary can elicit and maintain interactions with other people, and (d) whether the vocabulary will facilitate developmentally appropriate grammatical structures. This tutorial focuses on the role that these variables play in language development in verbal children with typical development, verbal children with language impairment, and nonverbal children who use AAC. Results Use of the 4 variables highlighted above may help practicing SLPs select vocabulary that will best facilitate language acquisition in preliterate children who use AAC.

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Teaching Partners to Support Communication for Adults with Acquired Communication Impairment

Perspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication ◽

10.1044/aac22.1.4 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 4-15 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Laura J. Ball ◽

Joanne Lasker

Keyword(s):

Practice Patterns ◽

Communicative Competence ◽

Communication Disorders ◽

Communication Impairment ◽

Communication Partner ◽

Communication Partners ◽

Selection For ◽

Communication Needs ◽

End Of Life Communication ◽

Lateral Sclerosis

Abstract For adults with acquired communication impairment, particularly those who have communication disorders associated with stroke or neurodegenerative disease, communication partners play an important role in establishing and maintaining communicative competence. In this paper, we assemble some evidence on this topic and integrate it with current preferred practice patterns (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2004). Our goals are to help speech-language pathologists (SLPs) identify and describe partner-based communication strategies for adults with acquired impairment, implement evidence-based approaches for teaching strategies to communication partners, and employ a Personnel Framework (Binger et al., 2012) to clarify partners? roles in acquiring and supporting communication tools for individuals with acquired impairments. We offer specific guidance about AAC techniques and message selection for communication partners involved with chronic, degenerative, and end of life communication. We discuss research and provide examples of communication partner supports for person(s) with aphasia and person(s) with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis who have complex communication needs.

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