ENTERTAINMENT NEWS JULY 10, 2012 / 11:08 AM / UPDATED 10 YEARS AGO Smoking in movies may turn teens to cigarettes: study REUTERS/Jim Urquhart https://www.reuters.com/article/health-smoking-idINDEE86900Q20120710 REUTERS - Youth who watch a lot of movies with cigarette-smoking characters, no matter what the film’s rating is, are more likely to start smoking themselves, according to a new U.S. study.

"In practice, it would be quite difficult to do it, to start it would require, I think, a two-thirds majority of the FIFA congress, so the British would have to really piss everybody off to make that justification. Not that we're not capable of doing that, but we can claim that we have history on our side, traditions in soccer matter, so why would you abandon all of that history." As for why no one in the U.K. has ever pushed for a single British team, and a chance to see Gareth Bale flying up the pitch and combining with Harry Kane in a World Cup match, Szymanski said that while, "The English would probably be quite happy to do that, because we're the big brother," having independent soccer teams means too much to the national pride of people from Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. "I would go as far to say, if FIFA actually did ever force Britain to field a single team, rather than have four home nations, the Scots would actually demand independence. They had an independence referendum a couple of years ago, which they lost narrowly, it would be overwhelmingly in favor of independence if they lost their soccer team, because that's the only way they'd get their soccer team back. And that would be easily important enough to the Scots, I have no doubt about that in my mind." ----------------- Why England and other UK countries all have their own soccer teams Brandon Wiggins https://www.businessinsider.com/england-national-football-team-uk-great-britain-2018-6

Why England and other UK countries all have their own soccer teams Brandon Wiggins https://www.businessinsider.com/england-national-football-team-uk-great-britain-2018-6 ------------------ • The countries of the U.K. have separate soccer teams because international soccer began as a game played between the countries of Britain. • While other countries would probably like for Britain to be forced to field a single team, enacting such a major reform would be incredibly difficult. • The people of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales would likely hate to lose their independent soccer teams. At this summer's World Cup, Harry Kane will lead an English National Team with a reputation for under-performing to World Cup success, while reigning Champions League winner Gareth Bale will be watching from home, unable to qualify from the relatively small soccer nation of Wales out of the intensively competitive European region. So just why is it that England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, all members of the United Kingdom, play as separate countries in international soccer? Business Insider reached out to Stefan Szymanski, a professor at the University of Michigan, as well as a Brit and one of the authors of Soccernomics, for clarification. The answer it turns out, lies in the very origins of international soccer, which began as a competition between the four nations of Britain. "The first international game of soccer was played in 1872, and it was between England and Scotland," Szymanski said. "So, the whole idea of nations playing against each other actually really comes from Britain as well, the whole idea of international games. "Essentially, between 1872 and 1900 there are dozens of games played between what we call in Britain the four home nations, there are dozens of games recorded but no games between any other nations. And only at the very end of the 19th century do other countries start to play. " So when FIFA was first formed in 1904, the organization respected the idea of the four nations of Britain each being separate soccer associations. "And that really got set in stone then right at the beginning," Szymanski said. And with the exception of when the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland split into separate countries, and so developed separate soccer associations, this is how British soccer has been set up ever since. Gareth Bale Wales Gareth Bale alone would be a tremendous addition to the English National Team, as well as treat to watch for World Cup viewers. Stu Forster/Getty Images "Most other countries think it's outrageous that Britain gets four nations. So yeah, they'd love to take our nations away from us," Szymanski said, when Business Insider asked if there had ever been any efforts made to create a single British national team.

