Background and Objective: Hysteroscopy is considered as very important in the investigation of abnormal uterine bleeding. It is usually performed as an outpatient procedure under either local or no anesthesia. This study was designed to compare the combination of paracervical block (PCB) and conscious sedation with paracervical block or conscious sedation alone for outpatient hysteroscopy i...

Abstract: Human non-conscious reasoning is one of the most successful procedures developed to 9 solve everyday problems in an efficient way. This is why the field of artificial intelligence should 10 analyze, formalize and emulate the multiple ways of non-conscious reasoning with the purpose of 11 applying them in knowledge based systems, neurocomputers and similar devices for aiding people 12 ...

Non-sensory experiences represent almost all context information in consciousness. They condition most aspects of conscious cognition including voluntary retrieval, perception, monitoring, problem solving, emotion, evaluation, meaning recognition. Many peculiar aspects of non-sensory qualia (e.g., they resist being 'grasped' by an act of attention) are explained as adaptations shaped by the cog...

What composers do The title of this collection, ‘The Act of Musical Composition: Studies in the Creative Process’, might be taken to carry with it some suppositions about the nature of possible answers to the questions it implies. The purpose of this chapter is to deconstruct some aspects of those suppositions and to tease apart the tangled and inscrutable network of happenings that constitute ...

The electromagnetic field theory of consciousness proposes that conscious experiences are identical with certain electromagnetic patterns generated by the brain. While the theory has always acknowledged that not all of the electromagnetic patterns generated by brain activity are conscious, until now it has not been able to specify what might distinguish conscious patterns from non-conscious pat...

Abstract Advertising for non-profit organizations through television commercials is a valuable means of communication to raise awareness and receive donations. When it comes social aspects, personal attitudes such as empathy are significant reinforcing the intention donate; study eliciting emotions has critical attention in literature, especially some types emotion, guilt which mediates empathy...

This paper presents ongoing work into the design of interfaces for live musical performance using gesture controlled sound spatialization. In particular, we discuss the use of performer’s gestures to allow them to manipulate spatialization parameters without their conscious control. A number of motion capture sessions involving a cello performer are described through which we determined a set o...