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Condoms no laughing matter.
This multimedia project was as a beer commercial, a lad's night in, an environment that can be used to target the relevant audience. The goal was to deploy a familiar atmosphere and recognisable characters whilst delivering a serious message with humour in a very short space of time.
متن کاملNo laughing matter
Laughter matters! From an analysis of a very large corpus of naturally-occurring conversational speech we have confirmed that approximately one in ten utterances contains laughter. From among these laughing utterances, we were able to distinguish four types of laughter according to what each revealed about the speaker’s affective state, and we were able to recognise these different types automa...
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OBJECTIVE To review the clinical features, neurobiological correlates and treatment of pathological laughing and crying. METHOD Selective literature review. RESULTS Attacks of involuntary, irresistible laughing or crying have long been recognised as sequelae of brain damage. There is controversy about the clinical features of these attacks, the stimuli that provoke them and their relation t...
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A COUGHING MAN Last year an upper respiratory tract illness swept through our household, hitting first my youngest son, then his older brother, and finally me. Only my wife was spared. We coughed for days and days. Still, we trudged on, my sons going off to school and I to work in the hospital. My wife, the only one in our family not burdened with a Y chromosome, looked at us one night at the d...
متن کاملSleep-laughing--hypnogely.
OBJECTIVE To explain relatively common phenomenon of laughing during sleep and help to better define criteria for differentiating between physiological and pathological sleep-laughing. METHODS Observational study of patients who underwent a sleep assessment in a referential tertiary health facility. RESULTS A total of ten patients exhibited sleep laughing, nine of whom had episodes associat...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Index on Censorship
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0306-4220,1746-6067
DOI: 10.1080/03064220008536852