background : during the past two decades, a great deal of research has been conducted on developing affective norms for words in various languages, showing that there is an urgent need to create such norms in persian language, too. the present study intended to develop a set of 362 persian words rated according to their emotional valence, arousal, imageability, and familiarity so as to prepare ...

Background: Hip fracture is one of the most common problems in elderly that needs surgical repair. As, the majority ofthese patients have chronic diseases, they are at increased risk of peri-operative mortality and morbidity. The purposeof this study was to evaluate spinal anesthesia with bupivacaine vs bupivacaine in combination with lidocaine in termsof hemodynamic changes in patients undergo...

Abstract Background and Aims Antineutrophil-cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) with kidney involvement (AAV-GN) frequently evolves to end-stage disease (ESKD) despite aggressive immunosuppressive treatment. Several risk scores have been used assess renal prognosis. We aimed determine whether function markers of AAV-GN activity after 6 months could improve the prediction E...

We outline the cognitive model CASS (Cognitive–Affective State System). As the name suggests it is a cognitive model that also takes human affect into account. CASS combines Dynamic Bayesian Networks (DBNs) and an ACT-R model. The DBN model (R-BARS, the Rensselaer Bayesian Affect Recognition System) determines the user’s most likely affective states using both current and stored sensory data. T...

abstract             this study was conducted to investigate the effects of different levels of yeast and molasses on chemical composition and nutritional value of artiplex lentiformis silage. the levels of yeast include: zero (control), 2.5 and 5 g/kg dry matter and levels of molasses include: zero (control), 10 and 15 percent that were added to atriplex and then ensiled. the experiment arrang...

Voice and speech parameters for a single speaker vary widely over different contexts, in particular in situations in which speakers are affected by stress or emotion or in which speech styles are used strategically. This high degree of intra-speaker variability presents a major challenge for speaker verification systems. Based on a large-scale study in which different kinds of affective states ...

Some Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems revealed weaknesses in their emotional expressivity but this situation can be improved by a better parameterization of the acoustic and prosodic parameters. This paper describes a system, Affective Story Teller (AST), as an example of emotionally expressive speech synthesizer. Our technique uses several linguistic resources that recognizes emotions in the input...

Most brain-based measures of the electroencephalogram (EEG) are used in highly controlled lab environments and only focus on narrow mental states (e.g., working memory load). However, we assume that outside the lab complex multidimensional mental states are evoked. This could potentially create interference between EEG signatures used for identification of specific mental states. In this study,...

Forty four patients attending the affective disorder clink at J1PMER Hospital who were on prophylactic lithium for bipolar affective disorder were studied, Intra-individual comparison for severity of illness was made between periods of similar duration with and without lithium prophylaxis. It was found that during lithium prophylaxis patients did significantly better on the following parameters...