Prompt responses to emotional, potentially threatening, stimuli are supported by neural mechanisms that allow for privileged access of emotional information to processing resources. The existence of these mechanisms can also make emotional stimuli potent distracters, particularly when task-irrelevant. The ability to deploy cognitive control in order to cope with emotional distraction is essenti...

Objectives: Cognitive emotion regulation plays an important role in the emotional intelligence of students with hearing impairment. The present study was conducted to determine the effect of cognitive emotion regulation on emotional intelligence in students with hearing impairment.  Methods: The present study was a quasi-experimental research with pre-test-post-test and control group design. T...

Motivated by the empirical evidence of the long-range dependency found within the Greek motor insurance market, we formulate a particular stochastic pricing model in a continuous framework. We assume the structure of a competitive insurance market where the business volume of each company is directly related to the existing relativity between the company’s premium and the market’s average premi...

This report contains four chapters, each chapter representing a project of the Ateneo-Pcnn State Basic Research Program. The first chapter, concerning the Iluilo in transition study, describes the fishing industry of Estancia, Iloilo, a booming fishing town in central Philippines, and attempts to delineate the relationships among the different socioeconomic classes involved in it. The second ch...

Flexible manipulators are extensively used in industries. A theoretical analysis of intelligent tracking controller based on emotional learning model in mammalians brain for single-link flexible-joint manipulator is presented. Brain emotional learning based intelligent controller (BELBIC) is an intelligent controller based on the model of emotional part of brain. In this paper, BELBIC is applie...

purpose: this study aimed to investigate the effect of sports activities on behavioral-emotional problems of students with intellectual disability. methods: research method was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest design and the control group. the study population consisted of all students with intellectual disability in farashband city, iran who were studying in 2013. the sample comprised ...