Background. Pediatric hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) is a lifesaving treatment that often results in physical and psychological discomfort. An acupressure-massage intervention may improve symptom management in this setting. Methods. This randomized controlled pilot trial compared a combined massage-acupressure intervention to usual care. Children were offered three practitioner-provided se...

Acknowledgments This thesis is the result of my internship at Erasmus University Rotterdam, as part of the the EU-FP7 project CASSANDRA. I would like to thank professor Hennie Daniels for giving such an opportunity to perform an interesting and challenging master's thesis project. I am very grateful to my supervisor Berry Schoenmakers at Eindhoven University of Technology , for the guidance, qu...

The combined influence of tempo and mode on emotional responses to music was studied by crossing 7 changes in mode with 3 changes in tempo. Twenty-four musicians aged 19 to 25 years (12 males and 12 females) and 24 nonmusicians aged 17 to 25 years (12 males and 12 females) were required to perform two tasks: 1) listening to different musical excerpts, and 2) associating an emotion to them such ...

Which emotions are associated with universally recognized non-verbal signals?We address this issue by examining how reliably non-linguistic vocalizations (affect bursts) can convey emotions across cultures. Actors from India, Kenya, Singapore, and USA were instructed to produce vocalizations that would convey nine positive and nine negative emotions to listeners. The vocalizations were judged b...

Dhyana-Yoga is a Sanskrit word for the ancient discipline of meditation, as a means to Samadhi or enlightenment. Samadhi is a self-absorptive, adaptive state with realization of one's being in harmony with reality. It is unitive, undifferentiated, reality-consciousness, an essential being, which can only be experienced by spontaneous intuition and self-understanding. Modern neuroscience can hel...

It is easy to slip into sentimental platitudes when talking about friendship. Great writers such as Cicero and Montaigne avoided this pitfall, but mainly by describing not what friendship is, but what it ought to be. The close connection of intimate comradeship Wlth mental health is being increasingly recognised. A few aspects of this connection will here be outlined. In the first place, the ty...

The pandemic made childcare a major challenge for parents globally, both in the short and longer term. In this context, it is plausible that emotions general distress experienced by have had an impact at multiple levels their relationships with children, potentially increasing vulnerability. present study focuses on analysis of prevailing Italian during first lockdown, investigating possible as...

The development of the times and technology has changed human perspective on spiritual values. This sometimes causes presence various flavors in soul. Be it peace, happiness or otherwise a sense anxiety, discomfort, sadness, all which lead to heart, Allah gives ease His servants following path goodness turns them away from badness evil. Paying attention things that can cleanse soul soften heart...

Infections of the mammary gland remain a frequent disease dairy ruminants that negatively affect animal welfare, milk quality, farmer serenity, and farming profitability cause an increase in use antimicrobials. There is need for efficacious vaccines to alleviate burden mastitis farming, but this has not been satisfactorily fulfilled despite decades research. A careful appraisal past current res...

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