More than a house, and far more than a piddling iPhone — a token of achievement so potent that 15-year-old babysitters can acquire one — a car remains the most visible, desirable accessory of success.
Our complex, fast-changing business environment requires sophisticated decision making for selecting the right project with the most desirable outcome assuring success and enterprise performance.
Instead, attraction to intelligent partners probably has more to do with the fact that intelligence signals other desirable traits, like success and achievement that, or as evolutionary psychologists argue, maybe it stems from a desire to pass those smarts along to our children.
It has been suggested that, as premature ripening of fruit before seed maturation is not desirable for reproductive success, seed and fruit maturation are strictly synchronized and auxin may coordinate communication between seed and pericarp [ 9].
This seems to be a useful transformation when it is desirable to treat successes and failures asymmetrically.
Life satisfaction, positive affect, and absence of negative affect constitute the components of subjective well-being (SWB: Diener 1994), a construct extensively studied by positive psychology and associated with desirable outcomes such as success (Lyubomirsky et al. 2005), longevity, and mental health (Diener and Chan 2011).
These results suggest that the NEM procedure is not only practical but also desirable for improving the success rate of docking drug-like ligands through working with bound/unfolded local minimum conformations that have inherent entropic advantage as described above.
That is why primary health care (PHC) services are trying, so far with less success than desirable, to promote healthy lifestyles among patients.
Furthermore, the view that overweight in African women is traditionally desirable and indicative of success and happiness may also contribute to the high prevalence of overweight/obesity (36).
Furthermore, the evidence suggests that positive affect--the hallmark of well-being--may be the cause of many of the desirable characteristics, resources, and successes correlated with happiness [ 7].
