A construal theory of happiness emphasises the mediating impact of cognitive and motivational processes on the individual’s perceptions of their happiness. This study investigated a path model with the two cognitive variables, self-reflection and selfrumination as mediating factors between an independent self-construal and subjective happiness. One hundred and twenty three participants complete...

Although following another person’s gaze is essential in fluent social interactions, the reflexive nature of this gaze-cuing effect means that gaze can be used to deceive. In a gaze-cuing procedure, participants were presented with several faces that looked to the left or right. Some faces always looked to the target (predictive-valid), some never looked to the target (predictive-invalid), and ...

This paper examines the design of comminution circuits and the issues that impact on comminution circuit efficiency. Circuit efficiency is discussed, principally from the perspective of power efficiency. However, operating efficiency, maintenance efficiency, capital expenditure and return on investment are often the key efficiency factors in project development outweighing power efficiency cons...

In this article, we examine gaze direction in responses to polar questions using both quantitative and conversation analytic (CA) methods. The data come from a novel corpus of conversations in which participants wore eyetracking glasses to obtain direct measures of their eye movements. The results show that while most preferred responses are produced with gaze toward the questioner, most dispre...

Conference reportFree Access Clinical Pharmacy Congress 2022 First published: 09 February 2023 https://doi.org/10.1002/pnp.781AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use check box below share version article.I have read accept the Wiley Online Library Use...

____________ _ A 27 -year-old male patient presented for elective arrythmia surgery. Due to the nature of the surgical procedure, i.e. normothermic bypass, light anaesthetic, dislocation of the heart, etc., the physical size of this patient was of concern. The patient was 183 em tall and weighed 141 kg. The calculated body surface area was 2.68 M2 and the calculated flow was 6.7 LPM. Because of...

The meaningful integration of theoretical knowledge and industrial practice in Masters level programmes is now more than ever vital to ensure that graduates have the required competence in IT and that they are ready to contribute to the organisations that hired them within a short timeframe. It is also crucial in ensuring ongoing industrial support for academia because Information technology (I...

This paper describes a first attempt at synthesis and evaluation of expressive visual articulation using an MPEG-4 based virtual talking head. The synthesis is data-driven, trained on a corpus of emotional speech recorded using optical motion capture. Each emotion is modelled separately using principal component analysis and a parametric coarticulation model. In order to evaluate the expressivi...

In a within-subjects design that varied whether speakers were allowed to gesture and the difficulty of lexical access, speakers were videotaped as they described animated action cartoons to a listener. When speakers were permitted to gesture, they gestured more often during phrases with spatial content than during phrases with other content. Speech with spatial content was less fluent when spea...

Operationalizing mediated presence: Initial steps toward a measure of the construct This paper reports on an exploratory project to investigate mediated presence, a construct defined as the extent to which participants in a virtual environment perceive other participants in that environment as real, immediate or salient. Development and initial testing of a prompt designed to consistently diffe...