The wide variety of calls received by the Hawaii Poison Center are described. These include the typical, humorous and calls unique to the islands. Methods include descriptive anecdotal recall and review of Hawaii Poison Center call statistics. A brief description of staff, resources and call taking procedures are also provided.

How strongly does humor (i.e., the construct-relevant content) in the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ; Martin et al., 2003) determine the responses to this measure (i.e., construct validity)? Also, how much does humor influence the relationships of the four HSQ scales, namely affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating, with personality traits and subjective well-being (i.e., cr...

Adequacy is an important criterion for judging the correctness of formal reasoning. The issue is particularly subtle in the expansive case of approaches to languages with name-binding. We posit that adequacy of a novel representation technique is best addressed by formalizing an isomorphism or, more generally, an interpretation explicating the new approach in terms of a more conventional one. W...

In the paper, on basis of auditory analysis English spoken anecdotes authors come up with system prosodic means that serve to create text humorous effect. To define specificity a complex interaction emotional, pragmatic, structural and semantic factors means’ functioning in anecdotes, we substantiated two algorithmic models presenting story-line development: one being similar structure fairy ta...

This study described the types and functions of humor in memes during Covid-19 pandemic to have a better understanding content role crisis. identified general ideas that emerged from Bisaya including humor. Using qualitative research methods, results revealed which included health practices, security, behavior. Comparison, pun, exaggeration predominated could be attributed Filipinos’ creativity...

Models, modeling languages, modeling frameworks and their background have dominated research on information systems engineering for last four decades. Models are mainly used as mediators between the application world and the implementation or system world. Modelling is still conducted as the work of an artisan and workmanship. While a general notion of the model and of the conceptual model has ...