🔹جزئیات پذیرش دانشجوی استعداد درخشان در دوره دکتری دانشکده‌های جدیدالتأسیس دانشگاه تهران اعلام شد | مهلت ثبت‌نام تا ۱۶ آذر ماه https://news.ut.ac.ir/fa/news/31560 @UT_NEWSLINE

آمریکا واردات دستگاه‌ مخابراتی چینی را ممنوع کرد 🔹آمریکا واردات و خرید و فروش دستگاه‌های مخابراتی برندهای مطرح چینی از جمله هواوی و زد تی ای را به دلیل تهدیدات علیه «امنیت ملی» ممنوع کرد. 🔹مقامات امنیتی آمریکا هشدار داده‌اند که تجهیزات برندهای چینی مانند هواوی می‌تواند بدلیل تداخل با شبکه‌های بی‌سیم نسل پنجم یا جی ۵ برای جمع آوری اطلاعات حساس و جاسوسی استفاده شود. tn.ai/2811948 @TasnimNews

United States | Trans parenting Why are so many teenage girls appearing in gender clinics? A new paper suggests this may be partly a social phenomenon Sep 1st 2018 https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/09/01/why-are-so-many-teenage-girls-appearing-in-gender-clinics ...Typically, adolescents rst show symptoms of gender dysphoria, the clinical term for the distress caused by the feeling that one’s body does not match one’s gender, in childhood. But in the past decade clinics in Western countries have reported that a growing number of teenagers have started experiencing gender dysphoria during or after puberty. And whereas these young adults used to be predominantly male, now they are more likely to be female. In 2009, 41% of the adolescents referred to Britain’s Gender Identity Development Service were female; in 2017, 69% were. Lisa Littman, an assistant professor of behavioural and social sciences at Brown University, was curious about what was causing these changes. She had come across reports from parents on online forums describing a new pattern of behaviour: adolescents without a history of childhood gender dysphoria were announcing they were transgender after a period of immersing themselves in niche websites or after similar announcements from friends. Her study suggests that these children may be grappling with what she calls “rapid-onset gender dysphoria”.

SCIENCEINSIDER SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY New paper ignites storm over whether teens experience ‘rapid onset' of transgender identity Critics say paper is biased, may undermine transgender youth HOME NEWS SCIENCEINSIDER 30 AUG 2018 • BY MEREDITH WADMAN https://www.science.org/content/article/new-paper-ignites-storm-over-whether-teens-experience-rapid-onset-transgender-identity Controversy is exploding around a paper published earlier this month in PLOS ONE by a public health expert at Brown University describing reports by parents that their children suddenly experienced unease with the gender they were assigned at birth; the paper calls the condition "rapid onset gender dysphoria" (ROGD). The paper, by physician-scientist Lisa Littman, is drawing fierce criticism from transgender advocates, who call it antitransgender because it suggests that some cases of gender dysphoria may be "socially contagious." They say the paper has serious methodological flaws, noting that Littman interviewed only parents, not the young people themselves, and recruited from websites frequented by parents who were concerned about their children's apparently sudden gender transitions. Meanwhile, the reactions of Brown and the journal are being assailed by critics who accuse them of caving to political pressure.

🔞من یک بچه بودم و نمیتوانستم در مورد عمل تغییر جنسیت تصمیم درستی بگیرم... ☑️ @Kavoshplus

تقویم آذر ماه 1401

People who are obsessed with celebrities tend to score lower on measures of cognitive ability by Eric W. Dolan January 3, 2022 in Cognitive Science Cognitive performance is slightly reduced among those with higher levels of celebrity worship, according to a new study published in BMC Psychology. “Interest in the topic of celebrity worshipers spans almost two decades. From several studies, over that period, research showed a weak to moderate tendency for those who showed the strongest admiration for their favorite celebrity to have lower cognitive skills, using a variety of cognitive measures,” explained study authors Lynn E. McCutcheon, Ágnes Zsila, and Zsolt Demetrovics in a joint statement to PsyPost. “However, most of these studies did not control for a variety of extraneous variables. The current study did control for several possibly relevant variables.” In the study, 1,763 Hungarian adults completed a 30-word vocabulary test and a digit symbol substitution test, a validated assessment of fluid intelligence. The researchers also collected data about the participants’ self-esteem, current family income, material wealth, and highest level of education.

The Halo Effect: The Superpower of Beautiful People Sprouts 4:28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpjeMaOirvg

فرم پرپوزال پایان نامه ارشد / رساله دکتری