Abstract This article discusses the nature of vocational education and its relation to citizenship as put forward by Georg Kerschensteiner, Aloys Fischer Eduard Spranger. The chief aim is respond sympathetically views which many Anglophone readers may find unfamiliar, given German context from they arise. In particular, focuses on work occupation why this important for developing citizenship. o...

We analyzed the prosodic features of “anger,” “joy,” and “sadness” expressions in Noh farce (“Kyohgen”) speech depending on the degree of the emotions. The degrees were divided into the following four categories: “neutral,” “low,” “medium” and “high.” A male Noh comedian uttered 6 words that are phonetically similar with one another five times, and the parameters of the prosodic features in the...

Recent evidence shows that gender modulates the morphology of facial expressions and might thus alter the meaning of those expressions. Consequently, we hypothesized that gender would moderate the relationship between facial expressions and the perception of direct gaze. In Study 1, participants viewed male and female faces exhibiting joy, anger, fear, and neutral expressions displayed with dir...

This paper presents a computing system to infer anger, fear, disgust, surprise, joy, and sadness emotions from user’s facial expressions through a webcam. The emotion detection is based on a facial psychological system, the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), and uses machine learning algorithms for its execution. Experiments using this system reached 60% success in average, achieving a success...

The database of multiple alignments for protein structures (DMAPS) provides instant access to pre-computed multiple structure alignments for all protein structure families in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). Protein structure families have been obtained from four distinct classification methods including SCOP, CATH, ENZYME and CE, and multiple structure alignments have been built for all families c...

the present study provides an analysis of the correlation between acoustic properties, duration and pitch amplitude of speech associated with three basic emotions: anger, sadness and joy against neutrality as a reference, emotionally expressed by six persian speakers. rise/fall connection model (taylor, 1995) is used to analyze acoustic parameters and measure how an utterance is modulated when ...

The current study examined how self-esteem and social achievement goals affect individuals’ emotions independently and jointly using the data collected from 367 college students. Social development goals were related to positive emotions (i.e., love and joy). Social demonstration-avoid goals were related to maladaptive patterns (low levels of joy but high levels of fear, shame and sadness). Soc...

The aim of the present study was to achieve, using an affect theory approach (Tomkins, 1962; 1963; 1991), a deeper theoretical understanding of the psychological significance of hospital clowns' work in caring for ailing children viewed from a care-giver perspective. The methodological approach was qualitative and based on 20 interviews with healthcare staff: 3 men and 17 women. The result show...

Do people with a high score on a scale for eating in response to negative emotions also show high food intake in response to positive emotions? We studied these effects in 60 female students that were preselected on the basis of extreme high or low scores on an emotional eating questionnaire. Using a between subject design we experimentally tested the difference in food intake following a mood ...