1Department of Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Centers, Ein Kerem and 2Department of Medicine, Mount Scopus Campuses, Jerusalem, Israel. Eldad Ben-Chetrit, MD Suhail Aamar, MD Please address correspondence to: Eldad Ben-Chetrit, MD FMF Clinic, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, POB 12000, Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: [email protected] Received on August 4, 2009. Clin Exp ...

This study examined the extent to which cognitive planning and motives for sex can explain condom use at first intercourse with young females' most recent partner. A total of 133 female adolescents completed a questionnaire on cognitive planning (i.e., mentally preparing oneself for discussing condom use and for managing condoms), motives for having sex (i.e., having sex to express love, to exp...

BACKGROUND A general internist has an important role in primary care, especially for the elderly in rural areas of Japan. Although effective intervention models for depressed patients in general practice and primary care settings have been developed in the US and UK medical systems, there is little information regarding even the recognition rate and prescription rate of psychotropic medication ...

Mood and emotion although used interchangeably, mood is significantly different from emotion in many aspects. It reflects the internal state of a person compared to a rather transient affective state shown by emotional expressions. Mood inference from voice can provide better performance, however, hardly any study exists that predicts mood from voice. In this paper, we propose a solution to thi...

Die hohe Variationsfähigkeit von Viren und die Vermischung weltweit vorherrschender Subtypen stellt für die Entwicklung von Impfstoffen und Medikamenten ein großes Problem dar, zumal diese Variationen mit hoher Geschwindigkeit ablaufen. Für eine erfolgreiche antivirale Chemotherapie ist es deshalb erforderlich, jene Angriffspunkte zu finden, in denen die Variationsmöglichkeiten der Viren stark ...

Releele non-transparente IEEE802.16j „multi-hop” constitue o soluţie promiţătoare pentru extinderea cu preţ scăzut a acoperirii şi capacităţii reţelelor WiMAX. Apar însă anumite probleme, cum ar fi alegerea unei căi de la staţia de bază prin releele disponibile, determinând în final o topologie tip arbore, sau alegerea unei căi cu interferenţă minimă. Aceasta lucrare urmăreşte evaluarea perform...

Zusammenfassung Dieser Beitrag beschreibt die multimodalen Interaktionsmöglichkeiten mit der Forschungsroboterplattform ELIAS. Zunächst wird ein Überblick über die Roboterplattform sowie die entwickelten Verarbeitungskomponenten gegeben, die Einteilung dieser Komponenten erfolgt nach dem Konzept von wahrnehmenden und agierenden Modalitäten. Anschließend wird das Zusammenspiel der Komponenten in...

purpose :   the present study investigated the psychometric properties of a malaysian adapted brunel mood scale.   methods:   the questionnaire was administered to 355 young sport athletes with a mean age of 14.69 + 1.70 years. confirmatory factor analysis (cfa) and cronbach's alpha were used to determine the factorial validity and the internal consistency of the questionnaire respectively. res...

Music mood is an emerging metadata type of music, but there are no well-accepted mood categories. This research proposes a new method to categorize music mood in the social context of music listening. This method combines the strength of social tags, linguistic resources and human experts. Preliminary results show that the proposed method is promising in identifying mood categories that better ...